01/04/2018

On the aftermath of Stephon Clark's horrendous killing


The States of America will one day wake up and look back in horror.
Just as the previous criminal states did.
The sooner the better.

Stephon Clark shooting: Police vehicle strikes protester

The incident occurred as demonstrators marched to demand justice for unarmed black man killed by police.


Protesters have held near-daily rallies since Clark was killed by police on March 18 
[File: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP]
A sheriff's vehicle in the US state of California has hit an activist as protesters continued their near-daily rallies, calling for justice for Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man killed by police.

Video of the incident shared on Twitter shows the police vehicle accelerating as a protester walks in front of the car. The protester is thrown to the ground.
The Sacramento Sheriff's office did not immediately respond to Al Jazeera's request for comment, but a deputy with the South Sacramento California Highway Patrol confirmed to local media that someone suffered minor injuries from the collision.

Local media also reported that the protester was hit after officers issued multiple warnings for those at the rally to disperse. 
The incident occurred as demonstrators marched to demand justice for Clark, a 20-year-old father of two who was killed by police on March 18.
Police officers involved in the shooting death say they believed Clark was holding a gun as they shot at him more than 20 times in his grandmother's backyard. It was later revealed that the young man was only holding a mobile phone.

His killing set off a wave a demonstrations from Sacramento to New York City, reiginating calls to end what many call the systemic racism among US police forces.

On Friday, it was revealed that Clark had been struck eight times, mostly in the back, by police, according to an independent autopsy, commissioned by Clark's family. 

'Own your responsibility'

Member's of Clark's extended family spoke at Saturday's rally, saying "nothing seems to change" when it comes to how police treat people of colour.
The "situation seems to happen quite often, that someone who looks like me isn't going home," Curtis Gordon, Clark's uncle, told the rally, local media reported.
"You really can't internalise that unless you live it," he was quoted as saying, adding that the police officers involved in Clark's killing "must become accountable".

"You must own your responsibility," he said.

The killing of Clark comes amid years of national outrage over what activists and others call institutionalised racism among US police.
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database counted more than 980 people police killings in 2017. The Guardian documented more than 1,090 police killings the previous year.

Nearly a quarter of those killed in 2016 were African Americans although the group accounts for roughly 12 percent of the total US population.
According to a watchdog group The Sentencing Project, African American men are six times more likely to be arrested than white men.
People of colour make up around 67 percent of the 2.2 million people in US prisons and jails.

These disparities, particularly the killing of African Americans by police, has prompted the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, a popular civil rights movement aimed at ending police violence and dismantling structural racism.
On Friday, a white police officer who fatally shot Alton Sterling, a black man in the southern US state of Louisiana, in 2016 was fired, police said. The sacking came just days after the state's district attorney said it would not be pressing charges against the two officers involved.

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About consciousness



The most interesting topic there can be...



ROCK CONSCIOUSNESS


The idea that everything from spoons to stones are conscious is gaining academic credibility


For Quartz
January 27, 2018




Consciousness permeates reality. Rather than being just a unique feature of human subjective experience, it’s the foundation of the universe, present in every particle and all physical matter.
This sounds like easily-dismissible bunkum, but as traditional attempts to explain consciousness continue to fail, the “panpsychist” view is increasingly being taken seriously by credible philosophers, neuroscientists, and physicists, including figures such as neuroscientist Christof Koch and physicist Roger Penrose.

“Why should we think common sense is a good guide to what the universe is like?” says Philip Goff, a philosophy professor at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. “Einstein tells us weird things about the nature of time that counters common sense; quantum mechanics runs counter to common sense. Our intuitive reaction isn’t necessarily a good guide to the nature of reality.”
David Chalmers, a philosophy of mind professor at New York University, laid out the “hard problem of consciousness” in 1995, demonstrating that there was still no answer to the question of what causes consciousness. Traditionally, two dominant perspectives, materialism and dualism, have provided a framework for solving this problem. Both lead to seemingly intractable complications.
 “Physics is just structure. It can explain biology, but there’s a gap: Consciousness.”  The materialist viewpoint states that consciousness is derived entirely from physical matter. It’s unclear, though, exactly how this could work. “It’s very hard to get consciousness out of non-consciousness,” says Chalmers. “Physics is just structure. It can explain biology, but there’s a gap: Consciousness.” Dualism holds that consciousness is separate and distinct from physical matter—but that then raises the question of how consciousness interacts and has an effect on the physical world.
Panpsychism offers an attractive alternative solution: Consciousness is a fundamental feature of physical matter; every single particle in existence has an “unimaginably simple” form of consciousness, says Goff. These particles then come together to form more complex forms of consciousness, such as humans’ subjective experiences. This isn’t meant to imply that particles have a coherent worldview or actively think, merely that there’s some inherent subjective experience of consciousness in even the tiniest particle.

Panpsychism doesn’t necessarily imply that every inanimate object is conscious. “Panpsychists usually don’t take tables and other artifacts to be conscious as a whole,” writes Hedda Hassel Mørch, a philosophy researcher at New York University’s Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, in an email. “Rather, the table could be understood as a collection of particles that each have their own very simple form of consciousness.”

But, then again, panpsychism could very well imply that conscious tables exist: One interpretation of the theory holds that “any system is conscious,” says Chalmers. “Rocks will be conscious, spoons will be conscious, the Earth will be conscious. Any kind of aggregation gives you consciousness.”
Interest in panpsychism has grown in part thanks to the increased academic focus on consciousness itself following on from Chalmers’ “hard problem” paper. Philosophers at NYU, home to one of the leading philosophy-of-mind departments, have made panpsychism a feature of serious study. There have been several credible academic books on the subject in recent years, and popular articles taking panpsychism seriously.

One of the most popular and credible contemporary neuroscience theories on consciousness, Giulio Tononi’s Integrated Information Theory, further lends credence to panpsychism. Tononi argues that something will have a form of “consciousness” if the information contained within the structure is sufficiently “integrated,” or unified, and so the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Because it applies to all structures—not just the human brain—Integrated Information Theory shares the panpsychist view that physical matter has innate conscious experience.

Goff, who has written an academic book on consciousness and is working on another that approaches the subject from a more popular-science perspective, notes that there were credible theories on the subject dating back to the 1920s. Thinkers including philosopher Bertrand Russell and physicist Arthur Eddington made a serious case for panpsychism, but the field lost momentum after World War II, when philosophy became largely focused on analytic philosophical questions of language and logic. Interest picked up again in the 2000s, thanks both to recognition of the “hard problem” and to increased adoption of the structural-realist approach in physics, explains Chalmers. This approach views physics as describing structure, and not the underlying nonstructural elements.
“Physical science tells us a lot less about the nature of matter than we tend to assume,” says Goff. “Eddington”—the English scientist who experimentally confirmed Einstein’s theory of general relativity in the early 20th century—“argued there’s a gap in our picture of the universe. We know what matter does but not what it is. We can put consciousness into this gap.”
 “What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?”  In Eddington’s view, Goff writes in an email, it’s “”silly” to suppose that that underlying nature has nothing to do with consciousness and then to wonder where consciousness comes from.” Stephen Hawking has previously asked: “What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?” Goff adds: “The Russell-Eddington proposal is that it is consciousness that breathes fire into the equations.”

The biggest problem caused by panpsychism is known as the “combination problem”: Precisely how do small particles of consciousness collectively form more complex consciousness? Consciousness may exist in all particles, but that doesn’t answer the question of how these tiny fragments of physical consciousness come together to create the more complex experience of human consciousness.

Any theory that attempts to answer that question, would effectively determine which complex systems—from inanimate objects to plants to ants—count as conscious.

An alternative panpsychist perspective holds that, rather than individual particles holding consciousness and coming together, the universe as a whole is conscious. This, says Goff, isn’t the same as believing the universe is a unified divine being; it’s more like seeing it as a “cosmic mess.” Nevertheless, it does reflect a perspective that the world is a top-down creation, where every individual thing is derived from the universe, rather than a bottom-up version where objects are built from the smallest particles. Goff believes quantum entanglement—the finding that certain particles behave as a single unified system even when they’re separated by such immense distances there can’t be a causal signal between them—suggests the universe functions as a fundamental whole rather than a collection of discrete parts.

Such theories sound incredible, and perhaps they are. But then again, so is every other possible theory that explains consciousness. “The more I think about [any theory], the less plausible it becomes,” says Chalmers. “One starts as a materialist, then turns into a dualist, then a panpsychist, then an idealist,” he adds, echoing his paper on the subject. Idealism holds that physical matter does not exist at all and conscious experience is the only thing there is. From that perspective, panpsychism is quite moderate.

Chalmers quotes his colleague, the philosopher John Perry, who says: “If you think about consciousness long enough, you either become a panpsychist or you go into administration.”

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“They have the guns"...





“They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.” 

— Howard Zinn



'SWEET COUNTRY'


On why I've never been to Australia....


'SWEET COUNTRY' 

Official Trailer (2018)






The latest film from Warwick Thornton. Inspired by real events, Sweet Country is a period western set in 1929 in the outback of the Northern Territory, Australia.


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31/03/2018

On Bristol's "Empire Through the Lens" exhibition


Bristol Museums are opening a vast chapter of British history again:




Empire Through the Lens


Bristol Archives holds an extraordinary collection of photographs and films showing both public and private aspects of life in the British Empire and Commonwealth.
Until 31 August 2018

From about 500,000 images, we asked 27 people to each choose one piece. The selectors include development workers, artists, photographers, historians and relatives of the photographers. 
They each bring a different perspective to the collection, and represent a broad range of personal knowledge, aesthetic appreciation and academic thought on the people and countries shown in the images, the legacy of Empire and the post-colonial experience.
Most of the collection dates from the 1880s to the 1960s and is just a snippet of the many thousands of images that are being catalogued and digitised. 
Please note that the exhibition may contain some challenging images.
This exhibition is a display of the collection held by Bristol Archives and will take place at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.
The ‘Exploring Empire’ cataloguing project was funded by the National Cataloguing Grants Programme for Archives.

Pictures from the British Empire and Commonwealth Collection


Mau May fighters in Kenya, 1950s

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JAN BIRCH
“It’s really important that people in Britain understand the Empire’s part in their own history.”
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Events
Empire Through the Lens: Audio Described tour for blind and visually impaired visitorsThursday 12 April, 4pm – 5pm
Limited spaces, Book in advance.
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King Street, Kingston, Jamaica, 1860s

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GUS CASELY-HAYFORD 
“Photography is so important to understanding colonialism.”


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Expansion and contraction of the Empire - in video:




Bristol Museums

Expansion and contraction of the Empire and development of the Commonwealth


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More soon.


Le Prix Nobel de littérature nigérian Wole Soyinka en Haïti



Reportage sur les liens Afrique - Caraïbes, dans les pas d'un grand auteur :

Sur les pas de Wole Soyinka au pays du vaudou

Le Prix Nobel de littérature nigérian a passé la mer pour rencontrer les citoyens d’Haïti. Propos d’un sage africain plein d’ironie et récit d’un voyage, digne d’une visite d’Etat
Reportage du quotidien suisse Le Temps (en accès libre)
Par Isabelle Rüf
Publié le vendredi 30 mars 2018 
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Une visite de solidarité: c’est ainsi que le Nigérian Wole Soyinka a qualifié son récent séjour en Haïti, une décade pendant laquelle l’écrivain s’est montré attentif, disponible, ému et choqué. Premier Africain, premier Noir à se voir attribuer le prix Nobel de littérature, en 1986, il est arrivé, auréolé de ce prestige, avec une réception de chef d’Etat, décoré par le président Jovenel Moïse, nommé citoyen d’honneur de Cap-Haïtien, avec banderoles dans la rue et étiquettes de bouteilles à son effigie.
Mais plus que ces distinctions, il a apprécié l’accueil des jeunes. Il était invité par Laboratorio Arts Contemporains, un organisme qui met en rapport des univers entretenant un lien culturel profond, entre l’Afrique de l’Ouest, la Caraïbe et l’Europe. En dépit de son âge – bientôt 84 ans – et de ses nombreuses activités au Nigeria et dans le monde, Wole Soyinka s’est prêté avec générosité et humour à un marathon de rencontres et de cérémonies, accompagné par une délégation – cinéaste, historien de l’art et du théâtre. Au cours de ce séjour, il n’a cessé de rappeler les origines africaines de l’île et d’appeler les Haïtiens à renouer avec leurs racines plutôt que de se laisser coloniser à nouveau.
Ce maître de l’ironie apportait le salut d’un grand «pays de merde» à un plus petit, rappelant au passage l’évaluation formulée par Donald Trump. Comme il l’avait promis, après l’élection du président américain, Soyinka a rendu sa green card, son titre de séjour permanent aux Etats-Unis où il enseigne dans plusieurs universités. Son passé de prisonnier politique, pendant la guerre du Biafra, entre 1967 et 1969, et ses années d’exil, de 1994 à 1998, alors que le dictateur Sani Abacha l’avait condamné à mort, donnent à ses actions et à ses déclarations une autorité particulière. 

La mémoire de l’esclavage

Les liens entre le Nigeria et les autres pays de l’ouest de l’Afrique et Haïti sont évidents. Ils portent tous la mémoire de l’esclavage. Les Noirs de Haïti, dans une révolte puissante, ont été les premiers à l’abolir dès 1791. «Le combat d’Haïti pour la liberté est un exemple pour chaque pays du continent africain aujourd’hui et à jamais. Personnellement, l’histoire d’Haïti, ce combat m’inspirent tous les jours», a dit Wole Soyinka au cours de son séjour.
Mais auparavant, il a reconnu: «Depuis mon arrivée, j’ai connu de grands moments de dépression à cause du niveau très bas de développement du pays, parce que dans mon imagination, j’espérais que le pays serait plus développé qu’il ne l’est réellement. J’ai pu me rendre compte du niveau de pauvreté, du niveau de désespoir des gens.» Le tremblement de terre de 2010 et d’autres catastrophes naturelles ont terriblement affecté l’île, mais l’écrivain pensait aussi aux dictatures successives et à la corruption endémique que leurs deux pays connaissent, chacun à son échelle.

Sous le signe des orishas

En Haïti, l’Afrique est présente partout, dans la cuisine, la vie quotidienne, les arts, le vaudou. Wole Soyinka l’a perçue dans les chants des femmes lors de la cérémonie en son honneur à Cap-Haïtien: «En écoutant les artistes sur scène ce soir, j’ai reconnu tout de suite la musique owo de la culture yoruba. Je ne sais pas si c’était voulu ou si c’est un hasard, mais je suis convaincu que les orishas étaient avec nous.»
Les orishas, ce sont les dieux du panthéon yoruba, une mythologie qui a nourri son théâtre. S’il a grandi dans une famille anglicane, Soyinka vit en intimité avec ces divinités comme avec des membres de sa famille étendue: «Je ne les adore pas, je leur demande conseil, elles m’accompagnent.» La mythologie yoruba s’adapte au monde moderne: «Pour résumer, Shango est le dieu de la technologie, Ogoun est le dieu de la créativité, Eshu est la divinité de la combativité. L’association de ces trois divinités fait du Yoruba un individu résolument contemporain et apte à résoudre les problèmes qui se présentent à lui. Cette mythologie est porteuse d’une énergie et d’une force qui constituent la grandeur du peuple yoruba.» Or ces divinités se retrouvent dans le vaudou haïtien, et l’écrivain a encouragé les Haïtiens à garder cet héritage et à résister à ce qu’il craint le plus, tous les fondamentalismes, qui ne tolèrent pas les autres mythologies, et le néocolonialisme qui s’exerce sous les formes les plus sournoises: religieux, économique, culturel.
Wole Soyinka a aussi été interrogé à plusieurs reprises sur la célèbre «tigritude» qu’il a opposée à la négritude: si Senghor proclamait que «l’émotion est nègre et la raison, hellène», le Nigérian a voulu montrer par là l’indépendance de l’Afrique par rapport à l’Occident et revendiquer pour elle l’émotion et la raison Ã  la fois!

«Brisez la routine»

Wole Soyinka a accordé toute son attention à la jeunesse. Aux petites filles qui lui apportaient des fleurs lors d’une séance de signature, il a dit avec tendresse: «Ne grandissez pas trop vite, vous allez au-devant de plein d’ennuis. Ne vous hâtez pas de rejoindre le monde des adultes incompétents et médisants.»
Aux 500 lycéens de Cap-Haïtien: «Derrière vos apparences sages, je sais que bouillonnent des désirs: suivez-les, brisez la routine, c’est ainsi que se font les grands changements. Il faut vous préparer à être stoïques, parce que ce sera dur. Si vous vous sentez prêts à vous engager pour une grande cause, allez-y, mais ne croyez pas que ça soit nécessaire. En existant, vous êtes utiles à l’humanité, vous en êtes des éléments importants. Vous êtes les héritiers d’une histoire qui est un symbole pour tout Africain noir, pour toute l’humanité. Votre pays eut le courage d’affronter une des armées les plus fortes de l’époque. Il a connu des dictatures brutales, il a été exploité et pillé par ses grands voisins, trahi par l’humanité. Il connaît la pauvreté et la frustration. Récemment, le tremblement de terre vous a tous affectés de près ou de loin. Mais vous n’êtes pas seuls: à la suite de cette terrible épreuve, le président du Sénégal a offert l’asile à tout Haïtien qui voudrait venir s’installer dans son pays. Je suis assez connu pour pouvoir me montrer critique à l’égard des chefs d’Etat, mais là, je reconnais son geste, et à mon tour, je vous promets solennellement un tel accueil au Nigeria. Mais ne vous précipitez pas pour acheter votre billet d’avion: ce lien avec l’Afrique peut être mental, c’est un appel à retrouver votre identité africaine. Vous faites partie d’un monde qui est plus grand que Haïti.»
Aux étudiants de l’université: «Soyez vous-mêmes. N’oubliez pas que vous pouvez agir: les gouvernements sont élus et peuvent donc être congédiés.»

Wole Soyinka, collectionneur

Pendant ses études de théâtre, en Angleterre, le dramaturge a pris la mesure du pillage du patrimoine culturel et religieux de l’Afrique noire. Par «ressentiment», dès qu’il en a eu les moyens, il a commencé à recueillir ces Å“uvres, dans une démarche qu’il ne veut ni artistique ni anthropologique mais réparatrice. Désormais, il plaide pour la restitution des Å“uvres d’art aux pays d’origine. Aujourd’hui, dans sa résidence d’Abeokuta, sa collection compte plus de 7000 pièces. Il entretient avec elles le même rapport familier et affectif qu’avec ses orishas mais, dit-il en souriant, il s’est résigné à en prêter une partie. Exposées au Musée d’ethnologie de Port-au-Prince, ces superbes pièces côtoient des Å“uvres d’artistes contemporains, inspirées par le théâtre de l’écrivain ou par la tradition.
Des centaines d’élèves ont visité cette exposition. En parallèle, Wole Soyinka a inauguré un auditorium qui porte son nom à l’Institut d’études et de recherches africaines. Les étudiants avaient monté une exposition d’Å“uvres d’artistes haïtiens en rapport avec l’Afrique: «J’y ai retrouvé Eshu, Shango, Ifa qui sont des artefacts importants de la culture yoruba. J’ai pu me rendre compte de la richesse de la culture haïtienne. Je sais qu’ils ont été inspirés par Ifa, la déesse de la créativité et de la technologie.»

Un charnier pour les vautours

Invité à s’exprimer devant le bureau de l’Unesco et le corps diplomatique, Wole Soyinka a eu des paroles très fortes pour dénoncer le traitement infligé aux migrants en Occident et la résurgence de l’esclavage dans ce contexte. Il a cité a contrario l’exemple du maire de Palerme, qui a décidé de recevoir tout migrant qui en ferait la demande, un choix qu’il soutient activement. «Si les pays occidentaux et les pays d’origine n’agissent pas rapidement face à cette tragédie, il faudra vous habituer à considérer la Méditerranée comme un cimetière et le désert comme un charnier pour les vautours. Il n’y a pas d’autre choix.»


Brexit and its illegal campaign



Just watch the first minute, it's already quite telling.

Brexit campaign was ‘totally illegal’, claims whistleblower




Published on 24 Mar 2018


A Brexit campaigner has told Channel 4 News that Vote Leave cheated in the 2016 referendum by over-spending. But the prime minister’s political secretary says the allegations are “factually incorrect and misleading”, and outs the accuser as gay. Subscribe to us and get more videos from Channel 4 News https://www.youtube.com/c/channel4news


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Same claim, different medium:


The Brexit whistleblower: 'Not cheating is the core of what it means to be British'






Published on 24 Mar 2018

Shahmir Sanni, who worked for the official Vote Leave campaign, today breaks cover to raise concerns that the group behind the knife-edge 2016 vote in favour of Brexit – including key figures now working for Theresa May in Downing Street – may have broken the law by flouting referendum spending rules and then attempting to destroy evidence.  Sanni claims that a donation of £625,000 was made by Vote Leave to an independent referendum campaign organisation called BeLeave. Sanni says that the money, which was then channeled to a Canadian digital services firm, AggregateIQ, that has links to the controversial Cambridge Analytica, violated election regulations. The donation was sanctioned by the most senior figures in Vote Leave, including campaign director Dominic Cummings and CEO Matthew Elliott.



