{"id":341,"date":"2021-02-02T18:34:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T17:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amaguq.net\/labo.zone\/?page_id=341"},"modified":"2022-09-04T21:04:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T19:04:51","slug":"jay-jordan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labo.zone\/index.php\/jay-jordan\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Jay (formerly John) Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a teenager, JJ spent their time making super 8 films and developing photographs in a darkroom, by the 1980’s they were making performance art, in the tradition of body art<\/a>, often causing UK tabloid press outrage.<\/a>\u00a0 The nineties were filled with becoming a father<\/a>, a seven year project exploring masculinity and its relationship to pornography <\/a> (via art, TV chat show interventions and therapy) and being Co-director of\u00a0 London’s Joseph Beuys inspired artivism organisation Platform<\/a>, (1987 to 1994).<\/p>\n

They left Platform after discovering the joy of direct-action<\/a> and went on to co-found the anti-capitalist rave and direct action collective Reclaim the Streets<\/a> (1995-2000). In 2004 JJ co-launched the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army<\/a>, which became a global protest meme (2004- ) but from which they soon went AWOL, when realising it was an aesthetic crime.<\/p>\n

Around the same time they deserted their job as senior lecturer<\/a> in fine art at Sheffield Hallam University, to work as a cameraman for Naomi Klein\u2019s film The Take<\/a>, shot during the Argentinian uprising. They continue to teach and lecture part time for various institutions ranging from the Berlin’s UDK art school,<\/a> the Scottish Royal Conservatoire<\/a>, to the CTM music festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They co-edited and co-authored We Are Everywhere: the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism<\/a> (Verso, 2003),\u00a0 The User’s Guide to Demanding the Impossible<\/a>\u00a0 (with Gavin Grindon, Minor Compositions 2009), the film\/book Les Sentiers de l’Utopie<\/a> (with Isabelle Fremeaux, Zones\/La D\u00e9couverte, 2011)\u00a0 and We are ‘Nature’ Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones<\/a> (with Isabelle Fremeaux, Vagabonds\/Pluto\/Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, 2021).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a teenager, JJ spent their time making super 8 films and developing photographs in a darkroom, by the 1980’s they were making performance art, in the tradition of body art, often causing UK tabloid press outrage.\u00a0 The nineties were filled with becoming a father, a seven year project exploring masculinity and its relationship to… View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-single-bio-page.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labo.zone\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labo.zone\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labo.zone\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labo.zone\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labo.zone\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/labo.zone\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1436,"href":"https:\/\/labo.zone\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/341\/revisions\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labo.zone\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}