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John McKiernan
- Oct 11, 2016
- 1 min
Innovation Box: Phone Book Launch
Tell us your story... In exchange for a penny artwork, artist Dawn Cole invites you to write a story inside a 1930s reproduced blank telephone book telling us an early encounter with a red telephone box or a telephone.
A Penny For Your Thoughts is part of an ongoing art intervention in a grade II listed K2 telephone box in Holborn, exploring notions of innovation. We wish to collect anecdotes from people of all ages and from all places about their experience, whether hap
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John McKiernan
- Oct 2, 2016
- 2 min
Innovation Box: Heather Agyepong
Ethics of Planned Obsolescence Embedded in Digital Commodities Until 12th October 2016 Heather Agyepong is a visual artist & performer who lives and works in London. Images exhibited are from ‘The Gaze on Agbogbloshie: The misrepresentation of West Africa as dystopia’* and form part of a larger series on photographs. It is at this point there is clear divergence from Heather’s original project. This exhibition begins the Innovation Box intervention here in a grade II listed
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John McKiernan
- Oct 2, 2016
- 4 min
Creative Home: Human Ingenuity in Times of Upheaval
Across London there is increasing visibility of the housing crisis with much of the media and charity attention rightly focused on the plight impacting individuals and families. Yet few probably give a great deal of attention to the creativity and innovation that stems from such situations. This project explores the ingenuity required to survive living on the streets, focusing on how people deal with the most basic of need, that of shelter. We want to celebrate the resource
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John McKiernan
- Sep 15, 2016
- 2 min
Innovation Box: Introduction
Innovation Box is Platform-7’s latest longitudinal intervention, taking place in a grade II listed K2* Red Telephone Box in Holborn, London, WC1R 4EB from September 2016. The project explores what is innovation? Asks how innovation will change the way our society operates as it becomes more networked and discusses whether we will all adapt to the coming of the Internet of Things? How do people see innovation, do they even notice change or is it too gradual? There are now
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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
- Aug 15, 2014
- 1 min
LONDONIST OUT LOUD: A PODCAST ABOUT LONDON, 15 AUGUST 2014
John McKiernan is this week's Londonist Out Loud Podcast guest discussing The Tights Ball and other Platform-7 abstract performance art interventions with N Quentin Woolf on London Bridge train station's platform seven Click to Listen Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show focuses one man and his tights. John McKiernan of Platform 7 has collected thousands of pairs of used tights and rolled them into a ball. The pair talk at London B
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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
- Apr 25, 2014
- 2 min
RESTING PLACE: TRAIN SOUND INSTALLATION AND CHARING CROSS PERFORMANCE
Train Journey, From Ramsgate to London, Saturday 10th May 2014, beginning 11.55am Through the reoccurrence and duration of journey spent idle in non-place such as a train carriage we are often inclined to either be ruminating on past events (where we have come from) or speculating on the outcomes of future events (where we are going), we rarely take the opportunity to be present here and now within the moment, within the journey, receptive to the nuances of the soundscape tha
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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 23, 2014
- 3 min
HARRY VENDRYES 'THE SILENCE', LYCEUM THEATRE OCTOBER 1915
Silent Cacophony was a series of public performance art interventions across London, England and other international cities on Remembrance Day 2013 exploring how people reach their opinion on war and conflict. Artists were asked to respond to locations that had experience sudden explosions during war. Harry Vendryes wrote a piece of work specifically for an attack on Covent Garden during the First World War. The home of Disney's The Lion King musical, the Lyceum Theatre is in
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