tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:01:21 +0000http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/noreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)Blogger235125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-2694317973601384346Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:43:00 +00002008-07-15T16:45:16.079+01:00this got my spine a tinglinghttp://youtube.com/watch?v=pVaUYVF-Cfksee you therevacuum boy xxhttp://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/07/fences.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-7045132374065754438Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:56:00 +00002008-06-26T11:56:47.350+01:00The website for The Great Rebel Raft Regatta is now livehttp:///www.thegrrr.netxxhttp://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/06/thegrrrnet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-3223486446137192748Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:12:00 +00002008-06-19T11:12:22.302+01:00Autonomous public art workshop, MadridA course about unsanctioned art in public spaces: urban intervention, graffiti, postgraffiti, free muralism, creative activism, outsider public arthttp://apaw.javierabarca.es/ http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/06/autonomous-public-art-workshop-madrid.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-6517371902078483780Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:34:00 +00002008-06-16T14:34:45.029+01:00 Everybody merz sometimes http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/06/bye-bye.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-7636587550409818340Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:21:00 +00002008-06-16T14:32:04.319+01:00ANTIBOTHIS - Occultural Book Anthology Volume 2.We are proud to announce that the ANTIBOTHIS book anthology volume 2 will be out soon, this time including Erik Davis with a text/ interview with the infamous onthological anarchist Hakim Bey.Erik Davis wrote the cult book "TechGnosis".Interviews with Boyd Rice, Antero Alli, Orryelle, Aesthetic Meat Front along with texts from Carl Abrahamsson ( http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/06/antibothis-occultural-book-anthology.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-5149361053058052577Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:14:00 +00002008-06-11T11:14:17.205+01:00FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 11, 2008CONTACTS:Email: media@caedefensefund.orgDr. Steven J. Kurtz: (716) 812-2968Lucia Sommer, CAE Defense Fund: (716) 359-3061Edmund Cardoni, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center: (716) 854-1694ARTIST CLEARED OF ALL CHARGES IN PRECEDENT-SETTING CASEDepartment of Justice Fails to Appeal DismissalKurtz Speaks about Four-Year OrdealBuffalo, NY--Dr. Steven Kurtz, a http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/06/artist-cleared-of-all-charges-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-2516254188053205535Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:25:00 +00002008-06-10T17:32:38.892+01:00We're about 2.30 min in.It was a great night.We're available for bookings... click here http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/06/rational-rec-last-saturday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-7824979665548271103Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:50:00 +00002008-06-09T14:09:14.299+01:00<!--StartFragment-->The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination seeks two interns to work with us on our exciting latest project Paths Through Utopias.What is the project? Paths Through Utopias has taken us on a 6 month journey through Europe in search of ways of living despite capitalism. Out of this journey will arise a bilingual book/film. See – www.utopias.eu. The book/film will initially http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/06/utopian-interns-for-paths-through.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-2382947732771897879Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:15:00 +00002008-06-06T12:37:21.867+01:00THE FUTURE IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE - A weekend of Creative Construction for the Camp for Climate Action Caravan - East  London 14th-15th June. From Saturday 14th to Sunday 15th June,  we are holding a weekend workshop to begin the process of building the creative elements of the Camp for Climate Action's Caravan. The Caravan (27th July - 3rd August)  is part of of the build up to this years http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/06/weekend-of-creative-construction-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-7729758267354323981Mon, 19 May 2008 20:32:00 +00002008-05-19T21:32:30.591+01:00 Spotted in glasgow. http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/05/glasgow-cream.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-1353265834433247162Thu, 15 May 2008 09:42:00 +00002008-05-15T12:52:59.281+01:00from Alex Fotifor the first time in my life, i find it hard to read thepress: it's a nightmare... i've never been particularly proud of beinga spaghetti: today i'm positively ashamed of being italian.yesterday in naples the latest episode in the bipartisan ethniccleansing campaign (it's been referred to as such in the mainistreammedia!) against the rom and sinti populations, in all a couple http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/05/cryptofascism-spaghetti-style.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-8423242191319030696Tue, 13 May 2008 15:30:00 +00002008-05-15T12:54:02.555+01:00New tools in Barcelona EXGAE (http://exgae.net) The first legal advice service specialised in the liberation of all citizens and creators from the abuses of societies of authors and composers (like SGAE in Spain) and other trade groups of the cultural industry. + Graphic and Action campaign. Multiply and share forth.  For the free sharing of knowledge and understanding. The grand opening of http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/05/liberating-from-cultural-industrynew.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-2765342687626357346Sat, 10 May 2008 13:52:00 +00002008-05-10T14:52:26.274+01:00 Our solo show has opened at SWG3. http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/05/get-ta-suck.