CCCB continues to stage its glittering new year’s agenda with weekender art festival The Influencers, a kaleidoscopic tour de force of “radical entertainment” which has enlisted a motley roll call of expert devotees of the school of guerrilla art forms. An activist’s eschewing of the faintest hint of convention is the spirited statement of intent behind this series of creative missives, whose “contagious ideas” threaten to “cut through the white noise of our daily routine.”

Now-legendary street artist and photographer JR commandeers the high-scale global operation that is the Inside Out Project, which invites the camera-clad public to send in self-portraits for mass-sharing and story-telling. Other roguish collaborations come courtesy of “the most wanted art collective in Russia” Voina, kings of the pranksters Biotic Baking Brigade, and Reverend Billy & The Church of Stop Shopping!, who will be encouraging us to throw caution to the wind and embrace the unexpected.  

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