I’m in an Ibis ‘Styles’ hotel* in Birmingham, having just got in from seeing the new Tania El Khoury show for Fierce festival. Like all live art festivals, Fierce is a place where I can feel exceedingly content — this work is so exciting and stimulating — and, at the same time, horribly conspicuous and self-conscious. I have never known how to draw a comfortable line between work and play; in environments that can feasibly be both, I can feel like a two-headed monster. I’m not going to the party tonight, but I’m also not going anywhere else, and it dawned on me in the show earlier that I might ..read more