The Institute for the Art andPractice of Dissent at Home7 Bright StreetLiverpoolL6 1DLUK

www.twoaddthree.org

Family Picnics, Political Speeches, DomesticArguments and Red Banners as PerformanceMethodology and Aesthetics

The Hazardous Family Performance Intervention(HAZARD, Manchester 2008)

A Promising Family Picnic(Two Degrees, Artsadmin, London 2009)

Performance Report – part of the Institute’s Half-Term Holiday(C Words: Carbon Climate Capital Culture,Arnolfini, Bristol 2009)

The Hazardous Familyby The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissentat Home (July 2008)Manchester City Centre, part of HAZARD 2008

‘The first division of labour is that between man and woman for thepropagation of children.’ Marx & Engels.

The Monogamous Family is based on the supremacy of the man, theexpress purpose being to produce children of undisputed paternity; suchpaternity is demanded because these children are later to come into theirfather's property as his natural heirs.

from The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) by F. Engels.

Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamousproposal of the Communists.

from The Communist Manifesto (1848) by K.Marx and F. Engels

The Promising Family Picnicby The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent atHome (July 2009)Artsadmin, part of Two Degrees event 2009

LHR ZAG SPU DBV PIC STN AOI ABZ AMS BKK HKG LTN GLA GRZ TSF CRL LPL BGY TRN TRS DUB MAN PHL CMH BTS GRO MAD HAV LGW TRF EMA

Neal (8) has been on 90 flights, Gabriel (6) has been on 72 flightsand Sid (22 months) has been on 12 flights. (July 2009)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeExL8p9u10

Slow Travel from Liverpool toDubrovnik in June 2009 - part ofTwo Degrees commission:

16/6 Liverpool - London train,sleepover at Ben and Tina's

17/6 London - Paris train, Eurostar

17/6 Paris- Munich overnight train

18/6 Munich - Zagreb, all day train,sleep at Branka and Sandro's

19/6 Zagreb -Split overnight train,4 hours late, makes us miss ourship to Dubrovnik

20/6 Split - Dubrovnik coach

Cost: £575 (food & city travel not included),compare £227 by air, 6 hours door to door

Half-Term Holiday by The Institute for the Art and Practice ofDissent at Home (October 2009)Arnolfini, Bristol, part of C Words: Carbon, Climate, Capital,Culture exhibition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8mdSysE7j8

Photo: Hugo Glendinning

Neal learning aboutdifferent historical andcontemporary protests

Banner by the Laboratoryof InsurrectionaryImagination

Some Links• The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home

www.twoaddthree.org• Two Degrees at Artsadmin

http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/projects/project.php?id=265• C Words: Carbon Climate Capital Culture

http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/details/416• PLATFORM

http://www.platformlondon.org/• The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination

http://www.labofii.net/• Labofii: Protest Banner

http://www.labofii.net/news/2009/10/whats-your-top-10-ten-favourite.html