NYLON

It's hard to wrap your head around the scale of New York and London as they are so topographically different.
London is a complete mess of roads neatly organised into concentric zones that seem to spread out forever until suddenly it hits the M25 motorway and becomes farmland.
New York is a neatly organised set of roads set on to a mess of islands and inlets and seems to be encircled by endless suburbs with farmland somewhere way down the I95 highway.

I made loads of versions of these maps in some sense to put my two realities together, they somehow help me better contextualise and understand my place in these two twin cities (fraternal twins of course)

Trial of The Mariner

Set in a dystopian future, 8 sailors venture into the radioactive oceans to discover new resources, to their horror they become stranded upon the Plastic Continent floating around the North Pacific gyre where the Skipper, the last remaining survivor is taken to trial by the Plastic Creatures for crimes against Nature...

Described as a performance of 'deranged genius', our latest production by Lotos Collective

www.trialofthemariner.com



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Art, Time and Experimentation at Long Player in Trinity Buoys Wharf

LONG SUMMER EVENINGS AT TRINITY BUOY WHARF WITH LONGPLAYER

A SERIES OF TALKS AROUND THE THEMES OF ART, TIME AND EXPERIMENTATION

FEATURING: RICHARD WILSON (ARTIST), ANDREW KOTTING (FILM DIRECTOR), IAIN SINCLAIR (WRITER), PAUL SHEPHEARD (ARCHITECT AND WRITER), DAVID ROONEY (CURATOR AT SCIENCE MUSEUM)

JUNE 29th 6pm – 9pm Launch

Arrive between 6pm and 7pm to gain rare evening access to Longplayer, Jem Finer’s 1000 year musical composition that has been playing from the lighthouse at Trinity Buoy Wharf since the first moments of 2000.

Richard Wilson is to open with a one-off performance lecture ‘THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT’. Wilson will be showing his rarely seen films in a talk about his use of films in sculptures.

7pm at The Lighthouse, Trinity Buoy Wharf, Orchard Place, London E14 0JW

28th of July: Paul Shepheard to present a talk entitled ‘The Bowl of the Horizon’

7th of September: Andrew Kotting and Iain Sinclair to present on the Long Pedal and their new collaboration ‘SWANDOWN’

28th of September: David Rooney to present ‘Navigating experimental invention, survival and destruction: the Royal Observatory and GMT’

For more information visit http://longplayer.org

Free admission, to book email: lara@longplayer.org

Race as Military Propaganda

I was researching the Detroit race riots of 1943, when I came upon some Japanese propaganda duringWorld War 2. This lead me to this incredible website: Psychological Warfare, Psychological Operations (PSYOP), Black Propaganda, and Aerial Propaganda Leaflets.

Check out the race as military propaganda page

The Argument Room

The Argument Room is a live, interactive debating forum involving two people, branching out from this to reach an unlimited number via the web. Its primary concerns are the arts and social justice.

Coming Up:

June 16th Juliet Lyon, Director of Prison Reform Trust
July 21st Chris Goode, actor, writer and director

A great new streaming format for interaction and debate. Worth checking out

http://www.theargumentroom.net

The Journal for Artistic Research

The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) is an inter-national, online, Open Access and peer-reviewed journal for the identification, publication and dissemination of artistic research and its methodologies, from all arts disciplines. With the aim of displaying practice in a manner that respects artists'

modes of presentation, JAR abandons the traditional journal article format and offers its contributors a dynamic online canvas where text can be woven together with image, audio and video. These research documents called ‘expositions’ provide a unique reading experience while

fulfilling the expectations of scholarly dissemination. 

http://www.jar-online.net/

Budget Cuts Mural @ Bucks New University

Somehow the University gave me free access to create a mural about the budget cuts just in time for the visit of University Minister David Willetts. I'm told her was steered clear from ever viewing it on the day he came to campus. Nevertheless a great endeavour and mention in this article of Times Higher Education.

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