Oh dear. Year 2 at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social. Word from my convenor, the remarkable Dr. Bernadette Buckley. Gonna be chaotic. Strikes, programme cuts... Welcome to UK Higher Education 2026.
Marianne Dissard
@mariannedissard.com
Desert noir chanteuse from Tucson, Arizona ~ drifted to Scotland. Lately at Goldsmiths, London (MA Art & Politics). Music, photography, stage. 📧 mariannedissard@proton.me 📍 mariannedissard.com for albums, prints, books…
Weird thing we did during the pandemic. Featuring voices of power... Trump, Macron, Merkel, Erdogan... trying hard to not make sense. It's a hellish cover. I love it.
The 🫠 ᴘʀᴇᴛᴛʏ KEXP 🎶 #NowPlaying Bot@kexpmusicbot.bsky.social · last wk.🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix Adriano Celentano: 🎵 Prisencolinensinanciusol #AdrianoCelentano ▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify ▶️ Song/Cover on Bandcamp:
And — coincidentialy — this is exactly what they've trained "AI" to do as well.
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat they come from is an education and class system that trains people from an early age to make extremely confident statements, with an undercurrent of charm, about stuff they don't actually know anything about.
Hi, London and near folks! I'm showing some prints from my SOS Country series at our MA group show on 4 Sept along with my cohort. 22 Iliffe Yard SE173QA. Come say hey from 6pm! Flyer by Sofia Wilkinson-Steel.
I mean, yeah no surprise, USS Abraham Lincoln rotting. Here's my tale from 2020 about the USS Roosevelt crew which was treated just as horribly by this monstrous administration. NDAs now... (just finished reading Traven's 1926 novel The Death Ship, anyone out there read it too?) youtu.be/NT3h5XWFV_Y
Marianne Dissard - The Scorpion Departs But Never Returns (Phil Ochs cover)
YouTube video by Marianne Dissard
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New photo zine is off to the printer! Love those ExWhyZed guys, so helpful to have a real printer-person on the line. exwhyzed.com 'Lights Out Knightsbridge' #documentaryphotography #bwphotography #leicamonochrom #photozine
Summer read? "Goldsmiths’ Pipe Dream: how an American edtech firm leeched onto a frailing London university." Read my article here> shorturl.at/qX5dN
The Goldsmiths Pipe Dream: how an American edtech firm leeched onto a frailing London university
Goldsmiths’ Pipe Dream: how an American edtech firm leeched onto a frailing London university. An equity-funded provider of online programmes to regional US universities expands its UK Higher Educati...
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Good to be played on #rileyandcoe #BBC6Music @bbc6music.bsky.social w/ the great #terryedwards on trumpet. Thanks to @bbc6musicbot.bsky.social for spotting it! Lots more on my Bandcamp! #RitchieValens
The 🫠 ᴘʀᴇᴛᴛʏ BBC 6Music 🎶 #NowPlaying Bot - Radio 6@bbc6musicbot.bsky.social · last yr.🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe Ritchie Valens: 🎵 Come On Let's Go #6music #RitchieValens ▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify ▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:
More experimentation w/ #photobook formats: next #photozine from 2022-2023 b/w Knightsbridge series originally intended as projected background visuals to my stage show 'Souvenir of England' (very loosely inspired by #JoannaHogg #TheSouvenir). #documentaryphotography #bwphotography #leicamonochrom
My university’s unionized staff @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social are on strike to protest yet another death spiral round of cuts and redundancies. Management responded with 100% pay cuts. Support them now by entering into an art raffle. I have prints available > www.gucu-raffle.com/shop/p/empir...
Choose 'Empire Builder' or 'Sunset Limited' from Marianne Dissard's Amtrak documentary photo series — Goldsmiths UCU ART RAFFLE 2026
Choose 'Empire Builder' or 'Sunset Limited' from Marianne Dissard's Amtrak documentary photo series
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New wee #photozine Dear Green. £5.00 only. DM or Street Level shop. Experimenting w/ folding formats. Surrealistic romp thru #Glasgow looking for #Buckfast & the skies down from which they crashed. Signed/numbered ed. of 100. Folded: 14x14cm to 56x42cm. #streetphotography #streetphotographyglasgow
William Coupon (1953-2026). Farewell, pal. You were the kindest of giants. Thanks for these Manhattan sidewalk snaps, I later used in the sleeve artwork of my 2010 album 'L'abandon'. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/a...
