Tag Archives: Paul Murphy

Bass Festival highlights: Fight The Power and The Great Excursion critical debate

Last Wednesday saw the launch of the Bass Festival with the opening of Punch Records’ exhibition Fight The Power, of global protest and propaganda art. Fight The Power is on until the end of June at the newly opened Zellig, … Continue reading

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Raycho Stanev talks about The Great Excursion

Here’s a short video of artist Raycho Stanev talking to Simon Walker on a Bulgarian mountain about his installation The Great Excursion, an interactive artwork about the shocking mass expulsion of 360,000 Bulgarian Turks from the country in 1989 during … Continue reading

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The funeral of The Site

Yesterday a funeral was held for a forgotten croft in Digbeth. The ceremony marked the death of industrial use for a burnt-out warehouse overlooking the river Rea. Public Artist Hannah Hull spent three months researching this site of No Special … Continue reading

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The Destroyers do Digbeth

Here’s The Destroyers’ fantastic new video for Out of Babel, filmed in the dead of night and crack of dawn in Digbeth. Cheapside features heavilly, including a boarded-up Cleary’s. Are you ready? Here we go…

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