LUX and PEER present: Real Estates. A Project by Fugitive Images
18 February, 2015
– 28 March, 2015
Wed to Sat 12pm – 6pm (9pm during evening events)
PEER
97 & 99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL
Fugitive Images, 2011. House of Commons Hansard report debating social housing in London, redacted by residents of the Haggerston Estate and posted anonymously to the 20 MPs that spoke in the debate.
LAUNCH EVENT: Wednesday 18 February, 6pm – 8pm
Introduction by Owen Jones at 7pm
A six week multi-purpose project coordinated by art collective Fugitive Images opening PEER up as a social, discursive and imaginative space around issues of housing and spatial justice in East London through a constantly changing series of exhibitions, screenings, discussions, readings and workshops. Featuring work by Fugitive Images, Focus 15, Tom Hunter, Bekki Perriman, Jeremy Till, Andre Anderson, John Smith, DIG Collective, Smart Urhoife and many more.
‘This project marks the end of a seven-year series of collaborative works with our neighbours of the Haggerston Estate. Our work came from within the community, with whom we cultivated other spaces to gather, share and campaign before the estate was demolished in 2014. Our neighbourhoods and communities are facing even greater threats from new developments and policies that separate and stratify us. But there are also many that have resisted these forces.
Over six-weeks we are inviting other communities, speakers and artists related to the housing crisis in London to make a series of presentations. The project will act as a platform for campaign groups and engaged makers to bring their important work into a different space, to share with us a glimpse of their own long-term projects on key sites. PEER in partnership with LUX will host works that connect us, that illuminate, that bring pain to the surface, that inspire tenderness, that reject terrifying social injustices and restore ethical imperatives. The events programme brings together discussions around eviction, displacement and homelessness and their expression through an art that is committed to being made public and shared.”
Fugitive Images are Andrea Luka Zimmerman and David Roberts, a collaborative cultural activist producing agency, with a particular interest in, and commitment to, the social organisation of urban space.
Each week PEER will host a rolling exhibition programme, events and screenings featuring a number of strands. Wednesdays 6-8pm – Openings and socials
Thursdays 2-5pm – Class Room, workshops and lectures for students and the public Fridays from 6.30pm – Film screenings Saturdays 2-5pm – Homeworks – Public talks from key figures/campaigns on housing
All of the events are FREE, but it is strongly advised to arrive at least 10 minutes prior to the start time as space is limited and seats will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
With the support of Restless Futures at Central Saint Martins.
Located on Hoxton Street since 2002, PEER is geographically located at the centre of the widening gap between rich and poor. It welcomes this opportunity to be part of the broader conversation about the impact of the dismantling of social housing and huge increases in private rent on the wellbeing of communities. A fundamental aspiration for PEER is to make high quality art available to local, long-established residents of Hoxton as part of the daily experience of the high street. The Real Estates project provides a relevant and urgent channel through which PEER and our communities can explore these ideas further. Restless Futures is a continuing programme of events that show how design can and should contribute constructively to societal transformation. Central Saint Martins is part of University of the Arts London. www.arts.ac.uk/csm
This week expands on the Estate project by Fugitive Images, featuring material generated from their long-term engagement on the Haggerston Estate in collaboration with residents and local practitioners. Key events include an evening with filmmaker John Smith including screenings of Hackney Marshes and Blight, and talks from the information, support and campaign group Hackney Digs.
This week will profile work by artist Tom Hunter including a sculptural model and photographs of the Holly Street Estate (demolished in 1997) and his film A Palace for Us. Events include workshops with sound artist Brandon LaBelle and architectural theoretician Jane Rendell, and a talk by architect and Head of Central Saint Martins, Jeremy Till. Film maker and writer John Rogers (Trews Reports/Drift Report) surveys his ongoing series of videos highlighting housing campaigns around London including the New Era Estate, West Hendon, and Save Soho.
This week is themed around homelessness. Bekki Perriman’s The Doorways Projectexplores homeless culture through photography and sound, inviting visitors to pay attention to the intimate, sometimes humorous, often disturbing and mostly ignored stories of homeless people. This will be accompanied by photographs by Moyra Peralta and work from Cardboard Citizens which has been making theatre with homeless people for over 20 years, for homeless and non-home- less audiences. Cardboard Citizens is informed and inspired by Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed,using the arts to provoke debate and rehearse actions. Events include a screening of Fernand Melgar’s The Shelter and talks by performance artist Marcia Farquhar and campaigners Lesley Woodburn and Barry Watt.
This week is curated by DIG Collective, formed of William Bock, Alberto Duman, Sophie Mason and Mark Morgan, who came together to interrogate demolition and redevelopment, ritual and nature in Hackney Central.
This week is run by Focus E15 Campaign, continuing to build their movement that demands SOCIAL HOUSING, NOT SOCIAL CLEANSING. The week will be a melting pot of ideas and events, exhibiting visual materials and films about their campaign, hosting an eviction resistance workshop, open mic night, discussions and socials.
The final week will feature an expanded enquiry from Fugitive Images, including politics and high fashion expressed in theGhana Must Go bags made by Estate fashion designer Smart Urhoife. Events include a panel discussion by and on Women, Home and Activism with Lorna & Elam Forrester, Gillian McIver, Lesley Woodburn, Emer Mary Morris, Debra Herring, Cathy Ward and Andrea Luka Zimmerman; a screening of Guillaume Meigneux’s HLM –Habitations Légèrement Modifiées; readings from poet Stephen Watts; and an evening with the Authors of the Estateproject contributors –Andre Anderson, Raze, Predz UK, Kayden Bell, Jade Snyper, Nathaniel Telemaque.
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