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Whose Side Are You On? Response to Coco Fusco, ‘The State of Detention: Performance, Politics, and the Cuban Public’ (e-flux, 3 January 2015)

By RGN 29 January 2015

If anyone were to undertake a protest without official permission in or around Parliament Square – the putative heart of democracy in the UK – they should be aware that there was a high probability that they would be arrested.[1] When Cuban artist, Tania Bruguera, announced, in December 2014, that she was intending to make a performance–protest in Havana’s best-known public square, despite having being denied official permission, her arrest was met with inevitable cries of censorship. Coco Fusco – who has offered an interpretation of the ‘context and implications of the performance’ for the Anglophone world – concedes that unauthorised protests in the US would risk similar reprisals. The first thing to note, then, is the blatant hypocrisy deployed when Cuba is discussed.

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Material Conjectures: Kwartz Kapital Konstruction Kollider

By Beaconsfield 3 October 2014

Kwartz Kapital Konstruction Kollider is a new architectural structure conceived by Material Conjectures to stage the work of Sinead Bligh, Mikko Canin...

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Material Conjectures: Kwartz Kapital Konstruction Kollider

By Beaconsfield 3 October 2014

Kwartz Kapital Konstruction Kollider is a new architectural structure conceived by Material Conjectures to stage the work of Sinead Bligh, Mikko Canin...

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Richard Hards: One eye is enough

By Beaconsfield 3 October 2014

Richard Hards recently graduated in MA Sculpture from Royal College of Arts and has since been invited to make an intervention in the Upper Space Gall...

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Review of Organisation of the Organisationless

By Dave Mesing 2 October 2014

Dave Mesing reviews Rodrigo Nunes' Organisation of the Organisationless: Collective Action after Networks, part of the PML Books series...

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CHILDREN ‘AT RISK FROM WITCHCRAFT’

By Heartfield 17 July 2014

Young people are in danger from the effects of witchcraft which is “sweeping the country,” Mr Geoffrey Dickens, the Tory campaigner against child ...

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We Are History: John Timberlake in Conversation with Martin Myrone and Joy Sleeman

By Beaconsfield 16 July 2014

Friday 25 July at 6.30pm, as part of SLAM Fridays John Timberlake’s largest work to date throws up intriguing questions with its recall ...

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The inconvenient Muslim: An evening to launch Homegrown

By mute 1 March 2017

“Muslims are only ever the object in an endless national conversation around Islam, rarely invited to define their own narratives. Homegrown ...

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Communities at the front-line of coal extraction

By Anne Harris 24 May 2016

Communities at the front-line of coal extraction “Mining is going on a hundred meters away. When they started blasting, all the dust was brought ...

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La Serveuse: Notes on the movement against the loi du travail

By waitress 24 May 2016

A collection of notes, written by a waitress, regarding the mouvement sociale contre le loi du travail (the social movement against Françoi...

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Some Notes on Syriza

By Dimitra Kotouza 5 February 2015

Five notes towards averting the most ideologically polarised reactions to Syriza’s victory in Greece (mostly for those not from Greece)   ...

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Whose Side Are You On? Response to Coco Fusco, ‘The State of Detention: Performance, Politics, and the Cuban Public’ (e-flux, 3 January 2015)

By RGN 29 January 2015

If anyone were to undertake a protest without official permission in or around Parliament Square – the putative heart of democracy in the UK – they should be aware that there was a high probability that they would be arrested. When Cuban artist, Tania Bruguera, announced, in December 2014, that she was intending to make a performance–protest in Havana’s best-known public square, despite having being denied official permission, her arrest was met with inevitable cries of censorship.

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In Conversation: George Caffentzis and John Barker

By mute 15 November 2013

*In Conversation: George Caffentzis and John Barker* To celebrate the recent release of *In Letters of Blood and Fire*, George Caffentzis and John...

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Antifascist and Hip hop artist, Killah P, murdered by neonazis in Greece

By Anon 18 September 2013

Pavlos Fyssas, a 34 year old antifascist and hip hop artist (Killah P), was murdered by Golden Dawn neonazis in Keratsini, a working class neighborhoo...

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Is the Egyptian Revolution Dead?

By Philip Rizk 16 July 2013

Philip Rizk on the meandering and swerves of the Egyptian 'Revolution', reposted from: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/12895/is-the-egyptian-revo...

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END THE CRIMINALISATION OF PROTEST: THE CASE OF TRENTON OLDFIELD

By mute 25 June 2013

END THE CRIMINALISATION OF PROTEST: THE CASE OF TRENTON OLDFIELD Due to unusual circumstances, this is an unusual newsletter, though very much rel...

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Report on the London Counter-EDL demonstration

By Anonymous 28 May 2013

Some thoughts on the counter-EDL demonstration in London yesterday, and about the EDL in general:  1. The disproportion between EDL and anti-f...

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A Glossary of Subsumption

By The Public School & Post-Media Lab 22 January 2013

25-26 January, 2013 | 12-4pm Brunnenstr. 155 10115 Berlin map: http://goo.gl/maps/gD4NI near: U8 Bernauer Str. 26 January, 2013 | Closing ses...

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The Open Video Forum

By mute 12 December 2012

  The Open Video Forum - a joint effort of xm:lab, Mokolo.Labs and various international partners - brings European and African developers activ...

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