Monthly Archives: January 2013

Siobhan at Rabble.ie writes:

One of our scouts found these rather strange flyers circulating at the Vigil4Life event on Saturday. The one (above) is accusing a Lebanese man of harvesting embryo balls (NB testicle transplants don’t work let alone ones from a foetus to an adult male) and the above handout  refers to kidneys.
The anti-choicers must have some new technologies the rest of us don’t. I’m first in the line for a nice clean pair of kidneys and a liver please.
Just to prove this is part of the mainstream anti-choice lingo, this is a screen grab from the Life Zone website:

 

This afternoon.

Dave Madigan and Meadhbh O’Connor write

We are two visual artists working on a joint project entitled ‘Power Structures’, which involves the photographing of a temporary sculpture in different loci of power. We are interested in aspects of power in its many manifestations.We have constructed a modular Sierpinski pyramid as a symbol of a hierarchical structure, i.e. many components on the lower layer, proportionally fewer on the layer above and so on rising to a single apex.
We have been photographing it with various recognisable institutions or agencies of power and influence, be they political, financial, religious, infrastructural or social. It is our intention to elicit in our audience a questioning of the nature, distribution and formation of power in society. We took this at 4pm outside Nama’s headquarters in Treasury Building, Dublin.

More information on the project here.