Review: RECOMMENDED
Visceral and brooding and intimidating and yet somehow soft and empathetic, Black Haine's work has as much to do with inner city isolation as it does the need to address false told histories in the places no longer welcoming us. As such, teaming him with Hull-bred conceptual artist Richie Culver, who among other things enjoys challenging representations of male emotions, was always going to be pretty full on.
Well, in many ways, 'Did U Cum Yet', which takes its name from a controversial Culver canvas, is actually anything but. It's a stripped to the bone piece, but that means static, reverberated noises, and fiercely delivered observational prose. Fittingly, its counterpoint, 'I'm Not Gonna Cum', offers an arguably more disturbing proposition, dystopian words no longer delivered by a human, and instead handed over to what could easily be Siri.
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