Our latest mail-out
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Suckers, Here's another random email subjecting you to some of the stuff we've been up to.
March/April - Connecting People
At the beginning of March we got a new Nokia mobile phone, by the end of the month we were in Finland feeling guilty about it. (Nokia is Finnish, not Swedish or Japanese as some thought) The film we made of our journey and musings can be found here.
May - First F.R.E.E Bus
The beginning of May was spent with Klepto and 17 excellent students from the Drama Dept at Bristol Uni. Together we created a prank on First Buses, who run the bus monopoly there. The website, video and some of the press can be found here - 40% fare increase 100% entertainment!
June - Experiment 3 and 13 Morsels To Suck On
In June we were with the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination in London @ PSI 12, a conference/festival on performance and human rights (or human liberties, as someone rightly pointed out). We presented a paper on Public Relations, took part in the Manifesto Room and did an installation in the Gallery of Utopias in which we gave away £500 - the Lab of II website, with images of the installation, will be updated soon.
The following week we went to Amsterdam for CASA (Cultural Analysis Summer Academy) that looked at Structuring Social Change. We did our 13 Morsels to Suck On performance/screening presentation. It was a great event.
Continued
Our "Body Shopper' letter writing campaign continues. Our first proposal to the Body Shop seems to have fallen on deaf ears. We will continue to try and engage (enrage). Detail of its success or failure will follow soon.
Final touches have been put to the chapter we wrote for 'Everyday Revolutions' a book/diy manuel on social and ecological change, edited by T.R.AP.E.S.E and published by Pluto. Our bit is on pranks and art activism, the book is due out later in the year.
We've also done some website design and/or video editing for artists Grace Surman, Nic Green and Leon Baugh - have a look here. Contact v@very.org.uk if you want anything doing.
peace and love
the vacuum cleaner
"Possibly messier, certainly cheekier than Live 8" The Guardian
“In the juvenile camp” Scotsman
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