The 1 in 12 Club is a social centre owned and run by its membership, operating on anarchist principles of self-management, co-operation and mutual aid. Over the years it has hosted countless gigs and become a mainstay of the UK and International punk scene.
But the 1 in 12 Club is much more than a venue.
This publication (and accompanying podcasts) offer a portrait of the 1 in 12 Club through excerpts of oral histories gathered from people who have been involved in the club over the last four decades. They reveal it to be not only a fun, warm and welcoming social space, but a place of solidarity, resistance, collective work, transgression, transformation, learning, family and community that has changed, adapted and continues to evolve to meet the needs and desires of its members. Moreover, the 1 in 12 has had transformative, life-changing effects at the individual, local and international level – demonstrating that, through Doing-It-Together, another world is possible!
Edited by Andy Abbott. Published by Home of Metal. Commissioned by Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture. Funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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UNIDEE Residency Programs is the educational program for art and social change founded at Cittadellarte Fondazione-Pistoletto in Biella, Northern Italy in 1999. This publication documents and reflects on the collective experiences and learning generated by the 2020 – 2022 programme investigating ‘embedded arts practices’ curated by Andy Abbott.
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ARTICLES and ESSAYS
We’ll Start All Over Again: Embedded Arts Practice and the Post-industrial North – article for Corridor8 (2021)
Embedded Practice and the Future of (Art) Work – blog series for In-Situ (2020)
From DIY to UBI: The Political Horizons of a Gig Guide Pamphlet – chapter in Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer (Bloomsbury Academic 2021)
Radical Resonances: Art, Self-organised Cultural Activity and the Production of Postcapitalist Subjectivity; or, Deferred Self-Inquiry of a Precarious Artworker, 2008 – 2011. -PhD Fine Art Thesis (2012)
The Radical Ethics of DIY in Self-organised Art and Cultural Activity
– presentation for public art and self-organisation conference (2012)
Staying In: The Domestication of the Underground
– article for How Do?! Magazine (2012)
No Doubt: Death of the Superunknown in Music – article for How Do?! Magazine (2012)
FOREVER YOUNG: Self-organisation in Art, Music and the Institution – Essay for ‘Moot-Points: Exercises in Self-Organisation, Discourse and Collaboration’ exhibition at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2008)
Recreation; or, Life Outside Work – Exhibition/event pamphlet (2008)
Fear of the Dark: USA hegemony and reevaluations of the local in Punk and Indie – for Niche Homo fanzine (2007)
The Role of Work and Play in the Revolution of Everyday Life – Ba Fine Art Dissertation (2005)
Andy Abbott / ADRA Projects 