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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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Apr 9, 20201 min read
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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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Dec 23, 20192 min read
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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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Dec 3, 201931 min read
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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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Oct 2, 20193 min read
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AI HUB — Haphazard Business
With Ai embedded technologies pervading life in general, whether wanted or not, an objective of the Innovation Hub will be to raise...
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Oct 2, 20191 min read
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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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Oct 1, 20194 min read
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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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Sep 30, 20192 min read
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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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Sep 29, 20194 min read
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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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Sep 24, 20192 min read
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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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Sep 23, 20192 min read
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Recession Cupcakes
Recession Cupcakes with artist Ania Bas invited passersby to join her in decorating cupcakes with icing, nails and other bits, to...
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Sep 22, 20191 min read
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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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Sep 21, 20196 min read
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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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Sep 20, 20191 min read
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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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Sep 20, 20193 min read
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Margate: A Place Of Pixelations
As part of Goldsmiths, University of London, City to Sea symposium, photographer and lecturer, Paul Halliday discusses the rise and value...
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Sep 20, 20195 min read
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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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Sep 19, 20194 min read
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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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Sep 18, 20192 min read
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Moonbow Jakes
Moonbow Jakes Coffee Bars were created in derelict spaces across South East London from 1998-2009, becoming a Mecca for artists,...
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Sep 18, 20193 min read
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Up The Line 2010
The second in the series of investigations into how opinions on conflict and war form, using short abstract live art performances as a...
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Sep 17, 20192 min read
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Behind Up The Line
This essay discusses a live performance on war and conflict, in a cemetery during darkness, which challenged the audience to consider...
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Sep 16, 201921 min read
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