'Crusade’ & ‘A Red Shoe Diary'
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 241060
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
- Vane Gallery, AV Festival, Newcastle, United Kingdom
- Brief description of type
- A collection of creative works; exhibition, performance
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- February
- Year
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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B - Art & Performance
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Crusade exhibition, A Red Shoe Diary performance were interdependent works exploring the role of the contemporary art walk in relation to commemoration. The works stem from the 298-mile solo art walk that the artist made following the route of the 1936 Jarrow Crusade and which created a live resource of information and a travelogue diary. AV Festival 2016 presented the first opportunity for the material to be exhibited in full to an international audience. A related gallery performance centred upon a woman’s shoe communicated to the audience as having belonged to Ellen Wilkinson organiser of the original 1936 Jarrow Crusade. The performance invited the audience to read sections of the ‘Codex: Crusade’ diary aloud whilst the artist searched among them for a foot that fitted the shoe. Originality: Crusade grappled with the question as to how an artwork might work with the archive-form to create a contemporary perspective of multiple points in history. A Red Shoe Diary looked at how a performance might collectively activate historical facts with fictional scenarios to arrive at a new work of imagination. Significance: Both works formed part of the international bi-annual AV Festival ‘Meanwhile, What About Socialism?’ Quoting the BOP Evaluation Report, ‘the Festival 2016 generated a significant media impact, both nationally and locally. Full-page reviews appeared in national broadsheet and specialist magazines including the Guardian, Sight & Sound, Art Monthly and The Wire, with international reviews in ARTA magazine and Artforum Picks.’ Newcastle, being the nearest cosmopolitan centre to Jarrow offered an optimum location for the comprehensive presentation of both works as it spoke to local, national, and international audiences on a topic pertinent to Performance Studies, British politics, and culture.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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