{"id":1980,"date":"2025-08-19T18:38:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:41:23","slug":"feral-class-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=1980","title":{"rendered":"Feral Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Feral Class\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FAsh8zMeeJc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Untamed. Unheard. Unstoppable. For this episode with have a chat with Marc Garrett about his forthcoming book <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=1561\">Feral Class<\/a>. <\/i>The book<i> <\/i>is Marc Garrett\u2019s raw and resonant memoir of surviving \u2013 and creating \u2013 on the margins. It delves into the lived realities of working-class artists, charting Garrett\u2019s journey from the edges of cultural production to the heart of radical practice. Through vivid storytelling, biting critique, and moments of dark humour, Garrett reflects on what it means to grow up outside the safety nets of art institutions, forging a path through DIY networks, political resistance, and feral creativity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">What does it mean to live as part of the \u201cferal class\u201d \u2013 those who exist beyond the permission of gatekeepers, who make art not to be accepted but to disrupt? Join us for an exploration of class struggle, artistic survival, and the wild potential of lives lived in defiance of cultural elitism. This is not just a memoir \u2013 it\u2019s a call to arms for those who create from below, with dirt under their nails and fire in their bellies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Bio:<\/strong> Marc Garrett\u2019s life and work embody the intersection of art, technology, and social change, shaped by his working-class upbringing and a commitment to challenging institutional hierarchies. Growing up in Southend-On-Sea, he explored creative expression through street art, pirate radio, and early online activism before co-founding Furtherfield in 1996 with Ruth Catlow, an artist-led community resisting the commercialisation of the art world. Despite personal challenges, including a cancer diagnosis in 2022, Garrett continues to focus on ideas and questions that acknowledge and engage working-class and feral-class contexts as a springboard for more extensive dialogues on creating conditions for social change across art, technology, and ecology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Minor Compositions podcast is in made in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyfrequencies.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Firefly Frequencies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Untamed. Unheard. Unstoppable. For this episode with have a chat with Marc Garrett about his forthcoming book Feral Class. The book is Marc Garrett\u2019s raw and resonant memoir of surviving \u2013 and creating \u2013 on the margins. 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