Hackney Transient Arts Project (HTAP) (Co-Curator)
‘Pattern making for beginners’, HTAP, The Red House, Hackney Wicked Festival, 1st August 2009.
A one day mapping exhibition investigating community formation as part of Hackney WickED Festival.
- Lucy Tomlins’ sculpture, ‘Experience, desire and the nonsensical’
Oral History Archive, 2009
- Yaşar İsmailoğlu, one of 14 interviewees, was born in 1945 and is Turkish Cypriot.
From January to May 2009, HTAP produced ten video interviews with residents from the London Borough of Hackney. Produced as an oral history archive, the interviews show individuals, couples, friends and families reflecting on what it means to call Hackney ‘home’. These were edited into five two minute videos.
In the ‘Conflict and Displacement’ video Joyce Caroll talks about staying in Hackney during the Blitz, and Yaşar İsmailoğlu founder of the Turkish Cypriot fine art society describes immigrating to the UK during the Greek Cypriot war.
‘in/flux’, 80 Kingsland Road, HTAP
‘in/flux’ An exhibition of new works of art and design exploring everyday experience as a catalyst for critical/creative practice.
Image: Alison Barnes piece ‘Hackney Conversations’
Installation shot of ‘Without You’, video by Charlotte Young © 2009
Artist Charlotte Young created a satirical video piece on the general clean up of Hackney during the past 30 years of gentrification.
‘in/flux’ also included a research area which showed the Oral History Archive for the first time and a (re)presentation of Pattern making for beginners.
Aesthetics and ethics: Models of Socially Engaged Practice, ‘in/flux’ forum.
This forum profiled the work of five Hackney-based art, design and curatorial groups, highlighting dynamic and self-organised initiatives affecting the borough’s culture politics and economy. Since 2009 the artist collaboration ‘Fugitive Images’ (pictured) have used their home, Haggerston & Kingsland Estate, as a starting point for a series of projects reflecting on the rapid changes taking place in the local area.
- Jordan Dalladay Simpson from Alisn
Jordan Dalladay Simpson from Alisn (Artist Led Initiative Support Network) as part of the forum. Also Profiled: Tangent Projects, Nomadic Projects
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