{"id":786,"date":"2016-09-14T09:34:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T09:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=786"},"modified":"2021-12-04T17:15:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T17:15:31","slug":"art-anarchism-event-the-london-anarchist-bookfair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"Art &#038; Anarchism Event @ the London Anarchist Bookfair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Art &amp; Anarchism Event @ the 2016 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anarchistbookfair.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London Anarchist Bookfair<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>2016 London Anarchist Bookfair &#8211; Saturday 29th October from 10am to 7pm<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/london-anok-bookfair2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-787 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/london-anok-bookfair2016-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"London Anarchist Bookfair 2016\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/london-anok-bookfair2016-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/london-anok-bookfair2016.jpg 679w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ad busting, cultural subversion, avant garde experimentation, DIY ethics and a wealth of movement propaganda \u2013 posters, stickers, zines &#8211; all point to the central role that visual and performance art occupies in anarchism &#8230; but how flexible is the relationship of art to anarchist and what are its limits? Is art an essential part of anarchist practice or a utopian aspiration linked to social transformations? How is art expressed: Does it have a practical purpose, or is function precisely the thing that that anarchist art denies? Are we\/can we all be artists or does art exist in a sphere beyond the everyday?\u00a0 Can cultural workers inspire social transformations by their activism and\/or refusals and what can workers in other spheres learn from their struggles and experiences?<\/p>\n<p>This meeting invites discussion of these themes (and more) with Leah Borromeo, Rebecca Binns, Russell Bestley, and Stevphen Shukaitis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art &amp; Anarchism Event @ the 2016 London Anarchist Bookfair 2016 London Anarchist Bookfair &#8211; Saturday 29th October from 10am to 7pm Ad busting, cultural subversion, avant garde experimentation, DIY ethics and a wealth of movement propaganda \u2013 posters, stickers, zines &#8211; all point to the central role that visual and performance art occupies in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stevphen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}