Peter McCaughey researched, curated, contributed to and archived the exhibition Cultural Hijack: Rethinking with Artist and Researcher Ben Parry

From the creation of insurgent public spaces to the playful disruptions of public life, Cultural Hijack – curated by artists Ben Parry and Peter McCaughey – explores the role of art and the artist in contemporary society and offers the opportunity to rethink the growing field of intervention in relation to cultural activism and social change.
Cultural Hijack presents a survey of provocative interventions which have inserted themselves into the world, demanding attention, interrupting everyday life, hijacking, trespassing, agitating and teasing. Often unannounced and usually anonymous, these artworks have appropriated media channels, hacked into live TV and radio broadcasts, attacked billboards, re- appropriated street furniture, subverted signs, monuments and civic architectures, organised political actions as protest, exposed corporations and tax loopholes and revealed the absurdities of government bureaucracies.
Exhibition: Cultural Hijack: Rethinking Intervention.
AA Gallery, Front Members’ Room and in Bedford Square at the Architectural Association, 36 Bedford Square, London.
Accompanied by a series of temporary public artworks, events and performances, a conference called CONTRAvention and a comprehensive website