Recently, I’ve been digging through some old work in a bid to put a new portfolio together and in doing so I’ve come across this unpublished article I wrote back in the summer of 2014. The article is a continuation of some ethnographic research I did with a squatting community in North London, earlier that year. It has a very strong polemic narrative throughout, which in hind-sight I regret a little but it is, at least, a good reflection of where my head was at during this time… (that is, alone in a French country house surrounded by stacks of Marxist theory - so it was to be expected). Enjoy.
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Parisian Graffiti Vans
I’m sure it comes with little surprise, to anyone that’s spent even a modest amount of time in Europe, that Paris is somewhat of a “Mecca” for graffiti. Some of it very much artistic, a portion of it largely destructive and the vast majority of it located somewhere in between. It might come as a surprise though – as it did for me – that in Paris, this is not simply a “static” affair, limited to billboards, gable walls and overpasses, but also a “mobile” one, frequently inscribed onto many of the city’s ‘goods’ vehicles.
Read More'My trip doing errands'
Sometimes, just sometimes, we are rewarded for those impulsive hours we spend on websites such as ‘Reddit’. For, while much of what we flick through is, of course, interesting for that fleeting moment, rarely does anything stay with us long term or, rarer still, have a direct consequence to something we might already consider, ‘interesting’.
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'GOT TO GET' Installation by Nøne Futbol Club.
'GOT TO GET' IN PORTE DE CLIGNANCOURT
I wanted to just quickly make some comments on an art installation I came across a couple of weeks ago, which until recently I had not quite made up my mind on what to think about it. While rummaging around the expansive flee markets of the 18th arrondissement, we came across, quite by chance, a quiet yet well frequented compound which housed, alongside a small collection of antique boutiques and an appealing burger bar, the Untilthen gallery. A contemporary art space accommodated within an old steel framed warehouse.
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