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Join Platform’s Reading Group on ethics, business sponsorship, and making art
“Take the money and run? Some positions on ethics, business sponsorship and making art” Tuesdays 15 & 29 May; 12 & 26 June, 2012; 6.30 – 8.30pm; London. Booking essential. As part of our work critiquing corporate sponsorship of the arts, we have set up this Reading Group, and you’re invited! The sessions will be based on…
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15th March – an evening with the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest
One of the co-editors of the groundbreaking Journal of Aesthetics & Protest is passing through town, and we're hosting him for an evening that will include a lecture/presentation and production/performance (group-research) elements. When – Thursday 15th March, 18.30 – 20.30 Where – The Platform office, 7, Horselydown Lane, Tower Bridge, SE1 2LN
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Don’t throw activist histories away: Huntley Conference on Arts & Activism, Culture & Resistance
18th February, London There were over a 100 artists, activists, community workers, young people, archivists & conservators, educators, parents, grandparents, policymakers. We were taking part in talks, creative “Groundings” sessions, a parallel youth conference, music & poetry performances, from the fabulous El Crisis, younger talented artists, and the more experienced, discussing race and power, creativity and…
21 Feb 2012 jane -
Platform at State of the Arts Conference, #sota12
Presentation by James Marriott on 'Artists & the Future Environment'* The first speaker was writer Jay Griffiths, author of 'Wild', followed by myself, James Marriott, speaking for Platform. You can watch an interview I did after the presentation at the bottom of the text. Thank you Jay for a beautiful exposition of the relationship between…
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Permis social : Complicité à l’ère de l’extraction
This article was first published in Le Journal des Alternatives. by Kevin Smith and Clayton Thomas Mueller À première vue, il ne semble pas y avoir un lien manifeste entre les activistes indigènes au Canada, la performance des artistes au Royaume-Uni et les activistes environnementaux dans ces deux pays. Cependant, la controverse internationale au sujet…
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John Burnside wins TS Eliot prize in year of controversy
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How John Browne, BP and the Old Boys Network keep the arts well-oiled
It’s 10.30am on a spectacularly sunny winter’s day and I’m in the Members’ Room at Tate Modern. The room overlooks the Square Mile – London’s financial district – and the view symbolises the growing pressures on artists and arts organisations to seek funding from the private sector, specifically from business. Looking once again at the panel…
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The Corporate Occupation of the Arts – Sat 14th of Jan
The Corporate Occupation of the Arts. -OccupyLSX / The Bank of Ideas Earl St. EC2A 2AL – Sat 14th Jan 2012. 2- 6pm We're taking part in this afternoon of presentations and discussions at the Bank of Ideas, an abandoned office block purchased several years ago by the bank UBS and squatted by Occupy LSX.…
4 Jan 2012 Kevin
