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the vacuum cleaner

www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk

the vacuum cleaner is a cultural resistance collective of one, fashioning radical social and ecological change. By employing various creative legal and illegal tactics and forms, the vacuum cleaner attempts to disrupt concentrations of power and reverse the impending ecological collapse of planet earth.

the vacuum cleaner has intervened, disrupted and occasionally shutdown corporate and public spaces like Selfridges, Starbucks, Virgin Megastores, Barclays Bank, House of Fraser, John Lewis, Brent Cross Shopping Centre, Asda, Sainsburys, Tesco, Waterstones, The City of London, Wall Street and the Nokia HQ’s.

the vacuum cleaner’s work has presented at Tate Modern, ICA, Artsadmin, Fierce Festival, Centre for Contemporary Art - Glasgow, Peacock Visual Arts, Liverpool Biennial, SWG3, Total Kunst, National Review of Live Arts (UK) Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, Wooster Collective (USA) Digital Arts Laboratory (Israel) Anti Festival (Finland) Centre d'Art Contemporain (Switzerland) Hebbel-Am-Ufer, Tanz Tendez (Germany) Khoj Live 08 (India). As well as on BBC2, BBC4, Channel 4, Canal Plus and Arte.

the vacuum cleaner is a co-founder of the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, co-founder of Agents of Intervention and founder of the very co-operative.