Conor Bateman

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an 1865 landscape painting by Lars Hertervig entitled Skogtjern (Forest Lake) - we see a marshland in a bronzed brown, with a menacing fog rising up into strangely shaped clouds
A collection of screens - including older TV monitors and contemporary LCD screens - show clips from sci-fi films. They are arranged almost in a pyramid form.
A stack of books on a table, with a small plant behind them. The books are: Mindplayers by Pat Cadigan, The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson, The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth by Adrian Duncan, The Railway Station Man by Jennifer Johnston, The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor, Fraud by Anita Brookner, Summer by Ali Smith, In the Café of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano, Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories and On the Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle
a topster grid of the my favourite albums of the year so far
A poem by Stevie Smith entitled Poet!
A still from the Maxis game SimAnt.
A grid of footage from MMORPGs is presented next to a countdown timer. Beneath the grid is a TV news-style ticker.
A stack of secondhand paperback books, featuring work by Muriel Spark, William Trevor and Sarah Hall.
My votes for triple j's Hottest 100 of Australian Songs - featuring The Go-Betweens, Julia Jacklin, The Whitlams, Mondo Rock, Yothu Yindi, Kylie Minogue, The Avalanches, Icehouse, The Belair Lip Bombs, Midnight Oil
Philip K. Dick's Time Out of Joint, moodily lit, on a balcony table.
James Crumley's The Wrong Case, a Vintage Contemporaries edition.
Melanie Cheng's novel The Burrow, which sports a rabbit on the cover.
Denis Johnson's Angels and a pint of beer.
Duelling excerpts from a Jennifer Johnston novel (The Railway Station Man) and a Beverley Farmer short story (Summer on Ice). Both excerpts are about a disappearance of euphoria.
Beverley Farmer's Milk resting on a wooden balcony table, overlooking a creek.
William Trevor's The Children of Dynmouth and a beer.
Jenny Offill's Dept. Of Speculation on a Melbourne tram seat.
The Bruce Sterling-edited anthology Mirrorshades
Patrick Modiano's In the Café of Lost Youth
Jennifer Johnston's The Railway Station Man
Philip Roth's The Human Stain
William H. Gass' In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
A.S. Byatt's The Shadow of the Sun next to a pint of Guinness.
Olivia Laing's The Lonely City
Sarah Hall's short story collection Madame Zero
Nicola Barker's Wide Open
The Son of Man by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
Patricia Highsmith's Eleven
Georges Simenon's A Man's Head
Mary Costello's The China Factory
Samantha Harvey's Orbital
Ali Smith's Summer on paperback atop the bar of a Fitzroy pub.
A very pale-looking beer next to a paperback edition of Katja Oskamp's Marzahn, Mon Amour
A stack of paperbacks, including The Portable Chekhov, and books by Anne Enright, Claire-Louise Bennett and Mieko Kawakami
Yoko Tawada's Scattered All Over the Earth.
Milk by Beverley Farmer
A stack of secondhand books, including The Portable Henry James, Anita Brookner's A Misalliance and Iris Murdoch's Metaphysics.
Anita Brooker's novel Fraud.
The Silent Executioner by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
Mary Robison's novel Why Did I Ever
A stack of books: Septology, The Gate of Angels, Remainder, Autumn, Surfacing, Elizabeth Costello, Solar Bones, A Shock, Human Acts, Possession, The Go-Between, No One is Talking About This, Solenoid.
A paragraph from an exhibition review mentioning my video work RESET, which is an essayistic collage about 'cyberpunk' cinema.
Ali Smith's Spring and a pint of Guinness on a pub table, set against a tiled wall and window.
A stack of secondhand books, including J.G. Ballard's Cocaine Night's and Yoko Ogawa's Revenge
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
A stack of books, including Olivia Manning's Balkan Trilogy, Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional and Jenny Offil's Weather
a very forward email from a shop that reads "So, we heard you bought a Fountain Pen"
Wearing a t-shirt that reads The Belair Lip Bombs.
Someone sits center frame watching a five-channel video installation made up of smaller video clips.
A still from the film Virtuosity, in which we see Denzel Washington falling amidst a glitched out cityscape.
Penelope Fitzgerald's novel The Gate of Angels
A stack of secondhand books, including short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri and O. Henry, as well as novels by Anita Brookner and Anne Tyler.
Georges Simenon's Death Threats and Other Stories
A Shock - Keith Ridgway (2021) Flights - Olga Tokarczuk (2007) How to Be Both - Ali Smith (2014) Human Acts - Han Kang (2014) Nocilla Dream - Agustin Fernandez Mallo (2006) Remainder - Tom McCarthy (2005) Reservoir 13 - Jon McGregor (2017) Solar Bones - Mike McCormack (2016) Train Dreams - Denis Johnson (2011) Will and Testament - Vigdis Hjorth (2016)