Conor Carville

Prof. at Reading University, home of Beckett's archive. Co-Director SBRC. Beckett & the Visual Arts (CUP, 2018). Host of 'Beckett &' podcast.

[Conor Carville @cdcarv]

J. H. Prynne RIP. Es Lebe der König (1971) - YouTube https://t.co/R8Z8jTRJUr

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RIP Béla Tarr https://t.co/6ZzjS8oB22

[Conor Carville @cdcarv]

SPIRITS is a year-long artwork designed to be experienced on your mobile browser. Irish artist john gerrard collected 96 plastic sandals and shoes from beaches across the world, each one carrying unknown stories of the people who wore them.

[Conor Carville @cdcarv]

LACMA | Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Check out our former Beckett Fellow John Gerrard’s immensely powerful ‘Spirits’ at LACMA https://t.co/d4HuSKIAO2

[john gerrard @john__gerrard]

SPIRITS (Pacific)#1 begins the Winter Solstice takeover of https://t.co/Rv0SONnYo3 now at midnight PST. Every hour, one of 24 found plastic ocean shoes & sandals, captured as gaussian splats, rendered in webgl in the browser & overlaid by public touch with representations of light, gasoline, psychedelics, oceans, climate heating, fire and finally void. A generative audio score accompanies the piece. Credits + interaction guide below and more information on https://t.co/Ho6Z3kYdot

[john gerrard @john__gerrard]

SPIRITS (Pacific)#3 continues the @john__gerrard takeover of https://t.co/Rv0SONnYo3 on Winter Solstice 2025. One significant ghost in the machine of SPIRITS is @JeffKoons Inflatable Flower and Bunny of 1979 which in time morphed into Rabbit, 1986 which became of the most expensive artworks sold by a living artist at $91.1 million in May 2019. There plastic becomes hyper value, here plastic resides on the earth as a permanent record of the 20th century oil age - which in a sense is where both works: Rabbit and SPIRITS meet. @LACMA #SPIRITS

[john gerrard @john__gerrard]

SPIRITS (Pacific) #2 continues its 24 hour Winter Solstice takeover of https://t.co/Rv0SONnYo3, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art frontpage & for today - a global public art gallery. The first of four interventions on key solar dates ending Dec 21 2026. This found plastic ocean sandal says - DO IT.
More details and links to earlier takeovers also on https://t.co/Ho6Z3kYdot

[Tolka @tolkajournal]

Lovely interview with Claire-Louise Bennett by @edelcoffey in @IrishTimesBooks – touching on exploring the Samuel Beckett archives. You can read Bennett's creative response to Beckett in Tolka Issue Seven.

[Conor Carville @cdcarv]

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025 | Nobel prize in literature | The Guardian https://t.co/vVwzMBk55R

[Conor Carville @cdcarv]

@AhlamAlshihry Congratulations again!

[Ahlam Faiz Alshihry, PhD @AhlamAlshihry]

After what feels like forever (and a few too many 'nearly finished' moments), I’m happy to say that today I’ve passed my viva! 🎉 Huge thanks to everyone who supported me along the way. Now, I can finally say it’s finished... well, almost! 😅

[Conor Carville @cdcarv]

@matdryhurst Yoshitomo Nara

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Krapp’s Last Tape review – Gary Oldman’s arresting one-man Beckett is a startling piece of theatre https://t.co/sZwDYqed5M

[Conor Carville @cdcarv]

'He goggled like a fool at the shrieking paullo-post-Expression of the Last Supper hanging on the wall
fornenst him, livid in the restless yellow light, its thirteen flattened flagrant egg-heads gathered round the tempter and his sop and the traitor and his purse.' 2/6

[bigalias @bigalias]

cult pump

[Bashir Abu-Manneh @BashirAbuManneh]

Khalidi: "We are approaching the status of Chilean universities under Pinochet, where on the orders of an authoritarian government, ideas and books were banned, students were expelled and arrested, departments were taken over, and faculty and staff fired."
https://t.co/VS16LpXOSc

[Daragh Carville @daraghcarville]

It's Bay Day! Series 5 starts tonight on ITV at 9pm, with eps 2 and 3 on Monday and Tuesday and eps 4 to 6 next week. What an honour to work with this amazing cast and crew.

[Daragh Carville @daraghcarville]

@JoBakerWriter is one of the contributors to this Observer piece about favourite Austen characters. https://t.co/U9vMYN8YzX

[Conor Carville @cdcarv]

How dare The Guardian use AI to generate a John Banville review. He must be fuming. https://t.co/jvPwpuADxE

[Daragh Carville @daraghcarville]

Looking forward to this on @BBCRadio4 today. The story of the London woman behind the first publication of the Qu'ran in English in the 17th century. Written by the brilliant Hannah Khalil and starring the also brilliant @ErinShanagher https://t.co/c1xSTcNh79