Marc Herbst is an artist and co-editor of The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest. He is also a researcher/PhD candidate at the Center for Cultural studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is researching how lives are lived and organized in radical collapses such as climate change, and how the world of stuff (including ideas and performances) help us work through this period, or not.

He has a broad and often collaborative practice, incorporating publications, performance, critical praxis, comic book drawing, and cultural organizing. Recent collaborations include the well-dressed fleecing of Londoners and the dumping of goods into the River Thames (with Cristina Ribas), an effort to graph the scope of human/human and human/natural relations in both the sensual and the actual through an open-called cartography project with both fictional and real cities (with the Llano Del Rio Collective).

Other recent and ongoing editorial, artistic, or publishing collaborations also include Murmarea (Barcelona), “The Squatting in Europe Collective” (SqEK), “The Field” (in London), the “Precarious Workers Brigade” (London), and the “Scottish Sculpture Workshop’s Sitting on Eggs ecological Artists and activists colloquium.”

The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest (www.joaap.org) is a 16 year-old Journal founded in Los Angeles at the intersection of fine art, anti-authoritarian activism, and media theory; it pretends to participate in the commons of ideas.