Arcade East’s free programme of events, performances and debates focuses on Design and Politics.
The programme looked at the precarious nature of our current political climate, investigated from both global and local angles. A select group of artists, collectives and communities including ME & EU, Foreign Investment, Hervisions, MARICUMBIA, Failed States, Iggy LDN, Anastasiia Fedorova, Womxn SRSLY, Stance and Huckfield & Hutchinson took over the space and presented their responses to the theme through a range of activities and interventions.
The takeovers explored topics such as migration, climate and refuge, club culture and marginalisation, knife crime and masculinities as well as body politics and cultural hybridity.
Suspended Power explored body politics, immigration and Brexit, relational aesthetics, socio-parasitology, social sculpture, sonic journalism, migration, and fashion activism through expanded broadcasting. The 3 day takeover hosted an exhibition, performances, a performative lecture and a panel discussion with the artists.
Socio-Parasitology Manifesto Performance
The Socio-Parasitology Manifesto compared migrants to parasites. The manifesto presented through a performance, sound samples and moving image her lecture a reaction to how immigrants are seen pejoratively in the British media redefining terms like “parasite” in a favourable light.
Panel Discussion
Repurposing the pejorative language digital colonisation through the democratisation of new methods of broadcasting.
Participating artists Agf HYDRA, Sabrina Munmtaz Hasan, Cibelle, Jazmin Morris, moderated by Hervisions curator Zaiba Jabbar.
Photographs taken by Katy Davies
