Phase 1: Market POST. Tooting Market London May 1st
The rationale for this project was to explore the potency of cheap and effective methods for artists wishing to convey their social, political and cultural messages to a larger public. With the aim of offering a small snapshot of contemporary visions for resistance and reform the first phase of Economies of Resistance involved an international open call inviting artists to submit posters and drawings, manifestos and proclamations; suggesting alternative models to that which feeds of the atomisation of society, the de-skilling of workforces, the disempowerment of individuals and the attempts to render culture impotent through interminable nostalgia.
All responses to the open call were exhibited and any manner of technique and style was welcomed, the only stipulation being that participants develop an economy of means, limiting the work to A4 size or smaller offering culture in accessible and proliferative form for an age where culture is often consumed in bite-sized pieces. The submissions were shown at a not for profit London market stall functioning as a resistance-themed discussion platform on International Labour Day 2011.
Artists:
Anja Mattila-Tolvanen
Beckie Leach
Boil
Catalina Garces de los Rios
Daniel de Culla
FredKaPiLo
Joe Tymkow
Laura de la Isla
Rebecca Weeks
Simone Fernandes
Economies of Resistance was organised by John O'Hare for Free Space Projects
For further information please visit www.freespaceprojects.org
