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ANITA ZABLUDOWICZ'S BLOOD DRENCHED COLLECTION: DADDY WAS AN ISRAELI ARMS MANUFACTURER....NICE!

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:24:29 +0100

Poju

However, in order to understand how this kind of collector works and in which way art is manipulated for other goals, it should be born in mind where the money comes from. According to an article in The Observer written by Rajeev Syal (Sunday 4 January 2009), Anita’s husband, Poju Zabludowicz inherited the money from his arms manufacturing and dealing father. In other words, that money comes from the production of weapons that killed Palestinian, Libanese and eventualy, Isreaeli people.

Israel Lobby

According to The Observer: ‘Britain’s most active pro-Israeli lobbying organisation - which flies journalists to Israel on fact-finding trips and organises access to senior government figures - has received nearly £1.4m in two years from a billionaire donor whose father made a fortune manufacturing arms in Israel. The British Israel Communication and Research Centre, known as Bicom, has been one of the most active organisations behind the scenes in the UK during the present Gaza offensive, organising briefings and interview opportunities with senior Israeli spokesmen.Its biggest funder is Poju Zabludowicz, a London-based tycoon, who has underwritten its campaigning since 2007. The disclosure comes amid an intense struggle in Britain between lobbying organisations working for both sides in the conflict. Foreign affairs specialists say that the injection of funds has ensured that Bicom has become one of the most persistent and slickest media operations in the battle for influence over opinion formers’.

Philantropy or Public Relations?

The Z couple appears in Art Review Power 100 lists for 2006-2012 which assesses the most powerful in the art world. In 2012, they were listed number 87. They founded the Z Collection in 1994 and she is trustee at Tate Modern since 1999.

How is Anita Zabludowicz’s ‘philantropy’ undestood? Well, she buys un-expensive art from ‘emerging’ artists that she keeps in her collection which is 100% private. Last week in Frieze she bought a $25,000 work and that piece of news appeared in all newspapers. Her press releases are constant and legendary so one has to believe that the investment might be considered as motivated from something different than ‘love of art’. She might actually be a genius who ‘launders’ ‘blood-drenched’ money without having to spend more than $10,000 a piece.

Food for thought about our dear London collectors….

Source : http://www.loveartnotpeople.com/2013/05/anita-zabludowiczs-blood-drenched.html

oomk zine: DIY for Life

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:27:02 +0100

oomk zine: DIY for Life:

oomkzine:

By Heiba Lamara

On Sunday 7^th April the Rich Mix in Shoreditch played host to the first day-long DIY Cultures Festival. The venue was packed out with zine stalls, artists’ books, comics, crafts, talks, workshops, films, video-art and music. Organised by OOMK and Other Asias, it incorporated the best of DIY zine culture with cross-disciplinary arts, providing a platform for creatives who are low on budget but high on skill.

DIY Cultures was my first zine fair, and it gave me the opportunity to talk to and learn from different artists, buy and swap work directly with them and forge some fantastic collaborative links. Most importantly it showed me how to get on and start doing the things I loved while side-stepping the year-long unpaid internships and the suspiciously expensive master-classes with the ‘expert in your chosen field’. I only caught the last few minutes of the talk but I distinctly recall a man walking out of the Unemployment and Creativity Panel Discussion muttering “intense” and looking like the weight of the world had been lifted from his shoulders. DIY Cultures can do that to people it seems.

The zine fair, which was spread over two floors, brought together a wide range of independent publications and artwork which ranged in subject from riot grrrl to extradition, unemployment to urban gardening. The result was a forum for discussion and debate, a trading place and inadvertently, a classroom for struggling artists. Operating on the fringe of our mass-market society, DIY Cultures and its celebration of independent culture makers drew in a large crowd, and the cafeteria of activities, talks and wares subverted any attempts to browse selectively.

The writer Wilson Harris wrote, “political radicalism is merely a fashionable attitude unless it is accompanied by profound insights into the experimental nature of the arts and the sciences”. The festival’s claim to alterity and autonomy was certainly supported by its operation at the intersection of art and politics.

