various activities and texts
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Was set up by Iain Boal, Gillian Boal, Anthony Davies, Pauline van Mourik Broekman and Howard Slater in September 2011 after a scoping period (incl. events, meetings and discussions) going back to early 2010. Against a backdrop of austerity cuts announced by an incoming Conservative government and impending threats posed to numerous archive collections, libraries, […]
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A series of events and workshops In São Paulo, Brazil co-organised with James Stevens, Liz Wright and others over the course of 2017-2018. In collaboration with Marcus de Silva (Casa do Redonda), Carol Tonetti (Grupo Inteiro), Prescila Mastroroso (Fabrica de Cultura), Nelson Che (Mao Occupado), and representatives from the peripheries/favelas: Morro do Macaco, Brasilândia, Paraisópolis, […]
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An occasional project space and online forum set up with Pauline van Mourik Broekman in 2004 with an invite to 30 friends and associates to form a core organising group (Invite re-published as ‘What a waste’ in Frozen Tears III, Article Press 2007) . Initially conceived as self-financing, the model was regarded as para-institutional, drawing […]
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A collective formed in 2010 in response to an invite to participate in Principio Potosi, an international exhibition coordinated by Alice Creicshler, Andreas Seikman and Max Jorge Hinderer. The initial working group included John Barker, Anja Buchele, Matthew Hyland and Tim Savage, produced a series of Curses/Posters under the acronym TIPPA and correspondence with participating institutions under the […]
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A series of weekly online meetings coinciding with the outbreak of the Covid 19 Pandemic in March 2020 up until August 2020. Set up by Sheyla Amelo, Anthony Davies and Marcus (Batata) de Silva, it pulled together an international network of activists, educators and writers from Latin America and Europe. The meetings included various presentations […]
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A listserve and online forum in support of unaligned, non-sectarian left/communist meetings initially set up by Anthony Davies, Anthony Iles, Ben Seymour and others in the immediate aftermath of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. The title prefigured the social crisis which followed in the wake of subsequent austerity cuts with a repetition of ‘social’ to signal itinerant gatherings – […]
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An artist-run-space above a bookshop at 148 Charing Cross Road in central London, set up and managed by Dan Mitchell on a peppercorn rent to Crossrail Ltd over the period 1992-1997. Due to its location opposite the Astoria in Soho, the building also functioned as an illicit hire venue for clubs, parties, gigs, film screenings […]
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