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-5239740664679187656Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:47:00 +00002008-04-22T13:18:00.065+01:00JUDGE DISMISSES MAIL FRAUD CASE AGAINST BIO-ARTIST KURTZBuffalo, NY—A process that has taken nearly four years may be comingto an end. On Monday, April 21, Federal Judge Richard J. Arcara ruledto dismiss the indictment against University at Buffalo Professor ofVisual Studies Dr. Steven Kurtz.In June 2004, Professor Kurtz was charged with two counts of mailfraud and two counts of wire fraud http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/04/judge-dismisses-mail-fraud-case-against.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-3266737148668925924Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:21:00 +00002008-04-16T14:21:18.400+01:00 Glass performance move into swg3. Hooray. http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/04/jess-and-tash-move-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-1753112271548868212Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:02:00 +00002008-04-14T14:04:28.270+01:00Overidentification and/or Bust?Public discussion with Stevphen Shukaitis on issues raised by the publication:Cultural Activism Today - The Art of Over-Identification1-3pm, Sunday 18th May 2008 -- all welcomeUisge Beatha232 Woodlands RoadGlasgow G3 6NDU - Kelvin BridgeIf, as claimed within the autonomist tradition, capitalism derives its lifeblood from attempts to negate it, where does this leave http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/04/overidentification-andor-bust.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-574221539461596204Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:36:00 +00002008-04-06T14:36:37.939+01:00After a court ruling, I have been ordered to publish my expenses. My expenses for last week are:1) Hawk: £145.372) Hawk training: £6503) Three Jersey cows as hawk-prey: £3,2004) Purchase of balloons with face of Jersey cow on them: £235) Taxi to BBC TV studios for recording of I'd Do Anything: £17.546) Waiting time and return journey of taxi, while I go into BBC TV Centre and hold three balloons http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/04/armando-iannucci-boriss-barnet-for-bad.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-2252251832397944394Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:01:00 +00002008-04-05T14:11:44.080+01:00in the middle of the whirlwind**-**-----*****---*****---*--***Artist Submission CallTeam Colors is coordinating a new Journal Press Project,a web and poster-based one-off issue meant as a textual intervention into this summers' DNC/RNC.on the projecthttp://www.joaap.org/projects/whirlwind.htmon team colorshttp://www.warmachines.info/For their project, we are looking for art to round out the http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/04/looking-for-artists-submission-call.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-2119172824666171358Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:01:00 +00002008-04-05T14:12:20.956+01:00Everyone's at it!The Rentier Economy & the Morality of the Cultural IndustriesA talk by Jeremy Valentine(from Media, Communication & Sociology; QMU, Edinburgh)Thurs 17 April, 6pm - all welcome Venue:STUC (Scottish Trades Union Congress)333 Woodlands RoadGlasgow G3 6NGWritten in the spirit, but not the style, of Mandeville's 'The Fable of the Bees' (1705) Valentine begins with a critical analysis http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/04/everyones-at-it-talk-by-jeremy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-6709442171603549026Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:02:00 +00002008-04-05T14:13:17.869+01:00Big Freeze in Glasgow?  check this video of the New York Central Station freeze to see what it's about.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo Meet 3pm saturday 12th April inside Queen St Station (to synchronise our watches and reveal/decide location!). We'll then have a fiveminutebigfreeze at 3.30 exactly, with no cue needed other than watches and each other. Hold it for five minutes and move http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/04/april-12th-glasgowfiveminutefreeze.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-6680216660239517115Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:58:00 +00002008-03-31T13:58:49.934+01:00Glasgow writer Daze has received 28 months for brightening up the city.Show your support athttp://www.myspace.com/free_dazehttp://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/03/free-daze.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-9217926932084961391Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:22:00 +00002008-03-30T23:22:56.303+01:00 Simple and to The point. http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/03/fartisan-apartments_30.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-6255322633261808624Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:32:00 +00002008-03-25T17:32:48.375Z Is The word on The street http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/03/life-is-beautiful.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-706971426872308705Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:53:00 +00002008-03-24T13:53:34.120Z<!--StartFragment--> You're Not Barred - 1 Free Ticket to Glasgow Art Fair.   Artist activist the vacuum cleaner has made one free ticket for Glasgow Art Fair available on a first come, first served basis.   Here's how you can get your hands on it.   Beverage company Barr offer a 20 pence refund for returning your empty drinks bottles. You're Not Barred, a sculptural work made from 60 Barr http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/03/youre-not-barred-1-free-ticket-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18354906.post-2385651299837107451Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:01:00 +00002008-03-16T18:39:40.729ZFreedom of artist expression is being compromised at RensselaerPolytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.An Iraqi born artist, now US citizen, Wafaa Bilal's work was shutdown at the West Hall Art Department Gallery and will now be reopenedtomorrow (March 11), but conservative public pressure threatens toclose it once again.Wafaa escaped from Iraq in the early 1990's risking his life bycrossing the Iraq/http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/2008/03/art-action-wafaa-bilals-artwork-under.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (thevacuumcleaner)