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Artists THERESA EASTON and MARTIN GOLLAN tell Mike Quille why they helped organise OtherGEN, The Other Great Exhibition of the North
Art activism: An otherGEN demonstration

 

 

There was a lot of media attention given to The Great Exhibition of the North. What did you think about it?

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