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On The Horizon dance performance explored the universal struggle of venturing into the unknown, in expectation of something better, as...
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Platform7
- Dec 29, 2019
- 4 min
Dead Rat At The Lido
The Dead Rat Orchestra is now an established trio, a staple of the European folk scene with a reputation for introducing experimental...
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Platform7
- Dec 3, 2019
- 31 min
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,...
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Platform7
- Oct 2, 2019
- 3 min
Reimagining Ladies Tights
Reimagining Ladies Tights examined the importance women place on tights and hosiery and the role these seemingly innocuous items play in...
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Platform7
- Oct 1, 2019
- 4 min
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...
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Platform7
- Sep 30, 2019
- 2 min
Tapescape Catford: Intervention I
An intervention in an old Blockbuster Video, closed after being looted during the London 2011 riots, exploring the politics of the...
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Platform7
- Sep 24, 2019
- 2 min
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,...
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Platform7
- Sep 21, 2019
- 6 min
Margnification
Margnification, by the conceptual art collective Akleriah, was a live street intervention that challenged the perception of the space in...
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Platform7
- Sep 18, 2019
- 2 min
Moonbow Margate
Moonbow Margate** was an abstract art performance intervention in a derelict cafe in Cliftonville, investigating the impact of the new...
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Platform7
- Sep 18, 2019
- 3 min
Moonbow Jakes
Moonbow Jakes Coffee Bars were created in derelict spaces across South East London from 1998-2009, becoming a Mecca for artists,...
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Platform7
- Sep 17, 2019
- 2 min
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...
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Platform7
- Sep 16, 2019
- 1 min
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...
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Platform7
- Sep 16, 2019
- 21 min
Behind Up The Line
This essay discusses a live performance on war and conflict, in a cemetery during darkness, which challenged the audience to consider...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Platform7
- May 11, 2013
- 5 min
RE-IMAGINING LADIES TIGHTS PRESS RELEASE
RE-IMAGINING LADIES TIGHTS CATFORD AND ACROSS LONDON BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM GATHERINGS: age UK, Lewisham & Southwark, 10 Catford Broadway,...
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Platform7
- Feb 28, 2013
- 2 min
LISTENING 2 MINUTES SILENCE AT CANARY WHARF
Almost a century on, how do people today interact with the Remembrance 2-minute silence? What does it mean to them? Television news...
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Platform7
- Nov 2, 2012
- 7 min
NO MAN'S LAND - A WEEK TO GO!
John McKiernan, the creator of the “no man’s land” discusses his personal concerns and thoughts one week before the live performance...
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