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Squatter’s sitcom

Squatter Sitcom, by anthropologist Nazima Kadir

For her doctoral fieldwork, anthropologist Nazima Kadir lived and worked in a squatters community in Amsterdam for 3.5 years. As a squatter, she fully engaged in this community. …

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Artists space available

Photo courtesy of Rosalie Allain

Artists space available from £80 per month. We are now accepting professional artists/creatives to take up residence in our studio community, studioSTRIKE. We have a three spaces available, one …

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‘Carry Greenham Home’ + ‘Silo Walk’

Digital still from Silo Walk, 2008-2010, courtesy of Lucy Reynolds

‘Silo Walk’ is a silent moving image work that re-visits routes inhabited by female anti-nuclear protestors at Greenham Common’s American military airbase, since transformed into a nature walk …

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Political Karaoke by Joey Ryken

Gestalt Party-Rock Cinema The Party's Over, 2011, Courtesy of Joey Ryken

Chronotopic Invocation 1: Profane Articulations of the Autosarcophagic Orchestra (BZZHHHHJT!!!) A new participatory work to disorientate political sloganing through popular viewership and performance.   “My work connects personal …

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Studio Mothership

Studio Mothership's space

studioSTRIKE’s latest residents, Studio Mothership will be launching their website during the open studios this weekend. They’ll also be live printing their new range of stationery….everyone is welcome …

Features

Closing night grand finale

Eisenstein-strike

EXCLUSIVE Live score of Eisenstein’s Strike. As part of the Bread and Roses Centennial celebrations, The Cabinet of Living Cinema will perform a live score to Sergei Eisenstein’s seminal …

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A Reflection: Free Labour in Art

Photo courtesy of Alice Tatge

‘A Reflection on the Idea of Free Labour in Art’ is a new performance work choreographed by Alice Tatge or a participatory protest event on the dependence of …

Film

NEW DATE: The Battle of Trafalgar

BattleofTrafalgar

The Battle of Trafalgar gives an account of the anti-poll tax demonstration on 31st March 1990, one that is radically different from that presented by TV news. Eyewitnesses tell …

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Open studios weekend invite

openstudios13

As part of our Open studios on Saturday May 4th come and hear talks from resident studioSTRIKER anthropologist Nazima Kadir (2pm) and artist Natasha Caruana (3pm).   Nazima Kadir is …

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Performance at the Bandstand

'What Do We Want?' A small publication on remembering protest. Courtesy of Siân Robinson Davies and Emma Leach

Performance which includes the public dissemination and interaction with a small publication entitled ‘What do we want?’ on remembering protest.   ‘What Do We Want?’ is a small …

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Jordan McKenzie’s ‘Feral’

Monsieur Takes A Dip 2010. Commissioned for the b-side Festival, Weymouth, Courtesy of Jordan McKenzie

Jordan Mckenzie is a performance/installation artist who has worked both nationally and internationally. His work is concerned with identity politics and Queer Theory and though new research his practice critical and …

Film

London Screen Study Collection

Battle of Trafalgar 1913

As part of the Bread and Roses Film Festival celebrations, we will be travelling back in time with some films of the London Screen Study Collection newly discovered …