During the Waste.Agency, a senior insurance underwriter explained in great detail why he and his colleagues were refusing to underwrite any more recycling plants. Waste Agency Recycling Insurance Risks Consumption Changes, gives an underwriters account of the concerns of the insurance industry of a future asbestos style class-action by recycle workers against former employers as well as other issues in urgent need of address. Extract 1 is taken from Doing the ‘dirty work’ of

While researching folk music for the Dead Rat Orchestra's The Cut tour across canals of England, Daniel Merrill discovered that corporate songs were written to celebrate the feat of construction. Corporate Songs was an evening discussion that followed on from this initial research describing how corporate songs have evolved and developed since the early days of the canals. City insurance worker sing IBM Auld Lang Syne outside The Lamb pub, December 2014 IBM Corporate Songbook

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

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

RE-IMAGINING LADIES TIGHTS CATFORD AND ACROSS LONDON BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM GATHERINGS: age UK, Lewisham & Southwark, 10 Catford Broadway, Catford, SE6 4SP Collecting old tights and stockings, public washing, creating yarn while storytelling, a promenade photoshoot before producing something new, this project will re-imagine how women perceive these easily discarded garments. When women wear tights or stockings, how do they view themselves? How does it make them feel and how ar