uKUNST EDITION 005 : THE REMAINDER OF THE DAZED

EDITION 005 | THE REMAINDER OF THE DAZED 31 JANUARY 2020 €2/ $2/ £2

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Contents Front | Fantasies Of Leadership Superman’s Payload | Roney FM 2 | Intro | uKUNST Manifesto 3 | Contents | Navigation & Contributors 4 | The Remainder Of The Dazed | The Editor 5 | Brexitland | Michael Barnes-Wynters 6 | Shot From The Hip In Shopping Centre | Bobby Beasley 7 | Single Season | Simon Poulter 8 | Sovereignties, Abstract Entities & False Identities | Lady Hindsight 9 | High Street Shuffle | Michael Barnes-Wynters 10 | Land Of Hope And Tories | George Norris 12 | Untitled | Anonymous Artist In Hull 13 | Embourgeoisement | Ryan Prince 14 | Christine Keeler | Her Edit 16 | Snatch | Michael Barnes-Wynters 17 | The Politics Of The Pop Up… | EP Niblock 17 | Integrated Modern Landscape Series | Martin Lewsley-Stier 18 | Salaam (Peace) | Michael Barnes-Wynters 19 | Publisher Page | Publication Info Back | Empirical | Michael Barnes-Wynters Contributors Michael Barnes-Wynters Bobby Beasley Roney FM Her Edit Lady Hindsight Kargan Media Martin Lewsley-Stier EP Niblock George Norris Jane Phenton Ryan Prince Simon Poulter © uKUNST & The Contributors 2000-2020

Guillaume BARB 270519 | Roney FM | 3

Editorial The Remainder Of The Dazed Oh yes, we’ve got trouble. Right here in Rock Head City. That’s trouble with a T that stands for Tory and smells of grief. Well here we are again… It’s like a bad nightmare that you wake up from only to realise it is reality. But whose reality? How can ordinary folk, perhaps such as thee and me, discern problems with human behaviour and activities and yet the masses, seduced and reduced by the internet of nothings, fall willingly into the vat of boiling peasant oil prepared by the bastard descendents of Charles II. Whilst Jason Grease-Dogg, the Mother Of The House, lounges nonchalantly and dismissively across the Mother Of All Parliament benches isn’t it time for a good look at a Republican model of statehood? Nicky Morgan, not previously thought to be the worst of politicians, reveals her self-serving hypocrisy by, having lost her constituency seat at the Christmas Election, accepting a peerage, becoming The Right Hon. the Baroness Morgan of Cotes, the accompanying place in the House Of (Empty) Gourds and a return to a ministerial position. Morgan also enjoys the £8,400 winding-up payment given to retiring MPs this despite the fact she remains employed in government! This highlights the anti-democratic issue at the heart of the second chamber; it is full of eight hundred unelected, largely self-serving, partially deceased or unstable rejects from normal society appointed by the Queen on the advice of the Prim Monster. Its members are appointed by political favour not popular selection or even scrutiny.

The most expedient route to Republicanism however is via the abolition of the monarchy, which in turn allows the removal of the aristocracy from political influence and power to be replaced by elected, self-seeking, corrupt and immoral arseholes who can at least be removed by the majority. We will not dwell on the current issues causing royalists such hand wringing now however we should note that The Crown and The Government are both alleged Corporate Identities. This simply means that they cannot be arraigned or prosecuted as ordinary individuals can be. It is how the Department of Worthless Pensions, under the dictatorship of the Secretary of State is ultimately beyond the law or indeed any of the many regulations that exist.

And so leaving the European Union is nothing to do with immigration but rather an act aimed purely at removing the European legislation and directives that might restrict or even curtail the ability of the powerful and rich (including royals and politicians) to plunder the nation and its people without hindrance. Check it out, Boris has already issued fatwa’s on several policies and laws regulating money making, laundering, offshoring and restricting of financial abuse. Watch out for the imminent dissembling, watering down and straightforward removal of any obstacles to unbridled cruelty, greed and climate-change-denying liberalised global commerce.

Welcome to this latest snapshot or selfie of our absurd yet terrifying slide into the oblivion. uKUNST Enjoy Next uKUNST due soon.

