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Alanna Lockward Hosted by Centre for Postcolonial Studies, Goldsmiths Tuesday 22nd May 2012 5:30 –7:00pm, RHB137 Alanna Lockward will be presenting work from the international screening programme BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITCS (Ballhaus Naunynstrasse,Berlin, May 2012). Centred on Black European citizenship and recent moving image and performative practices, BE.BOP2012 sought to expose the ways in which [...]
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The Museum group are riding a wave of interest in this country around the plight of post-war council estates. Seen less as markers of hope and utility as they were in post-war economic depression, they are increasingly taken to be a blight upon the landscape and something in need of ‘cleaning up’. Raquel has pointed [...]
‘Over the Wall’ on Tuesday, March 20th. Screening in Small Hall Cinema, RHB, Goldsmiths from 6.00pm-8pm. ‘Over The Wall’ is the story of a unique University of London-based football team called Football Beyond Borders, and their quest to play in Palestine. They find themselves in Cairo in the year of the Arab Spring and with [...]
‘Olympic Stadia as Sites of Memory – Keeping the Flame Alive’ Professor John Gold (Oxford Brookes University) 22nd March 2012 5.30pm for 6pm in the The Waldegrave Drawing Room at St Mary’s University College ( followed by a drinks reception) St Mary’s University College, Waldegrave Road, Twickenham, London TW1 4SX Further details: ‘Olympic Stadia as [...]
Housing Challenges for London: Wealth for a Few; Austerity for the Majority?
Posted: March 9, 2012 by project47convenors in UncategorizedThursday 8th March, 5.30 – 7.00 pm University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 in room M614 Chair: Duncan Bowie, University of Westminster Speakers: Phil McCarvill, IPPR (Institute of Public Policy Research) and author of forthcoming IPPR report on housing in London Peter Redman, Housing Futures (formerly CE of Notting Hill Housing Trust and [...]
We’re reposting this message from Guy Atkins (from last years Art & Politics cohort) for two reasons: that some of you might be interested in participating; and , as a reminder, that these projects can (and should) be more than just about assessment – that they have a strange way of taking on a life [...]
Blake escapes from Scrubs
Posted: January 24, 2012 by project47convenors in The Political, The PrisonIn 1961 George Blake was convicted of treason and espionage and was handed down a 42 year prison sentence, to be served out in H. M. Prison Wormwood Scrubs. In 1966 Blake escaped from Scrubs with the aid of the KGB and defected to Moscow. As a space of incarceration the prison is society’s [...]
The bus tour is upon us. Possibilities and limitations, familiarities and novelties, associations and singularities, sympathies and antagonisms: what strikes you first about these sites? As an important first step in the formation of all four group projects we ask you, in this crucial period leading up to the selection of your final project site, [...]
Project 47
Posted: October 9, 2011 by project47convenors in From the Convenors, The Museum, The Prison, The Stadium, The TunnelProject 47 is the blog of the Goldsmiths MA in Art and Politics group project. It is designed to be a collaborative space between staff, students and institutional partners for the exploration of our project sites. This year these sites include: The Museum of London The Greenwich Foot-Tunnel Her Majesty’s Prison Wormwood Scrubs Millwall Football [...]
