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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 30/09/2026

Listening to #BonniePrinceBilly 's stunning new live album and the version of his & Matt Sweeney's #ShortysArk, I was reminded of this little song I made some while back about animals. And I started on class 'Animal Minds, Animal Ethics' at LSE this week. Animals on my mind youtu.be/gPIroBFhmAs?...

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Marianne Dissard - Heaven Is For Blobfishes

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 23/09/2026

Back in 'em salad days... #robertkramer #tucson #lowrider #documentaryfilm www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxey...

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 20/09/2026

Oh dear. Year 2 at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social. Word from my convenor, the remarkable Dr. Bernadette Buckley. Gonna be chaotic. Strikes, programme cuts... Welcome to UK Higher Education 2026.

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 20/09/2026

Weird thing we did during the pandemic. Featuring voices of power... Trump, Macron, Merkel, Erdogan... trying hard to not make sense. It's a hellish cover. I love it.

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Lunatraktors @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And — coincidentialy — this is exactly what they've trained "AI" to do as well.

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 27/08/2026

Hi, London and near folks! I'm showing some prints from my SOS Country series at our MA group show on 4 Sept along with my cohort. 22 Iliffe Yard SE173QA. Come say hey from 6pm! Flyer by Sofia Wilkinson-Steel.

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 16/08/2026

I mean, yeah no surprise, USS Abraham Lincoln rotting. Here's my tale from 2020 about the USS Roosevelt crew which was treated just as horribly by this monstrous administration. NDAs now... (just finished reading Traven's 1926 novel The Death Ship, anyone out there read it too?) youtu.be/NT3h5XWFV_Y

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Marianne Dissard - The Scorpion Departs But Never Returns (Phil Ochs cover)

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 06/08/2026

New photo zine is off to the printer! Love those ExWhyZed guys, so helpful to have a real printer-person on the line. exwhyzed.com 'Lights Out Knightsbridge' #documentaryphotography #bwphotography #leicamonochrom #photozine

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 04/08/2026

Is summer over? Yes, summer is over. 🤦‍♀️

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 23/07/2026

Good to be played on #rileyandcoe #BBC6Music @bbc6music.bsky.social w/ the great #terryedwards on trumpet. Thanks to @bbc6musicbot.bsky.social for spotting it! Lots more on my Bandcamp! #RitchieValens

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 14/07/2026

More experimentation w/ #photobook formats: next #photozine from 2022-2023 b/w Knightsbridge series originally intended as projected background visuals to my stage show 'Souvenir of England' (very loosely inspired by #JoannaHogg #TheSouvenir). #documentaryphotography #bwphotography #leicamonochrom

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 10/07/2026

My university’s unionized staff @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social are on strike to protest yet another death spiral round of cuts and redundancies. Management responded with 100% pay cuts. Support them now by entering into an art raffle. I have prints available > www.gucu-raffle.com/shop/p/empir...

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Choose 'Empire Builder' or 'Sunset Limited' from Marianne Dissard's Amtrak documentary photo series — Goldsmiths UCU ART RAFFLE 2026

Choose 'Empire Builder' or 'Sunset Limited' from Marianne Dissard's Amtrak documentary photo series

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 01/07/2026

New wee #photozine Dear Green. £5.00 only. DM or Street Level shop. Experimenting w/ folding formats. Surrealistic romp thru #Glasgow looking for #Buckfast & the skies down from which they crashed. Signed/numbered ed. of 100. Folded: 14x14cm to 56x42cm. #streetphotography #streetphotographyglasgow

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 12/06/2026

William Coupon (1953-2026). Farewell, pal. You were the kindest of giants. Thanks for these Manhattan sidewalk snaps, I later used in the sleeve artwork of my 2010 album 'L'abandon'. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/a...

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 07/06/2026

In solidarity with @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social striking staff. Introducing Goldsmiths' riches-to-rags (senior management) team. Our executive board has entered into a suicide pact with the institution, a doom loop of cuts and redundancies. @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 04/06/2026

First batch of 'SOS Country' prints in the post this week to my #kickstarter supporters! #soscountry #amtrakphotography #documentaryphotography

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 02/06/2026

Yep, me reading Orwell's 1940 review of 'Mein Kampf' at @yellowbookbar.bsky.social @sweetvenuesbtn.bsky.social (great fest on margins of @brightonfringe.bsky.social). My show 'A Kirk in Them Pants' demolishes Stephen Miller and his excruciating Kirk eulogy speech. Pix: Elz. Thks: my Goldsmiths class

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 30/05/2026

Today in Brighton #sweetfest #brightonfringe @sweetvenuesbtn.bsky.social Orwellian stab at pale monster-in-chief Stephen Miller, architect of Trump's cruelest immigration policies. A 'comedy' on the language of authoritarianism and what we leave behind when we leave home & country–and what we can't.

