by Arthur MacTaggart I have no training in art. My creativity at school was limited to doodles on my books. And yet now, I find that art has become a crucial tool. About a decade ago, my life went off the rails, and I was sentenced to a short spell in prison. …
Category: Creations
out(Law) Exhibition SEAS Socially Engaged Art Salon Brighton 7-29 September 2019
Sometimes we are outside, very rarely are we in. Hitting the highway and running for the hills may seem the most Butch Cassidy of remedies, in true renegade form. But these days, can we ever get outside law? Scroll on our screens and we find T’s&C’s, we wrench at those who are encamped and…
Lawscaping at the Venice Biennale
The event, ‘Escaping the Lawscape: a participatory game in the Giardini of Venice Art Biennale’, is drawn directly from Professor Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos’s research on the lawscape. The action, which took place during the three days of the Venice Art Biennale opening from 8 to 10 May, was commissioned by the Dallas Pavilion 2019 and was…
Squatters’ Rights – Animal Squat and Radical Art/Law Education
by Double Why of Dog Section Press. Animal Squat is a radical book for children. I say “for children” with a bit of hesitation, because I don’t like to set age boundaries. Maybe a better definition would be an illustrated book with a small amount of text, which makes it easier to read. I say…
Migrant’s Gift by Akila Richards
Migrant’s Gift by Akila Richards Artist and playwright Akila Richards shares her work on migration and colonialism through recounting experience within her practice of writing and her embroidered clothing. Her recent work appeared in digital animation and text on clothes for collective exhibition at ONCA Gallery, Constructed Geographies. The broad theme of the exhibition allowed each artist…
