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  Artists are increasingly working with small communities, and exploring the complex histories of visual traditions that are formed in these places. However, while they are often very protective and committed to these places they are also deeply aware of their links to global debates and part of transnational dialogues on the meaning of their… Continue reading Untitled

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Egypt: Mahalla workers join rebellion, reject privatisation plans

Originally posted on MENA Solidarity Network:
Pictures from Revolutionary Youth Coalition, Mahalla (via Facebook) Thousands of workers from the giant textile mill in Mahalla al-Kubra marched out of the factory in a protest in solidarity with the ‘Rebel’ campaign against Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi on 27 June. Carrying a mock coffin draped in posters…

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Orange juice

This large transparency some 1.2 metre by 90cms was stuck to panes of glass in the gallery for the 1st year MCA exhibition.  This grotesque result from an everyday drink sweeps dramatically across the screen, with an orange and black and spittle like  splash.

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Adam Turi

The middle class, by definition, is a middle term between labor and capital; if the reflexive need to elevate itself above “common” alienated work is one pole of its existence, a natural hostility to Big Capital is the other. (As a famous letter from King Leopold to Queen Victoria warns, rather amusingly: “The dealings with… Continue reading Adam Turi

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18-6-13

To see prepositions, place juxtaposed chosen words on transparencies next to some images, try all the same medium, more photos some on transparencies too, practice wallpainting. “What are you, she said to the quark” is a fundamental question of science. Gell-Mann went into further detail regarding the name of the quark in his book, The Quark and… Continue reading 18-6-13

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