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GEOGRAPHIES OF URBAN PUBLIC ART: SPATIAL MEDIATIONS OF ART, PEOPLE AND IDENTITIES

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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PUBLIC TIGHTS WASH: SWISS COTTAGE, CAMDEN

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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LEARNING FROM MARGATE: PROF. LORETTA LEES & JOHN MCKIERNAN

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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WAS IT WORTH IT? : NO MAN’S LAND 2012 REMEMBRANCE

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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Platform7

Jul 2, 2012
7 min

DELUGE: DISEMBOWELLING BLACK BOXES

In response to the Deluge artwork, at Tapescape Catford: The Intervention I, by artist Paul Halliday, sociologist Francisco Calafate Faria presented a paper discussing obsolescence, waste and redundancy to an open audience in disused Blockbuster Video store, Catford, London, SE6. DELUGE: DISEMBOWELLING BLACK BOXES An essay by Francisco Calafate Faria responding to Deluge In the beginning there was the motion picture film - a sequence of photographs with a sound track. The ree

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Platform7

Jul 2, 2012
7 min

REGARDING OBSOLESCENCE

In response to Deluge artist Paul Halliday and sociologist Francisco Calafate Faria presented papers discussing obsolscence, waste and redundancy to an open audience at Tapescape Catford Regarding Obsolescence An essay by Paul Halliday responding to his own art installation 'Deluge' Ob-sol-escence. What does this word mean? Such an intriguing word. A word that points to a rich etymological journey contained within the form itself; possibly even hinting at some remaining trace

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Platform7

Apr 18, 2012
12 min

TAPE MEASURE

A Provocation By Roanna Mitchell, PhD How technology makes our body its business: the shaping of the ‘good citizen’ from Jane Fonda to the Wii fit. Interactive installation followed by a talk and discussion by Roanna Mitchell Provocation for the Tapescape Catford: Intervention I My work is all about bodies. I work as a movement director and choreographer, I teach drama students, and I am writing my PhD about the body politics of acting: what happens to actors in those aspects

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BRAN JONES - MOONBOW MARGATE PHOTOGRAPHER

Platform7

Nov 30, 2011
4 min

BRAN JONES - MOONBOW MARGATE PHOTOGRAPHER

Bran Jones became the official Moonbow Margate photographer because of his love of espresso. Up The Line Remembrance 2011, Margate Cemetery Living and studying in Thanet, Bran discovered the Moonbow Jakes café in Cliftonville while researching his beach photography project. He was invited to photograph the amazing Akleriah, a live interactive performance around the streets of Cliftonville, Margate and inside the Turner Contemporary. Only shooting in black and white the result

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ARTIST PAUL HAZELTON REFLECTS ON MOONBOW MARGATE

Platform7

Sep 24, 2011
4 min

ARTIST PAUL HAZELTON REFLECTS ON MOONBOW MARGATE

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 Cliftonville, Kent. Throughout the summer project, Paul was pivotal to the success of the Moonbow Margate intervention, with many of the interesting artworks and performances that appeared having in some way Paul’s prints on them. Paul Hazelton's thoughts on the project: 'My first intervention at Moonbow was the w

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JONATHAN POLKEST'S 'DRAW ME/TEDNE VE': THE CHANGING FACE OF CLIFTONVILLE

Platform7

Aug 12, 2011
3 min

JONATHAN POLKEST'S 'DRAW ME/TEDNE VE': THE CHANGING FACE OF CLIFTONVILLE

Artist: Jonathan Polkest Assistance: Joe Cornwell, Samantha Grace Drew-Griffiths and Daniel Crawford For full gallery Click Here Overview 'Draw Me / Tedne Ve' booth, is an ongoing public portrait project by Cornish artist, Jonathan Polkest. ‘Tedne Ve' (which is Cornish for Draw Me) creates an instant portrait gallery by offering an opportunity for one person to draw another regardless of artistic ability. The ‘Draw Me’ is a camera obscurer built into a specially designed

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Platform7

Aug 4, 2011
6 min

AKLERIAH - MARGNIFICATION LIVE PERFORMANCE

Margnification, by the conceptual art collective Akleriah, is a live street intervention that challenges the perception of the space in which the performance takes place. 'Let's change the rhythm of the clock!' - Akleriah Thoughts The airy mix of experimental and classical music represents the feeling of Margate; the sea with the seagulls and the half empty town, worn out cobbled streets and air of past glory, a decadent nostalgic feeling of what it might've been, of the ravi

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Platform7

Jul 2, 2011
1 min

MATTER BY JONATHAN POLKEST

'MATTER' BY JONATHAN POLKEST, UNTIL 18TH AUGUST Many seaside towns often mask their own sense of community by immersing themselves in the idealized version of the tourist , even though tourism could be seen as a constructed ideal, created to benefit the same community it now deludes. Seaside communities sprang up as they obviously benefited from their close proximity to the former superhighway for all material and intellectual cargo - The Sea. The origins of seaside communi

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Platform7

Jun 17, 2011
4 min

MOONBOW MARGATE AKA MOONBOW JAKES

The Golden Grill, 18 CLIFF TERRACE, MARGATE, CT9 4TD, June 2011 Moonbow Margate is a temporary café performance bar space in a derelict shop on a derelict parade in Cliftonville, Margate, within 4 minutes walk of the new £18m Turner Contemporary Gallery. Running from June to September 2011, the space will become a representation of change that often takes place following art-led regeneration and will attempt to become a reflective of the way local people view and interact wit

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Platform7

May 14, 2011
5 min

MARGATE: A PLACE OF PIXELATIONS

CAFE FROM THE CITY UNTIL 25TH JUNE A PRESENTATION TO THE CITY AND SEA SYMPOSIUM, GOLDSMITHS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, 10TH JUNE 2011 Nikki by Paul Halliday has been photographed by Platform-7 through the dirty window of the cafe using a Nokia cameraphone The idea of place is of particular interest to a number of knowledge traditions within the humanities, arts and social sciences; as is also the study of landscape. Both place and landscape studies are predicated on the notion o

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