Arts & Culture

Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 22:12 - 0 Comments

Music | Review: Dilated Peoples (Islington Academy)

Formed two decades ago, LA HipHop collective Dilated Peoples are still going strong. Adam Elliott-Cooper went to see them perform at the Islington Academy.

Books, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, March 18, 2012 20:18 - 1 Comment

Books | Review: “Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx”

In 'Hermeneutic Communism', Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala offer a radical recasting of Marx’s theories that openly challenges calls, such as those by Negri and Hardt, for a return of the revolutionary left. Lev Marder argues this could be a Communist Manifesto for the 21st Century.

Exhibition, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, February 29, 2012 17:17 - 0 Comments

Exhibition | Review: Santigo Sierra, ‘Dedicated to the Workers and Unemployed’ (Lisson Gallery)

Janine DeFeo reviews Lisson Gallery's recently concluded major retrospective of video and new works by Spanish artist Santiago Sierra.

Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire, Unknown Spins - Wednesday, February 29, 2012 4:09 - 0 Comments

Unknown Spins | Where’s the (musical) avant garde?

In the first installment of his new fortnightly column on experimental and independent music, Ceasefire's Andrew Fleming takes a look at two recent books on the musical avant-garde: an analysis of the cult journal 'Source', and Simon Reynolds' much-discussed work on 'Retromania'.

Exhibition, New in Ceasefire - Monday, February 27, 2012 20:38 - 0 Comments

Exhibition | Decolonising Architecture’s ‘Common assembly’ (Nottingham Contemporary)

Decolonizing Architecture/Art Residency (DAAR,) are an art and architecture collective based in Palestine, whose work critically examines the role played by architecture in the occupation of the Palestinian territories. Tom Bennett visited 'Common Assembly' their current exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary.

Books, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, February 21, 2012 0:09 - 1 Comment

Books | Review: ‘Palestinians in Israel’ by Ben White

Ceasefire's Hilary Aked reviews Ben White's new book "Palestinians in Israel", which examines an under-reported facet of the region, the Palestinian population within Israel itself.

Arts & Culture, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, February 14, 2012 10:51 - 0 Comments

Poem | ‘Confined’

A Valentine's poem, from acclaimed Palestinian writer Ahmed Masoud.

Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, February 9, 2012 12:00 - 0 Comments

Music | Review: Verbal Terrorists – “The War on Terra”

'The War on Terra', the second album by underground political hip-hop duo Verbal Terrrorists, "embodies the traditional spirit of hip-hop as a form of cultural and ideological resistance against hegemony" says Tom Clements.

Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Monday, February 6, 2012 12:00 - 0 Comments

Film | Review: Patience (After Sebald)

A newly released documentary, Patience (After Sebald), retraces writer WG Sebald's steps through the Suffolk countryside as detailed in his magnum opus, The Rings of Saturn. Ceasefire's Joe Lloyd reviews.

Exhibition, New in Ceasefire - Monday, January 30, 2012 9:44 - 0 Comments

Exhibition | Review: Asier Mendizabal (Raven Row)

Ceasefire's Janine DeFeo reviews an exhibition of Basque artist Asier Mendizabal's work at the Raven Row gallery in London, his largest exhibition outside Spain to date.