Category Archives: United Kingdom
Text: Fallen Empire / Bond-Fires / Fires of Desire
Fallen Empire As the fire continues to cling on the roofs of a fallen empire, the charred black smoke lingers. Desperate bodies wander to find scraps to savour and remnants to rescue. Their aged bones are physically unable to rebuild … Continue reading
Filed under Art, Article, United Kingdom
Survey: Recession Impacts
AQ’s 4th Recession Impacts Survey: now live 11th August – 19th September 2011 Following the publication of its three reports on the impacts of the recession on the cultural sector in 2009 and 2010, Arts Quarter is repeating its online … Continue reading
Filed under Article, Link, London, United Kingdom
Exhibition: Primitive Accumulation
Friday May 27th-June 30th, 2011 Curated by Arne De Boever and Dan Davis FOLD Gallery London is pleased to present a group show celebrating the first two years of www.PRIMITIVEACCUMULATION.com, an online collaboration between artist Dan Davis and literary critic … Continue reading
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Book: Bankrupt Britain: An atlas of social change
Bankrupt Britain: An atlas of social change by Daniel Dorling 23 May 2011 Bankrupt Britain is a unique atlas giving a comprehensive picture of the effect of the recession on Britain. In detailed colour maps, it shows how economic, social … Continue reading
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Film: “Free Fall” by Hito Steyerl
Hito Steyerl 4 November – 19 December 2010 Chisenhale Gallery 64 Chisenhale Road London E3 5QZ +44 (0) 20 8981 4518 mail@chisenhale.org.uk www.chisenhale.org.uk Chisenhale Gallery presents Hito Steyerl’s first major solo exhibition in London. In Free Fall (2010), a new … Continue reading
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Event: Seminar Series on Debt, Pain, Work
Centre for Cultural Studies Research University of East London The Politics of Debt 13 October 2010 14:00 to 17:00 The first of our series of seminars examining the meaning of Debt, Pain and Work in the era of austerity and … Continue reading
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Event: Capitalism After the Crash: The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism
Capitalism After the Crash: The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism 28 October 2010 ICA, London The global financial meltdown of 2008 brought the world economy to its knees and destroyed three decades of neoliberal orthodoxy. The aftermath is still being … Continue reading
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Art: We Don’t Use the Word ‘Recession’ by Superflex
TODAY WE DON’T USE THE WORD ‘RECESSION’ Ireland is entering into a new era since the predicable but untimely death of the Celtic Tiger economy, once lauded as the fastest growing economy in the world. This great Celtic-Tiger economy driven … Continue reading
Filed under Art, Denmark, Exhibition/Event, United Kingdom
Art: Surround Me by Susan Philipsz
At the weekends an eerie quiet descends on the City of London, in offices, squares, churchyards and streets, broken by the occasional sound of traffic and church bells. The silence of the city has inspired artist Susan Philipsz’s first commission … Continue reading
Filed under Art, Sound of Ebb, United Kingdom
Film: Popular Unrest by Melanie Gilligan
Popular Unrest, is a multi-episode drama set in a future much like the present. Here, however, all exchange transactions and social interactions are overseen by a system called ‘the Spirit’. A rash of unexplained killings have broken out across the … Continue reading
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