Posts Tagged ‘anarchism’

Bikes and Barricades

bikes-barricades2I hitched a ride from Munich to visit my friend Clark in Lyon. So I sat for nine hours in the back of a Volkswagen Golf on what must have been one of the hottest days of the year. My driver had been raving about the galleries of Lyon and Dijon, the other passenger, a seventeen-year-old chain-smoking French girl had been nodding in agreement. Not sure what to expect when I got there and not wanting to get booted out of the car, only to be stuck in a service station near Stuttgart, I agreed that I must see the Cathedral and everything else. I didn’t tell them that I wasn’t really going to see any cultural monuments, so to speak. At least not old ones. I stepped out of the smokey sauna at the metro station Clark had told me about. read the rest

CULTURE
Dedicated to the Unknown Artist.

A look at Susan Hiller’s work in relation to this year’s Art Sheffield 2010: Life a User’s Manual citywide exhibition.

STORIES
Bike Shop Freemasonry.

Entering the bike shop with its array of gadgets, alien lingo and Lycra clad leg shavers was too daunting an undertaking for this self-conscious teeny-bopper: both literally and metaphorically I didn’t have the bollocks.

INTERVIEWS
FrenchMottershead: Shops - Interview.

An interview with Rebecca French and Andrew Mottershead. The artists behind the Site Gallery’s latest exhibition.