Get The Massage - Partick Says No To Tesco

Artist ‘priced out’ of inclusive project

Little piece about us in the Glasgow Evening Times. It says we are on
benefits, it ain't true.

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.1352404.0.0.php

13 Morsels To Suck On - 7 pm Thursday, 26th April - Pump House Gallery, London.

please forward to everyone you know in london, i'm desperate for an audience above 5 - i'm not really that sorry for cross posting 

13 Morsels To Suck On 

- 7 pm Thursday, 26th April - Pump House Gallery, London (Battersea Park -

http://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/Home/LeisureandTourism/Pumphousegallery/talks.htm)

Thorn-in-the-side of your local Multi-National, the vacuum cleaner, present 11 of their current favourite films and stories from a across Europe and the USA. Political pranks, art activism and acts of creative resistance with all the subtle one can expect from groups with names like The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army and The Space Hijackers.

 

The show will last 1 hour approx, be very informal and I'm told there will be some free beer.

http://www.vacuum.org.uk/morsels/

Part of The Art of Protest, organsied by Home -  http://www.lgihome.co.uk/ - which includes Richard DeDomenici's well good solo show. (i haven't actually seen it yet, but i know it will be great.)

Artist fails in begging for social engagement.

Artists fails in begging for social engagement.

 

http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/beggingforsocialengagement

 

Artist activist the vacuum cleaner failed in his attempt to beg for £100 to attend socially engaged art event Common Work held last Thursday at the Tramway, Glasgow.

 

"I turned up at 8.30, washed my hair and everything. But I only managed to raise £42.36, not even half way. By 12.30 I'd a cold bum and was hungry so I went home." Lamented James. "The begging itself was fine, but then it wasn't real. Some people were really nice, others not so. By the end I'd been given 2 Coffees, 1 Tea, 3 Biscuits, 1 Apple and 1 Cigarette. Admittedly that was mostly from my friend Jess, but it all counts. Maybe I was to common for Common Work."

 

"Joking aside, it would have been really nice to go, I heard there was some great stuff talked about. But maybe the organisers can't take full responsibility, our begging failed as much as their strategy of inclusion."

 

And with the profit?

 

"Well I'd like to put on an event of socially and politically engaged art, it will be free for everyone. But to do that we need to raise a bit more cash, so I'd hereby like to announce the £42.36 commission, the only guideline is that the work has to sell for more than £42.37. I'll repeat this process until we've got the cash."

 

Please send proposals to suck@vacuum.org.uk on a rolling bases, please put the £42.36 commission in the subject line.

 

Notes

 

Common Work was a conference/event held at the Tramway, Glasgow. The cheapest ticket for unwaged or low-waged folk was £100.

 

http://www.tramway.org/content/default_text.asp?page=s2_7

 

 

the vacuum cleaner

http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk

suck@thevacuumcleaner.co.uk

Climate Camp Benifit - Sat 28th April

> 2007 Climate Camp Benefit - Saturday 28th April 2007.
>
> Limehouse Town Hall
> 646 Commercial Road
> LONDON
> E14 7HA.
>
> Doors 8pm - 2am
> Waged £5, unwaged £3 or by donation.
>
> Presentation Adam Hyde
> Climate change and the Arctic.
>
> Bands: Seize The Day (tbc).
> The Crucible, The Tell, Billy Moonstone, Acoustic.
>
> Directions; Buses 15 From Trafalgar Sq, 115 - Aldgate,
> D6 From Hackney, D3
>> From Bethnal Green.
>
> Tube : Limehouse DLR from Bank or Tower Gateway, then
> a 5 minute walk
>
> More info: 07708794665.
> info@risingtide.org.uk, www.climatecamp.org.uk

Mayday 07 Invite

Mayday 2007 – Suited, Booted and working 9 to 5!

We are heading on a crash course, our profit lead corporate system is
ruining our lives and our planet. When was the last time you worked
just
a 9 - 5? Do you believe any of this corporate greenwash?

We are all going to have to change. We are going to have to learn to
share, to care and to play again.

Lets take to the city, turn the social rules upside down, dance in the
streets, sing, party and bring healthy chaos to this dull order.

Lets re-invigorate this ancient day of trouble and celebration.
Don't be
a cog in the machine, be a spanner in the works!

Join us at 5pm on Tues 1st May in the heart of the corporate world.

All you need is a good disguise. Dress in your smartest of suits
(undetectable to Police radar) and then at 5pm on the dot, party with
us!

Bring stealth instruments hidden in cases, bring drinks, cakes and
smiles
to share.

Like the Thomas Crown Affair, but with dancing troublemakers

Meeting point to be announced on www.spacehijackers.org the day before…

PDF invite, dressing guide and song sheet here:

http://www.spacehijackers.org/mayday07/invite.pdf

Forward this far and wide!

Brought to you by the Space Hijackers, circle line party organisers,
corporate chaos causers and all round bad eggs!

Cloud Piece next week @ The Arches

Hello and happy Easter.

Please see attached details of new my performance 'Cloud Piece' shown as part of Arches Theatre Festival.  

