Event overview
On 25 November 1944 a V2 missile destroyed Woolworths on New Cross Road killing 168 and injuring 123. Dora Project connects London’s V2 attacks, Nazi concentration camps, and the development of US and European space programmes.
DORA PROJECT (2015-2016)
A cross-generational archiving, participatory and community project that combines contemporary art, WW2 London and early rocket engineering.
DORA PROJECT is pleased to announce its second Commemorative Public Event to commemorate the 71st anniversary of the most devastating V2 rocket attack on London.
Based in London, DORA PROJECT is led by established artist François Dupré in collaboration with Rebecca Snow, a young visual and participatory artist. The project includes a new installation by Dupré, a postcard project, a series of commemorative public events in South East London and a school project at JFS, a Jewish Comprehensive School in North West London.
DORA PROJECT Commemorative Event at St James Hatcham, Goldsmiths includes a display around V2 attacks on London and the story of Dupré’s uncle in Dora concentration camp. On view as well, WW2 archive materials from The Museum Group based on New Cross Road and a short film by Rebecca Snow made in response to her visit to the concentration camp memorial site. Participants will have the opportunity to contribute to DORA POSTCARD PROJECT by writing their testimonies and comments.
To coincide with DORA PROJECT, Deptford Forum Publishing has reprinted Rations & Rubble, Remembering Woolworths. Published in 1994 and edited by Jess Steele, the booklet is a remarkable act of remembrance containing tragic yet immensely brave human stories about the V2 attack on New Cross Road.
DORA PROJECT will conclude with an exhibition at Peckham Platform in April 2016.
DORA PROJECT is funded by Arts Council England and Birmingham School of Art-BCU, Centre for Fine Art Research. The project is supported in the UK by Goldsmiths University of London, Peckham Platform, JFS. In France by the Commission Dora Ellrich de la Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation; the Association Française Buchenwald Dora et Kommandos; La Coupole, Centre d’Histoire et de Mémoire du Nord – Pas-de-Calais, France.
For more information about DORA PROJECT contact François Dupré at f.dupre@btinternet.com
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Dates & times
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25 Nov 2015 | 12:30pm - 4:00pm |
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