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Art Agora is neither affliated to any institution or funded by specific body or interest group. The Agora's independence is maintained by the diversity and commitment of the individual artists willing to contribute to the open, frank exchanges initiated within its bounds. Its legitimacy lies in its formal approaches to public discourse in the creation of an agora that exists as a market for the trading of ideas, practices and initiatives; providing proofs for the efficacy and relevance of certain artistic and universal truthes.
Art Agora is open to anyone disenchanted with current art discourse, practice or education - literally, struggling to wrestle back art, from the overweening clutches of the artworld. Here we will create the possibility of another market, another schooling, another thinking, other desires, alternatives and atopias.

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Commentary and statements from first 3 weeks of Communist Gallery (Brixton Market)

1

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I hate my work, but one
needs to work, right?

Or does one need to eat?

one definitely needs to eat.

But does one need work to eat?

One needs money to eat

Does one need money to eat?

One needs food to eat

Now we need space and 

crops

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2

All 'hated' work 

should be shared so 

in small doses it becomes 

non-toxic!

Food, love, housing,

holidays, health,

'culture' is so easily shared with all,

no one hording for self and larger self 

as this brings soul burial.

All 'gifts', 'skills',

are happily 

part of our human heritage and we'd love to give them away

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3

Every element has a unique property blended together this is what makes nature such a wonderful system.

So how does human consciousness fit into this?

The human conscious' unique property is to be interested-initially to act as natures sensory system, but we have stopped being interested in nature, now we are too interested in ourselves at the cost of nature.

Alice Murray with drawing of an ear

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4 Id ear ls 

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5

Its crazy to create such a place!

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6

Now Human Life has never been Cheaper

Methadone and 120 proof 

largers was a significant

and deliberate attack on

working men and women

recently deprived of 

lively hoods in 1980's-

Just say no campaign

was cynical, it was

devised to obliterate

protest by the redundant

and economically displaced,

to distract,

the socially excluded

necessary for the

advanced capitalists 

to build New Jerusalem 

of Thatcherism and

Reagonmics-

Why is there no money in 

the state kitty?

Because the smash and grab 

of the 80's, the sub

cons

The poor have been quantitively 

tossed deeper into poverty

The snake man 

7. Le Temps des Cerises