TAKE LONDON ‘For Spike! For Brum! We march as Juan!54 You may take our funding but you will never take our better quality of life and increased life expectancy!’55
Art-world think-tank BAZ chart the growth of regional art scene hooligan firms and their ambitious attempt to ‘Take London’.
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AZ interns1 2 have acquired alarming documents3 that uncover the meteoric rise in regional artist-led hooligan firms. These so called ‘Associate Armies’ began to form in the early 2000’s as artist-led organisations realised the power of professional development associate schemes to radicalise and breed a generation of volunteers happy to not only drink out of date Stella, but sell it to other people as well.4 Scores of unsuspecting gallery goers5 have been suckered in to joining these so called ‘Tatham O’Sullivan’ pyramid investment schemes, often lured by the lavish lifestyles being rather too consciously displayed by the well dressed and
Art Firm Battle Cry recently heard outside a private view at Seventeen Gallery
1 Steve and Sue, BAZ Interns
2012/13, Collaborators and 3rd year BA Fine Art Students, Dissertation title: How Tracey Emin Shaped New Labour. 2 Poor admin skills , but will work for two Mars bars and half a Parkett a week. 3
Soiled but legible.
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Whilst smiling.
5 Often only looking for the toilets.