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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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Dec 29, 20194 min read
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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Dec 3, 201931 min read
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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Oct 2, 20193 min read
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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Oct 1, 20194 min read
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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Sep 30, 20192 min read
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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Sep 24, 20192 min read
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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Sep 21, 20196 min read
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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Sep 18, 20192 min read
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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Sep 18, 20193 min read
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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Sep 17, 20192 min read
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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Sep 16, 20191 min read
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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Sep 16, 201921 min read
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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Aug 15, 20141 min read
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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Apr 25, 20142 min read
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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Mar 24, 20149 min read
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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Feb 23, 20143 min read
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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May 11, 20135 min read
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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Feb 28, 20132 min read
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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Nov 2, 20127 min read
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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