Hunt, Chris and Cunningham, Mavernie (2018) Dark Light. [Installation, Performance, Video]
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| Creators: | Hunt, Chris and Cunningham, Mavernie |
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| 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 51zero 25 October 2019 15 November 2019 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 |
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| Depositing User: |
Mr Chris Hunt
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| Date Deposited: | 05 Jun 2019 14:45 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2019 10:17 |
| URI: | https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/5165 |
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