Isotopica

an eye from the village

Episode one investigate an abandoned southern italian mountain village and investigates the possibility of a new artistic colony twinned with West London. set to an algorithmically generated sequences of bleeps and echo’s programmed in a major pentatonic scale, we combine the lost with the found and collected, the missing, and the missed, in a contemporary story telling style that just more than nods to the highest of high modern,

post we are not,

liberal yes,

not neo liberal,

most definitely not.

Want in? Join us on a mountain..... for real......

Contact me and discuss.....

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In this episode we start out with a clip from Miloš Forman's Taking Off, then segue into further re broadcasts of Jahed and Rita Saftawi's inspiring, horrific yet compelling live feeds from Gaza. We Talk with Icelandic MP and activist Birgitta Jónsdóttir of the Pirate Party and quietly bare witness to an intense and seemingly insoluable slaughter.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that 2014 Israeli offensive on Gaza, where around 600 children killed, was “necessary.” During a hearing held by the State Control Committee at the Israeli Knesset, he said: “We did not want a war in the summer of 2014 and we tried to prevent it.” He continued: “That war was necessary and that the conflict was a clear victory for Israel, seen by the fact that Hamas begged for it to end.”

more to follow

where to begin with so much coverage, so many horrific images available, and so little effective action..

gaza under attack, a contemporary holocaust, an ethnic cleasing, history...

Live stream originally provided by Jehad Saftawi, a photojounalist living with his wife Laura in gaza. Recorded over the weekend of 19th-21st july 2014

Jehad's video stream

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Are you a humanist? find out here

i simply ask as this episode is a humanist episode.

there is no god, this is it, our life, short, sweet and very very finite.

we are indeed star dust, so lets be nice, do the best we can and get on with it. oui?

and god was good

Tuesday’s Isotopica features the delightful and loquacious Jean Wainwright (of audio arts fame), talking about all things nautical, from the missing, pretend ‘round the world captain Donald Crowhurst to her family on the Titanic. All of this focused on her epic series of exhibitions Ship to Shore in southampton.

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In Conversation with Gerard Melanga and Dr Jean wainwright

Gerard Joseph Malanga (born March 20, 1943) is an American poet, photographer, filmmaker, curator and archivist.

Andy Warhol and The Factory

Gerard Malanga worked closely with Warhol during that artist's most creative period, from 1963 to 1970.[2] A February 17, 1992 article in The New York Times referred to him as "Andy Warhol's most important associate."[3][4]

Malanga was involved in all phases of Warhol's creative output in silkscreen painting and filmmaking. He acted in many of the early Warhol films, including Kiss (1963), Harlot (1964), Soap Opera (1964), Couch (1964), Vinyl (1965), Camp (1965), Chelsea Girls (1966); and co-produced Bufferin (1967) in which he reads his poetry, deemed to be the longest spoken-word movie on record at 33-minutes nonstop. Malanga played a combination of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby in Warhol's film Since (1966). Also in 1966, he choreographed the music of the Velvet Underground for Warhol's multimedia presentation, The Exploding Plastic Inevitable. In 1969, Malanga was one of the founding editors, along with Warhol and John Wilcock, of Interview magazine.[5] In December 1970, Malanga left Warhol's studio to pursue his work in photography.

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Marina Rabbit in Greta

What do you get when you place a 5.5 ft rabbit (marina sossi) in a 54 year old light aircraft with a famous photographer turned academic (spencer rowell), a maverick artist and broadcaster (simon tyszko), fly it up to 48, 000 inches, then turn off (idle) the engine and attempt to glide back to earth while discussing art, photography and death, you get…dead drop, this week's episode of isotopica

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Lancaster Court tenants and residents association (TRA) were invited for a lovely day out by our new best friends Fulham Palace Gardens , the delicious and reinvigorated slice of green that used to house the London Bishops. It's an amazing space with historic house, ancient gardens, revitalized greenhouses and some of the oldest trees in London.

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Can you hear that deafening sound echoing through London?

Just fuck off

It’s the sound of the goodness and the joy being sucked out of our lives and our social fabric by the Neo-Liberal free market.

Therefor this week, isotopica gets to meet some art house cinema workers (curzon) who describe their personal war of attrition as this much loved cultural institution gets hollowed out and expands as a brand, to provide value for the shareholder and remove all traces of the passion that originally bought it life.

This fight is a microcosm of the battle waging all around us as the human right to a living wage is spat upon by our neo-liberal kleptocracy.

All voices have been disguised as dissent is punishable by zero hours on a zero hour contract.

links to follow to find out more and get involved

* curzon workers petition

* Curzon Workers twitter

* Bullshit Jobs

* Write directly to [email protected] tell him how you feel about the living wage and the plasticisation of the curzon cinemas.

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We also speak with Salman Shaheen a spokesperson for

Very exciting Left Unity the new party of the real left,

details of left unity here

* Ritzy worker campaign for living wage

* ritzy workers twitter

* ritzy workers strike