What are you talking about? #4

by Andrew Harper

Alan Moore, ‘“Fandom has toxified the world”: Watchmen author Alan Moore on superheroes, Comicsgate and Trump’ The Guardian, 26 October 2024, retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/26/fandom-has-toxified-the-world-watchmen-author-alan-moore-on-superheroes-comicsgate-and-trump

Alan Moore, excerpt from ‘Tharg’s Time Twisters: Chrono-Cops’ IPC Magazines, 1983

Albrecht Dürer, Die Offenbarung St. Johannis, Berlin : Amsler & Ruthardt, 1900, retrieved from: https://archive.org/details/gri_33125014730804/page/n21/mode/2up

Andreas Malm, ‘The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth’ Verso Books, 8 April 2024, retrieved from: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/the-destruction-of-palestine-is-the-destruction-of-the-earth

Isabel Fall, excerpt from ‘I sexually identify as an attack helicopter’ Clarkesworld Magazine, 1 January 2020

John Doran, ‘Sharp Suits and Sparkle: Jonathan Meades on Acid, Space and Place’ The Quietus, 29 October 2012, retrieved from: https://thequietus.com/interviews/jonathan-meades-interview/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Mon+04+Aug+2025&utm_campaign=The+Portal+4+August+2025

Lady Leshurr [@ladyleshurr], “LADY LESHURR – SET UP CHICKS” [youtube video], 8 January 2025, retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHOjZC7LgMI 

Michael Moorcock, excerpt from Epic Pooh, Dagenham: British Fantasy Society, 1978

Richard C [@richardc1975], “Stewart Lee and Top Gear” [youtube video], 7 February 2011, retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7CnMQ4L9Pc 

Susan Sontag, excerpt from Notes on “Camp”, Penguin Classics, 1964

Artist bio

Andrew writes about art, talks about art and makes art. 

Andrew is interested in undercurrents and the mycelium of art and culture. 

His writing is found regularly in Tas Weekend, a lifestyle insert in the Saturday edition of Nipaluna’s The Mercury, and online at Makeanddo.art.
Andrew lives in the Southern Beaches region, the traditional lands of the Mumirimina People. 

What are you talking about? is a project that provides artists and audience with insights into artistic practice and process outside of the exhibition model, prompting us to consider what ideas, content, and material artists are engaging with as they shape the cultural landscape around us.

Discussion Event

2pm – 3pm, Saturday 27  September 2025
Project Space/Foyer, Contemporary Art Tasmania
Free event

What are you talking about? is a project that provides artists and audience with insights into artistic practice and process outside of the exhibition model, prompting us to consider what ideas, content, and material artists are engaging with as they shape the cultural landscape around us.

Each iteration, a curated, multiform ‘reading list’ is released digitally and in hardcopy in the CAT foyer. This is followed by a discussion event where we can come together to chat and respond to the list in an informal setting. Join us to discuss our fourth reading list, curated by artist and writer Andrew Harper.