It is limited capacity so please book in advance if you would like to catch it in Glasgow before its premiere in

 London next month.   

It would be great to see you there.

Protest and Memory Bike tour or "the Psychomedia Capital",

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1. Protest and Memory bike tour of Los Angeles- organized by RIDE-Arc
Bicycles + Architecture + Urban Anthropology
2. THE PSYCHOMEDIA CAPITAL TOUR- by XL Terrestrials at the Los
Angeles Ecovillage
3. Antiwar
4. Slide Archive
5. List info

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1. Protest and Memory bike tour of Los Angeles-

The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest is proud to be collaborating
with RIDE-Arc and the LA Urban Rangers to present this ride.

THE MEETING PLACE FOR THIS RIDE IS AT THE SCI-ARC PARKING LOT, 9 PM -
WE RIDE BY 9:30

This past March was full of protests, events and book releases that
gave note to the role of activism, protest and social unrest- and
it's not just because the month is also an apt verb! As a close to
March's plethora of activism events and anniversaries of some of the
most significant protests of our current generation, RIDE-Arc is
presenting a ride that will relay the ever pervasive question of
protest and memory. Do we give remembrance to the issues that were
raised at a time, at a place? With Los Angeles continually re-
inventing itself, what remains of the voices that made an effort to
speak out? What exactly went down in your neighborhood?
Let's find out.

RIDE-info: The route is roughly 23-25 miles of sweet, sweet goodness
(on Good Friday, no less) with a few hills, hidden passage ways and
gems along the route. We will be visiting and remembering sites of
historic protest past. Portions of the route may tease the memories
of some of our riders who have subscribed to the rides and supported
us for these years - and for those of you new to this, you certainly
will enjoy the small discoveries you'll see along the way.

No rider left behind!

RIDE-Arc 1st Friday / Month
Bicycles + Architecture + Urban Anthropology
INFO:

www.ridearc.org / ridearc@gmail.com
http://groups.google.com/group/ridearc-list/

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2. THE PSYCHOMEDIA CAPITAL TOUR- by XL Terrestrials at the Los
Angeles Eco Village

Here's this week's event announcement after flaking on their event
last week at Telic .

7-10pm
LA Eco Village 117 Bimini Pl, LA 90004
www.laecovillage.org

The XL Terrestrials present
"THE TRANSMIGRATION OF CINEMA"

Recently back from their eastern Europe and Balkan region research
expedition, the XL Terrestrials bring you an incredible collection of
"No
Border" cinema in combination with strategies for disengaging the "OS -
Spectacle 2.0" in times of war, hypermarkets, and virtual cul de sacs.

Possible playlist includes: [ note: This is not a fixed program, but
a Live,
interactive and cinematic therapy
session ]

Excerpts from the outer limits of Other Cinema's DVD catalogue,
Guerrilla
News Network, Atmo Films (Se), a preview from the latest Adam Curtis
series - "The Trap", Slavoj Zizek and Sophie Fienne's "Pervert's
Guide To
Cinema", and a variety of shorts and animations (mostly utilized out of
context) ranging from ResFest and Ars Electronica selections to
communiques from the global video activism and Indymedia circuit, etc.

The XL Terrestrials, a team of unlicensed psycho-media analysts and
illegitimate art practitioners from San Francisco, Berlin and beyond,
present this cinematic, theatrical and ecological examination of
movies, mass media, the internet, and You, the human species, in the
midst of an epic-scale virtual migration and/or another seductive
brainwashing episode. More info about XL Terrestrials, tours, and the
theory of Transmigration Of Cinema, Spectacle 2.0, and the Military
Entertainment Complex here: www.xlterrestrials.org
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3. Antiwar

Stop the war in Iraq, Afghanistan and wherever.

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4. Slide Archive
Contribute to our archive

Print out the PDF, fill it out and send it in along with slides,
video, or posters, books (etc) and images.
http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/projects/library/

JOAaP_SLform.pdf
Mail to Journal of Aesthetics and Protest 3424 Council Street LA, CA
90004.

Artist to raise £100 by begging

Artist begs for £100 to attend socially engaged art event.

 

On Thursday the 19th of April 2007 artist activist collective of one, the vacuum cleaner, will beg for social engagement.

 

"We've eyed up a pitch on Albert Drive," said Uri Sucker, a spokesperson for the vacuum cleaner. "We're hoping to become the best beggar in Glasgow and raise £100 for the entrance fee to Common Work, a socially engaged art conference."

 

"When we saw the prices we phoned up Tramway and asked if it was a typo, and apparently it wasn't. The whole thing beggars belief," explained Uri. "The cheapest tickets for the unemployed and low income folks is £100. Living on low income is a choice for us, but for some it isn't. What if we want to attend? It's now okay to be excluded?"

 

"The price structure shows a complete lack of creativity in how to engage and include everyone. The only way we'll be attending is by begging. We just hope that the folks who are attending are generous with their deep pockets…"

 

the vacuum cleaner

http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk

suck@thevacuumcleaner.co.uk

 

Press contact - Mia Sucker on 0044 141 5317 5317

 

Common Work 

http://www.tramway.org/content/default_text.asp?page=s2_7