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Protest! Lecture Series: Stewart Home - 16th January 2012
Scholar of sedition comes to the School of Arts
Posted on 16th January 2012
Protest! Lecture Series: Stewart Home
January 16th 2012 4.15pm BWC lecture theatre
Master of the occult and arch wind-up merchant, Stewart Home has found fame as an artist, a philosopher, and a scholar of sedition, though he is probably best known as the author of novels, Red London, Pure Mania and Blow Job.
With a career that began in punk rock and blossomed into megalomania, Home has written for The Big Issue, The Independent and Artists Newsletter, edited anthologies of fiction and propaganda, and published a number of theoretical works on art, music, and radical politics. Much of his work has been published under the names of Karen Elliot and Luther Blissett, "multiple identities" available for adoption by anyone, and his own identity is subject to constant re-invention - just to keep the rest of us guessing.
Stewart's lecture will focus on his own work, but also taking in some of those who influenced it (Black Mask/Henry Flynt/Gustave Metzger), he will look at the contradictions of cultural production in a capitalist society, and also how and why any radical practice will will be oppositional and antagonistic towards the cultural as well as the political establishment. Everything from pranks and stunts through to theory.