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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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Jan 1, 20202 min read
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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...
Platform7
Dec 29, 20194 min read
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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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Dec 24, 20194 min read
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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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Dec 24, 20192 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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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...
Platform7
Dec 20, 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,...
Platform7
Dec 3, 201931 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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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...
Platform7
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...
Platform7
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...
Platform7
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...
Platform7
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...
Platform7
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...
Platform7
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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Platform7
Oct 2, 20141 min read
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PLATFORM-7 AND CONTESTED SPACE RADIO DISCUSSION
John McKiernan, founder of Platform-7 Events discusses public art interventions and contested space on The News Agents radio show with...
Platform7
Jul 27, 20145 min read
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GEOGRAPHIES OF URBAN PUBLIC ART: SPATIAL MEDIATIONS OF ART, PEOPLE AND IDENTITIES
Loretta Lees and John McKiernan have been invited to write a chapter for Geographies of Urban Public Art: Spatial Mediations of Art,...
Platform7
May 23, 20142 min read
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LEARNING FROM MARGATE: PROF. LORETTA LEES & JOHN MCKIERNAN
Art-led regeneration in Margate: learning from Moonbow Jakes Café and Lido Nightclub intervention Professor Loretta Lees and John...
Platform7
Mar 15, 20144 min read
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