Dark Light

Hunt, Chris and Cunningham, Mavernie (2018) Dark Light. [Installation, Performance, Video]

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Creators:
Hunt, Chris and Cunningham, Mavernie
Description/Abstract:

‘Dark Light’ is a film installation and spoken performance, made in collaboration with Mavernie Cunningham and performed as part of the Whitstable Biennale of Film and Performance Satellite Programme in June 2018.

The work continues the research from House 1, (exhibited at ‘Art and Sound’, Leicester de Montfort University, June 2017), and explores themes of departure, migration, race, slavery and nostalgia. The sculptural forms within which the screens sit are based on the Empire Windrush, a ship instrumental in bringing to the UK people from Jamaica in the 1950s, and the films contained therein play further on these themes.

The work was developed as a response to the poem ‘Remembrance’ by Friedrich Hölderlin. It reflects on the hidden, underlying history of slavery that is concealed within the poem’s image of Bordeaux (a slave port until the 19th century), the politics of black hair, and draws upon a cautionary children’s tale learned by rote by Jamaican schoolchildren in the 1930s, amongst other things.

Item Type:
Art/Design Item
Official URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0yA4IN6Aow&featur...
Date:
10 June 2018
Copyright Holders:
Chris Hunt, Mavernie Cunningham
Material:
ceramic, film, performance
Measurements or Duration:
14 minutes
Funders:
UCA Research Office
Locations / Venues:
Location
From Date
To Date
Free Range - Experimental Music, Film and Poetry, Canterbury, Kent, UK
6 December 2018
The Summerhouse, Warwick Road, Whitstable, Kent, UK
10 June 2018
Related Exhibitions:
Whitstable Biennale of Film and Performance 2018, Free Range - Experimental Music, Film and Poetry in Canterbury
Schools:
School of Architecture & Design
Related URLs:
Depositing User:
Mr Chris Hunt
Date Deposited:
25 Jun 2018 14:14
Last Modified:
12 Dec 2018 13:38
Art/Design Categories:
Installation, Performance, Video
URI:
https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/4832

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