Chantal Oakes

3 weeks ago | corridor8.co.uk | Chantal Oakes |Sam Pickett |Natalie Hughes |Alessandra Saviotti

In her book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (2014), Naomi Klein argues that climate change denial isn’t just about rejecting science, but that it’s deeply tied to the capitalist ideology we live within.

Aug 2, 2024 | corridor8.co.uk | Chantal Oakes

Picture this. I have become highly aware of the young Australian tourist next to me at the bus stop in Kendal, not because she is back-packing and worrying about her transport connections – that is a familiar enough sight in this tourist hotspot, with its fantastically misted high hills just out of town. What catches my eye is the bottle of big brand chocolate milk she drinks from. I imagine she chose this drink as something vaguely substantial to keep her going.

Jun 25, 2024 | corridor8.co.uk | Chantal Oakes

Two complementary exhibitions are currently showing at the Bluecoat in Liverpool and both explore nostalgia in film through the life and works of actor Anna May Wong. Always elegant and visually articulate, Wong was considered the first Chinese-American film star, but throughout her career (ca.1919 -to the 1960s) she had to navigate the mechanisms of mainstream culture that wanted to racialize her work as an actor, and refused her leading roles.

Feb 9, 2024 | corridor8.substack.com | Chantal Oakes

By Chantal OakesTextual research practice is a vital component in creative production. Not just because it can fall into theoretical frameworks, where underlying political and social context illuminate something of the connections between an art object, and the cultural framework that surrounds or surrounded the object’s production. Although, this is an important element of why research is undertaken.

Nov 15, 2023 | corridor8.co.uk | Chantal Oakes |Amrit Randhawa |Marcus Barnett

It was a dark and rainy Autumn night outside Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster University, on 20 October 2023 – an ideal background for thinking about ghosts and hauntings. In association with Lancaster Arts, the production It Begins in Darkness focuses on these themes.