This weekend, protestors will descend on Dalston art space LD50, following its series of far-right events.
LD50, which opened in 2015, held a ‘neoreaction conference’ last summer which featured amerika.org blogger Brett Stevens.
Stevens has made a series of comments which included ‘deranged and angry leftists’, ‘with equality, quality is destroyed’ and has praised the ‘bravery’ of Anders Breivik, the Norwegian white supremacist who killed 77 people in 2011.
In the wake of an exhibition in January 2017 which featured art from the alt-right (a far-right, pro-Trump movement that rejects mainstream conservatism), and a Facebook conversation in which gallery-owner Lucia Diego appeared to support Trump’s Muslim Ban, local artists and campaigners have launched ‘Shutdown LD50!’ and insist they want the gallery gone for good, raising awareness on Twitter.
The campaign is headed by Andrew Osborne, who works at the Royal College of Art.
Osborne stated that ‘The materials produced by the gallery, and the culture they promote, are a real threat to many of the communities living in Dalston’ and called LD50’s 2016 exhibition ‘one of the most extensive neo-Nazi cultural programmes to appear in London in the last decade’.
After swastikas were sprayed on the gallery doors, LD50 released a statement insisting that ‘As an art gallery we try to explore contemporary discourse through a series of exhibitions’, ‘The attacks against us have come from a position of ignorance’ and invited anyone who was seeking ‘information / justifications’ to contact LD50 directly.
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This weekend, protestors will descend on Dalston art space LD50, following its series of far-right events.
LD50, which opened in 2015, held a ‘neoreaction conference’ last summer which featured amerika.org blogger Brett Stevens.
Stevens has made a series of comments which included ‘deranged and angry leftists’, ‘with equality, quality is destroyed’ and has praised the ‘bravery’ of Anders Breivik, the Norwegian white supremacist who killed 77 people in 2011.
In the wake of an exhibition in January 2017 which featured art from the alt-right (a far-right, pro-Trump movement that rejects mainstream conservatism), and a Facebook conversation in which gallery-owner Lucia Diego appeared to support Trump’s Muslim Ban, local artists and campaigners have launched ‘Shutdown LD50!’ and insist they want the gallery gone for good, raising awareness on Twitter.
The campaign is headed by Andrew Osborne, who works at the Royal College of Art.
Osborne stated that ‘The materials produced by the gallery, and the culture they promote, are a real threat to many of the communities living in Dalston’ and called LD50’s 2016 exhibition ‘one of the most extensive neo-Nazi cultural programmes to appear in London in the last decade’.
After swastikas were sprayed on the gallery doors, LD50 released a statement insisting that ‘As an art gallery we try to explore contemporary discourse through a series of exhibitions’, ‘The attacks against us have come from a position of ignorance’ and invited anyone who was seeking ‘information / justifications’ to contact LD50 directly.
