Peter Kennard is an artist and teacher who has been creating photomontages for nearly half a century. Dubbed the “master of the medium” by the critic John Berger, Kennard’s ‘Broken Missile’ image for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is still deployed in protests today. Journalist and filmmaker Leah Borromeo is a former deputy foreign editor at [...]
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained on 03 April 2011 by the authorities at Beijing Capital Airport preparing to board a scheduled flight to Hong Kong. He has yet to be charged and the state has not yet confirmed his whereabouts.
A major survey show of his work has opened at London’s Lisson Gallery joining his [...]
On 20 April 2011, a tribute event was held in London in memory of director, actor and filmmaker Juliano Mer Khamis. Juliano was assassinated on 4 April 2011 in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, where he established the Freedom Theatre in 2006. The son of a Arna Mer, a Jewish woman, and Saliba Khamis, [...]
here’s a short video featuring war boutique’s work at black rat projects. he and peter kennard set up a series of installations exploring the relationships between citizen, state and commerce and geopolitics as a power structure.
the world has just uncovered a new, great street photographer.
her name is vivian maier. she lived and worked in chicago as a nanny. on her days off she took photographs that rival the poetry and beauty walker evans, helen levitt and saul leiter.
without further adieu, read my article in the british journal of photography.
and give [...]
I’ve been doing some writing for a bunch of art students.
Such as the copy you will read below.
The first draft I worked off had the phrase “challenging the position of the student as consumer and the pedagogic problems that come with this new condition”.
Call me a bit low-brow but I thought it best to simplify [...]
Some friends from Students for a Free Tibet rang up to ask me to close their poetry night with a verse by Woeser.
Woeser is a Tibetan poet, activist and blogger living in China. She is one of the few Tibetan authors to write in Chinese.
You can find out more about her and all things Tibetan [...]
To mark the start of London Fashion Week 2010, activist group The Craftivist Collective has created homemade Mini Protest Banners aimed at exposing the ugly side of fashion. Using Mini Protest Banners, they hope to make people think about the side of the fashion that is often too easily dismissed by the industry in [...]
For Sale. One Space Hijackers Tank. Last seen 01 April 2009 – at London’s G20 demonstrations – steaming down Bishopsgate with Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries blaring from its soundsystem. 11 careful owners all registered on the DNA database. Many of us popped our arrest cherry that day.
Our mobile oppression [...]
Billboard vandal and drinker of tea Dr D plies his trade in a West London warehouse nestled in a landscape of railway lines, telephone poles and refrigerator graveyards.
When we meet, he is ankle deep in cut-out letters, spraymount and a scattering of UK election campaign propaganda. He’s recently finished a two-storey high paste up [...]