In solidarity with @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social striking staff. Introducing Goldsmiths' riches-to-rags (senior management) team. Our executive board has entered into a suicide pact with the institution, a doom loop of cuts and redundancies. @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social
First batch of 'SOS Country' prints in the post this week to my #kickstarter supporters! #soscountry #amtrakphotography #documentaryphotography
Yep, me reading Orwell's 1940 review of 'Mein Kampf' at @yellowbookbar.bsky.social @sweetvenuesbtn.bsky.social (great fest on margins of @brightonfringe.bsky.social). My show 'A Kirk in Them Pants' demolishes Stephen Miller and his excruciating Kirk eulogy speech. Pix: Elz. Thks: my Goldsmiths class
Today in Brighton #sweetfest #brightonfringe @sweetvenuesbtn.bsky.social Orwellian stab at pale monster-in-chief Stephen Miller, architect of Trump's cruelest immigration policies. A 'comedy' on the language of authoritarianism and what we leave behind when we leave home & country–and what we can't.
Coming out from under rock to address salient topic of creeping HE financialisation. I'll share ongoing inquiry/interventions into Goldsmiths' partnership w/ US edtech RisePoint. Saturday @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social library 11:30am #freegoldsmiths @mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social
Term paper done! Private-equity takeover of UK HE: Inquiry & Interventions into the Partnership between @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social and RisePoint. Reach out if you want to learn more + join our working group! Thanks to my cohort + Bernadette Buckley for their support! @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social
A powerful message from three of our amazing SU officers on the damage being done to Goldsmiths by its management and why it matters. We’re forever grateful for our students’ support, an in awe of the incredible political work they do! www.goldsmithssu.org/news/article...
The only alternative is us. It's time to organise
We are seeing a clear picture of what our collective future as students should look like. What does this mean for us as students?
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My handy work at Goldsmiths... Aka 'I might be a student but I'm still that bee'.
Wtf @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social ? Due to admin error, 'Art, War, Terror', core module MA degree Art & Politics, was cancelled for spring. RARE class taught by Dr. Bernadette Buckley w/ @tomtrevatt.bsky.social Please EMAIL Dean Dr. Dinham a.dinham@gold.ac.uk to reinstate it. logo @mariannedissard.com
Starving for "fearless independent journalism" on arts 'n' politics? Check out what this collective of ex- @theguardian.com /Observer journalists are cooking up at @thenerve.news : www.thenerve.news/about-us
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'SOS Country’ 2025-2026 photo documentary series. American landscapes from Amtrak long-haul trains. US-Mexico border wall, approaching El Paso, Texas on Sunset Limited Amtrak route eastbound to New Orleans. 2025.01 #photography #documentaryphotography #leica #photographer
Always happy to visit my rock farmers pals, The Inspector Cluzo, in their organic French farm: corn, wheat, grey Gascon geese and hens, Landes turkeys, trad. sheep. Learn about their agro-ecology and their 11th album recorded in Nashville by maestro Vance Powell theinspectorcluzo.com/en/lou-casse...
I'm going back to school! Starting next month at Goldsmiths in London, Master degree in Art & Politics over two years. Fun heady times ahead... What spoil! What luxury! Excited. www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-art-po...
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The MA Art & Politics degree at Goldsmiths, University of London explores connections between art and politics and art's potential in times of crisis.
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Celebrating the release of 'I Do Know Some Things', much-anticipated new book by titan of American poetry, Tucsonan @richard-siken.bsky.social (& remembering our lil' 2014 collab': my music, his magic= youtu.be/3xZALSxaLVM?... ). Order Richard's masterpiece www.coppercanyonpress.org uk.bookshop.org
Richard Siken - The Way The Light Reflects (music Marianne Dissard)
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Back in them salad days... Music video 'The One and Only' from my album 'L'abandon'. A song about Tucson featuring Ed Keeylocko's Cowtown Keeylocko, Day of the Dead Procession, train tracks across Southern Arizona... Album here: mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/laband... youtu.be/jbHcICO-1o0?...
Official Music Video - 'The One And Only' - Marianne Dissard - Album "L'Abandon" (2011)
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