Event overview
On 2nd March 1981 a protest took place called the Black People Day of Action. On their placards was written the slogan “Thirteen dead and nothing said”.
The Black People’s Day of Action took place on 2nd March 1981. This historic national demonstration, which began in New Cross and ended in Hyde Park, is the subject of an exhibition in the Kingsway corridor, Goldsmiths, which is open from March 9th to May 27th 2017. Vivid black and white photographs of the demonstration are accompanied by a display of the press coverage, campaign materials and other significant items that document and record what happened on that day.
The images were taken by photographer Vron Ware who attended the march as both participant and journalist. They form the starting point for this forum on the relationship between photography and political witness. Tonight we will ask:
- How can photography or film bridge the relation between the past and the present, particularly in relation to questions of racism, politics and community mobilization?
- Why can photographic images provide valuable resources to think with politically?
In talking about her work from that era, Vron Ware, who is now a writer and academic currently at Kingston University, will be joined by photographer, filmaker and urban theorist, Paul Halliday, and Nirmal Puwar, sociologist, filmmaker and curator.
Paul Halliday’s work addresses connected themes including a twenty-year project about London’s streets and public places, a project focusing on urban objects and materialities. Paul also directed a Channel 4 documentary about the far-right in London and he is a former media adviser at the British Refugee Council and currently Director of UPA (Urban Photographers Association).
Nirmal Puwar has been Co-Director of Goldsmiths Methods Lab for over ten years. Nirmal has also curated a number of exhibition in the Kingsway corridor including Pierre Bourdieu in Algeria: testimonies of uprooting (2006-7), Space and Gaze: Conversations with Jean Mohr and Edward Said in Palestine (2013-14) and Migrating Dreams and Nightmares (2015-16).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 10 May 2017 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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