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Isle of Dog – Canary Wharf is a place where the new form of labor becomes dramatically evident – the workers have indeed left the factory, or  in this case – the docks, and the managerial and office class of the cognitariat has literally taken their place. This process is made visible in the centrifugal social/class [...]

Blake escapes from Scrubs

Posted: January 24, 2012 by project47convenors in The Political, The Prison

In 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 [...]

January 15, 2012 Iniva Manchester cotton, courtesy of Joss Graham. Social Fabric 19 January–10 March 2012 Press view: 18 January, 10am–12 noon, talk at 11am Preview: 18 September, 6.30–8.30pm Iniva at Rivington Place London EC2A 3BA www.iniva.org Iniva presents Social Fabric, an exhibition that uses textiles to explore colonial history, international trade, labour and militant [...]

Being locked up is grim at the best of times, being locked up over Christmas, away from friends and family, is always going to be an especially difficult time, so we urge all decent anarchists and radicals to send a letter, messages of support, of just a few lines to the five anti-fascist prisoners still [...]

I’ve found an article about Iran’s National Olympic Committee who claims that London’s olympic logo spells out “Zion.” Actually, this obsession of “looking awry” has become a tradition. I remember the same claim against ‘Coca-Cola’ logo: one may spells out the arabic words consisting the message: “Neither Mohammed, Nor Mecca” by looking the english logo-type [...]

Olympic police (re)action figure

Posted: December 13, 2011 by jamesrrellison in The Museum, The Political
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Here is an interesting image I found and the blog link it originates from. Dan Hancox blog    

Museum = Prison by Monty Catsin

Posted: November 12, 2011 by jamesrrellison in The Museum, The Political, The Prison

the prison does not exist

Posted: October 27, 2011 by jamesrrellison in The Political, The Prison
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As a visitor/viewer in Wormwood Scrubs it felt like a simulacra of a prison rather than an actual penitentiary. The initial processing was as if subjected to a bizarre ticket system, where restrictions on height are replaced with restrictions on objects. The ticket office as the security station providing tokens (keys) to the attraction ahead. [...]

Yesterday evening a few of us found ourselves in an audience with Turner prize winning artist Jeremy Deller. A bit of history, Deller never went art school instead he studied Art History and so ‘he never had the traditional trajectory expected of art students  college > studio> gallery’. His work never involves ‘making a mess’ [...]

Parachuting How does one recognize the difference between actively engaging in a ‘dialogue’ vs.  actively inviting oneself to a dialogue? Does a dialogue need to be ‘encouraged’, or does it fail to be a true communication precisely once it becomes encouraged and promoted? Doesn’t the promotion of it stand exactly for its immediate ossification; a [...]