Onwards and Outwards?
image yvonne forsterAfter 35 years of neoliberal economics working class Britain is not doing well. A recently published report shows that in 2011 nine out of the ten poorest regions in North West EU...
View ArticleHegemonic Femininity.
Thanks to Valentina and Matt for inspiration. This is my attempt to visually explore the pressures and socialisation girls/women experience via the media etc to conform to a sexualised objectified...
View ArticleCommodification-Living Dolls.
Thanks to Valentina and Matt for inspiration. Exploration of consumerism and the commodification of relationships.
View ArticleColonialism/Hegemonic Masculinity
An attempt to explore hegemonic masculinity- which includes the elevating of force/violence and putting the male at the centre with that around seen as resources for gratification.
View ArticleHow about nowish?
After 35 years of neoliberal economics working class Britain is not doing well. A recently published report shows that in 2011 nine out of the ten poorest regions in North West EU countries were in...
View ArticleCapitalism's Hierarchy 2015
Here is a photo montage attempt at updating the IWW 'Pyramid of Capitalist System' (1911) for the UK in 2015. (The photo is a bit askew!)
View Article'Punk attitude, riot grrrl aesthetic, queer feminist rage'...* Interested?...
Photo by Liz Ewbank. In October 2014 activists, academics and left wing, feminist punk band Not Right released 'Your Turn' an album dealing with political, social, cultural and gender issues. The album...
View ArticleTomaga; Making the familiar unfamiliar.
Photo by Antonio Curcetti. Tomaga is comprised of multi-instrumentalists Valentina Magaletti and Tom Relleen. My first experience of them was live at Corsica Studios last year, their set was a...
View ArticleSanta Semeli's Birthday Show-the nearest I'll get to the Cabaret Voltaire.
Photo by Roger Eaton.Santa Semeli's Birthday Show at The Macbeth on 27 April was an event that managed to combine the Dadaist's love of the absurd, modern progressive Rap and a set by Santa Semeli and...
View ArticleCultural Resources and Neoliberalism.
Image by Yvonne ForsterSo despite only about 25% of the electorate voting for them the Tories got the single biggest percentage of the vote (37%) and we have 5 more years of Tory Government, they hope...
View ArticleBlank Editions-a labour of love.
Image by Ross Adams.The 2012 film 'Good Vibrations' is set in the late 1970s/early 80s and follows the life of one Terri Hooley, a Belfast record shop owner who suddenly becomes aware of the new...
View Article'Austerity' is Class War Waged by the Rich.
Image by Yvonne Forster.I haven't been on many A to B marches over the last few years due to doubts about state sanctioned protest but I managed to get down to the Anti-Austerity Demo on June 20th in...
View ArticleOrlando; 'Far Out and Fantastic'
Photo by Kathy Coleman.Orlando is the musical identity/project of multi instrumentalist Cathy Lucas who adopted the name from a Virginia Woolf novel about a gender-bending dreamer who lives for 500...
View ArticleWhite Hills; An 'act of resistance'.
Photo by Chris Carlone.I'm sure you have noticed that in late capitalism much of mainstream culture, including music, is the tarted up results of market forces and the commodification of all things, it...
View ArticleVisionaries, Translators, Interpreters.
Top. Image by Julian Hand. Below. Tomaga in concert. Image by Ross Adams. On a recent visit to the Tate Modern in London I came across a small painting by Wassily Kadinsky, an artist from the...
View ArticleAnarcho-Catholics?!
As we head into autumn the thoughts of many anarchists in the south of England turn to the Anarchist Bookfair, being held this year at Central St Martin's near Kings Cross Station, a highlight in the...
View ArticleThe Presolar Sands-Evolving Stardust.
Photo by Victor Mengarelli.In September I was lucky enough to spend a weekend in Oslo which included catching 'White Hills' in a (literally) underground venue-Revolver- near the city centre. First up...
View ArticleDisappears: No Fat, No Filler.
Photo by Zoran Orlic.Chicago based band Disappears formed in 2008 and have already produced five albums and an EP (1), they've been described as Krautrock but their albums have such a sense of moving...
View ArticleCafe OTO 26-10-15. Demian Castellanos and Tomaga.
Poster by Tim Drage. Café OTO is a smallish venue tucked away just off Kingsland High Street in Dalston, and the night I...
View ArticleLorelle Meets The Obsolete; Intelligent Psychedelia.
Photo by Fernando Nuti.Lorena Quintanilla and Alberto Gonzalez are Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, a psychedelic band originally from Guadalajara in Mexico. Their music has been described as a 'hot pot of...
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