Lincoln Creates Network Talk with Andrea Luka Zimmerman

Artists talk about the intentions, methodologies and process of working, both as a working class artist working predominantly outside mainstream frameworks of making in order to find a way of representation that may do our stories justice, poetically, socially, and culturally. How can we tell stories otherwise, when the usual ways of telling in mainstream culture are most often from a white, middle class perspective. What approach to making films may allow the telling of stories in a way that allows for a poetics of the everyday, survival, regardless, a tenderness and thriving of an alternative vision where difference is held with care.

Andrea Luka Zimmerman also presented her new collaborative film Here For Life including a long q and a alongside performer Uncle Errol and co-devisor Therese Henningsen)

Related to this, a one day symposium entitled 'Childhood & Public Housing' was held on Thursday 27 February 2020. Mansions (Kerry Campbell, Colette Griffin) commissioned from Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (Distinguished Professor of Film, University of Lincoln), this "symposium and platform for discussion around architecture, legacy, and memories associated with childhood and public housing. The symposium responds to the work of artist, activist and filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman – affording a focus on regional experiences of public housing in the UK alongside international perspectives. This is an interdisciplinary event bringing together expertise in archaeology, cinema, architecture, design, sociology and criminology. These multiple perspectives allow us to consider the social benefits of local cosmopolitanism, play and equality that are ideal affordances of public housing, as well as the disadvantages when homes are badly maintained, sometimes dangerously so, or are in other ways inappropriate for residents building childhoods for themselves and their families".