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
- 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 22, 2019
- 1 min
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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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 20, 2019
- 5 min
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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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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Platform7
- Sep 18, 2019
- 3 min
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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Platform7
- Jul 27, 2014
- 5 min
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...
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Platform7
- May 23, 2014
- 2 min
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,...
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Platform7
- Mar 15, 2014
- 4 min
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...
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