Clark, Edmund (2019) Oresteia. [Show/Exhibition]
Type of Research: | Show/Exhibition | ||||
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Creators: | Clark, Edmund | ||||
Description: | 'Oresteia' - shown as part of the 'Collective Imaging' Exhibition organised by the Visible Justice Research Collective at LCC. There was a public screening of the film as part of the exhibition 'Collective Imaging', accompanying the symposium, and the MA Documentary Photography students' 'Young Blood' exhibition. As part of the accompanying 'Collective Imagining' symposium, Jinnie Jefferies, Head of Psychodrama Therapy at HMP Grendon, joined me to discuss the making of the work and the layered participatory and collaborative elements this involved, including the development of the concept to represent the techniques of Psychodrama and the involvement of the offenders in a one off unstaged therapeutic event that also explores the wider cultural issues behind the work. To accompany its symposium Collective Imagining on Saturday, 27 October 2018 at London College of Communication, VISIBLE JUSTICE presented four moving image works: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, FF Gaiden (2017) David Birkin, Charade (2018) Edmund Clark, Oresteia (2017) Helene Kazan, Under Multiple Suns (2018) Each work was produced in collaboration with an organisation or community, examining issues such as the use of drama therapy in a British prison, human rights litigation against abuses of UK state power, communities in the North of England affected by deindustrialization and defunding, and the contested histories that remain inscribed into the day-to-day materiality of the built environment in Lebanon. Also exhibited were a series of black and white images by the photojournalist, educator, and activist Shahidul Alam, imprisoned at the time in Bangladesh, which speak to his unswerving commitment to freedom of speech and human rights. COLLECTIVE IMAGINING was the inaugural symposium of the VISIBLE JUSTICE research collective and took place on Saturday, 27 October 2018 at London College of Communication. This day-long series of talks and presentations looked at how cultural practices and the visual arts can create meaningful interventions into existing legal and political frameworks. Increasingly, artists are pairing with activists, journalists, lawyers and NGOs to examine the practical and ethical implications of their work and to test new forms of interdisciplinary cooperation. The symposium drew together paired speakers to discuss their creative collaborations, addressing concepts of justice, advocacy and efficacy in response to the urgent needs of the current political climate. KEYNOTES: Ellen Mara De Wachter (curator and author of Co-Art: Artists on Creative Collaboration) Fred Ritchin (writer and Dean Emeritus of the School at the International Center of Photography) PAIRED SPEAKERS: David Birkin (artist) in conversation with Maya Foa (director of human rights organisation Reprieve) Helene Kazan (artist) in conversation with Yoriko Otomo (legal scholar and editor of Gender, War & Technology) David Blandy (artist) in conversation with Alison Drake (teacher and community organiser) Edmund Clark (artist) in conversation with Jinnie Jefferies (head of psychodrama at HM Prison Grendon) SPECIAL ADDRESS: Sofia Karim (architect and campaigner for the release of photojournalist, educator and activist Shahidul Alam) and Salil Tripathi (author and chair of the Writers in Prison Committee at PEN International) MODERATOR: Max Houghton (writer, curator and course leader of MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at LCC) |
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Official Website: | https://www.visible-justice.org/collective-imagining | ||||
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > London College of Communication Research Centres/Networks > Photography & the Archive Research Centre (PARC) |
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Date: | 27 October 2019 | ||||
Event Location: | London College of Communication | ||||
Projects or Series: | Film made as part of 'In Place of Hate' work from HMP Grendon | ||||
Locations / Venues: | Location From Date To Date Collective Imaging, London College of Communication October 2018 October 2018 |
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Date Deposited: | 10 Nov 2022 14:09 | ||||
Last Modified: | 10 Nov 2022 14:09 | ||||
Item ID: | 19124 | ||||
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/19124 |
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