Post-modernism – the cultural face of neoliberalism’s spiritual vacuum

At last – an article that explains how postmodernism relates to neoliberalism … it helps explain the ‘pointlessness’ of contemporary culture… also, this is a link to great alternative news website “Off-Guardian”: https://off-guardian.org/2019/08/11/postmodernism-the-ideological-embellishment-of-neoliberalism/ I’ve chosen to illustrate this story with a portrait of David Bowie, because Bowie is emblematic of our society’s abandonment of the…

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Culture, Politics and Philosophy / Research - background, news

The delicate issue of how to reply to rightwing friends on Facebook -when unfriending means being trapped in a pool of those who think like you…

AM: Liberation struggle? Really? Which? A economic catastrophe already unfolded in Zimbabwe with power cuts at 15 hours per day? What planet are you living on mate? Have you any idea of the problems Zimbabweans face? Appears not. Please spare us this leftist nonsense. If any of you had any morality you’d go back to the…

Is Putin right to say this is the end of the era of liberalism? (and a great essay about our times (the ‘anthropocene’) from Mintpress)

4bJuly 2019. Last week, Russian premiere Vladimir Putin said the era of liberalism is over. He’s referring to the global culture which appears to demand everyone can do what whatever they want. There’s a whole lot to unpack there – its about freedom, individualism, the right to make dreams of riches come true. From free…

My Artwork

Europa at St Bartholomew’s Church Brighton: 4 -18 July 2019

Europa withy (willow) lantern installed at St Bartholomew’s Church, central Brighton 4 July – 18 July 2019. Please come visit us. https://www.stbartholomewsbrighton.org.uk/findus.htm#Map Europa is the founding myth of the European peoples. It’s the myth of the abduction – or was it an elopement? – of a Phoenician princess, Europa. She lived on the shores of…

Exhibitions / My Artwork

Europa Starlight – withy lantern making workshop, with take-home star lantern, and twilight parade (weather permitting)

(From Spectre of the Real exhibition in April 2019, Brighton) In this two hour workshop you will make a star-shaped lantern out of withy (willow shoots) and tissue. The lantern is similar to those used in lantern parades all over the world, and of course, Brighton’s own Burning the Clocks. The techniques learned can be…

Europa at SEAS May 2019

I showed Europa at the Limbo exhibition at SEAS in Brighton’s BMECP centre, during the May 2019 Artists’ Open Houses. Here are a couple of photos (plus one of Europa being promenaded in Brighton’s Pavilion Gardens):

“Europa” and “Landscapes Summer 2017 (Sussex and Nineveh)”: works on show at two Brighton Artists Open Houses 2019

I’m showing in two venues for Artist Open Houses 2019, at YMCA Reed House, and SEAS Limbo. At YMCA Reed House, I’m showing two paintings entitled “Landscape: Summer 2017, Sussex” and “Landscape: Summer 2017, Nineveh” (both pictured below). Venue opening times etc: https://aoh.org.uk/house/may2019/ymca-downslink-group-4/ At SEAS Limbo exhibition, I am showing withy lantern sculpture “Europa” .…

Limbo: show of social art at SEAS Brighton, 4 May – 2 June 2019

Originally posted on SEAS – Socially Engaged Art Salon:
The Limbo exhibition will take place 4 May – 2 June 2019 at SEAS (Socially Engaged Art Salon). The show will include series of workshops, film screenings and artist talks by the exhibiting artists. It is part of Artists Open House, which takes place during Brighton…

Radio Euromernet review of Spectre of the Real show

Originally posted on SEAS – Socially Engaged Art Salon:
We are delighted that Spectre of the Real art exhibition has been reviewed by radio Euromernet – listen to the link here, in a radio show which also talks about Calais and includes some cool tunes! https://www.mixcloud.com/radioeuromernet/radio-euro-mernet-english-show-18-april-2019/

Spectre of the Real: preview, opening talk and artist talks, SEAS Brighton, 13 April 2019

The Spectre of the Real is an exhibition of Social Art by a group of 23 artists, held in Brighton 13-21 April 2019 at SEAS Socially Engaged Art Salon. Five artists gave talks, video links are below. The first was given by Russell Honeyman, curator, to open the show. The talk concerns the Real, a…

Social Art Assembly at Tate Exchange 25 April 2019

For practitioners of Social Art there is an important assembly happening later in April, at Tate Exchange. It’s sold out, but I’m intending to get a report on the story for these pages. Here is transcript from the Tate website: Thursday, April 25, 2019 10:00 AM 6:00 PM Tate Modern London SE1 9TG (map) Google…

Eade’s Die Liste coming home: HIX Award winning artwork about migrant deaths to go on show in Brighton at Spectre of the Real exhibition of social art on 13th April 2019

Award winning Brighton social artist Elizabeth Eade will give a talk, and show her prize winning work about migrant deaths, Die Liste, at the opening of The Spectre of the Real Exhibition, at Brighton’s BMECP Centre, 4pm, 13 April 2019. Elizabeth Eade’s artwork Die Liste is a 10m-long, hand written list documenting the names and…

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