LIFE-BLOOD EXHIBITION
Crypt Gallery London NW1 2BA
October 2018
Part of the Bloomsbury Festival
Life-Blood is defined as the blood, as being necessary for life. It’s also the indispensable factor or influence that gives something its strength and vitality.
This exhibition explored activist art as realised by a group of international artists, film makers, writers and a poet.
The Tate website explains that “Activist Art is about empowering individuals and communities and is generally situated in the public arena with artists working closely with a community to generate the art.”
Artist Collective, Aesthesia and the Bloomsbury Festival present an exhibition where we explore activist art as realised by a group of international artists, academics, film makers, photographers, poets, theatre makers, writers, and a news anchor.
Life-Blood is defined as the blood, as being necessary for life. It’s also the indispensable factor or influence that gives something its strength and vitality.
From HIV and AIDS, the infected blood inquiry, gay men and the inability to donate blood, Grenfell to American Indian, Palestinian and Rohingya human rights, we ask what are the vital desires, the Life-blood, that gives vitality to all the participants work
Participants: Ahmed Salama (photography & talk: Art as an act Insubordination); Amani AlSharqawi (photography & talk: Art as an act Insubordination); Ash Kotak (talk: Aesthesia: An Activist Arts Collective); Ashish Joshi (talk: The News Anchor Activist); Cara Romero (photography); Chloe (#poetry4Grenfell); Dipa Mahbuba Yasmin (film); Dominic Janes (talk: My Body, My Blood); Flexwon (street art); Georg Meyer-Wiel (drawing); Hugo de la Rosa (photography); iyatraQuartet (music); Isabel de Vasconcellos (talk: Activism & the Fourth Plinth); Joanne Prince (talk: Cara Romero); Karun Soni (campaign art); Madison Moore (talk: My Body, My Blood); Mahmoud J. Alkurd (photography & talk: Art as an act Insubordination); Marnie Scarlet (sculpture/performance: My Body, My Blood); Margherita Sprio (talk: Creating Art Between Two Homelands); Mark Ward (talk: #InfectedBloodInquiry), Miguel Conde (drawing); Miranda Dickson (jars); Princess Emmanuelle (#poetry4Grenfell); RJ Arkhipov (talk: The Poetry of Blood); Ruhul Abdin (talk: Creating Art Between Two Homelands); Simon Edge (talk: The Activist Writer); Sunil Gupta (photography/talk: Creating Art Between Two Homelands) Yaroslaff Soltan (sculpture); Zoe Delemere Lafferty (talk: Activist Theatre).
Life-Blood Exhibition was co-funded by Aesthesia and the Grassroots Action Support (GAS) fund, a partnership between Sheila McKechnie Foundation and the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.
Curated by Ash Kotak
Images Darren Brade (Automatic or flick through to view)
