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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


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...
Platform7
Oct 1, 20194 min read


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...
Platform7
Sep 30, 20192 min read


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


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


Moonbow Jakes
Moonbow Jakes Coffee Bars were created in derelict spaces across South East London from 1998-2009, becoming a Mecca for artists,...
Platform7
Sep 18, 20193 min read


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...
Platform7
Sep 17, 20192 min read


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...
Platform7
Sep 16, 20191 min read


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...
Platform7
Sep 16, 201921 min read


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....
John McKiernan
Aug 5, 20183 min read


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...
Platform7
Jul 11, 20151 min read


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...
Platform7
Dec 1, 20123 min read


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...
Platform7
Nov 2, 20127 min read
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