The White Pube

This week's text is a review of 54 The Gate, an online show that is also a game, on Arcadia Missa's Open Office. it is also a text about how i just want art to be FUN, and why i think that's important, n worth considering when making an exhibition - especially right now! you can read the text here: thewhitepube.com/54thegate

This week’s review is 'We Dwell in Possibility,' the new game by Robert Yang and Eleanor Davis commissioned for this year’s Manchester International Festival. I write about pandemic horniness, public sex, Hieronymus Bosch and lockdown lifting. Not suitable for younger listeners.  You can find the written version of this review here ; and you can play the game for free here . Thank you for lis...

Announcing the 11th recipient of The White Pube Writers Grant: Dora Maludi! Dora sent over a collection of poems, and they really stood out and grabbed us. Dora’s poems are like small concentrated squares full of infinite detail. She writes about writing; the writing process like vomiting. She describes scars like borders. She writes like she is speaking to someone over your shoulder. And she summ...

This week's review is Ghost of Tsushima, the 2020 video game about a Mongol invasion on the island of Tsushima set in the 13th century. Did I like it? Did I dislike it? The answer is no to both of those questions and I spend this text trying to figure out why. I also wonder: what does it mean when a violent story is just so beautiful? Can you be afraid of a villain you do not know? And how do you...

This week's text is a review of ~Salmon: A Red Herring~, the Art Now show by Cooking Sections, at Tate Britain.  Talking about my split feelings; between being a hardline cynic and wanting to be a Good Vibes Person, n how i liked this show against my will.  Read the text here: thewhitepube.com/cookingsections

This week's text is an essay called: Boycott Zabludowicz .  Since 2014, there has been a call to boycott the Zabludowicz Collection, a gallery in London that is owned and funded by Zabludowicz Art Trust, and its associated institutions: Daata Editions and Times Square Space. The Zabludowicz Art Trust is financially associated with companies that have dealt arms to Israel's military, invested...

We’re so pleased to announce, the 10th recipient of the Writers Grant has been given to Natalie Dunning. This feels like a really special and emotional moment, not just because this is the 10th grant to go out(!), but because I feel such an affinity with Natalie’s writing. Her text ‘Why I sometimes like my chronic pain’ made me reflect on my relationship with long covid — something I am struggling...

this week's text is a book review (!!!) of Mieko Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs!  read the text here

This week I've written about The Last of Us Part II and doing things in video games you don't want to do. I don't know if this is necessarily a review, it's more just a text about the thing. Trying out something newwww. As always, the written version of this is on our website: thewhitepube.com/the-last-of-us & thank you very much for listening.

This week's text is a review! of Walter Price's show, Pearl Lines at Camden Art Centre. This is the first show I've seen in person since last Autumn, and honestly i spent the last half of this text trying to figure out why galleries feel weird now.  You can read the text here , and peep some pics of it too. enjoy the rest of ur sunday n the long weekend! 

We’re so pleased to announce, the 9th recipient of the Writers Grant has been given to Natalie Tan. Natalie has a bi-weekly newsletter called Simmer Down, that reflects on food and memory, and she sent us some back issues (links below). After we started the /food page on our website last year, we've been hoping to be able to support somebody else's writing around the subject & then Natalie’s w...

A bit of a different one this week: I have written about the podcast I fall asleep to every night. It's Episode #328 of 'My Brother, My Brother and Me,' titled 'The Anxiety-Free Cruise.' I write about sleep, imagination, tabletop games, and joy.  You can find the written version of this on thewhitepube.com/mbmbam Thank you to the Patreon gang for your ongoing support and love.

This week's text is a review! I'll be chatting about Tales from the Silk Road , a cluster of films curated by Baesianz , and hosted on Nowness Asia .   At the time of writing, there are 3 films up: Inside Out, by Sarah Khan / Wake Island: Last Ruins, directed by Mohamad Abdouni / Reality Fragment 160921, by Qigemu . While i talk about the films briefly, this is more a text to ease back in to...

At 7.30 on Wednesdays, a Labrador Club meets up on the main field. If I time it right, which I usually do, on Wednesday mornings I run through a sea of labradors; fat, young, long haired, golden blonde, chocolate, black, grey around the whiskers. They sniff up at me, follow me up the hill and round the fields. Their ears flap as they gallop alongside me, bodies lurching in time with the slap of my...

This week's review is Fall Guys, the 2020 platform battle royale that went viral last summer. It's taken me a long time to write about it but I'm glad I waited til now! I won my first game 2 days ago and it clicked the review into place -- I use this text to talk about my absolute deep love of obstacle courses, Takeshi's Castle, and what it's like to win a survival of the fittest game as a sick pe...

We haven't recorded a chatty episode in literal months, so we have a quick catch up on what we've been doing since we last spoke to you - and then we just get into it. This is the Long COVID Episode. Gab got COVID as soon as 2021 struck, and it just hasn't gone. It's long COVID now and the number of symptoms have doubled. We talk through everything, we have a cry, and we sit in that puddle togethe...

this week's text is a book review (!!!) of Mike Phillips' The Dancing Face. Originally published in the 90s, it has been republished this year, as part of a 6-book series selected by Bernadine Evaristo, called Black Britain: Writing Back.  read the full text: thewhitepube.com/thedancingface

Time flies, we’re now on the 8th recipient of the Writers Grant, and we are so happy to announce it has been given to Orna Kazimi. Orna sent us a short publication, called Catfish (which you can read below). We haven’t had the chance to support many Artists (with a capital A), but we were really excited by Orna’s approach to writing as a component in a wider visual practice, and we identified with...

Spoiler-free review of the best game I've played in literally months, and the first horror game I've ever played. I shouted out loud on my own at one point because I got so scared and somehow I'm still recommending you play it for yourselves. Mundaun was created by Hidden Field (Michel Ziegler) and published by MWM Interactive last month. You can find the written version of this review on the whit...

this week’s text is a cute lil art thought! the title is not clickbait, it is genuinely the question I am asking: thinking around Beeple & NFTs, but also just like... everything. read the full text: thewhitepube.co.uk/canwhitepeopleberadical

For this week's review, I played on a live claw machine remotely and... I hated it. Not good, not cool, not fun at all. And also potentially dangerous for people prone to compulsive spending. Yeah, I would steer clear.  You can find the written version of this text at thewhitepube.com/clawee

happy Sunday the gang, I think this is my favourite game review I've ever written and I hope you enjoy it even if you don't play games. It's about Maquette, the newly released title by Graceful Decay and published by Annapurna. I write about love, needing help, and my world inside a pearl.  You can find the written version of this on thewhitepube.com/maquette  :) have a lovely day.

Hi podcast gang, I've been off sick with covid/long covid but I've been able to record audio for some recent reviews + uploading em now!  This is a review of NUTS, the game in which you play a researcher collecting data on squirrels. Unfortunately, it broke before my eyes. But was still nice to see squirrels I guess? You can find the written version of this text here on our website: https://w...

hi gang, it's gab. Sorry for the absence. I have been out of action because covid, and now I've got long covid, but my voice is finally strong enough that I can record the reviews I've been publishing over the past few months. This is a review of the video game Calico in which you have a cat cafe and you can pick up horses. It's magic and calm and I wish it had been 10x longer. Please make a DLC s...

Hellooooo podcast listeners, it's gab. long time no speak! Sorry for the absence. I have been out of action because covid, and now I've got long covid, but my voice is finally strong enough that I can record the reviews I've been publishing over the past few months.  This review of Art Sqool was originally published March 7th, writing about the 2019 game I thought would allow me to feel the b...