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Platform7
- Jul 11, 2015
- 1 min
Confusing Voices of Free Thought
The Confusing Voices Of Free Thought Thoughts inspired by the ideas and words of Mr R Banks, Metadesigners and Platform-7 Image: Courtacy of Metadesigners.org We’re going to build a machine To represent society With wires as Individuals Who refuse to conform to the rules. They will not behave according To expectation And will not respond well To repression. But if we leave them alone They will more than Self regulate They will achieve beyond established Limits. The work is th
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Platform7
- Mar 27, 2015
- 5 min
Waste.Agency: Textile Recycling Picker Working Conditions
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
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Platform7
- Feb 27, 2015
- 4 min
WASTE.AGENCY: RECYCLING INSURANCE RISKS CONSUMPTION CHANGES
A surprising conversation took place in December 2014 with an Insurance Underwriter who underwrites recycling businesses where he explained that recycling as an industry could be jeopardised as insurance underwriters, like himself, are pulling out of the market. In the UK, not having adequate business insurance means you cannot legitimately trade. His firm had just refused to underwrite a major local authority’s recycling facilities and in his opinion they were unlikely to
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Platform7
- Feb 1, 2015
- 4 min
WASTE.AGENCY: NEW FINANCIAL CRASH WITH WAR IN EUROPE?
Is there about to be another financial crash leading to major social unrest or possibly a war in Europe? A depressing potential scenario stemming from recent international events and conversations developed during the Waste.Agency intervention (Oct 2014 - Feb 2015). Photo: www.unhcr.org.uk Nothing adds up, inflation may be at a 'historic' low[i] but vegetable prices in the market yesterday and in Sainsbury's on Saturday show sharp increases [inserted 5th April 2015, example o
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Platform7
- Jan 13, 2015
- 4 min
WASTE.AGENCY: NOTIONS OF BROKEN
Stage two of the Waste.Agency explores the notions of the word broken. To know if something is broken often requires at least the minimal understanding of how something works. Broken Ukulele Image, popestatesPhotography Stage one of the Waste.Agency (Oct-Dec 2014) was to ascertain whether there is an appetite in The City, the UK capital’s financial heart, to engage in a conversation considering the economic system built on consumption and wastefulness. The abstract art on
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Platform7
- Jan 7, 2015
- 1 min
WASTE.AGENCY: A SILENT CACOPHONY
A tribute to the waste of life in Paris at Charlie Hebdo Waste.Agency window: A Silent Cacophony www.silentcacophony.co.uk #wasteagency #exhibition
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Platform7
- Jan 6, 2015
- 3 min
WASTE.AGENCY: CORPORATE SONGS WITH DAN MERRILL
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
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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
- Jan 4, 2015
- 4 min
WASTE.AGENCY: ORCHESTRA OF BROKEN INSTRUMENTS
Mikey Kirkpatrick, aka Bird Radio, is an originator of storytelling though song and music. Since the inception of the Waste.Agency, Bird Radio instigated the Orchestra of Broken Instruments. Beginning with 2 people the orchestra grew in size reaching 25 people by week 5. Listen to some of the music create by the orchestra so far on Soundcloud by clicking here Every Monday Evening from 5.30pm – 7.30pm – Free Entry - arrive anytime – No musical experience necessary. Photos fr
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Platform7
- Dec 14, 2014
- 2 min
WASTE.AGENCY: NO MORE DUST TO DUST
No more Dust to Dust by Paul Hazelton on display at the Waste.Agency A tornado of dust sucking up all that stands before it. Work-in-progress image, 2013 Art, in its most basic state, is dirt. Its production, as a by-product of living, results from the breakdown and fusing of ideas and materials. “Framing is essential. It separates acts of creation (which are labelled deviant acts) from such phenomena as camouflage, errors, dreaming, pornography and madness, which are unframe
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Platform7
- Dec 9, 2014
- 2 min
WASTE.AGENCY: DUST COINS BY PAUL HAZELTON
Paul Hazelton is Making Money at Last… Paul Hazelton is an internationally established artist who creates sculptures often intricately constructed using household dust, cobwebs, hair or cut paper, toys or other materials. His work focuses around ontology, myth, decay and creation. Paul is presently exhibiting No more Dust to Dust [click to read more] and Paul Hazelton is Making Money at Last… at the Waste.Agency, challenging the way money is perceived while considering what i
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Platform7
- Dec 9, 2014
- 2 min
WASTE.AGENCY: INSURANCE HERO
Could insurance be the unlikely environmental hero in forcing business practice and individual behavioural change? The Waste.Agency two months on... Photo by Graham Barker, John Lewis Bag in Regent's Canal When beginning the Waste.Agency intervention two months ago, the intention was to draw in people from the insurance industries to bring a perspective that might be at odds with artists and academics regarding how the economy is constructed. What surprises has been the gr
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Platform7
- Nov 30, 2014
- 4 min
WASTE.AGENCY: INSURANCE ART FUND?
