Minor Compositions – Fugitive Study, Autonomous Media

Category: Study Sessions

  • #WorldsUpsideDown Exhibition

    #WorldsUpsideDown Exhibition

    #WorldsUpsideDown 11 March – 2 April @ Firstsite, Colchester Riots. Revolts. Revolution. All flashing moments which throw the world – and our relationship with it – in question. From the uprising against the Russian Czar one hundred years ago to the Arab spring and protests against war, austerity and the continuing failure of politics as…

  • Gee Vaucher – Introspective Exhibition

    Gee Vaucher – Introspective Exhibition

    Gee Vaucher – Introspective Exhibition 12 November, 2016 – 19 February, 2017 Firstsite, Colchester, UK Gee Vaucher (1945) is an internationally renowned political artist living outside Epping, Essex. She is best known for her radical creativity, montages and iconic artwork for the infamous anarcho-pacifist band Crass. Employing an eclectic range of styles and techniques, coupled with…

  • Adventures in Sound & Music with John Gruntfest

    Adventures in Sound & Music Broadcast on Resonance FM with John Gruntfest & Stevphen Shukaitis Minor Compositions editor Stevphen Shukaitis is hosting a radio show on the work of free jazz saxophonist and poet John Gruntfest. The show will broadcast Thursday April 7 from 9-10:30PM on Adventures in Sound & Music produced by music magazine The Wire,…

  • Occupation Culture Event

    Occupation Culture Event

    Occupation Culture 12 – 7PM, June 26 @ MAYDAY ROOMS 88 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1DH, United Kingdom How has squatting contributed to the production of art and culture? During times where the cost of rent and living rises well beyond the ability of cultural workers to support themselves in the metropolis, squatting has played an…

  • Fuel to Fight

    Fuel to Fight DS30: Test Dept Film & Book Event June 13 @ 6PM, firstsite, Colchester Followed by party at the Waiting Room The legendary London industrial noise musicians Test Dept are presenting a special screening of their film DS30 at the firstsite on the 13 June. Marking 30 years since the 1984-5 miners’ strike,…

  • Retrograde London 2014

    Retrograde London 2014 Tuesday 16th December 7pm @ The Horse Hospital Join us for an evening of discussion in the shadow of the NSK State… 30 years after the creation Neue Slowenische Kunst, join us for an evening exploring the aesthetic universe and the state created by these challenging Slovene artists. This special evening will…

  • Class Wargames Book Launch

    Class Wargames Book Launch London 25 October Red Gallery 1-3 Rivington St, London EC2A 3DT Richard Barbrook Class Wargames: ludic subversion against spectacular capitalism “In a world become ‘game-ified’ against its will, Class Wargames  provides the field manual for the only game that matters – that of history.” – McKenzie Wark 5.00-7.00pm: collective games playing…

  • nanopolitics: an evening of bodies and books

    nanopolitics, exhaustion, biopolitics: an evening of bodies and books London, October 9th 7pm @ no.w.here: Top Floor, 316-318 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 OAG This evening will present an encounter of three lines of thought and practice relating to politics, bodies, life, the social and the common. Doing so, we attempt to think across conceptions…

  • The Condition of the Working Class

    Screening May 1: The Condition of the Working Class @ Wivenhoe 7:30 PM, May 1st @ Nottage Maritime Institute The Quay Wivenhoe Colchester CO7 9BX A new documentary feature film by Michael Wayne & Deirdre O’Neill There will be a Q&A with the directors after the screening. Everything changes and yet everything stays the same.…

  • Three Theses on Political Organization

    Seminar on Political Organization  March 12th March 12th, 4PM-6PM @ University of Essex Room 5N.7.23 Centre for Work, Organization, and Society Rodrigo Nunes, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande Do Sul With the Arab Spring, the Spanish indignados, Occupy and so much more, 2011 is likely to go down in history as a very special year…