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03/05/2013

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. …

10/10/2012

Artists space available

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 …

04/05/2012

‘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 …

04/05/2012

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 …

03/05/2013

Studio Mothership

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 …

08/05/2012

Closing night grand finale

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 …

04/05/2012

A Reflection: Free Labour in Art

‘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 …

16/04/2012

The Uprising of 34 + Q&A

Workers protesting at the gates of a textile mill.

UK PREMIERE. In 1934, hundreds of thousands of Southern textile workers participated in the largest single-industry strike in history. Many lost their jobs; some lost their lives. Dozens of …

30/04/2013

Open studios weekend invite

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 …

04/05/2012

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 …

04/05/2012

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 …

19/03/2012

What is Money?

"I love you" Iranian banknote used to send secret love message.

Rosalie Allain, studioSTRIKE’s Researcher in Residence attends a discussion on….Money! Whitechapel Gallery recently held a series of discussions on capitalist cultures, the last of which explored the role …