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The Fayre aims to offer a platform for the different components of the community using Wormwood Scrubs Park. It stems from 5 students’ journey on a group project originally based in HMP Wormwood Scrubs. However, when this initial stage of the project fell through, we were amazed at how many people we had encountered working [...]
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You are invited to Wormwood Scrubs park, from 12:00 until 17:00 on the 12/5 for a Community Fayre in support of charity.
Posted: April 30, 2012 by jamesrrellison in Events, The Prison2
The Alternative Art College presents; Education as Experiment 17/05
Posted: April 30, 2012 by jamesrrellison in Events, Individual project, The PoliticalThe Alternative Art College presents; Education as Experiment. Date: 17th May Time: 10am – 6pm Location: 47 Lewisham Way, Goldsmiths College. The Alternative Art College is a non-profit education facility; The AAC’s reason for being is to challenge the notion of knowledge consumers, to [...]
By chance a friend offered me the opportunity to see Artangel’s newest commission, A Tender Subject, by artist Mark Storor. The performance, which took 3 years to design, takes place in an abandoned space, within the city of London, and deals with tales of homosexuality in the prison system. [...]
Students hold sponsored sprint around Wormwood Scrubs prison
Posted: March 29, 2012 by jamesrrellison in Counter-Mapping, Events, The Prison, UncategorizedFIVE students clutched yellow chrysanthemums as they took on laps of Wormwood Scrubs prison to spread their message. The Communique London group – Rebecca Hartley, Tatiana Baskakova, James Ellison, Nima Esmailpour and Kate Wiggs – took on the Saturday morning challenge for Tomorrow’s People. The charity works with prisoners, families affected by long-term unemployment and [...]
I know I was banned, at least I can run! (Wormwood Scrubs, 24/03 9:00 – 13:00)
Posted: March 18, 2012 by jamesrrellison in Counter-Mapping, Events, The Political, The PrisonSecond call out for participants, this time it’s Scrubs! As with the Gherkin we are exercising our right, excuse the pun, to free association. The days events will begin at 9am and go on until 1pm, if you want more blurb please check our press release below. We hope to see you ALL there!!!
Press release for event at HMP Wormwood Scrubs 24/3 9:00 – 13:00
Posted: March 15, 2012 by jamesrrellison in UncategorizedCommunique London are here, so letters in!
Posted: March 12, 2012 by jamesrrellison in 5th Site, Counter-Mapping, Events, Project Archive, The Political, The Prison, UncategorizedHere is the official launch of the new look ‘prison group’. Below is a link to our blog, please take a look. http://communiquelondon.org/ There is also an event happening at the Gherkin at 12:00 on the 17th.Please join us for a little bit of playful action. [...]
Save our Marshes (or more people for students to hassle)
Posted: March 9, 2012 by jamesrrellison in UncategorizedSeventy people took to Leyton Marshes to protest the local planning application to dig up the protected land to make way for more carparks and buildings for the Olympics, taking away public space, and destroy the marsh habitat. The crowd put up signs on the fence that surrounds the proposed site near Lee Bridge Road. [...]
The house is caught up in the (after)life or death
Posted: January 27, 2012 by jamesrrellison in The MuseumI’m glad to hear somebody else noticed that building, I think its a hall of some kind….? For me it seemed to fit perfectly well within the schema of the museum. Next to the mock-up interiors and facsimile exteriors, the house sits as a record of what once was. And, as if housing the same [...]
