Your stop for cultural adventure.

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From selfies to citizenship, the laws we obey and the laws we challenge, who are we? Local Transport’s third stop on its cultural adventure is Propaganda, bringing together three artists and writers whose work questions the notion of truth and identity today. Three acts. Fifteen minutes each. Doors at 7, first act at 7.30pm. Stay for drinks and dancing. Ticket sales go to support the performers and to the development of Local Transport.

ACT I: Danny Augustine

The Artist is Present. Who is the Artist? You Decide. We’ll bring the materials, you bring yourselves. Together, we’ll create the artist. (Participation not mandatory, but you don’t want to disappoint Big Brother, do you?) The final result will be screen-printed and turned into an art book by Jealous Gallery.

Daniel Augustine’s (Hackney, 1986) work leaves the viewer both with a sense of what could have been and with a sense of how those feelings have been distorted by gender politics and advertising. His work deals with ideas of identity, gender and how it is portrayed in today's society. Be it male, female, transgender or homosexual. He studies printmaking at the Royal College of Art.

ACT II: Katrine Marçal

Economics is about money and why it is good, but you’ve been swindled. By one of the most charismatic men in history. He is the main character in a myth about how the world works and which we have swallowed it whole. It’s time to change the story. It’s time to kill the man. Find out who he is and why you are exactly like him.

@KatrineMarcal

Katrine Marçal is the lead editorial writer for the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, where she writes about Swedish and international politics, economics and feminism. Her book Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? (Portobello 2015) is a takedown of 200 years of economics.

ACT III: Afshin Dehkordi

With recent “increased assertiveness in the Persian Gulf” and Iran’s Supreme Leader declaring that the US has simply spun a myth around the country’s nuclear threat, it’s difficult to know what’s behind the headlines. Afshin Dehkordi gave disposable cameras children in Iran so they could document their daily lives. Mixing their photos and illustrations from state-sponsored ideological textbooks, Dehkordi presents an inside view.

@AfshinDehkordi

Afshin Dehkordi was born in Iran in 1975. He studied Mathematics at University College London and Economics at Harvard. He has exhibited internationally, and cultivates his artistic practice alongside award-winning work for the BBC.