One of my favourite purchases was Developmentia - “like dementia but with foreign donors” - a witty handmade zine by IMASE/Other Asias which offered a guide to identifying the symptoms of and providing the cure for exploitative development projects.

The latest issue of SCARF, a cross-cultural journal edited by Kinsi Abdulleh, which was as brilliant visually as it was in terms of its literary exploration of race, art and identity, was another favourite.

Although I couldn’t attend all the talks, I was glad I had the chance to listen to the panel on Prisoner Zines, Writing and Creativity, hosted by Marek of Not Shut Up Magazine, Nicki Jameson of Prisoner Fightback, and Trenton Oldfield and Hamja Ahsan of the Free Talha Ahsan Campaign. Situating their conversation within the context of the Strangeways prison riot, the ‘War on Terror’ and the Government’s current austerity measures, the panellists provided valuable insights into the relationship between prison reform and prison literature, the politics of distribution, and the possibility of a new generation of confrontational prisoner writing.

DIY Cultures firmly established itself as an important cultural event not to be missed. In Rethinking the Public Sphere: a Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy, Nancy Fraser describes subaltern public spheres as ‘parallel discursive arenas’ created by subordinated social groups in order to circulate counter-discourses which assist in creating new interpretations of their ‘identities, interests and needs’. In this way, subaltern public spheres act not only as ‘spaces of withdrawal and regroupment’ but as ‘bases and training grounds for agitational activities directed toward wider publics’.

Add a few quirky illustrations, some homemade cupcakes and you have the DIY Cultures Festival!

oomk zine: Nine Days to Sign the Shaker Aamer Petition

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:28:56 +0100

oomk zine: Nine Days to Sign the Shaker Aamer Petition:

oomkzine:

By Indrani Balaratnam

What would you expect the daughter of a man held in Guantanamo Bay for 11 years to look like? I don’t know what I expected. Maybe part of me thought she would have red eyes from 11 years of crying, or would wear a Save Shaker t-shirt all day, every day. I didn’t…

7th April 12pm - 7pm Rich Mix, London All Welcome

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:16:13 +0100

7th April 12pm - 7pm

Rich Mix, London

All Welcome

diycultures: The session will talk about the value of prisoners...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:13:49 +0100

diycultures:

The session will talk about the value of prisoners creative writing and expression, the limits and of writing. As part of the DIY Cultures day Festival at Rich Mix
http://diycultures.tumblr.com/
twitter hashtag: #DIYPrison

MAREK KAZMIERSKI - Managing Editor of NOT SHUP UP Magazine of Prison Writing & Art
http://www.notshutup.org/who-we-are.html

Marek is a writer, translator, tutor and former Head of Diversity at HMYOI Feltham. Founder of OFF_PRESS, a non-profit press with a world literature focus, he is also on the steering committee of the English PEN Readers & Writers programme.

NICKI JAMESON - journalist, author, activist

Prisoners Rights Activist. Joint author of Strangeways 1990 - a serious disturbance, the only book to chronicle prisoners’ accounts of the biggest uprising ever to hit the British prison system. Editor of Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!’s ‘Prisoners Fightback’ page and Prisoners Fightback Facebook page.

Will speak about the ways in which prisoners who write against the prison system manage to use official and unofficial publications and structures to get their message across.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prisoners-Fightback/75937136732

HAMJA AHSAN - Free Talha Ahsan Campaign, artist and curator
www.freetalha.org

Will introduce Nausea - a zine co-written with his brother with 2 early short stories by Talha on teenager and Dulwich College Experience. Will talk about Bonnie Kerness anthology of Prisoners writings on solitary confinement, US prisoners art anthologies and how it help him cope with trauma.

diycultures: Really looking forward to this talk...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:12:14 +0100

diycultures:

Really looking forward to this talk from Blackfeminists at DIY Cultures!

We All Can Do It: Join Black Feminists at DIY Cultures for our talk on how black women have played a vital role in DIY culture with Stephanie Phillips, Aurella Yussuf and Rianna Parker.