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 02/05/2026

Coming out from under rock to address salient topic of creeping HE financialisation. I'll share ongoing inquiry/interventions into Goldsmiths' partnership w/ US edtech RisePoint. Saturday @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social library 11:30am #freegoldsmiths @mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 27/04/2026

Term paper done! Private-equity takeover of UK HE: Inquiry & Interventions into the Partnership between @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social and RisePoint. Reach out if you want to learn more + join our working group! Thanks to my cohort + Bernadette Buckley for their support! @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social

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Goldsmiths UCU @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

A powerful message from three of our amazing SU officers on the damage being done to Goldsmiths by its management and why it matters. We’re forever grateful for our students’ support, an in awe of the incredible political work they do! www.goldsmithssu.org/news/article...

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The only alternative is us. It's time to organise

We are seeing a clear picture of what our collective future as students should look like. What does this mean for us as students?

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 16/02/2026

My handy work at Goldsmiths... Aka 'I might be a student but I'm still that bee'.

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 24/11/2025

Wtf @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social ? Due to admin error, 'Art, War, Terror', core module MA degree Art & Politics, was cancelled for spring. RARE class taught by Dr. Bernadette Buckley w/ @tomtrevatt.bsky.social Please EMAIL Dean Dr. Dinham a.dinham@gold.ac.uk to reinstate it. logo @mariannedissard.com

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 11/10/2025

Starving for "fearless independent journalism" on arts 'n' politics? Check out what this collective of ex- @theguardian.com /Observer journalists are cooking up at @thenerve.news : www.thenerve.news/about-us

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About Us | The Nerve

Fearless, independent journalism covering culture, politics and tech

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 08/09/2025

'SOS Country’ 2025-2026 photo documentary series. American landscapes from Amtrak long-haul trains. US-Mexico border wall, approaching El Paso, Texas on Sunset Limited Amtrak route eastbound to New Orleans. 2025.01 #photography #documentaryphotography #leica #photographer

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 26/08/2025

Always happy to visit my rock farmers pals, The Inspector Cluzo, in their organic French farm: corn, wheat, grey Gascon geese and hens, Landes turkeys, trad. sheep. Learn about their agro-ecology and their 11th album recorded in Nashville by maestro Vance Powell theinspectorcluzo.com/en/lou-casse...

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 18/08/2025

I'm going back to school! Starting next month at Goldsmiths in London, Master degree in Art & Politics over two years. Fun heady times ahead... What spoil! What luxury! Excited. www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-art-po...

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MA Art & Politics

The MA Art & Politics degree at Goldsmiths, University of London explores connections between art and politics and art's potential in times of crisis.

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 18/08/2025

Celebrating the release of 'I Do Know Some Things', much-anticipated new book by titan of American poetry, Tucsonan @richard-siken.bsky.social (& remembering our lil' 2014 collab': my music, his magic= youtu.be/3xZALSxaLVM?... ). Order Richard's masterpiece www.coppercanyonpress.org uk.bookshop.org

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Richard Siken - The Way The Light Reflects (music Marianne Dissard)

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 24/07/2025

Back in them salad days... Music video 'The One and Only' from my album 'L'abandon'. A song about Tucson featuring Ed Keeylocko's Cowtown Keeylocko, Day of the Dead Procession, train tracks across Southern Arizona... Album here: mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/laband... youtu.be/jbHcICO-1o0?...

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Official Music Video - 'The One And Only' - Marianne Dissard - Album "L'Abandon" (2011)

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Next week the UK government is moving to ban Palestine Action under anti-terror laws. 5 things that could put you at risk of a terrorism charge ⬇️ 🧵

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 20/06/2025

#glasgow, don't sleep on this fantastic rare #livemusic show! This Monday at Stereo. Minneapolis-born Istanbul-based hip-hop artist with eight critically-acclaimed albums, community leader, outspoken social justice messager #BrotherAli www.stereocafebar.com/events/2025-... @thelistuk.bsky.social

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Brother Ali at Stereo, Glasgow on 23 Jun 2025

Brother Ali at Stereo, Glasgow

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 14/06/2025

Selfie (2021) from 'On a Good Day You Can See France' documentary series made between Oct. 2020-May 2021, aka 'The Year Christmas Was Cancelled'. Available in two sizes FujiFlex limited-edition C-type prints. #Ramsgate harbour, looking back to Jacob's Ladder. #photography #documentaryphotography

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 12/06/2025

Back in them salad days... My third Tucson studio album 'The Cat. Not Me', composed by Sergio Mendoza (Calexico), featuring Thøger Lund (Giant Sand), Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson). Joe Mabbott mixed in Minneapolis. UK maestro John Dent mastered mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/the-ca... #musicsky

