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UK Students Protest: Report 01.
I arrived at the tail end of the ‘peaceful’ part of the demo outside parliament and made my way pretty much immediately down to Millbank. When I got to the Tory HQ, the people who had broken in and occupied had been removed from the building and a very lively protest was happening outside. I…
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Poem: No ode to door-to-door strategies
No ode to door-to-door strategies     The door-to-door salesmenIn their cheap suits Their evangelist grinHangs from a thread They are too youngAnd haven't been to schoolwith their straw-colored hair And green eyes Their training book And their rehearsed speech Fake leather briefcase  Full of free samplesOf something They never heard of Willy Loman And wouldn't know pathos If…
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CRUNCH 2010: Line-up Announced
Naked Punch is one of the sponsors of CRUNCH 2010, so we thought we would tell you what is planned for this years Art Festival at Hay.                    CRUNCH 2010: Line-up Announced “A space of discovery” The Guardian “One of the UK’s hidden gems” GQ The Institute of Art and Ideas is pleased to announce…
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A Persisting Format: Bienials and Bi-annuals
Giancarlo Hannud is an art historian based in São Paulo and part of the curatorial team of the 28th Bienal de São Paulo: In Living Contact.    “Why is it that the Bienal takes place only every two years?” This rather vacuous question is known to have been posed by many of São Paulo’s residents, capital city of the homonymous…
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Poem: The Steps (Dossier Brighton Poetry)
THE STEPS             After Paul Valéry You are not the clutch of silence, placed gently against the blessed, as towards a knowledge that sleep is the patina mooting its practices.  Nor clear with sacraments’ shade, that are soft but like unrestricting! Good in everything I can divine  comes to me at bases…
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Arthur Danto – Interviewed by Zoe Sutherland
Zoe: It is a great pleasure to be here in New York, interviewing you for Naked Punch. I’m happy to see that you have a lot of exciting art here in your apartment, including, naturally, the Brillo Box that you have positioned rather nonchalantly under your coffee table. Is that thing real? Is it an, original?   Danto: It is…
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Poem: Epiphany (For Adrian Mitchell, 1932 – 2008)
Epiphany For Adrian Mitchell (1932-2008) Epiphany is not a blazing light. A blazing light blazes when warplanes spread their demon’s wings and drop their demon’s eggs over the city, and the city burns like the eye of a screaming horse. Epiphany is a comic book during the war. A sailor on the convoy from New…
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Interview with film-maker Michal Kosakowski
Naked Punch Contributing Editor and founder of Shoppinghour magazine Peter Eramian interviews Michal Kosakowski. Peter: Three movies that I’d like to discuss: “Just Like the Movies”, “The Heart of It” and “Fortynine”. In “Just Like the Movies” you basically reconstruct September 11th using footage from Hollywood blockbusters. This seems to me to be a statement about the fictionalization of certain political…
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The Trouble with House Arrest
One problem with house arrest is that you never quite know who’s in-charge. Or what you’ve been charged with. Or how the situation will be resolved. Between prisoner and jailor, who has the greater power? Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar, Zhao Zhiyang in China, Habib  Bourgouiba in Tunisia, Sukarno in Indonesia, Mossadeq and Ayatollah Hossein-Ali…