UnEarthing

The publication is a result of a short residency at Danielle Arnaud gallery, London, undertaken by the Peoples' Bureau (Eva Sajovic and Rebecca Davies) and artist Shane Waltener. The residency was used to disseminate and evaluate the Unearthing Elephant, a project devised by the People’s Bureau (Eva Sajovic and Rebecca Davies) and Shane Waltener in partnership with Tate Exchange and Stave Hill Ecological in 2017.

With an initial focus on communities within the Elephant and Castle area, the UnEarthing project addressed themes of regeneration, development and ecology, and its impact on communities focusing on four themes – public / private space and the rights to the city, spatial justice, restoring the social bond through communal activity & our voices, participation as a tool for community/agency/authorship as well as ‘place as muse’, the ethics of working with community.

These issues, particular to Elephant & Castle, where the artists have been making work for the past 10 years in response to a major regeneration scheme, have become universal across the UK and beyond.