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Weaponise Aunt Hester’s Scream

In an expanded review of Arika 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle, part of an ongoing series of mini-festivals, Sacha Kahir listens to the anguished language of noise and poetry inflected through black experience, politics and artistic traditions

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FOR THE 4TH This Is Not A Gateway Festival

Accessible Confrontation

To what extent can a contrived transgression of convention address its own contrivance?, asks Robbie Ellen of Tino Seghal’s performance work These Associations

Confrontation (Intro)

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Friday 22^nd June – Sunday 26^th August 2012

Part performance, part experience, Trade Secrets presents us with an universe threatened with complete control. Using the lens of the marketplace to ask, "What do we really trade? What should be traded? And what cannot be bought?"

Geraldine Goat – The Hard Way To Enlightenment

Featured in Current Issue – Mute Vol. 3, No. 3 - Becoming Impersonal

Stephan Dillemuth's film installation, The Hard Way to Enlightenment, deployed a live goat in an immanent critique of privatisation and its implications for art, research and education. Geraldine has since slipped her collar to appear in this short story by Katrina Palmer satirising the apparently limitless masochism of the contemporary artist

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Orgy of the Non/Self

Featured in Current Issue – Mute Vol. 3, No. 3 - Becoming Impersonal

Yayoi Kusama’s current Tate Modern retrospective provokes Josephine Berry Slater to join the dots of the artist’s agonising and ecstatic constellation of obliteration and multiplication

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With Immediate Effect

Artistic actions outside the gallery may vary widely in their approach to social space as material, but, as Sophie Schasiepen argues in this review, their representation inside the gallery rarely does

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Mute Vol. 3, No. 4 - Slave to the Algorithm

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By admin 13 April 2013

As the financial crisis fastens its grip ever tighter around the means of human and natural survival, the age of the algorithm has hit full stride. This phase-shift has been a long time coming of course, and was undoubtedly as much a cause of the crisis as its effect, with self-propelling algorithmic power replacing human labour and judgement and creating event fields far below the threshold of human perception and responsiveness.

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