Rolling*
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With the seasons changing and summer feeling just behind us, we wanted to thank you all so much for contributing to the launch of PAM so far as readers, sharers and especially to the artists and writers whose work made our first season so abundant. From there, we’ve been rolling, buoyed along by the generous responses to the project coming in.
Since PAM’s launch it’s been exciting to receive pitches and introductions from so many artists and writers—both known and unknown to us— and we’ll always have open doors for this. We have also staged our first co-commission, initiated by the luminous team at Glasgow Women’s Library. This is something we’d love to do with other organisations: to host pre-commissioned writing, take on editorial labour, or fully join up to offer a writer a paid commission with editorial and publication support.
So! The last of PAMs summer spoils include: reflections on EAF, Zainab Imran’s Co-Commission with GWL and a new article by Alison on summer’s outlying festivities.
- Being/s made visible—Rosie Priest on Edinburgh Art Festival 2026
- Desert Hearts Pound—Kirstin Halliday stuns as Desert Kingsnake, a performance at Jupiter Rising X Edinburgh Art Festival: PAM’s Rosie Roberts reports
- The Vital—Poetic responses by Zainab Imran to ‘We Make Museums: Sustaining and Changing Worlds’ at Glasgow Women's Library
- Hairst—Alison Scott reports on summer festivities: ‘Maximum Tilt’, ‘Ecologies of Sound’, ‘Lughnasadh’ and ‘Interesting Things’
As we head into the autumn months the writing PAM holds reflects a shift in mood, moving from documentation of heady late summer revelry into artefacts of grief, memorialisation, solidarity, archival hauntings and cyber-gothic listenings with a new batch of sharings on the website:
- The Exhumation of Grief: Shalmali Shetty on Florence Peake’s performance ‘Ode in the Dark’ at Hospitalfield
- A new suite of poems on grief by Jane Hartshorn, in installments of once a week for four weeks
- Sunnah Khan on Keng Keng Tang’s recent exhibition, Hold Up, Catch Me, at Govan Project Space
- A new audio work by Michelle Hannah ‘another not there’—available from 25 September until 31 October
- From Party Era to Archive Fever: A SPAM Saga—Maria Sledmere & Kirsty Dunlop track SPAM Press’ journey to stardom ✰
Elsewhere we have been enjoying the work of others, such as Dùdan a new publication by Caitlin Ferguson, commissioned by Atlas Arts; both Caitlin Merrett-King’s response to and Ayla Dmyterko’s One Work presentation itself ‘Dance of the Fated Furies’ (2025) over at LUX Scotland; the release of Megan Rudden’s pamphlet Plastic Milk over at Rosie’s Disobedient Press; and Esther Castle, Joe Crowdy & Tiree Taylor’s publication Abundant Parts. It’s a significant time for artist-run initiatives, with big birthdays and self-reflexive programmes: Transmission’s 40th birthday, Embassy’s ‘Culture Vultures’, the opening of Listen Gallery’s new home, and Generator are soon holding their 30th birthday programme.
We also chatted to Rosie’s Disobedient Press last month (again not this Rosie haha) about PAM and again&again’s origin story and hopes for the future which you can listen to through Radio Buena Vida sooon.
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A note from PAM’s archivist/ web-tinkerer:
As we add to PAM’s growing back catalogue, older articles will disappear from our mobile web home page, but not to fret!: they will always be available on the long scroll on the desktop homepage, or you can navigate through our archive page tags.
In October and November we will be in residency together at Hospitalfield and Deveron Projects so there is no better time to get in touch with us if you have an idea brewing that PAM could collaborate with you on.
Until the first frost-ish,
A & R aka PAM
*Much like 2026’s landlord killing thriller, we are two gals Rolling
Left: Pamela Anderson for Aritzia autumn 2023 photographed by Charlotte Wales. Right: Dolly Parton Archives, Dolly Parton is photographed by Kii Arens in 2008 for her Backwoods Barbie album.