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 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 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
- Sep 17, 2019
- 2 min
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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Platform7
- Sep 16, 2019
- 1 min
Up The Line 2009
Up The Line was the first in series of live experimental art and installation performances that sought to understand how people reach...
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Platform7
- Sep 16, 2019
- 21 min
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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John McKiernan
- Aug 5, 2018
- 3 min
Jazzman JC John Clarke (1948 – 2018)
A Tribute to Jazzman JC John Clarke (1948 – 2018) Last Sunday, I left one of my long rambling phone messages on Jazzman’s home telephone....
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Platform7
- Jul 11, 2015
- 1 min
Confusing Voices of Free Thought
The Confusing Voices Of Free Thought Thoughts inspired by the ideas and words of Mr R Banks, Metadesigners and Platform-7 Image: Courtacy...
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Platform7
- Dec 1, 2012
- 3 min
THE RITUAL OF 2-MINUTES SILENCE
THE RITUAL OF 2-MINUTES SILENCE 7 Dec 2012 Creator of “no man’s land”, John McKiernan ruminates on life as a series of interconnected...
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Platform7
- Nov 2, 2012
- 7 min
NO MAN'S LAND - A WEEK TO GO!
John McKiernan, the creator of the “no man’s land” discusses his personal concerns and thoughts one week before the live performance...
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