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<\/a>\n \n \n Urban digression with Richard DeDominici and My Dad Strip Club\n <\/small><\/p><\/div> \n \n Prayers to products in Selfridges\n <\/small><\/p><\/div> \n \n The Clown Army against capitalists\n <\/small><\/p><\/div> \n \n Ronald McDonald’s siamese twins spread chaos\n <\/small><\/p><\/div> \n \n Police surveillance at the social centre RampART\n <\/small><\/p><\/div> \n \n Hacking walls\n <\/small><\/p><\/div> \n \n When Starbucks spells Fuck Off\n <\/small><\/p><\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n The Lab\u2019s first experiment took place during the European Social Forum (ESF), held in London in October 2004. We chose to work as one of the many autonomous spaces, distancing ourselves from the main event feeling that its hierarchical, party-base and corporate nature was no longer in keeping with the spirit of the alter-globalisation movements.\u00a0We based ourselves in the squatted Creative Social Centre rampART<\/a> and invited art activists from across Europe to attend. For four days and nights several hundred people participated in radical forms of cultural resistance across London, disrupting and disobeying the everyday rules and behaviours of a city that thrives on the humdrum of money and consumption.\u00a0Actions ranged from a baffling games of Bingo in MacDonald\u2019s to urban climbing in the financial district, mass prayers to shopping in Selfridge’s, to Hexing (pagan curse) the headquarters of multinationals, games of street tag via department store makeup counters and an unexpected battle between the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army and the CRAP (Capitalism Represents Acceptable Policy)\u00a0 which accidentally interrupted the premiere of a Johnny Depp film.\n\t\t \n \n Urban digression with Richard DeDominici and My Dad Strip Club\n <\/small><\/p><\/div> \n \n Prayers to products in Selfridges\n <\/small><\/p><\/div> \n \n The Clown Army against capitalists\n <\/small><\/p><\/div> \n \n Ronald McDonald’s siamese twins spread chaos\n <\/small><\/p><\/div> \n \n Police surveillance at the social centre RampART\n <\/small><\/p><\/div> \n \n Hacking walls\n <\/small><\/p><\/div> \n \n When Starbucks spells Fuck Off\n <\/small><\/p><\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/p>\n The Lab\u2019s first experiment took place during the European Social Forum (ESF), held in London in October 2004. 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