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Platform7
- Mar 27, 2015
- 5 min
Waste.Agency: Textile Recycling Picker Working Conditions
During the Waste.Agency, a senior insurance underwriter explained in great detail why he and his colleagues were refusing to underwrite any more recycling plants. Waste Agency Recycling Insurance Risks Consumption Changes, gives an underwriters account of the concerns of the insurance industry of a future asbestos style class-action by recycle workers against former employers as well as other issues in urgent need of address. Extract 1 is taken from Doing the ‘dirty work’ of
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Platform7
- Feb 27, 2015
- 4 min
WASTE.AGENCY: RECYCLING INSURANCE RISKS CONSUMPTION CHANGES
A surprising conversation took place in December 2014 with an Insurance Underwriter who underwrites recycling businesses where he explained that recycling as an industry could be jeopardised as insurance underwriters, like himself, are pulling out of the market. In the UK, not having adequate business insurance means you cannot legitimately trade. His firm had just refused to underwrite a major local authority’s recycling facilities and in his opinion they were unlikely to
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Platform7
- Feb 1, 2015
- 4 min
WASTE.AGENCY: NEW FINANCIAL CRASH WITH WAR IN EUROPE?
Is there about to be another financial crash leading to major social unrest or possibly a war in Europe? A depressing potential scenario stemming from recent international events and conversations developed during the Waste.Agency intervention (Oct 2014 - Feb 2015). Photo: www.unhcr.org.uk Nothing adds up, inflation may be at a 'historic' low[i] but vegetable prices in the market yesterday and in Sainsbury's on Saturday show sharp increases [inserted 5th April 2015, example o
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Platform7
- Jan 13, 2015
- 4 min
WASTE.AGENCY: NOTIONS OF BROKEN
Stage two of the Waste.Agency explores the notions of the word broken. To know if something is broken often requires at least the minimal understanding of how something works. Broken Ukulele Image, popestatesPhotography Stage one of the Waste.Agency (Oct-Dec 2014) was to ascertain whether there is an appetite in The City, the UK capital’s financial heart, to engage in a conversation considering the economic system built on consumption and wastefulness. The abstract art on
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Platform7
- Jan 6, 2015
- 2 min
WASTE.AGENCY: TIMELINE
Timeline of key points in the creation of Waste.Agency intervention in the City of London, estimated to last 3 years, keys to first location handed over 3rd October 2014, and introductory video. Filming and Editing: Andreas Lambis 23rd February 2015: Comments Book from Waste.Agency fully typed up [here]. 152 individual written remarks from 1,662 visitors. 10th February 2015: All Waste.Agency artworks and equipment now stored 6th February 2015: Keys returned to Waterstones.
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Platform7
- Nov 26, 2014
- 2 min
WASTE.AGENCY:SEA SALT
A fascinating conversation during Tuesday (24 Nov 14) lunchtime took place with a Lloyd's Register employee discussing the difference in sea salt densities in the northern and southern hemispheres and the risk to super freighters. While developing our thoughts and approach to our upcoming series on plastic in the sea, discussion turned to the risk to ship propellers. A senior worker comes in from Lloyd’s Register who joins the conversation and explained in great detail that
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Platform7
- Nov 22, 2014
- 3 min
WASTE.AGENCY: ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND FUNDING
Monday 17th November 2014 Arts Council England and SHM-Foundation have awarded funding towards maintaining the Waste.Agency intervention, which begun in a disused HMV record store in the heart of the City of London on 3rd October 2014. The Waste.Agency is applying 6-years of research gathered by Platform-7’s through a series of abstract art performance events exploring how people reach opinions on various issues that have broader social consequences. This is the first applic
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Platform7
- Jul 29, 2014
- 4 min
THE PROSUMER: EXPLOITATION OF HUB MEMBERS
Provocation Article 4: This is the fourth in a series of provocative articles taken from a paper by Platform-7's founder critiquing the fad for hubs and the idea (within the UK) of the creative economy. These article will appear over the summer of 2014 in advance of a major new Platform-7 intervention, Creative Publics, beginning Autumn 2014. Professor Andy Pratt states in his study, The Enigma that is Platform-7, that the company ‘offers in civil society realms, new modaliti
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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 Professor Andy Pratt (City University, London) and Professor Loretta Lees (University of Leicester). This radio show was first broadcast on Resonance Radio 104.4FM in London, 1st March 2014 and is available as a podcast. Resonance 104.4fm The News Agents Radio Show, Saturday 1st March 2014, 2.30pm Producer: Jude Cowen Montague // Host: Rob Edw
