Jazmine Linklater

Yay!

Update to Whistle protocol in Chicago:

Code Red signal (ICE is detaining someone) has been modified to continuous blast.

A Letraset drawing.

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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Led By Donkeys: “We’ve done, I reckon, 25 or 30 projections since we’ve been going. Often the police come along and we have a chat to them, and they even have a laugh with us and occasionally tell us to not do it. But no one’s been arrested before” - for your “Actually worse than Tories” folder

Vulnerable Families Urgent Evacuation Fund We are a group of Gazans and international activists (Palestinian/SWANA/Allies) who have been supporting Gazans for the past 2 years and beyond. We are now working to coordinate crisis evacuations for...

I rarely share organizations in Gaza because it’s too hard to verify that they are doing the work they say they are but I know multiple people who were able to evacuate through the people working on this fund who are funding trips out of Gaza City (it’s $2100 a trip for 16 people).

LANDSCAPE, INTERIORS, ART, UNDERGROUND: London to Lancaster By Sally Button

In this month's long read, Sally Button writes via the underground, the city and the landscape to reflect on moving from London to the northwest of the northwest, finding fragmented artistic community in and around Lancaster and Morecambe, exposing interiority and accessing space:

Another beautiful exhibition that I got to write about for Corridor8

Front page of sheet music for John Cage's 4'33". The document reads I TACET, II TACET, III TACET. NOTE: The title of this work is the total length in minutes and seconds of its performance. At Woodstock, N.Y., August 29, 1952, the title was 4'33" and the three parts were 33", 2'40", and 1'20". It was performed by David Tudor, pianist, who indicated the beginnings of parts by closing, the endings by opening, the keyboard lid. However, the work may be performed by any instrumentalist or combination of instrumentalists and last any length of time. FOR IRWIN KREMEN. The document is signed by John Cage'

A blank piece of sheet music, from inside the document

Splendid news! It’s the 73rd anniversary of the premiere of John Cage’s 4'33", guaranteed, even now, to make people very, very angry

Kenneth Rexroth

(I memorized this poem when I was young. I can still recite it.)

The Lithic Biennial By Laura Harris

'To write about a biennial from this perspective is a step outside of the tempo and often placeless perspective of the art reviewer who jets into a city and takes from it only what they need.'

Read Liverpool resident Laura Harris, reflecting on the civic, emplaced and social nature of biennials.

Extract from ‘Cow’ – six poems by Uruguayan poet Claudia Magliano in @mptmagazine.bsky.social tr. Jesse Lee Kercheval & Jeannine Marie Pitas. Have a look! 🐄

It's disgusting that this even needs to be said, but there is no law compelling Americans to have any form of ID on them while walking the streets.

thanks so much to everyone who's signed - 300 signatures in less than 3 days and climbing. this programme is one of the best things about UoB and the very least of what the university owes the broader region

UK to evacuate nine Gaza students with university scholarships Move follows months of pressure from MPs, academics and campaigners, with dozens of other students still stranded

The UK government will evacuate nine of the 40+ students in Gaza with scholarship at UK universities. My PhD student Shaimaa isn't included. We must now make sure they help the other students - email your MP today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Incident by Norman MacCaig I look across the table and think (fiery with love) Ask me, go on, ask me to do something impossible, something freakishly useless, something unimaginable and inimitable Like making a finger break into blossom or walking for half an hour in twenty minutes or remembering tomorrow. I will you to ask it. But all you say is Will you give me a cigarette? And I smile and, returning to the marvelous world of possibility I give you one with a hand that trembles with a human trembling.

Came across this MacCaig poem by chance and bloody hell, amazing

Paper Goes Swimming: Alicia Paz’s Women in Print Residency — Corridor8 On my way to meet Alicia Paz on a hot morning in late June, Preston seemed to be cast in magic realism, as though priming me for the artist’s fixations

'Paz’s works, some completed, some in fragments, were strange, shimmering, mutable forms, as though the images were conjured from memory — part-seen, part-imagined.'

Susannah Thompson responds to Alicia Paz's Women in Print residency at Artlab Contemporary Print Studios in Preston 🧜‍♀️ 🐚 🐟

Morton Feldman. Intersection +, 1953

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

Wait @abrackenbury.bsky.social is literally here

Yes can you email me tomorrow? jazmine@carcanet.co.uk I'd like to say I'll simply email you but alas I will forget

Amtssprache So what would you pay to have your family safe In that house with the garden and the clean running water - And you walk in and hold them and kiss their faces? Your life? Too easy, and nobody’s asking. How about the life of an Afghan child, A city, the birds in the sky? Would you turn a blind eye? Would you turn off the news? Would you run the trains to death camps? Of course you would. You do. You do these things. (Poem by Clare Pollard)

Every diaspora Palestinian I know has been living with survivor’s guilt for 655 days. Guilt & shame for every glass of water, every bite of food, every shower, every daily annoyance, every moment of joy, every booboo we can kiss better, every sleep in our own beds. Our people are being slaughtered.

Starving people is in itself a #massacre.

North Gaza: Food, Water & Other Distributions Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide essential ai...

I just donated to this in support of @eligoldstone.bsky.social Olivia Sudjic and Jack Underwood’s hunger strike for Gaza

chuffed.org/project/help...

We are starving My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid.

This is a really difficult read by Ruwaida Amer in Gaza. I just can't anymore with the barbaric Israeli state.

www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...