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 10/06/2025

Back in them salad days... 1989 Managua, Nicaragua. Shot on slide film. I traveled from the 10th anniversary celebration of the Sandinista revolution in the capital city to the border with Honduras and a small village twinned with Tucson, Arizona. #photography #nicaragua #documentaryphotography

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 06/06/2025

`SOS COUNTRY' (2025). New documentary series of American landscapes made exclusively from long-haul Amtrak trains. Photobook/exhibition in-progress but *very* limited-edition postcards already available to buy mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/merch/set-of... #photography #documentaryphotography #leica

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 03/06/2025

`SOS COUNTRY' (2025). New documentary series of American landscapes made exclusively from long-haul trains on 4-month Amtrak journey. Work-in-progress but very limited-edition postcards are avail. (link in bio). Funded in part by @creativescots.bsky.social #photography #documentaryphotography #leica

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 02/06/2025

Back in them salad days... My first #Tucson album, produced & composed by Joey Burns #calexico featuring John Convertino, Naïm Amor, Rob Burger, Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson), Sammy Decoster. French desert Americana? Buy signed CD or cassette: mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/lentre... #musicsky

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 21/05/2025

Recent #photography series Knightsbridge, London (2022-2023) #monochrom Leica w/ 50mm lens. Series used as background projection material for my touring stage production 'Souvenir of England' + 2023 public street installation Ramsgate Festival of Sound. Photobook next www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MNg...

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 17/05/2025

2023 covers album Rappel*le mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/rappel... Phil Ochs Janis Ian Steely Dan Ritchie Valens Bobbie Gentry Townes Van Zandt War Adriano Celentano Carly Simon Recorded in Tucson/UK w/ Terry Edwards @naimamor.bsky.social @raphaelmann.bsky.social Matt Mitchell #musicsky #music

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 15/05/2025

Back in them salad days... For my 2015 Best Of CD compilation album 'Cibola Gold', I asked Garry Winogrand's heirs if they'd let me use a favorite 1964 photograph Winogrand made at White Sands, New Mexico. Here are three mockups I designed. Final pick is the two children playing in dune #photography

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 13/05/2025

Back in them salad days... My second studio album, L'abandon (2010), recorded in my then-hometown of Tucson, Arizona. I wrote lyrics, Christian Ravaglioli music, BK-One co-produced. W/ Thøger Lund (Giant Sand) Luke Doucet Arthur Vint mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/laband... #musicsky #desertnoir

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 09/05/2025

`SOS Country’ 2025 documentary photography series. American landscapes from long-haul Amtrak trains. Limited-edition preview postcards for sale now: mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/merch/set-of... #photography #documentaryphotography #leica #photographer #amtrak #chicago #leicamonochrom

Chicago skyscraper from Union Station through construction site fence

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 07/05/2025

Deep-cut 2022 track recorded w/ Andy Alston (Del Amitri) the year I moved to Glasgow. soundcloud.com/andy-alston/... "The auld alliance between France & Scotland rarely sounded so achingly addictive"(G.Paterson). Portrait of Andy by me at James Kirk's wedding. #delamitri #glasgow #music #photography

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 04/05/2025

Back in them salad days... My 2019 memoir 'Not Me'. Improbably funny, brutally honest. "Keen observations, wit, and pathos", says Mitch Cullin (A Slight Trick of the Mind + Tideland) BUY HERE : www.mariannedissard.com/books/memoir... #memoir #booksky #writerscommunity #eatingdisorder #mentalhealth

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 02/05/2025

Just out! Podcast interview by Neil Saint (2RRR Sydney, AU) about my stage production 'Souvenir of England' and its soundtrack album w/ @raphaelmann.bsky.social Listen here: www.mixcloud.com/FrenchSpurs1... Inspired by Joanna Hogg's 2019 'The Souvenir, Pt.1', w/ #photography of Knightsbridge by me.

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R1187 - Souvenir Of England Featuring Marianne Dissard & Raphael Mann

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 01/05/2025

‘Doris’ Ramsgate, England 2021. Named for her uncanny resemblance to Boris. Street series ‘On a Good Day You Can See France’ : touring exhibition, site-specific installation, photobook, limited-edition C-type prints w/ part funding from Creative Scotland #streetphotography #photography #ramsgate

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · 29/04/2025

Back in them salad days… Drunken Bees, 1994 #GiantSand documentary directed by yours truly. Featuring Howe Gelb, soon-to-become #Calexico Joey Burns & John Convertino, Victoria Williams, Rainer... #Tucson #blueskymusic #americana #desertrock time capsule! mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/merch/drunke...

DVD documentary Giant Sand Tucson Americana indie band circa 1994 pre-Calexico. Directed by Marianne Dissard.

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