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High Rise Estate of Mind, Battersea Arts Centre/Touring
Music, poetry and storytelling give powerful voice to a generation's fears about London's housing crisis
Driving force: Conrad Murray
SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
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TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
THIS year’s Homegrown festival at Battersea Arts Centre is dubbed Occupy and High Rise Estate of Mind lives up to that insurgent billing to thrilling effect.
The hour-long ride is broken up into short, sharp bursts which switch between the deeply personal “real world” moments of the four performers and a dystopian narrative of a wealth-segregated tower block, clearly influenced by JG Ballard’s 1975 novel High Rise.
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