Design & Politics Season | Programme
with Polona Dolžan and Kat Thiel
The Design & Politics season programme at Arcade East 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, Hervisions, MARICUMBIA, Failed States, Iggy LDN, 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.
Season graphic identity: Just Friends | NATHAN SMITH & SAM T SMITH
Design and Politics Season | New Babylon by Sophie Huckfield and Lucy Hutchinson | Fashion Space Gallery residents 2019
Design and Politics Season | Rosa - Johan Uddoh and Josef Serfaty in conversation | A Map to Fall Through by Failed States | Photography by Mark Joseph Anthony
Design and Politics Season | Sabrina Mumtaz - Hassan lecture | Suspended Power by Hervisions | Photography by Katy Davies
Design and Politics Season | Shutdown: Beats, Racism and Strife speaker | Nightclubs: Counterculture & Resistance by STANCE| Photography by Karla Lizethe Hunter
Design and Politics Season | The Bonita Chola & Adriana Guzman film screening | PACHA MARICA by MARICUMBIA| Photography by Katy Davies
Design and Politics Season | Grace Nicol | Mark Making | Well that is LOVELY! by Womxn Srsly | Photography by Michelle Marshall