Friday, 23 January 2015

Concrete Heart Land

If you happen to be in or around east London on Tuesday, you might find this interesting:

Concrete heart landSteven Ball and Laura Oldfield Ford will present their individual responses to the social cleansing of the Heygate Estate through the screening of Steven Ball and Rastko Novaković’s film ‘Concrete Heart Land’, and the presentation of drawings and a live reading of texts produced by Laura Oldfield Ford.

6pm on Tuesday 27 January 2015

Film and Drama Studio

Arts 2 Building (first floor)

Queen Mary University of London

Mile End Road

London E1 4NS

Laura Oldfield Ford is a London-based artist and writer concerned with issues surrounding contemporary political protest, urbanism, architecture and memory. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2007 she has become well known for her politically active and poetic engagement with London as a site of social antagonism. She is the author of Savage Messiah.

Concrete Heart Land,  a film by Steven Ball and Rastko Novaković, exposes the social cleansing of the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle, South London. It marks the moment that the estate was finally lost as social housing to make way for an unjust 'regeneration' scheme.

(Via [email protected])

 

 

23 Jan 2015 17:31:08 | Space and place

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