IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND WERE FULL OF JOY
A touring exhibition curated by Elizabeth Price, which investigates the role of the horizontal in art, as seen through the lens of four key themes: sleeping, working, mourning, and dancing.
- Submitting institution
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Kingston University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-89-1734
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester, De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill-on-Sea, Glynn Vivian, Swansea, U.K.
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- June
- Year of first exhibition
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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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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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND WERE FULL OF JOY (2016–17) is a touring exhibition curated by Elizabeth Price, which
was commissioned by Hayward Gallery, London, in the context of its Hayward Touring programme. In the exhibition, Price investigates
the role of the horizontal in art, as seen through the lens of four key themes: sleeping, working, mourning, and dancing. By bringing
together works across different media, and questioning art historical linearity through merging eight centuries of artistic production, Price
reveals how artistic processes can also be an effective strategy for exhibition-making. This is particularly relevant to collaging and
digital composition, as materialised through Price’s artistic practice in the discipline of moving image. Price developed the exhibition’s
conceptual framework, design and content through extensive archival research that facilitated the presentation of more than 100 artworks.
This has included the collections of the host institutions, as well as the collections and archives of other cultural institutions in the UK and
abroad. As part of her curatorial research, Price also undertook: a literature review focusing on the exhibition’s main themes; site visits;
curatorial meetings; and consultations with conservators and other experts in the selected artists and works. Furthermore, Price’s technical
research placed particular focus on synchronisation and projection technologies for the exhibition’s video works, which were presented
in a cycle. The exhibition was accompanied by a publication edited by Price, which included a curatorial essay, images from the exhibition’s
works, and excerpts of texts by poets, scientists and novelists bookended throughout each section. IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY
TO SURVIVE AND WERE FULL OF JOY opened at Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 11 June–23 October 2016; before being presented
at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, 28 January-1 May 2017; and Glynn Vivian, Swansea, 23 May–23 August 2017.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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