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Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination - UK Tour 05
The
Laboratory of Insurrectionary will be visiting 9 different
cities in England and Scotland from May through to June 05,
for the G8 Summit.
Click here for the dates and
cities we will be visiting...
......People
have been seen praying
to products in the shopping mall, prostrating themselves
to perfume counters and genuflecting in front of godly brands
in the great cathedrals of consumption…
Praying
during the Birmingham leg of the tour.
Evening
falls, a caravan pulls up in the town centre, cushions and
rugs are thrown to the waiting crowd as tales are told about
the joys of resistance. the
vacuum cleaner present's their latest work, a performance
lecture called 'Dr Branson, Or how I learned to stop buying
CD's and love free downloads' followed by lecture (involving
egg boxes and strawberries) on the history of civil disobedience
- “Power: an introductory lecture on the history &
practice of civil disobedience as taught by Dr. Skip Justice
Tallahassee”. As the evening passes and the sun is ready
for bed, the caravan
explodes and out tumble members of the Clandestine Insurgent
Rebel Clown Army who present a ridiculous recruitment show,
whilst a deliciously strange feast is prepared and served
in preparation for dancing …
A reenactment of The Four World
War by The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army
In
the lead up to the anti capitalist and global justice protests
against the G8 summit,
to be held in Scotland in July, The Laboratory of Insurrectionary
Imagination, a combination of live art and cultural resistance
training camp, is touring the UK. Combining street interventions,
a nomadic information centre and two day intensive Rebel Clown
training's the lab brings artists and activists together to
apply creativity to radical social and ecological change.
A
Tool Box of Creative Resistance
The
lab of ii is creating a “tool box” of cultural
resistance, which will include:
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Interventionist street actions/performances exploring issues
of consumerism and militarism in local public spaces. This
will include works from the Church
of the Immaculate Consumption - an ironic extension of
the logic of shopping as a religious act and new interventions
from The Clandestine Insurgent
Rebel Clown Army’s and “Operation
T.A.K.E” a War and Strategic Planning Room for the
G8 and toy amnesty project involving the transformation and
infiltration of children’s war toys into systems of
consumption.
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An event/happening involving food, performance, readings,
film, music and participatory actions, centred around the
theme of cultural resistance, taking place around a mobile
caravan encampment. This will be created and performed by
the core members of the Lab, as well as visiting artists in
each location. Performances will include “Power: an
introductory lecture on the history & practice of civil
disobedience as taught by Dr. Skip Justice Tallahassee”
and the vacuum
cleaner's "Dr Branson - Or how I learned to stop
buying CD's and love free downloads". The evening will
climax with a giant feast cooked and served by the Clandestine
Insurgent Rebel Clown Army.
o
Trickster Training: A two
day intensive training/workshop in interventionist performance,
buffoonery, guerrilla gardening and culture jamming. To join
the Trickster Training, click here
to find the nearest town we will be visiting.
o
A new Lab of ii DVD - 13 Experiments
in Hope - featuring an new edit of the Lab of ii's first
event's during the autonomous spaces during the European Social
Forum and works from other art activist.
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Touring
in parallel - The 2012 Show
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