3 Streets Away Extended Information and Happenings
3 STREETS AWAY : EXHIBITION & HAPPENING 1st – 7th MAY -12:00 -21.00 | DOYCE STREET STUDIOS | SE1 0EU A piano pulling pilgrimage, a furry road, rainy day canapés, chairs that aren’t chairs and finely stitched tumbleweed. 3 Streets Away from the Dorothea Tanning show at Tate Modern, a vibrant art scene has formed
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1st – 7th May| 12 – 9pm daily| Doyce Street Studios, SE1 0EU6 A furry road, rainy day canapés, chairs that aren’t chairs and finely stitched tumbleweed. 3StreetsAway from the Dorothea Tanning show at Tate Modern, a group of diverse, contemporary artists are creating their own works in response to the American surrealist. From 1st
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Theres a slow rise happening in my studio as artists come and go making their work. Doors slam, paint lines form then disappear. Machines whirr and there is laughing and chatter in the low, late afternoon light. Things that began open-ended are taking space and taking shape. Something is cooking real slow and delicious on
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There comes a time when every woman needs to pick up her life and shake all the crap out of it just like you do with your toaster once a year. So that’s what I’m doing. It will be interesting to see what remains when so much is gone. The Sisters of Perpetual Resistance have
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Bring us your sexist slurs and words of shame to burn! Join Miss Pokeno at her table ‘Too Ugly For Words’ at the Tate Modern as part of Stance Podcast’s Tate Exchange. Friday 23rd February Blavatnik Building, Level 5 Bankside London SE1 9TG 6 – 10 PM “In 2013, I started burning all the sexist
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Miss Pokeno’s explosive chair work will be featured in the Geffrye Museum show in London beginning next week 2nd – 21st May. Second Sitters are staging an upholstery takeover at the museum time lining the evolution, highs, lows and new revolution of the craft within the UK. Curated by practising upholsters Hannah Stanton and Jude
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Strange fruit continues to hang from old trees still deeply rooted in ancient prejudice. The veneer of politeness and tolerance wears thin and becomes transparent. A few weeks ago three of us went down to the French embassy in London to protest the banning of the burkini on the beaches of France. We wore the
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The Blairites have turned on Corbyn, Farage has gone to ground, Cameron has resigned and the prefects in bad frocks have taken the keys to the asylum . Boris …chief idiot …has walked free with his clown suit in tact….all hail England Bloody England in this summer of 2016. In London town the sweet smell
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Here’s Fuel for the Fires …28 red rags on a washing line…a small scale intervention I did down on some old farmer’s land in New Zealand when I was out wandering the world on the poetry hunting expedition. Filmed it on my iPhone while dodging five hives of honey bees but at least it wasn’t
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