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Urbanism

THE KING'S LAND as a site specific project

When a London-based international artist comes in contact with a run down East End housing estate, what happens? The typical narrative is this: a large well funded curating body facilitates a high profile, costly, impressive and much-reviewed well-hyped installation spectacle that brings the bourgeoisie in droves to the site, where they marvel at not only the work but the frisson of excitement at actually being in a run down council estate.

Bloomsbury Olympic

As the 2012 London Olympics looms, construction and education – two poles of an economy of despair – are to meet in East London. Richard B draws out the unlikely connections in-the-making between Bloomsbury and Stratford

 

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

 

Compost Your Orgasm Trash

 

Bread soup that sprouts trees, redundant sex replicants gone feral and art publics harnessed to sort e-trash – artist and film director Shu Lea Cheang’s work knows no bounds. In conversation with Matthew Fuller, she discusses the polymorphous pleasure of jamming social, technical and organic circuits

 

 

Is Black History in Hackney?

Hackney Council in the East End of London plan to drop CLR James's name from a public library in fashionable Dalston. As the UK regime of austerity deepens, should we be fighting for symbolic concessions to those deleted or displaced by gentrification, or is it time for a more material response?, asks Ben Seymour

Politics Here is Death

Psychogeophysical Summit - Crossbones Cemetery, London 7 August 2010

For one week the Psychogeophysical Summit merged renegade earth science, geekery and subjective mapping. Accompanied by Silje Hyenes Lysne, waving a magical video wand, remote reviewer Anthony Iles scried what he could

 

Video: The Psychogeophysical Summit London, 2-7 August 2010, a Mute and BLIP co-production.

 

 

Video - Forever Blowing Bubbles: A Walking Tour with Peter Linebaugh and Fabian Tompsett (2008)

Forever Blowing Bubbles: A Walking Tour with Peter Linebaugh and Fabian Tompsett

Forever Blowing Bubbles?

Video footage of a Mute event held on the 12th November 2008

A walking tour and talk in the City of London, taking in landmarks of capitalist crisis past and present. Organised by Mute magazine. Writer Fabian Tompsett and Historian Peter Linebaugh will guide a tour around the City relating the contemporary financial crisis to those of previous eras (usch as the 1720 South Sea Bubble), using the urban fabric as text.

Forever Blowing Bubbles video documentation

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