On The Horizon dance performance explored the universal struggle of venturing into the unknown, in expectation of something better, as...

The Dead Rat Orchestra is now an established trio, a staple of the European folk scene with a reputation for introducing experimental...

With the Turner Prize in Margate about to be announced, this post republishes the 2013 paper on the Turner Contemporary’s first months,...

Reimagining Ladies Tights examined the importance women place on tights and hosiery and the role these seemingly innocuous items play in...

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...

An intervention in an old Blockbuster Video, closed after being looted during the London 2011 riots, exploring the politics of the...

Mixing classical instruments with audio equipment, this swirling soundscape captured Margate’s overpowering fetish for nostalgia in 2011,...

Margnification, by the conceptual art collective Akleriah, was a live street intervention that challenged the perception of the space in...

Moonbow Margate** was an abstract art performance intervention in a derelict cafe in Cliftonville, investigating the impact of the new...

Moonbow Jakes Coffee Bars were created in derelict spaces across South East London from 1998-2009, becoming a Mecca for artists,...

The second in the series of investigations into how opinions on conflict and war form, using short abstract live art performances as a...

Up The Line was the first in series of live experimental art and installation performances that sought to understand how people reach...

This essay discusses a live performance on war and conflict, in a cemetery during darkness, which challenged the audience to consider...

John McKiernan is this week's Londonist Out Loud Podcast guest discussing The Tights Ball and other Platform-7 abstract performance art...

Train Journey, From Ramsgate to London, Saturday 10th May 2014, beginning 11.55am Through the reoccurrence and duration of journey spent...

Taken from John McKiernan's Re-imagining Ladies Tights blog post, 20th March 2014 Public Tights Wash: Swiss Cottage, Camden Outside Swiss...

Silent Cacophony was a series of public performance art interventions across London, England and other international cities on...

RE-IMAGINING LADIES TIGHTS CATFORD AND ACROSS LONDON BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM GATHERINGS: age UK, Lewisham & Southwark, 10 Catford Broadway,...

Almost a century on, how do people today interact with the Remembrance 2-minute silence? What does it mean to them? Television news...

John McKiernan, the creator of the “no man’s land” discusses his personal concerns and thoughts one week before the live performance...