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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…

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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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