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Two Underdogs and the reconstruction of Gaga

Consuming iconographic material via general media, one is often overwhelmed with the challenge of making meaning within the margins of celebrated personification. Messages are charmingly packaged within voluptuously orange cleavage, chiselled out mega-abdominals, and perpetually kitsch teleshoppery. Indeed, we have heard this neo-Marxist voice countless times. Such a mundane diatribe is not my intention here,…

ByYasushi Tanaka Gutiez

Two Poems: Quetzalcoatl Blues; The Enemy Within

Quetzalcoatl blues (Montevideo, Oct 16th, 2010) I´m like Quetzalcoatl without the feathers A snake that bites Nobody but itself Pleasure machine That gives no pleasure Anymore A trap A lie Chameleon jaws A strategy doomed Since long ago Doomed by the old men Who touch themselves On buses When they sit by Young girls By…

ByVeronica Pamoukaghlian

Creative subversions: a politics beyond representation in the UK

Britain is not at a cross roads: before us there do not lay routes from which to choose, rather there exists space to command, to commandeer. Recent student uprisings are about much more than cuts, they stand against the eviction of democracy from politics and simultaneous eviction of people(s) from public space. The illusionary integrity…

ByCharlotte Lattimer

Naked Punch Statement of Support For Protesters Against ‘Austerity Measures’.

We stand in firm solidarity with those taking action, both nationally and internationally – students, lecturers, workers and anarchists - in the fight against the so-called “austerity measures”. We reject the rhetoric of “austerity” and “sustainability”, which is being used to obscure the ideological character of these cuts: under the guise of ‘harsh, but necessary’ fiscal…

ByZoe Sutherland

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…

ByZoe Sutherland

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…

ByVeronica Pamoukaghlian

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…

ByBianca Brigitte Bonomi

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…

ByGiancarlo Hannud

Poem: Untitled (From Dossier Brighton Poetry)

1: If there could be such a love, a dog love, dog did I love a bit as though it yelps, impenetrably. Love is a picture, a picture of a river and inside the salt moves in ways that remind me of a dream I once had bound tight up to the eye sockets, “I…