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The Management of Democracy – a report from the BP AGM 2015
The low hanger of the ExCeL building – the London Exhibition Centre – squats grey and devoid of windows on the northern quayside of the former Royal Victoria Dock which was closed and privatised in 1981. Despite having visited this hall for most of the BP Annual General Meetings of the past decade, the place…
5 May 2015 james -
العنف المصاحب لتغيّر المناخ في مصر
ميكا مينيو بالويللو في خضم الحركات الثورية في السنوات الأخيرة، ليس من السهل ألا نلاحظ أن تغير المناخ قد بدأ يغير الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا ،حيث نعيش، تغييراً جذرياً. هذا التحول التدريجي، الذي يصعب تجنبه، يهدد بنزوح الملايين من البشر، إن لم يكن عشرات الملايين، و بتغيير شكل المنطقة بشكل قد يصعب التعرف عليها. و…
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The tiger, the artists and the oil dictator’s daughter – Ackroyd & Harvey pull out of Aliyev funded exhibition
In the glass confines of Holborn’s Display Gallery, in the lower recessed space an animal-like skin lays slung and discarded over a length of thick rope. Created by artists Ackroyd & Harvey, Pelt is a poignant image of death. On one side grass of differing shades creates a tiger’s delicate markings, on the other a raw hide-like…
29 Apr 2015 admin -
الكفاح من أجل العدالة المناخية في شمال أفريقيا
(المقادمة للكتاب “الثورة القادمة في شمال افريقيا- العدالة المناخية”) حمزة حموشان وميكا مينيو-بالويللو سيؤدي تغير المناخ إلى تدمير شمال أفريقيا. وسيموت الكثيرون كما سيضطر الملايين من البشر إلى الهجرة. الصحراء آخذة بالتوسع والمحاصيل تفشل وصيادو الأسماك يفقدون مصادر رزقهم. سيزداد عدم انتظام الأمطار وستتضاءل إمدادات المياه وستصبح العواصف أكثر كثافة. الصيف سيصبح أكثر سخونة والشتاء…
28 Apr 2015 admin -
#MuseumWeek special: British Museum’s BP secrets revealed & more
The latest just in: British Museum’s BP secrets revealed BP Or Not BP? forced British Museum to reveal: BP sponsorship was just £596,000 per year from 2000- 2011 – around 0.8% of the Museum’s income. The figures were revealed under Freedom Of Information Act, just a few weeks after we forced Tate to admit that BP’s…
27 Mar 2015 anna -
Find out about Shake’s new youth-led research collective and its new work on public space, young people and ‘violence’
Shake! is excited to launch its youth-led research collective. It starts from questions about power that come up time and again as we make and remake Shake! Why are we young people always the objects of ‘research’ and ‘policy’? And why young people of colour in particular? We are not interested in being described, explained, being told…
25 Mar 2015 admin -
‘Walking among the ruins of the future’ – thinking of a city beyond neoliberalism
I’m waiting for Mika at the entrance to the Canary Wharf underground. We are about to go for a walk around the Isle of Dogs in the Borough of Tower Hamlets. Unfortunately we are waiting at different station exits. The upside is that I spend twenty-five minutes absorbing the scene, observing a place I’d…
25 Mar 2015 james -
Take the Money and Run? How arts fundraising shapes the future
Article by Anna Galkina published in Dance UK magazine, March 2015. On a hot summer evening in July 2011, as the crowd in Trafalgar Square was settling down to enjoy a Royal Opera House production of Cinderella, a ballet dancer dressed as the White Swan appeared in front of the BP Big Screen. As she…
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Azerbaijani activists and journalists not free to collect Freedom of Expression Award
Guest blog from Index on Censorship Index on Censorship gave a special award at our 15th Freedom of Expression Awards – to a group of people in Azerbaijan not able to join us to collect it. Over the past eight months, Azerbaijani authorities, under the leadership of President Ilham Aliyev, have been engaged in relentless…
20 Mar 2015 admin
