The Lay Shaft Drive is Down

The Lay Shaft Drive is Down is a new film work by artist Helen Cammock, documenting a spoken and sung word performance imagined on the occasion of the exhibition, Tributaries. Taking the House Mill, Bromley-by-Bow, as its starting container, The Lay Shaft Drive is Down considers mills in relation to water, to industry, to food, to hardship and nurture: the tie to the colonial relationships that bind both people and production through contentious, often violent, yet sometimes radical histories.