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No Room to Move
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No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City
A fistful of research on the state of critical public art in the maelstrom of New Labour's regeneration programmes.
By Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles


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Background articles for ICA discussion News & Analysis
Submitted by szczels on Friday, 12 February, 2010 - 14:23
Stefan Szczelkun

Two other Anthony Davies texts on Metamute are essential if this debate on the ICA is to be understood in a wider context. As well as his original Culture Clubs (2000) written with Simon Ford the two texts are:

1. Basic Instinct: Trauma and Retrenchment 2000-4 (2005)
http://www.metamute.org/en/Basic-Instinct-Trauma-and-Retrenchment-2000-4

Basic instinct alludes to the reassertion of capitals core values within the art scene.

It starts with a reference to the previous director at the ICA:


No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 24 November, 2009 - 16:45

As the Creative City model for urban regeneration founders on the rocks of the recession, and the New Labour public art commissioning frenzy it triggered recedes, Anthony Iles and Josephine Berry Slater take stock of an era of highly instrumentalised public art making.


Launch of Turner Prize 2009 News & Analysis
Submitted by Billy_Durrant on Tuesday, 6 October, 2009 - 14:43
Billy Durrant

Four Perspectives on the Launch of Turner Prize 2009

The Aesthetic Perspective

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The Evil Knievel of Debt News & Analysis
Submitted by Mavis on Tuesday, 23 September, 2008 - 17:51
Enric Duran

More thuggish banking crisis-oriented Nettime forwarding from me...account of an activist's valiant campaign to become a one-man booster rocket for the global financial meltdown

http://www.17-s.info

I am writing down this pages to announce that I have expropriated 492,000 euros to 39 banks through 68 loan deals. If we include interest on arrears, the present amount of debt is over 500,000 euros which I will not pay.


Big cheques in the post OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Thursday, 3 April, 2008 - 18:56
Private Eye (In the Back)

Last year's Royal Mail strikes responsded to an ongoing attack on postal workers' conditions, the origins of which can be traced directly to the competitve, 'harmonized' market being gradually introduced under the EU Postal Directives of 1997 and 2002.  The threatened closure of post offices across the UK also falls within the Directives' market logic.  (It remains to be seen if local post office user campaigns, whose bandwagon now groans under the weight of Ken Livingstone and a posse of embarrassed/embarrassing Labour MPs, will manage to organize in solidarity w


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By Anthony Davies and Simon Ford
Sept 2000

New Labour orthodoxy maintains, in line with its predecessor, that public private partnerships are the only way forward economically. Transport, health and education have been the most controversial new enterprise zones, but is the cultural sector's restructuring any less absolute?

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