{"id":898,"date":"2020-08-10T07:33:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T07:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americannoirpaintings.com\/blog\/?p=898"},"modified":"2020-08-20T05:34:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T05:34:48","slug":"life-after-lockdown-stewart-home-artist-writer-filmmaker-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americannoirpaintings.com\/blog\/life-after-lockdown-stewart-home-artist-writer-filmmaker-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"Life After Lockdown &#8211; Stewart Home &#8211; Artist, Writer, Filmmaker &#038; Activist.."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"blue-button\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stewarthomesociety.org\/\">Stewart Home<\/a><\/strong>, aka Kevin Llewellyn Callan, is an English contemporary artist, writer, filmmaker and avant-garde and punk rock historian, as well as a political activist, known for his novels, \u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/69-Things-Do-Dead-Princess\/dp\/1841953539\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=69+Things+To+Do+With+A+Dead+Princess&amp;qid=1597895823&amp;sr=8-1\">69 Things To Do With A Dead Princess<\/a>\u2019 and \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Tainted-Love-Stewart-Home-2006-06-27\/dp\/B01FKTXIKY\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=stewart+home+tainted+love&amp;qid=1597895861&amp;sr=8-1\">Tainted Love<\/a>.\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>I caught up with Stewart recently, and of course, as well, was excited to receive my copy of <em> &#8216;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/54260547-she-s-my-witch\">She&#8217;s My Witch<\/a><\/strong>.&#8217; <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8230;and you can too.  Just go to:   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookdepository.com\/Shes-My-Witch-Stewart-Home\/9780995721746\"><strong>https:\/\/www.bookdepository.com\/Shes-My-Witch-Stewart-Home\/9780995721746<\/strong><\/a><br><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stewart Home: On art, activism and art strike\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZWNbrlTqsy4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy lockdown has been busy\u2026. Editing an anthology of horror stories called<br>Denizen of the Dead and putting final touches to my new novel<strong>, \u2018She\u2019s My Witch.\u2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also doing a lot of memes and posting on social media to promote<br>the new novel &#8211; I\u2019ve created way more than I can use even posting every<br>other day.<\/p>\n<p>More recently a lot of time on BLM debates, particularly around problematic monuments &#8211; although obviously that is just the obnoxious face of institutional racism and it is important to deal with racism in all its forms. And before that a lot of corona virus related discussions\u2026 often with a UK angle.<\/p>\n<p>Memes and sardonic comments on Covid 19, as well as straightforward accounts of running around central London for my daily exercise and what it was\/wasn\u2019t going on there, proved pretty popular\u2026. Most was from a London and UK politics angle\u2026 I did some rhymes too, like this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">There once was a \u2018world king\u2019 called Boris<br>Who to impress liked to quote Horace<br>And this death dealing clown<br>Fluffed the UK\u2019s lockdown<br>So its dulce et decorum est with Boris <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0qraG6RlgT\">pic.twitter.com\/0qraG6RlgT<\/a><\/p>\n\u2014 Stewart Home (@stewarthome1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stewarthome1\/status\/1266418842017955840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><br \/>But the classical references loved by British PM Johnson seemed to go<br \/>above the heads of most of those reading my Facebook and Twitter feeds\u2026.<br \/><br \/>This was a commissioned live art on camera piece about recreating your<br \/>commute at home:<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n<\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RecreateYourCommuteWithStewartHome\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/414724369?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"422\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption><br><br><br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"riTNEQHX9T\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/3am-in-lockdown-47-stewart-home\/\">3:AM in Lockdown 47: Stewart Home<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;3:AM in Lockdown 47: Stewart Home&#8221; &#8212; 3:AM Magazine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/3am-in-lockdown-47-stewart-home\/embed\/#?secret=BDDO1s3Hzx#?secret=riTNEQHX9T\" data-secret=\"riTNEQHX9T\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I got inspired by a huge donation of doughnuts to the food bank 30 seconds<br>walk from my flat to write this story about donuts and Boris Johnson:<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/stewart-home.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/7500-covid-19-ppe-ring-donuts-for-boris.html\">http:\/\/stewart-home.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/7500-covid-19-ppe-ring-donuts-for-boris.html<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>And I did this collaborative thing about Covid with some people around<br>Europe (its part of a bigger project that will emerge sometime):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4DAeF0ix8Sk\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Control The Virus With Mixed Martial Arts, my response to Johnson changing<br \/>the government lockdown message from stay home &amp; save lives to be alert,<br \/>control the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Control The Virus With Mixed Martial Arts\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UsoRCXVapxE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and you can too. 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