Several videos on housing struggles, sub-prime and free culture in Spain courtesy of CONSERVAS, Barcelona http://www.conservas.tk

The material has been shown and used all over Spain and now we are also organising shows or performance-presentations (see doc below), and at the same time we are opening a space here in Barcelona for exchange with others who are busy working on the same issues internationally. We are very open to colaborations and proposals. All the material exists in english, spanish, french and italian.

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FREE CULTURE: VIDEO (3mn): http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=U9dth0JxSSg

The Arnolfini’s show Port City: On Mobility and Exchange deals with the conflicts between illegal migrants’ need to remain invisible and art’s necessity to reveal what is hidden. Review by Jennifer Thatcher

What is radical research? Does it emanate from grass roots social movements, the universities, both, or neither? Melancholic Troglodytes review AK Press’s recent collection of ‘militant research’ with an illustrated tour following the book's line of enquiry from the ‘ivory tower to the barricades’

Professor,
take off your bicycle glasses!
I myself will expound
those times
and myself.

– Vladimir Mayakovsky

This collection of essays by self-described activists, academics, artists, anarchists, autonomist Marxists and situationists is an attempt to theorise the ‘social movement’. The topics under investigation cover a broad range from struggles within universities and factories to guerrilla gardening and anti-racist pedagogy. What unites them is the adoption of qualitative research methods influenced by postmodern currents within the social sciences.

In her recent anthology Participation, Claire Bishop targets the suspect utopianism of relational aesthetics – a new model public art for the age of consensus. But, writes Paul Helliwell, her alternative reading of participation, made across a set of historical texts and concerned to preserve the autonomy of art, may have blocked itself with her deployment of the fashionable Jacques Rancière

7.40pm. A total of 811 visitors of which 35 asked questions or discussed

– Report on a Day’s proceedings at the Bureau for Direct Democracy, Joseph Beuys and Dirk Schwarze

John Jordan and James Marriott’s operatic audio tour set in London’s Square Mile is intended to awaken city workers to the impact of financial systems on climate change. But not only does And While London Burns misgauge how much the suits already know, its hysterical tone also harmonises too easily with the coming new eco-order

 

Image: activists cool off under a burst water mains during the Carnival Against Capital, June 1999