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The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
C.R.A.S.H – A Postcapitalist A to Z
Toynbee Studios & across the City, London
Wednesday 17 – Saturday 20 June
Various times
Free. Booking required for some events.
Box Office: 020 7650 2350 (Monday-Friday 1-6pm)
Book online at http://www.artsadmin.co.uk
C.R.A.S.H – A Postcapitalist A to Z opens a space in which to imagine a postcapitalist future. As the future of our ecological life support systems hangs in the balance and we suffer the consequences of reckless economic fantasies, the question of what our future could look like has never been more vital. The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination will be experimenting with radical sustainable alternatives to the ecological and economic crises in the symbolic heart of the capitalist system, London’s square mile.
Working with artists, activists and permaculturists C.R.A.S.H merges popular education, live art and direct action. The project begins with the C.R.A.S.H Course and C.R.A.S.H Conversations building skills of resilience and resistance with precarious and unemployed workers, and ends with C.R.A.S.H Contingency and Culture, a mystery night time journey to utopia and back, and a series of interventions across the City.
"We are looking into an unprecedented abyss of economic and social turmoil that confounds our previous perceptions of historical risk. Our vertigo is intensified by our ignorance of the depth of the crisis or any sense of how far we might ultimately fall."
Mike Davis, historian
Infamous for touring the country recruiting a clown army, for throwing snowballs at bankers, for launching a rebel raft regatta to shut down a coal fired power station and falling in love with utopias, The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination is a network of artists and activists whose work falls in between resistance and creativity, culture and politics, art and life.