Facebook Event:https://www.facebook.com/events/557797294242900

diycultures: “What is DIY?” opens this film … What are the...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:10:49 +0100

diycultures:

“What is DIY?” opens this film …

What are the ethics, ideas, joy and pitfalls, meaning of being an DIY artist -

Why stay independent?

The film is billed as a celebration of the artistic underdog and features interviews and performances from: Lydia Lunch, Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), Jim Rose (Jim Rose Sideshow), J.G. Thirlwell (Foetus), Mike Watt (Minutemen), Richard Kern (Filmmaker),Ron Asheton (Stooges), Madigan Shive (Bonfire Madigan), Dave Brockie (Gwar), Craig Newmark (founder Craig’s List) and more.

Sunday, April 7, 2013 2:00pm until 3:00pm

screening: http://www.facebook.com/events/175591002594428/

main event: http://www.facebook.com/events/590291354321604/

extraboneshq: COMING UP! a spinning drawing experiment devised...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:09:05 +0100

extraboneshq:

COMING UP! a spinning drawing experiment devised and led by Extra Bones’ Robert Bidder and Andrew Kerr. This is gonna happen in the midst of zine fair (and more) event DIY Cultures! Extra Bones will also be hosting a table full of great zines and esp things “Made For Extra Bones”.

extraboneshq: next Lunch Music is the first off site! new...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:08:55 +0100

extraboneshq:

next Lunch Music is the first off site! new projects from members of Dead Rat Orchestra, Szilárd and Goodbye Leopold. plus another new project from an un-named source…This is at the same place, on the same day as The Spinny Who-a-trope project too!

usurpzines: USURP Zine fair Saturday 28th April 2012. - We...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:57:46 +0000

usurpzines:

USURP Zine fair Saturday 28th April 2012.

- We are currently putting together details of how many tables will be available on the day and will keep you updated.

- Tables are free (but limited) and we are looking for applicants to take up these seats! To apply, please be in touch with your details and web link so we can allocate tables.

- We also have a number of slots for workshop demos. We are particularly interested in talks on- tips for self publishing and working with printers and screen-print demos. But if you have any ideas for workshops or talks, please be in touch with a summary.

- We currently have tables assigned to our friends Walrus Zines and Other Asias. We will be updating the list of contributors with tables over the next month before out progamme is out!

This is our flyer! Please respond email, print and share! Thank you, we are very excited and hope you are too!

usurpzines: Last week we attended the Tooting Zine Fair...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:56:44 +0000

usurpzines:

Last week we attended the Tooting Zine Fair organized by Walrus Zines, Other Asias and the Construction Gallery. We had an amazing day, met so many exciting people and spread the word about the USURP ZINE FAIR.

Many thanks to Sofia for giving us permission to promote USURP Zines.

http://tootingzines.tumblr.com/

http://walruszines.blogspot.com/

http://otherasias.webnode.com/

link-The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:57:52 +0000

link-The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations:

21stcenturyleadership:

The book identifies a set of people the authors call “catalysts”, who tend to be skilled at creating decentralized organizations. The authors list several abilities and behaviors (called “The Catalyst’s Tools”) that “catalysts” have in common, including:

Genuine interest in others.

Numerous loose connections, rather than a small number of close connections.

Skill at social mapping.

Desire to help everyone they meet.

The ability to help people help themselves by listening and understanding, rather than giving advice (“Meet people where they are”).

Emotional Intelligence.

Trust in others and in the decentralized network.

Inspiration (to others).

Tolerance for ambiguity.

A hands-off approach. Catalysts do not interfere with, or try to control the behavior of the contributing members of the decentralized organization.

Ability to let go. After building up a decentralized organization, catalysts move on, rather than trying to take control.

SLMBR PRTY MAGAZINE: RACE RIOT ZINE: Avail. at Stranger Danger!

