Sorry I did a mistake with the date for the screenings of SLUM CITY. It's next Thursday the 18th of June, 6.30 - 9 pm.
SLUMP SCREENINGS Thursday 18 June, 6.30 - 9pm SLUMP Screenings presents a body of film curated by artist Laura Oldfield Ford that includes artists films, activist footage and documentary charting urban social upheaval in the capital throughout the 80s, 90s to the present day. The films are derived from Oldfield Ford's current project 'Britannia:States of Emergency' In which the artist undertakes a process of chronographically mapping the country along the lines of social antagonism by focusing on urban areas where uprisings have taken place. Today many of the areas have been subjected to urban renewal schemes as a direct result of social unrest with Toxteth and the subsequent Liverpool garden Festival being well documented examples. The main focus of Oldfield Ford's project is the Summer of 1981 when the whole country erupted in riots including Brixton and Dalston. Oldfield Ford examines how architecture and urban planning have been employed as a strategy for ‘designing out’ dissent. The project sets out not to treat social upheaval as a source of leftist nostalgia but as a radical critique of contemporary urbanism. Space Studios 129-131 Mare St London, Hackney, E8 020 8525 4330 -- Olga http://www.ungravitational.net http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
