Andy Holden

Andy Holden’s Maximum Irony! Maximum Sincerity

Maximum Irony! Maximum Sincerity (MI!MS) was a proposal for an art movement, complete with manifesto – “M.I.!M.S., A Manifesto of Maximum Irony! Maximum Sincerity” – written by Andy Holden and four of his friends (John Blamey, Roger Illingworth, James MacDowell and Johnny Parry) in the early 2000s in their home town of Bedford. A pre-art …

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David Foster Wallace’s Hideous Men & London’s Olympic Epiphany

As this inclement and balmy London summer draws to a close, the ICA plays host to Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace’s darkly comic collection of short stories, adapted for stage by artists Andy Holden and David Raymond Conroy. Penned in the late 90s, Wallace’s text employs a variety of literary techniques to …

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Discussing Metamodernism

Postmodernism is over. As global warming, the credit crunch and political instabilities are rapidly taking us beyond that so prematurely proclaimed ‘End of History’, the postmodern culture of relativism, irony and pastiche, too, is superseded by another sensibility. One that evokes the will to look forward, that invokes the will to hope again. Discussing Metamodernism brings …

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