Is there a role for the insurance industry to become more attuned with abstract art as a way of reducing their liabilities, increasing profits while simultaneously helping forge a new way of societal interaction? Utopian drivel? Or possibly an unexpected outcome noted during the Waste.Agency’s abstract art intervention presently taking place in the insurance district of the City of London. Waste.Agency, Jon Pigram "I Love Vectrex, Nov 2014 Police forces, councils, NGOs, prop
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Platform7
- Nov 26, 2014
- 2 min
WASTE.AGENCY:SEA SALT
A fascinating conversation during Tuesday (24 Nov 14) lunchtime took place with a Lloyd's Register employee discussing the difference in sea salt densities in the northern and southern hemispheres and the risk to super freighters. While developing our thoughts and approach to our upcoming series on plastic in the sea, discussion turned to the risk to ship propellers. A senior worker comes in from Lloyd’s Register who joins the conversation and explained in great detail that
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Platform7
- Nov 23, 2014
- 3 min
WASTE.AGENCY: COULD WATERBORNE PLASTIC BE A RISK TO POWER PLANTS?
This blog post asks whether plastics in water could potentially damage power plant cooling systems and if there were a risk identified would it lead to an insurance claim? If the answer is yes, then we want to explore how such a claim could be mitigated and whether it is in the insurance industry’s interest to take a lead role in reducing plastic entering the seas and rivers. Photo: Martin Nikolaj Bech under creative commons _______________ Kloe Wu is on a work placement at
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Platform7
- Nov 22, 2014
- 3 min
WASTE.AGENCY: ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND FUNDING
Monday 17th November 2014 Arts Council England and SHM-Foundation have awarded funding towards maintaining the Waste.Agency intervention, which begun in a disused HMV record store in the heart of the City of London on 3rd October 2014. The Waste.Agency is applying 6-years of research gathered by Platform-7’s through a series of abstract art performance events exploring how people reach opinions on various issues that have broader social consequences. This is the first applic
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Platform7
- Nov 8, 2014
- 2 min
GLIMMERS OF HOPE ON CANNON STREET
The autumn installation on London Cannon Street station is Glimmers of Hope on Cannon Street by Maria Alvarez Echenique's, created in memory of those who were injured or killed in London trying to keep the capital's railways moving. An artist talk will take place at 6.45pm on Thursday, 18th December 2014 at the station [tell us you are coming here]. Image Copyright: Eva Bachmann During both World Wars, London was regularly bombed, initially by Zeppelins during the First Worl
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Platform7
- Oct 16, 2014
- 2 min
WASTE.AGENCY: A SIMPLE OIL PORTRAIT
Walking through London’s Trafalgar Square this evening, I happened upon a small but vocal protest against Shell Oil funding the Rembrandt exhibition, which recently opened at the National Gallery. As I stop to observe, a casual conversation developed with one of the protesters. Although respectful to the principle, and sympathetic to the underlying point the protest was attempting to make, there was a certain amount of simplicity that I found uncomfortably, and I often find
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Platform7
- Oct 3, 2014
- 3 min
WASTE.AGENCY INTRODUCTION
Nestled between London’s two latest skyscrapers, the Leadenhall Building aka `The Cheesegrater’, and 20 Fenchurch Street aka `The Walkie-Talkie’, Platform-7 has taken over a disused HMV* for 6 weeks as part of a new 3-year performance art intervention, the waste.agency [map]. In addition, London Cannon Street train station± will be exhibiting a range of artworks and photography, some concerning trackside scrap, curated by Platform-7 as part of this project. Discussing consu
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