Selected images and stories from Moving_Me?, forming part of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) programme, Gentrification, Displacement, and the Impacts of Council Estate Renewal in C21st London.* About Moving_Me? was part of a major research programme investigating the impact on residents living on London council estates undergoing ‘renewal’.  The project provided tenants and homeowners the opportunity to respond creatively by submitting one photograph that sume

Artist Paul Hazelton, who grew up in Margate, created a number of works for the Moonbow Margate intervention in 2011, which he later reflected on with this thought provoking piece on how food, sense of place and change are all intrinsically linked. Originally posted on Wix blog 24 September 2019, 07:15pm Throughout Summer 2011 Paul Hazelton is an international artist, presently preparing for a commission for the New York Museum for Art & Design, born and grew up in Cliftonvil

With the Turner Prize in Margate about to be announced, this post republishes the 2013 paper on the Turner Contemporary’s first months, as observed from our Platform-7 art intervention, Moonbow Margate in Cliftonville during Summer 2011. Art-led regeneration in Margate: learning from Moonbow Jakes Café and Lido Nightclub intervention ABSTRACT This paper considers whether a new iconic landmark – the Turner Contemporary – is likely to be a successful vehicle for the regeneratio

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 the World’s insurance and derivatives capital, exploring why we built an economy based on consumption and wastefulness. Originally posted 3 Oct 2014 8:10 pm | view here Introducing The Waste Agency Nestled between London’s two latest skyscrapers, the Leadenhall Building aka `The Cheesegrater’, and 20 Fenchurch Street aka `The Walkie-Talkie’

This article discusses the embracing of art projects, whether as an artist or not, through making paper from Esparto, a perennial grass found in North Western Africa and the Southern part of the Iberian Peninsula. Originally published on 30 Dec 2016 4:48 pm | View here Introduction ‘bi-anonimous’ is a small art collective based in Spain who work within nature with themes of love and sharing. Esparto grass is a perennial grass of North Western Africa and the Southern part of t

Margnification, by the conceptual art collective Akleriah, was a live street intervention that challenged the perception of the space in which the performance took place; as if the wind had blown away the sadness leaving nothing behind but the physical remnants of Margate. Let’s change the rhythm of the clock! – Akleriah Originally posted Aug 4, 2011 7:04 pm | view here Thoughts The airy mix of experimental and classical music represents the feeling of Margate; the sea with t

As part of Goldsmiths, University of London, City to Sea symposium, photographer and lecturer, Paul Halliday discusses the rise and value of aesthetic orthodoxy within photographic practice with Moonbow Margate Curator, John McKiernan. Originally posted on May 14, 2011 6:53 pm | View here CITY AND SEA SYMPOSIUM, GOLDSMITHS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, 10TH JUNE 2011 Nikki by Paul Halliday photographed by John McKiernan through the dirty Moonbow Margate window using Nokia cameraphone

This essay discusses a live performance on war and conflict, in a cemetery during darkness, which challenged the audience to consider their attitude to war and conflict and the role symbols and stories used by charities and nations play in influencing public opinion. For Up The Line 2009 event page, click here Originally Presented to Goldsmiths University of London, (May 2010) and posted June 2010 Index Introduction Brief Outline of Event Creating an Abstract Background to th

In this article Johannes Lenhard, a University of Cambridge PhD candidate, reflects briefly on his background in the anthropology of homeles

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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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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

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

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