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Platform7
- May 26, 2014
- 6 min
ADVERTUCATION: AN EDUCATION BY ADVERTISING STAGNATION
Provocation Article 3: This is the third in a series of provocative articles taken from a paper by Platform-7 founder critiquing the fad for hubs and the idea (within the UK) of the creative economy. These article will appear over the summer of 2014 in advance of a major new Platform-7 intervention, Creative Publics, beginning Autumn 2014. John Hegarty is regarded within the advertising industry as one of its creative stars. Founding from scratch the now global advertising g
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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, People and Identities. “We’d like to include your chapter in the book section that explicitly yet critically addresses the production perspective of urban public art.” Returning to the 2012 essay, Art-led Regeneration in Margate: Learning from Moonbow Jakes Café and Lido Nightclub intervention, [click] John McKiernan will revisit Margate in sum
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Platform7
- May 13, 2014
- 4 min
HUBS: LITTLE MORE THAN A PLACE TO WORK
Provocation Article 2: This is the second in a series of provocative articles taken from a paper by Platform-7's founder critiquing the fad for hubs and the idea (within the UK) of the creative economy. These article will appear over the summer of 2014 in advance of a major new Platform-7 intervention, Creative Publics, beginning Autumn 2014. The present trend in London and other global cities (Pratt and others) are ‘hubs’. Generally geared towards the ‘entrepreneur’, a misun
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Platform7
- Apr 28, 2014
- 2 min
TRIM TABS: HOW ART CAN CHANGE THE WORLD
Provocation Article 1: This is the first in a series of provocative articles taken from a paper by Platform-7's founder critiquing the fad for hubs and the idea (within the UK) of the creative economy. These article will appear over the summer of 2014 in advance of a major new Platform-7 intervention, Creative Publics, beginning Autumn 2014. Great artists can often hone in on slight discrepancies that exist within our environment and highlight that divergence for others to se
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Platform7
- Mar 24, 2014
- 9 min
PUBLIC TIGHTS WASH: SWISS COTTAGE, CAMDEN
Taken from John McKiernan's Re-imagining Ladies Tights blog post, 20th March 2014 Public Tights Wash: Swiss Cottage, Camden Outside Swiss Cottage Public Library On Saturday 15th March 2014, students from the MA Music Theatre course at The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama joined Re-imagining Ladies Tights artists Anna Kompaniets and Lenka Horakova to create the Swiss Cottage public tights wash. This is the first of three street interventions with Royal Central, supported
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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 McKiernan In 2012, founder of Platform-7 and creator of the Moonbow Margate intervention began assessing the impact of the project with Professor Loretta Lee (King’s College London). The essay will be published in Art & the Public Sphere: Public Art & Accountability 2014. Intellect Press [click to read]. ABSTRACT This paper considers whether a
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Platform7
- Feb 13, 2014
- 22 min
THE ENIGMA THAT IS PLATFORM-7
An AHRC/ Creativeworks London funded research project by Professor Andy Pratt and his team at City University London into the unorthodox practices employed by Platform-7, in creating large scale outdoor interventions in public spaces. CWL Creative Voucher, The Silent Cacophony case study Report written by:Andy C Pratt, Professor of Cultural Economy Department of Culture, and Creative Industries, School of Arts and Social Sciences, City University London Northampton Square Lon
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Platform7
- Mar 7, 2013
- 5 min
WAS IT WORTH IT? : NO MAN’S LAND 2012 REMEMBRANCE
Was it worth it? : no man’s land 2012 Remembrance The live performance event ‘no man’s land’ on Remembrance Sunday 2012 set out to try and mirror some of the emotions, thoughts, processes and results of people within a society heading into war. Deliberately obfuscous for audience and participants, the intention was to distribute confused messages and misunderstanding in the way protagonists preparing for conflict often mediate their intentions. This essay discusses a questi
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Platform7
- Nov 2, 2012
- 7 min
NO MAN'S LAND - A WEEK TO GO!
John McKiernan, the creator of no man’s land performance interventionist event discusses his personal concerns and thoughts one week before the live performance across 10 London Underground tube stations. When setting out to create an abstract event like no man’s land, one hopes that it will ascend what it set out to achieve without it turning into game play or dalliance, and something original emerges. The intention of the event was to, in some way, mimic the experiences of
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