Frances Morgan

Yoko Ono​ has always understood the art – and the absurdity – of playing the long game. In 1989, she told Film Quarterly: ‘Do you know the statement I wrote about taking any film and burying it underground for fifty years? It’s like wine. Any film, any cheap film, if you put it underground for fifty years, becomes a masterpiece. After fifty years it’s...

Sin Wai Kin talks to a tree (it talks back) and slurps noodles in a café, reflecting on his dinner: ‘Once it was a pig, once it was a prawn, once it was matter and energy.’ Sin’s performances of gender animate the film, but it’s not ‘about’ gender, except as one of a number of ordering systems that, following Chuang-Tzu’s maxim ‘the name is the guest of the substance,’ are always being rethought.

On​ 28 April, a memorial stone for victims of asbestos was unveiled in the town square in Barking, East London. The date was chosen to coincide with International Workers’ Memorial Day, which was inaugurated in 1989 to draw attention to those injured, disabled or killed in the course of their work or because of their working conditions. Many people in Barking still remember Cape, an...