A diagram/ drawing to explain, or hopefully partially explain the financial crisis and some of the intent behind it - at least from a UK perspective. This is an attempt produce something simple and accessible, that condenses things so that everyone can understand.

Where the recession opens up ‘slack spaces’ in the city, squatters and artists are sure to follow. Nowadays the apparatchiks of culture-led regen are hard on their heels. But what would a gentrification non-compliant occupation look like? Peter Conlin reports from St. Martin’s Radical Incursions symposium

I am hoping this is some kind of parody of the nigh universal tendency for (relational/new media/ all?) art to resemble the collateral campaign in The Man Without Qualities. [cf Matthew Hyland's great article on Documenta in Mute a few years back]. But it might just be a second order symptom of the disease hiding behind the illusion of a cure.

Funny project "Suugest yourself"
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