Creativity & Guerilla Art

"Art imitates nature"
Aristotle

"Nature imitates art"
Oscar Wilde

Some people are lucky and have an element of creativity in their jobs but many people work to pay the bills and seek their creative fulfillment elsewhere. At the end of our lives we don't wish to look back and say only that we worked for forty years and did a decent job. Art allows us to say something about our lives, our experiences and who we are. We don't have to be James Joyce, Mozart or Picasso to be allowed to express ourselves and the most important aspect of creativity for us is that it should be fun, playful and exhilarating.

It is our right and pleasure to create our own art, music, poetry and prose and we present some of it here. You may not like all of it but we hope it demonstrates that art can be found not only in museums and galleries but often all around us:

Photography
Death at Victory Mansions
Dubya Babes

Poetry & Writing
Chapel Perilous - a dark psychological journey
The Potato Poet of Sissingbourne - work in progress.

Music
Soft Dave's Mellow Vibes

Performance
The Enfield & Haringey Towns-Womens Guild will re-enact the Battle of Pearl Harbour at Banbury Village Fete - all welcome to participate or watch. Date t.b.c.

Links:
The Idler - for relaxed lifestyle tips
Adbusters
Billboard Liberation Front
Cartoon Kate
Rhythms of Resistance
RTMArk
UHC Collective
WTO / Gatt Hoax
The Yes Men
Art Peace - Art benefiting international aid charity, Concern
Reclaim the City - Street art. Good links section
Eko System - More street art
Subvertise
Undercurrents - Video activism
Real Change News - Homeless Art
Hungry & Homeless - More art by and for the homeless
TAZ online - Full text
London Psycho-Geographical Association

Books / Resources:

The Artist's Way

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Temporary Autonomous Zone
Hakim Bey

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Immediatism
Hakim Bey

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McLuhan & Baudrillard

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