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The second instalment of my Random Acts films for Channel 4 aired on Monday night.
This one is on the Situationist-inspired anarchitect collective, the Space Hijackers. Troublemakers with a dapper cut and a razor-edged wit, they saw fit to tackle moves by the UK’s coalition government to privatise bits of the NHS. Their mode of battle? “For Sale” signs as popularised by estate agents.

A bit of spraymount, a bit of Photoshop and an A3 printer later, these “laughing cavaliers of anti-capitalism” set out on their bikes to a few of Nye Bevan’s greatest creations. I followed closely behind and made this:

Many thanks to FG, JL, EJ, WJ, all at Channel 4 and ZCZ. And that cocking coalition government that gives activist art a reason for being.