Episode 8: Deep in Inner Space: Reclaiming the Public Space

Welcome to a most strange edition of The Pod Report...this week we go on a journey to innerspace and explore Surrealism, our right to be free and the big brother creep of our freedom being taken away from us in the name of the 'War on Terror'. Stranger than science fiction, slowly but surely, drip by drip, the authoritarian nature of society closes our right to be free in both our public worlds and our private ones... Surrealism challenges us to lead a life that is quite different where we merge our unconscious mind and the poetic with the outer reality of everyday life to regain our freedom despite the enclosure of public spaces and the creepy voyerism of CCTV land...See www.londonsurrealistgroup.org.uk for more details about Surrealism. We also have an exclusive interview outside 'Podlab 9' with an artistic group in Wales that spends its time turning up to a random place and creating public art to increase people's quality of life...only to be arrested and their right to freedom of expression harshly curtailed! Reclaim the streets do a good job of gaining back our freedom. See www.reclaimthestreets.net and you to can join in the festive fun! Finally, Paula Toledo from Canada gets to 'Break it Down' (see www.paulatoledo.com for details) and Jammin INC from Germany take us into System Overload (see www.jammin-inc.de ). Dec 2005