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Video: Penny Rimbaud of Crass

9 Oct 2014 | Idle Talk

WE interviewed Penny Rimbaud of CRASS at the Idler Academy just before his event with Jón Gnarr, Iceland’s former anarchist mayor. In the film Penny discusses how to make work into play and why baking bread and writing a poem are the same thing: creative, generous acts. We are all, in a sense, born to serve.

The interview ends abruptly when Tom is told by Idler Academy manager Julian Mash that there is a traffic warden outside.

IN 1968 artists Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher moved into Dial House, a tumbledown rented cottage with an acre of land near Epping. Since then the pair have worked on a number of radical artistic projects including EXIT, the Stonehenge Free Festival, Crass and numerous others. You may see some of their work here: exitstencilpress.com and Penny is soon to launch a website here.

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