Draw Me King’s Road
In 2013, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea commissioned the “Draw Me/Tedna Ve” camera obscurer booth to create an instant...
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Platform7
- Apr 9, 2020
- 1 min
Moving_Me?
Selected images and stories from Moving_Me?, forming part of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) programme, Gentrification,...
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Platform7
- Jan 1, 2020
- 2 min
On The Horizon
On The Horizon dance performance explored the universal struggle of venturing into the unknown, in expectation of something better, as...
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Platform7
- Dec 29, 2019
- 4 min
Dead Rat At The Lido
The Dead Rat Orchestra is now an established trio, a staple of the European folk scene with a reputation for introducing experimental...
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Platform7
- Dec 24, 2019
- 4 min
Paul Hazelton Reflects on Moonbow Margate
Artist Paul Hazelton, who grew up in Margate, created a number of works for the Moonbow Margate intervention in 2011, which he later...
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Platform7
- Dec 24, 2019
- 2 min
Gold Junk
Artist Rebecca Lock created a number of gold objects from junk and placed them in amusement arcades in Cliftonville, which now serves as...
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Platform7
- Dec 23, 2019
- 2 min
Lido’s Last Season
As the rapidly deteriorating Lido complex in Cliftonville, which once drew vast crowds, seeks yet again to revive its former glories, we...
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Platform7
- Dec 20, 2019
- 2 min
Clare Pattinson – Food Police
Clare Pattinson was featured on Britain’s Channel 4 television programme Sunday Brunch* discussing her latest automatons, and how it all...
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Platform7
- Dec 3, 2019
- 31 min
Turner Prize For Turner Contemporary: Revisiting The First Summer
With the Turner Prize in Margate about to be announced, this post republishes the 2013 paper on the Turner Contemporary’s first months,...
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Platform7
- Oct 2, 2019
- 3 min
Reimagining Ladies Tights
Reimagining Ladies Tights examined the importance women place on tights and hosiery and the role these seemingly innocuous items play in...
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Platform7
- Oct 1, 2019
- 4 min
Waste Agency
Waste Agency was a 4-month art performance intervention in a disused HMV record store in the City of London, the UK’s financial heart and...
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Platform7
- Sep 30, 2019
- 2 min
Tapescape Catford: Intervention I
An intervention in an old Blockbuster Video, closed after being looted during the London 2011 riots, exploring the politics of the...
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Platform7
- Sep 29, 2019
- 4 min
Making Esparto Grass Paper
This article discusses the embracing of art projects, whether as an artist or not, through making paper from Esparto, a perennial grass...
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Platform7
- Sep 24, 2019
- 2 min
Claire and Dean Play Tony and Dominic
Mixing classical instruments with audio equipment, this swirling soundscape captured Margate’s overpowering fetish for nostalgia in 2011,...
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Platform7
- Sep 23, 2019
- 2 min
AI Entrepreneurial Challenge
In a world that’s increasingly litigious over intellectual property (IP), the challenge for entrepreneurs in the Fourth Industrial...
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Platform7
- Sep 21, 2019
- 6 min
Margnification
Margnification, by the conceptual art collective Akleriah, was a live street intervention that challenged the perception of the space in...
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Platform7
- Sep 20, 2019
- 1 min
Matter
Many seaside towns often mask their own sense of community by immersing themselves in the idealised version of the tourist, Jonathan...
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Platform7
- Sep 20, 2019
- 3 min
Gandhi in London 1931
The Spaces Inhabited by Mahatma Gandhi was the first exhibition at Moonbow Margate, where the distorted and romanticised media coverage...
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Platform7
- Sep 19, 2019
- 4 min
Introducing Moonbow Margate
The Moonbow Margate art intervention began quietly with a photography exhibition in a derelict cafe, behind dirty windows. Tensions were...
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Platform7
- Sep 18, 2019
- 2 min
Moonbow Margate
Moonbow Margate** was an abstract art performance intervention in a derelict cafe in Cliftonville, investigating the impact of the new...
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