Assembly by Invisibility

Images taken from the April 1st protest in central London have been rendered as spectacular, indistinct assemblages of flickering colour and movement, inviting us to position ourselves between this construction, the experience of those who only glimpsed these events from afar and the hopes, aspirations and ideals of those who took part.

www.invisibility.org.uk

TEXT

"... is anyone willing to say they're the usual suspects ..."
CNN Anchor, April 1

"But by 1900 BST, ..."
BBC News, April 1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7977863.stm

"By planting the idea in the public mind ..."
George Monbiot, April 1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/apr/01/g20-policing-climate-protest-riot

"Liverpool will never forgive The Sun ..."
Infinite Thought, April 19
http://www.cinestatic.com/infinitethought/2009/04/liverpool-art-of-enclosing-space.asp

"Make love not leverage"
"You try for ages to destroy capitalism, and then it destroys itself"
Placards, April 1

"Ten years ago, in the US city of Seattle ... and CEOs"
Paul Kingsnorth, author of One No, Many Yeses
http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2009/03/climate-movement-global-groups

"The economy has been looted. I'm a capitalist but I don't believe in the thieving that has been going on"
Richard from Worcestershire, April 1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7977863.stm

"POLICE were battered with beer bottles ..."
"The idiots who rampaged through London’s streets disgust ..."
"FOAMING at the mouth and smelling of stale cider ..."
The Sun, April 2

"Further to our article of 20 February ..."
Evening Standard, April 23

"even before the RBS windows got smashed, ..."
Owen Hatherley, April 2
http://nastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.com/2009/04/their-spectacle-and-ours.html

"The Joint Committee on Human Rights ..."
The Economist, March 26
http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13381980

"The money goes to the banks, ..."
David Harvey, March 
http://www.redpepper.org.uk/Their-crisis-our-challenge

"We reaffirm our commitment ..."
G20 Finance Ministers' and Central Bank Governors' Communique, March 14

PHOTOGRAPHY

Alexandra Gomes (xpgomes2)

Andrew Otto

António Lopes

David Holt (zongo69)

Ramon Pons (NOonionplease)

Vasiliki Dermitzi (theimpressionist10@co.uk)

VIDEO

1956 Hungarian Revolution
http://www.archive.org/download/1956_Hungarian_Revolution_as_Depicted_in_Newsreels

Anti-War Demonstrators Storm Pentagon, 1967/10/24
http://www.archive.org/details/1967-10-24_Anti-War_Demonstrators_Storm_Pentagon

Griffith Park Relief Workers Demonstration (1933)
http://www.archive.org/details/Griffith1933

Peace March. Thousands Oppose Vietnam War, 1967/04/18
http://www.archive.org/details/PrideParade_0

Pride Parade
http://www.archive.org/details/PrideParade_0

Protests Galore! 1967/05/05
http://www.archive.org/details/1967-05-05_Protests_Galore