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Holly Antrum
@hollyantrum.bsky.social
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She/Her. Artist, filmmaker and researcher (UK). Films distributed by LUX Artists' Moving Image. https://linktr.ee/holly___antrum

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All views are my own - currently finishing a PhD and a new film and book.
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I've not shared much back story on my work in recent years here - but I didn't see it coming that my publication 'Markéta's Notes' would find its way onto the merch stand in the BFI Shop during the Laura Mulvey Season. Very nice of BFI Shop team 😍
Display of books with an information panel branded 'BFI' which reads, 'Marketa's Notes by artist Holly Antrum was originally presented on the occasion of 'Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen - Intersections in Film, Theory and Art' at Camera Austria, Graz and later available to explore in the BFI Reuben Library where the project began.' Merch stand with books and a white t-shirt with black block capitals text "LAURA MULVEY"
November 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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A marathon day spent in NFT1 yesterday for the Laura Mulvey Symposium at BFI Southbank, really great set of panels, and Laura being impressive as ever - in opening conversation with Oliver Fuke and later with closing remarks, then again introducing her film with Peter Wollen, The Bad Sister. Stamina
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Well Adam (9), wherever you are in Palestine - this is the 3D energy I feel your star needs!

Let Adam Live 🇵🇸 #letchildrenlive @savethechildrencym.bsky.social @amnestyuk.bsky.social

I took Adam's name to a vigil in September. This is my next offering for him. Viva Adam! 🔥

letchildrenlive.com/en
A white hand above a messy table with craft materials, holding a red card star decorated by hand with two green hearts, pen, pencil, and writing in stylised letters which read from the top point of the star to the lower two points of the star: A D A M The hearts are either side and have writing in blue pencil which is just about legible. '9 years old' and 'Let Adam Thrive'.
November 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Detail of textiles woven (paper, wool and linen) in Tonico Lemos Auad's work 'Porcelain', 2019. Featured in 'Material Worlds - Contemporary Artists and Textiles', curated by Caroline Achaintre. Part of Hayward Gallery Touring programme, currently at The Wilson, Cheltenham. wilsonmuseum.org.uk
Crop of a framed textile artwork, a grey 'field' of background, consisting of white and black threads. The 'field' can be compared to the 'white noise' appearing on old TV sets. At the centre there is an ecru silhouette of a vessel, like a hookah. It appears to hold smouldering coals inside represented by wisps of red and black wool rising from a web-like stitch in grey and black thread. Other wisps can be traced across the grey 'field', in grey, black and ecru tones like small and narrow clouds. In a band of colour around the cropped detail, it suggests that the artwork is a yellow-green wall.
October 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Looking forward to presenting an adaptation of a forthcoming journal essay (which I am very excited about, more soon hopefully) at Beyond The Pastoral Symposium on 10 October at University of Brighton. #techneahrc #academicsky
September 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Canadian poet, Erin Robinsong performs her poem 'Anemone' from her collection 'Wet Dream' - last Saturday on stage with acapella collective HOWL @hiddennotes.bsky.social, Stroud UK 💙 Such stage presence

(my trimmed bsky clip excludes huge applause & HOWL's beautiful musical rendering of the poem!)
September 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Re-jigged my 2025 visiting lecture for fine art first years on film and performance to bring the AI caveats that were at the end, to the beginning - under the theme of remix, collage, textuality (and ethics / legality)... A little precursor to Dada and collage doesn't go amiss. (📷 Hannah Höch, 1930)
Close crop from Hannah Höch, Indian Dancer: From an Ethnographic Museum (Indische Tänzerin: Aus einem ethnographischen Museum) 1930. Source https://www.moma.org/collection/works/37360?artist_id=2675&page=1&sov_referrer=artist
September 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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From the Women's Art Library and @feministreview.bsky.social Art in the Archive Bursary: Call for Proposals 2025 Deadline 5pm, Friday 31st October 2025 sites.gold.ac.uk/womens-art-l...
Graphic with sage green background and nay blue serif text. Reads, 'Organised Anger, Radical Love, Joyful Solidarities'
September 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Gramsci's prison notebooks (which I came to via Pasolini) and their expansive bibliography generated by his writings... are said to 'hold 15,000 items in 33 languages, spanning a huge range of subjects.'- Paola Merli. A biblio-factoid to share from what feels like a summer of endless referencing.
A neat patchwork of twentieth century notebooks belonging to Antonio Gramsci, with mottled and colourful covers and handwritten labels. They are laid across one another so that no gaps appear around them and fill the frame of the photograph. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antonio_Gramsci_-_Molti_quaderni_colorati_del_carcere.jpg & www.visitgenoa.it Quaderni Gramsci P.jpg. Retrieved on 6 May 2020
July 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Stroud Ceasefire Now vigil 25.7.2025 - We are getting some bigger numbers after media started to do its job and report on the genocide in Gaza. Usually silent, we banged our pots making some noise FAO David Lammy, Keir Starmer. A sobering cry internationally - calling for an end to the starvation.
July 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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It was good to be back at BFI Southbank to give a talk on my research 'Notes freely created and kept, subjectivities in palimpsest: Researching to Imagine' at the BFI Research showcase on Monday... Thanks to Barry Dixon and Ania Ostrowska at BFI Research. Friends, 2025 is the year I will submit(!)
Opaque glass wall exterior of the British Film Institute Southbank premises with text advertising cinemas, mediatheque, library, shop and bar. Sun shines through an internal skylight onto the glass from inside.
June 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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I really feel nothing, Musk ruined Twitter. I once learned a lot there and the following of some people gave me a little buoyancy. Twitter was once a window onto ways to stay on track esp when I had to go and work in other jobs to survive as an artist. W/ appreciation for the brilliantly-put moments
Screengrab from site formerly known as Twitter, now 'X' reads "Deactivated - Your account is deactivated. Sorry to see you go. hashtag GoodBye"
February 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Congratulations to Dan Guthrie for his new commission "Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure" 2025. Opened last night at Spike Island in Bristol and will tour to Chisenhale in London in June.
Trio of two speakers on stands with a portrait screen in the centre equally spaced out and protruding from a white wall on a grey floor. The screen is showing a cropped image of an old stone building facade with a pointed roof, showing an empty alcove and an old bell. The alcove is above an octagonal clock face, an edge of which is visible. A blue sky is behind the eaves of the building.
February 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Today’s Holocaust Remembrance in Stroud emphasised the dangers of remaining silent in the face of injustice, Syrian refugee Rami said “if you have a voice, use it for the voiceless”. Other speakers' messages echoed this including Na'amod. Poet Adam Horovitz + Stroud Red Band hosted proceedings. #HMD
Panoramic photo of a large group of people seated around in a circle in a hall with an arched roof. A brass band in red are assembled on the stage. Image taken from the back of the hall.
January 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Platform flightiness continued, the icon here leads me to say I am actually terrified of large butterflies. Small ones - fine. The way these tropical ones lollop through the air in erratic directions - towards you - landing on you! I will try to avoid my arms & wrists going into a mad flap here 🦋
January 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Helloooo! Here's a flighty lil' gif I actually made myself last autumn... I was inviting friends to come and fly kites with me. Perhaps starting off here is something like that. Blessings for the timeline (do we still say that on this platform?) 🦋
January 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM