“This guide is not a road map or instruction manual. It’s a match struck in the dark, a homemade multi-tool to help you carve out your own path through the ruins of the present, warmed by the stories and strategies of those who took Bertolt Brecht’s words to heart: “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.”
It was written in a whirlwind of three days in December 2010, between the first and second days of action by UK students against the government cuts, and intended to reflect on the possibility of new creative forms of action in the current movements.”
Words by Gavin Grindon and John Jordan accompanied by illustrations by Richard Houguez, this little book is about art escaping the prison of the art world, forgetting its name, dropping its starlit ego, and becoming a collective movement of creativity applied to the material of everyday life.
Soft cover, 15 x 10,5 cm, 64 pages, London New York Port Watson (2011)
ISBN: 978-1-57027-240-0
