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Striking the balance between amateurism and professionalism

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By Karl Whitney
| Substack
I was sitting on my sofa checking email on my laptop when I realised the internet had stopped working. No problem, I thought. It might just need to be reset. But when I looked at the internet hub – a plastic box which, usually, displayed a galaxy of flashing lights – it was dead. I flicked a light switch and the bulb remained unlit. Uh-oh. I checked online to see if there was an outage in the area. There was none. I talked to my neighbours. All still had electricity.
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Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain — lessons from a radical city

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By Karl Whitney
| Financial Times Verified
To walk through Liverpool in the 1980s, writes Sam Wetherell in his bracing and provocative book about the city’s postwar history, “meant...
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Events

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By Karl Whitney
| karlwhitney.ie
As part of the exhibition URBAN PARASITE, there’s a panel discussion between the curator, Yifeng Wei, Dr Jye O’Sullivan of NCAD, and, well, me, about themes and issues related to the show, which focuses on a group of artists from the Chongqing Work Institute collective. The exhibition opens in the NCAD Gallery next Tuesday, with the discussion taking place at 5pm on Wednesday 19th March. There’s no need to book – just turn up.
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