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Minor Politics, Territory and Occupy

By Nick Thoburn 17 April 2012

In a talk given by Nick Thoburn at the School of Ideas this February, some of the Occupy movement’s most hopeful qualities were magnified through th...

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The Art of the Exegesis

By Danny Butt 10 April 2012

With art schools' integration into the university system, artists are required to present their work as written ‘exegesis’. Here, Danny Butt trace...

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Refusing Conformity and Exclusion in Art Education

By Dean Kenning 22 March 2012

  While experimentation and activism often focus on art school education or education as art, there is a tendency to ignore the creepin...

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Everyone Has a Business Inside Them

By Marina Vishmidt 14 March 2012

An exhibition at Gasworks singled out the thematic of ‘management’ as a lens through which to examine multiple artistic approaches to la...

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With Immediate Effect

By Sophie Shasiepen 8 March 2012

  Artistic actions outside the gallery may vary widely in their approach to social space as material, but, as Sophie Schasiepen argues in this r...

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Rip-roaring Markets and Massive Inequality: An Interview with Paul Mason

By Peter Carty 29 February 2012

Newsnight's engaged economics editor and author of Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere, talks to Peter Carty about global revolution, Chinese female bik...

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Compost Your Orgasm Trash

By mute 29 February 2012

  Bread soup that sprouts trees, redundant sex replicants gone feral and art publics harnessed to sort e-trash – artist and film dir...

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The Conditions of Possibility: Tributes to Marina Vishmidt 1976-2024 (I)

By Mute Collective 6 June 2024

Marina Vishmidt, a much loved and deeply formative contributor for our magazine from its early years, tragically passed away at the end of April. The ...

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Mute Archive Move

By mute 27 June 2022

This June and July the Mute magazine archive is being moved from its current home in a shipping container a hundred miles north of London to a new smaller space in Berlin.

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