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Draw Me King’s Road
In 2013, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea commissioned the “Draw Me/Tedna Ve” camera obscurer booth to create an instant...
Platform7
Apr 29, 20201 min read
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Moving_Me?
Selected images and stories from Moving_Me?, forming part of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) programme, Gentrification,...
Platform7
Apr 9, 20201 min read
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On The Horizon
On The Horizon dance performance explored the universal struggle of venturing into the unknown, in expectation of something better, as...
Platform7
Jan 1, 20202 min read
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Paul Hazelton Reflects on Moonbow Margate
Artist Paul Hazelton, who grew up in Margate, created a number of works for the Moonbow Margate intervention in 2011, which he later...
Platform7
Dec 24, 20194 min read
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Gold Junk
Artist Rebecca Lock created a number of gold objects from junk and placed them in amusement arcades in Cliftonville, which now serves as...
Platform7
Dec 24, 20192 min read
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Lido’s Last Season
As the rapidly deteriorating Lido complex in Cliftonville, which once drew vast crowds, seeks yet again to revive its former glories, we...
Platform7
Dec 23, 20192 min read
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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
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Reimagining Ladies Tights
Reimagining Ladies Tights examined the importance women place on tights and hosiery and the role these seemingly innocuous items play in...
Platform7
Oct 2, 20193 min read
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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
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Making Esparto Grass Paper
This article discusses the embracing of art projects, whether as an artist or not, through making paper from Esparto, a perennial grass...
Platform7
Sep 29, 20194 min read
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Claire and Dean Play Tony and Dominic
Mixing classical instruments with audio equipment, this swirling soundscape captured Margate’s overpowering fetish for nostalgia in 2011,...
Platform7
Sep 24, 20192 min read
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Recession Cupcakes
Recession Cupcakes with artist Ania Bas invited passersby to join her in decorating cupcakes with icing, nails and other bits, to...
Platform7
Sep 22, 20191 min read
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Margnification
Margnification, by the conceptual art collective Akleriah, was a live street intervention that challenged the perception of the space in...
Platform7
Sep 21, 20196 min read
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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
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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
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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
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Women’s March | Reality Spectacle
This article is a short rallying call of the power peaceful protest can make in a world now in the hands of divisive mannequins paraded as d
John McKiernan
Jan 21, 20171 min read
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Innovation Box | Vulnerability discussing Vulnerability
This article is a response by Arizona Smith to Platform-7’s founder John McKiernan feeling anxiety after the artwork Home{Not]Less Ingenuity
Arizona Smith
Jan 9, 20172 min read
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Intervention Insights | Revealing Unseen Complexities
This article makes the claim that public art interventions can provide deeper insight into human motivation and behaviour over many of the m
John McKiernan
Jan 4, 20173 min read
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Home[Not]Less Ingenuity Installation
This article discussing Shabazz Chapman’s installation in the Innovation box discussing the ingenuity required when homelessness to survive
Shabazz Chapman
Jan 1, 20175 min read
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