Immersing the audience in sound and light Nikita Gale's END OF SUBJECT subverts understandings of viewership by prompting spectators to question their subjecthood within 52 Walker's site-specific installation. Creating an aurally and visually rich environment, Gale engages with the architecture of the surrounding space, stimulating all senses through site-specific installation and muses on the boundaries of performance art. Considering and fracturing the physical space of the installation, the artist employs abolitionist ideology and institutional critique to simultaneously rupture and rebuild facets of the art institution. With an introduction by Ebony L. Haynes and a suite of poems by Harmony Holiday, this publication considers Gale's multidisciplinary approach to address historical hierarchies of visibility. A text by the esteemed artist Andrea Fraser offers reflections on the various interventions at play during a gathering held in the exhibition.

From the sublime to the ridiculous This pairing of stories certainly seems to cover that statement, with a story set in Hades and steeped in sin, alongside one about the season of goodwill to all and general happiness. I like the contrast. I hope you do too. The Best Christmas Ever Christmas Eve has arrived and the whole world, it seems, is intent on doing the very last of the last-minute Christmas shopping. In some, the day brings out unexpected acts of kindness, where others are left unmoved. This story views the day through the eyes of a 'gentleman of the road', shuffling his way from an early morning rude awakening to a magical end as the day draws to a close. Miss Goody Two-Shoes and the Devil Tongue firmly in cheek, and sprinkling spilt salt over her left shoulder to ward off evil, Andrea Frazer takes us on a trip to Hell, where the daily grind (and groan) is about to be interrupted by a very rare event. A pebble plinks on the vast black glass dome that serves Hell and it's environs as a sky, a precursor that there is trouble in the earthly realm. The Devil is incensed as he realises that there is 'one without sin' abroad: a situation that calls for immediate action of the most radical kind, if he is to save that soul from purity and sully it with hellish deeds

A bored Sebastian Snail decides to look through all the junk in the attic of his stately home, Pail Manor. As he sorts through things long forgotten, he finds an old family map which, to Sebastian's eyes, looks like a treasure map. Along with his friend, Caruthers Caterpillar, he hatches a plan to find the family treasure, but without interference from his snooty butler, Snodgrass Hopper. And so, secretly, they set out with the map, with no idea of what lies ahead of them

Sebastian Snail is a very bored snail, and has always wanted to be famous. At Halloween, after throwing a big party for all his friends and neighbours, he decides to go ghost hunting with his best friend, Caruthers Caterpillar. At dead-of-night, they set off into the dark, in search of witches and ghosts, and things that go bump in the night And they're headed for Halloween House - a house that is said to he haunted.....

The Ear-Noz had now settled in with the Barraclough family, but as the year moved into December, they discovered that he had no idea what Christmas was. He didn't know any Christmas carols - in fact, he didn't even know how to sing He didn't understand presents, and had never even seen a Christmas tree before - or snow There was so much to teach him that Daniel and Emma were constantly busy teaching him and showing him things. But Mrs Barracloough had one great worry - Grandma and Grandpa Millar were coming for Christmas What on earth could she do to keep their weird house-guest a secret?

Sebastian Snail was bored. As usual But when his oldest and best friend Caruthers Caterpillar had ALL his boots stolen from outside his house one night, Sebastian realised that this was a job for Sebastian Snail - Private Detective. Bobby Bluebottle, the Meadow Lea policeman, is more interested in his newspaper than catching criminals, so Sebastian decides to interview any insects who might have noticed or heard something unusual. His clever mind soon works out what happened, but will he be able to catch the culprits?

Sebastian Snail has just finished decorating his hall. After he has scrubbed his shell clean, he decides he has done a magnificent job, and ought to advertise his services and good taste to others who would like to transform their homes. What he fails to realise is that his hall only looks fantastic because of all the hard work his butler Snodgrass Hopper has put in, while Sebastian is soaking in a nice bubbly bath. With his oldest and best friend, Caruthers Caterpillar, in tow, the over-confident snail starts another job that could land them in big - and expensive - trouble.

Daniel and Emma were just ordinary children leading ordinary lives - until one day - they discovered the Ear-Noz; or perhaps he discovered them Whatever, one day, there he was at the end of the bed, staring at them with his big red eye. That he was magical, they were absolutely sure, but they had no idea what mischief he could get up to, just exploring their house and garden. He took a lot of clearing-up after, and caused absolute chaos wherever he went. And there was one very big problem - how to keep him a secret from Mum and Dad, who would have a fit if they ever caught sight of him. This is the story of their first adventure with their weird and wonderful friend - but it certainly isn't the last

An account of the hilarious mix-ups and misadventures that occur when a family abandons its everyday life and, metaphorically, jumps off the edge of a cliff into the unknown of a completely different life-style. Andrea and Ian Outen are townies, but have always dreamed of a life in the country. Winter evenings, since their marriage, have been spent dreaming of a rural life, away from the traffic, and hustle and bustle of their everyday lives in the town. Many years into their marriage, and now with four children, they find themselves, once more, sitting in front of their hissing gas fire and dreaming of a real fire of tangy apple logs. Once more, they commence their trawl through the pages of property papers, and this time they actually decide to view a few places in the countryside, just for the hell of it. Expecting this to be an expansion of the usual pipe-dream, Andrea sets off on their trip, expecting to find nothing to match up to her dream of rural paradise, and is completely bowled over, when they find exactly the right place, at almost the right price. This wasn't supposed to happen, was it? What would happen to all their lovely pipe-dreams? But the pace of events overwhelms her and, before she can catch her breath, they are en-route for, not just a new home, but a new way of life as well. This book chronicles the tale of their first year as 'turnips'; the highs and lows of a more self-sufficient life, and the profound changes this makes to them. Chickens and giddy goats make their appearance, as does a hunt for the local ghost; and life, in general, becomes much more interesting and unexpected.