Der Herausgeber January MMXX 4 | Editorial | The Remainder Of The Dazed

Brexitland (East Hull) | Michael Barnes-Wynters | 5

6 | Bobby Beasley | Shot From The Hip In Shopping Centre (Hull)

Single Season | Simon Poulter | 7

Sovereignties, Abstract Entities & False Identities An excerpt from the series Response to Windrush A Poem Prayer Song For All God’s Children

By LDJ The Female Half Of One Love Nation Aka Lady Hindsight Sovereignties, Abstract Entities & False Identities Declaring her Majesty Endtroducing HRH Lady Hindsight Formerly Miss Mouth Almighty Aka Outta Sight Lee Queen of Insights Reclaiming our Divinity Proclaiming our Sovereignty RELEASING FALSE IDENTITIES Back to the Light Lee Me no wanna fight ye Just wanna live in UNITY Where land meets sea Where all are welcome to join the celebration of the splendour of creation Yes, the ONE LOVE PLANT NATION Feel the positive vibration ‘cos here we recognise we all relations All brothers & sisters Here to sing & harmonise Release the past with open eyes Bring in the new re-set the clock Conscious Lee Selecting a new time line Where all are free Living & singing & praying In perfect harmony Whistling with the birds Dancing with the dolphins Sleeping with the lion safely home in Zion

Guiding the sheeple Out of the hell of misery Mental enslavement Brainwashed subservience to an uncaring master Like victims of disaster Spell bound by their captors Entrapped by laws they never asked for Invested in the status quo Fraidy-fraidy Don’t wanna know Apathetic Transfixed with shit Fighting for crumbs within this ancient regime that ain’t all that it seems Lies & deceit Broadcast as facts and figures All takers No givers I’m here to open hearts & open minds Whilst I sing you a little rhyme It’s time for the ancient cycles of feasts & famines bread & circuses to be broken Now I have spoken Are you hearing my truth?

Sensing new possibilities for you & your youth?

If you’re vibing with me Take this as my open invitation to come join the ONE LOVE NATION

8 | Lady Hindsight | Sovereignties, Abstract Entities & False Identities

High Street Shuffle (Whitefriargate, Hull) | Michael Barnes-Wynters | 9

10 | George Norris | Land Of Hope And Tories (Camden, London)

12 | Anonymous Artist In Hull | Untitled

Embourgeoisement

Where there is now a Marsh & Parsons estate agent use to stand a local grocery shop. The local story goes that the local train company owned the land the grocery shop was situated on and wanted to sell the freehold for it. To do this they tried to get rid of the local grocery shop (I think by raising rent prices). The grocery shop tried to fight back by taking the case to court. Sadly though they lost and had to relocate and now replaced by Marsh & Parsons.

How accurate this local neighbourhood story is I am not certain however what I am certain about is that where there used to be a local family owned grocery store there is now an estate agents. One of three estate agents that are now on the bottom of this road.

The POWER graffiti above it is a reminder of the overbearing power of gentrification. Or my preferred term Embourgeoisement.

Embourgeoisement | Ryan Prince | 13

14 | Her Edit | Christine Keeler

Dear Christine…

The scandal of the early 1960s known as the ‘Profumo Affair’ has recently been revisited via the BBC drama, The Trial of Christine Keeler. It recalls events from the perspective of Keeler, revealing the vulnerable and abused young woman behind the ‘shameless slut’ nomenclature given her by the tabloids and from which she never escaped.

Through the contemporary lens of the #MeToo and #Time’sUp movements, we can see a clear patriarchal path of thought which judges women living beyond the moral boundaries proscribed to females. I believe the retelling of Christine Keeler’s story is timely, not because it reminds us that women continue to celebrated and castigated in turn for their sexuality, but because of what it reminds us about class and power.

Lady Dorothy Macmillan, wife of the Prime Minister at the time, conducted an affair for most of her marriage up until her death, but she and her lover, Conservative MP Robert Boothby, were afforded a tolerance and privacy by the press and the establishment by virtue of their privilege. Rumours of the more unsavoury aspects of our current Prime Minister’s sex life proliferate amongst journalists, but remain unpublished because people are unwilling to ‘go on the record’ possibly fearing a similar fate to Keeler’s.

We might imagine that the expansion of social media affords more opportunities than ever for people to speak out, but while everyone has an opinion, the most disadvantaged still have no voice and no agency. Just seven per cent of children attend a public school, but the privately educated make up two thirds of the cabinet, almost three-quarters of our judiciary and 45% of the Conservative Party.

Keeler spent a lifetime trying to ‘tell the truth’, but was never allowed to shake off the image of her 19-year old self, vilified as a prostitute. She had the temerity to try to move out of her class and dare to imagine she could be accepted by ‘good’ society. Christine’s crime was not being a sexually promiscuous woman, but, in the northern vernacular, to be ‘no better than she ought to be’.

The exhibition Dear Christine, curated by Fionn Wilson, is at the Arthouse1 gallery in Bermondsey from 2 to 29 February 2020.

Read more in the latest Issue 29 of Her Edit available to download for free at www.heredit.com Previous page – Christine Keeler: Anger, Blame, Shame, Ruin, Grief, 2019, oil on canvas, 122 x 92 cm

by Caroline Coon, image ©Howard W. Christine Keeler | Her Edit | 15

16 | Michael Barnes-Wynters | Snatch

The Politics Of The Pop Up… - EP Niblock | Intergrated Modern Landscape Series - Martin Lewsley-Stier | 17

18 | Michael Barnes-Wynters | Salaam (Peace), Springbank, Hull

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