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:15:33 +0000

SLMBR PRTY MAGAZINE: RACE RIOT ZINE: Avail. at Stranger Danger!:

slumberpartymagazine:

YES!:
Race Riot #2 / $3.78
This zine, the follow up to Evolution of a Race Riot, is a gigantic (118 pages!) comp zine that was first published in 2002 (reprinted & distributed in 2011 with permission of editor Mimi Nguyen). There is so much in here: frustrations over being held up as educator…

girlsgetbusyzine: The Construciton Gallery will be hosting the...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:26:39 +0000

girlsgetbusyzine:

The Construciton Gallery will be hosting the first Tooting Zine Fair from 12pm-6pm on 25th February 2012!

Construction Gallery and Cafe
74 – 80 Upper Tooting Road
London SW17 7PB
Nearest Station: Tooting Bec Underground
Contact: tootingzines@gmail.com

unaguerrasinfondo: ‘Meet Me at the Race Riot: People of Color...

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:03:40 +0000

unaguerrasinfondo:

‘Meet Me at the Race Riot: People of Color in Zines from 1990 - Today’

Jordan Alam ‘13, Osa Atoe, Mariam Bastani, Daniela Capistrano, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Jamie Varriale Velez

Tooting Zine Fair: Call For Zines!

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:47:53 +0000

Tooting Zine Fair: Call For Zines!:

tootingzines:

Tooting Zine Fair -

Call for Zines, Artists books, Illustrators, Comics, Distros -

The Construction Gallery will be hosting the Tooting’s 1st Zine Fair on Saturday 25th February 2012!

Stalls are FREE but limited. To book a stall please contact tootingzines@gmail.com with…

We ♥ Zines: BRISTOL RADICAL ZINE FEST

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:59:21 +0000

We ♥ Zines: BRISTOL RADICAL ZINE FEST:

Other Asias (Hamja) will be present at this zine fair -

welovezines:

BRISTOL RADICAL ZINE FEST
bristolradicalzinefest.wordpress.com

Sunday the 12th of February, from noon til 6pm at Kebele Community Co-Op (14 Robertson Road Bristol BS5 6JY,http://www.kebelecoop.org/)

A day of zines, workshops, tea and vegan cakes. Horay! Followed by yummy Kebele…

Occupy Museums Writes Letter to MoMA, Demands Stand on Sotheby's Lockout

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:31:21 +0000

hyperallergic:

On the heels of their rally at the Museum of Modern Art last Friday, the following focused and powerful letter arrived in our inbox 15 minutes ago from Occupy Museums.

READ THE LETTER HERE.

How to Find a Better Life? Nina Power reviews 'Are you working too much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art'

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:06:26 +0000

precariousworkersbrigade:

How to Find a Better Life?

Julieta Aranda, Anton Vidokle, Brian Kuan Wood eds., Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art. Sternberg Press, 216pp, £10.95, ISBN 9781934105313

reviewed by Nina Power, Review 31

The notes at the back of this latest e-flux collection state that one group of contributors, the Precarious Workers Brigade, ‘have a policy of including information on the context in which their work appears.’ To this end, they detail the dates when the piece was written (March - April 2011), the number of people involved in writing it (nine), that their text is also available online for free and is licenced under a Creative Commons licence, how they spent the $750 they were paid for the article (‘collective investment’) and the fact that e-flux journal employed two interns to work on the journal the article appeared in.

How much were these interns paid? $0 an hour. This single line sums it all up: the ‘work’ of the art world, and the increasing tendency of all work, is predicated on the fact that those at the bottom (and increasingly the middle) will do everything for nothing. But why, ask the editors, ‘should so many talented and hyper-qualified artists submit themselves willingly to a field of work … that offers so little in return for such a huge amount of unremunerated labor?’ Why indeed? The editors talk of the combination of structural exploitation and self-exploitation that characterises the ‘pseudo-professionalism’ of work in the art world (and we could include in this description not only artists, but curators, art writers, and all those at the less glamorous end of the gallery/museum/art fair spectrum). This unhappy situation in the art world (and the rest of the world) is the crux of the collection at hand.

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Tiger : Client, Management & Supervisor

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:46:41 +0000

Tiger : Client, Management & Supervisor