I've written an article for The Baffler about Pocket Money Loans and my motivations behind the project.
"With austerity in the UK and elsewhere continuing to disembowel welfare programs, and with the neoliberal consensus forcing the state to retreat further from the spheres in which it once protected the less fortunate, it is left to the market to fill the gaps in social need. Payday loan companies have turned our safety net into the net of a fishing trawler, ensnaring those who struggle at the bottom and processing them into bone meal to feed an insatiable economy."
Today I opened the Pocket Money Loans shop in Finsbury Park I've been working on for the last few months or a year or something I'm not sure.
I'll be sat behind the counter giving out child loans for the next two weeks, Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm. It's at the new Atom Gallery, 77 Stroud Green Road, N4 3EG. There'll be a closing exhibition evening next Friday the 7th from 6pm. Here's the facebook event.