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New Baloji


Music from the Congo / Belgium:


Baloji - 'Peau de Chagrin / Bleu de Nuit' (With Subtitles)







Published on 22 Mar 2018

"Peau de Chagrin / Bleu de Nuit" is taken from Baloji's new album "137 Avenue Kamiana", available via Bella Union: http://smarturl.it/baloji.sdv


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Baloji (born 12 September 1978 in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo) is a Belgian rapper, MC and hip hop artist of Congolese origin. Known as MC Balo in the hip hop group Starflam, he continued as solo artist starting 2004.



30/03/2018

"Band Politics": On music and engagement



BBC 6 covered one of my favourite topics: music becoming political.

Listen here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09w14np





Band Politics

BBC 6 Music's Chris Hawkins listens to new music every day - and he's noticing a trend.

More and more of the bands he plays on the station are writing about politics. Acts like Nadine Shah, Cabbage, Idles and Life are covering topics as diverse as The NHS, the refugee crisis of 2016, austerity and rail privatisation.
Chris visits the performers to ask them what is fuelling their music, considering whether supposedly radical bands are operating in a form of musical filter bubble - singing radical songs to an audience who already agree with their point of view.
From the blues to grime, music and politics have always been intertwined, but Chris Hawkins provides a snapshot of the topics which are driving a generation of rock bands right now.
Presented by Chris Hawkins
Producer Kevin Core
Music featured:
Nadine Shah: Out the Way. Holiday Destination. Mother Fighter. Jolly Sailor.
Idles: Mother. Divide and Conquer.
Life: In Your Hands. Euromillions.
Cabbage: Tell Me Lies About Manchester. Preach to the Converted.


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Nadine Shah writes about immigration and Idles overtly




IDLES - 'MOTHER'





'Mother'' from the debut album 'Brutalism', available now. Purchase/Stream 'Brutalism': https://idles.lnk.to/brutalism Follow IDLES: Spotify: https://goo.gl/zTLs99 Facebook: https://goo.gl/sJVKIQ Twitter: https://goo.gl/nn89V5 Instagram: https://goo.gl/Ra2h0c Official Website: https://goo.gl/HihgJG The video was shot at Dilston Grove, one of CGP London's 2 galleries in the heart of Southwark Park in south London. CGP is an artist-led gallery founded in 1984 by The Bermondsey Artists' Group. They commission major artworks by artists at all stages of their career. It's a vital part of London's art scene offering space and support that no-one else can across two stunning galleries. Its an amazing cavernous raw space that hosts a lot of performance, music and live art. They rent it out in between shows to get the crucial funding they need to keep supporting artists. There's nowhere quite like it! Dilston is one of the first poured concrete structures in the UK, built in 1909 by Cambridge University. It had been derelict since the 60s until the gallery took it on. There'd been a mission church on that site since 1896 after Bishop of Rochester, Edward Stuart TALBOT decided Cambridge should have a post in South London to support the poor.

Money + Love



I love Arcade Fire, what a world. I also love Toni Colette!
Relevant questions are included in the echos of this video / these videos...
Two new songs fading into one film.

And this idea:
Let's own technology before it owns us.


Arcade Fire - 'Money + Love'






Published on 15 Mar 2018


Arcade Fire - 'Money + Love' (Official Video)

Directed by: David Wilson Written by: David Wilson & Arcade Fire Starring... Win Butler, Regine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, Will Butler, Tim Kingsbury & Jeremy Gara as ARCADE FIRE with Toni Colette Casting Director: Jean-Robert Quirion Wardrobe Stylist: Renata Morales & Becca Blackwood Editor: Thomas Grove Carter & Vid Price Production Designer: Louisa Schabas Director of Photography: Christophe Collette, CSC Executive Producer: Sue Yeon Ahn Producer: Jason Baum & Richard Ostiguy