Labelled a  »Domestic Extremist« by the UK police, and »a magician of rebellion« by the French press, JJ likes in-between spaces of all sorts, especially between art and activism, culture and nature, the masculine and feminine.

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They have intervened in museums, squats, International Theatre Festivals, climate camps, choreographed carnivalesque riots and written BBC radio plays. The are co-founder of Reclaim the Streets, that brought illegal rave and activism together; and the Clown Army, merging direct action and humour. They co-edited and co-authored We Are Everywhere: The irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism (Verso, 2003), The Users Guide to demanding the Impossible (with Gavin Grindon, Minor Compositions 2009) and the film/book Les sentiers de l'utopie (with Isabelle Fremeaux, La Découverte, 2011).

Since 2004, with Isabelle Fremeaux, they co-facilitate the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination (Labofii), which is infamous for fermenting disobedience on bicycles, throwing snowballs at bankers, launching a rebel raft regatta to shut down a power station, and refusing to be censored by the Tate Modern. They inhabit the Zone A Deféndre (zad) of Notre-dame-des-Landes.