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No Stars, no Solos – just Sound, Motion, and Energy: an Interview with John Gruntfest

Given the ephemeral nature of improvised music, it is easily forgotten after the performance. Despite that, the work of saxophonist, poet, and musical event organiser, John Gruntfest, is almost criminally overlooked. Stretching over four decades, Gruntfest has played saxophone in a huge number of ensembles, as well as collaborating with political art and theatre groups such as the Pageant Players, the Motherfuckers, Bread and Puppet Theatre and the Living Theatre.

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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 Mute Vol. 3, No. 3 - Becoming Impersonal

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Orgy of the Non/Self

Featured in 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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Don't Panic, Organise! A Mute Magazine Pamphlet on Recent Struggles in Education

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By mute 20 January 2011

If you are fighting the cuts to the UK's education system (occupying, sitting in, demonstrating, planning further actions), <i>Mute</i> wi...

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Mute Magazine Print Archive

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By mute 13 September 2016

The Mute magazine print archive has its first release for sale as an original, limited edition set of all fifty-one issues of the print versions of the magazine, covering twenty years of publishing from 1994 to 2014.

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Look at Hazards, Look at Losses

By mute 28 March 2017

Authors: Group for Conceptual Politics (GCP), Danny Hayward, Anthony Iles, Lisa Jeschke, Benjamin Noys, Eirik Steinhoff and Marina Vishmidt Paperba...

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No Room To Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City

By mute 9 September 2010

By Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles As the Creative City model for urban regeneration founders on the rocks of the recession, and the New La...

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