Join us at Pelican House for a roundtable discussion to culminate this series of events. Speakers include Ed Emery, Charlotte Grace, Helen Hester, Louis Moreno and Amardeep Singh Dhillon.
London is a city where international capital returns to roost. Within sight of the radiant behemoths of the financial sector, some of the most deprived communities in the country gaze upon the materialised excretions of the money market. But a metropolis containing this contrast of fortunes inevitably produces its discontents. And while the forces of finance capital place ever-greater demands on our space, time and budgets–leaving scant resources to conspire against them–these circumstances simultaneously produce a deepening urgency to move towards their abolition.
A metropolis replete with squats, social centres, grassroots spaces where conspiracy and solidarity could foment seem like relics of a city now being redeveloped within an inch of its life, full of pseudo-public spaces, luxury developments and state surveillance apparatus making the infrastructure for sedition increasingly scarce. The domestic spaces where one could live cheaply or for free, to allow the conditions to dedicate oneself to the struggle are few and far between.
As the property market reorganises every square inch of the city, imposing a profit motive everywhere it goes, we gather for this three-part event series of readings, screenings, and public discussions to around the questions:
How has the financialisation of space compromised the conditions for autonomous and radical organising?
When space is running out, where can we conspire?
What can we do with these remains?
Others in the Programme:
Sunday 18th May, 11-5pm @ House of Annetta, Shoreditch
Sita Balani
Aretousa Bloom
Peter Ely
Christopher Jones
Esther Leslie
Thursday 22nd May, 7pm-10pm @ Atlas Cinema, Loughborough Junction
Screening programme TBA