RUINED HOUSE: an act of public reading, Gateshead Millennium Bridge, 23/10/15

Ruined House - an act of public reading - took place today between 10.45am and 11.45am on the Gateshead Millennium Bridge. The first of a new series of public interventions by dot to dot active arts CIC. I repeatedly read 'A Note on The Title' from the appendices of Bleak House by Charles Dickens, 1853. …Read more RUINED HOUSE: an act of public reading, Gateshead Millennium Bridge, 23/10/15

There is no alternative: THE FUTURE IS SELF-ORGANISED–2 texts for artists opposing neoliberalism PT1

There are two texts that have been at the centre of my thinking for many years; inspirational works that demand structural change and true cultural democracy.  I’m sharing them here to hopefully start a broader discussion within arts and culture that looks outside the crumbling bureaucracies of the totally administered Creative Industries. TINA 1 and…Read more There is no alternative: THE FUTURE IS SELF-ORGANISED–2 texts for artists opposing neoliberalism PT1

There is no alternative: THE FUTURE IS SELF-ORGANISED–2 texts for artists opposing neoliberalism PT1

There are two texts that have been at the centre of my thinking for many years; inspirational works that demand structural change and true cultural democracy.  I’m sharing them here to hopefully start a broader discussion within arts and culture that looks outside the crumbling bureaucracies of the totally administered Creative Industries. TINA 1 and…Read more There is no alternative: THE FUTURE IS SELF-ORGANISED–2 texts for artists opposing neoliberalism PT1

There is no alternative: THE FUTURE IS SELF-ORGANISED–2 texts for artists opposing neoliberalism PT2

There are two texts that have been at the centre of my thinking for many years; inspirational works that demand structural change and true cultural democracy.  I’m sharing them here to hopefully start a broader discussion within arts and culture that looks outside the crumbling bureaucracies of the totally administered Creative Industries. TINA 1 and…Read more There is no alternative: THE FUTURE IS SELF-ORGANISED–2 texts for artists opposing neoliberalism PT2

There is no alternative: THE FUTURE IS SELF-ORGANISED–2 texts for artists opposing neoliberalism PT2

There are two texts that have been at the centre of my thinking for many years; inspirational works that demand structural change and true cultural democracy.  I’m sharing them here to hopefully start a broader discussion within arts and culture that looks outside the crumbling bureaucracies of the totally administered Creative Industries. TINA 1 and…Read more There is no alternative: THE FUTURE IS SELF-ORGANISED–2 texts for artists opposing neoliberalism PT2

BUILD BIG NEW ARTS CITADELS NOW! (Big, THEY say, is better.)

Clambering men in big bad bootsDug up my den, dug up my roots.Treated us like plasticine townThey build us up and knocked us down.   From Meccano to Legoland, Here they come with a brick in their hand, Men with heads filled up with sand, It's build.   Chorus:It's build a house where we can…Read more BUILD BIG NEW ARTS CITADELS NOW! (Big, THEY say, is better.)