SLIDE/TAPE: talks programme
featuring Graham Peet, Carola Adams, Karen Newman and Cathy Wade
THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER, 6PM
Some Girls – Tape Slides and Posters
presented by Carola Adams and Graham Peet
The Some Girls poster project with young women in the West Midlands was initiated in 1978, when the National Association of Youth Clubs ran an action research project into the risks of being a young woman, funded by the Department for Education and Science (DfES).
Three early feminist youth workers used an Action Research method – just ‘hanging out’ with young women, talking, making diaries, taking photographs and recording what young women’s lives were like, from their point of view. Project worker Carola Adams, with Graham Peet and Jonnie Turpie wanted to share the learning widely, using a touring slide-tape presentation and making posters for youth clubs with the Madeley Young Women’s Writing and Design Group. But the DfES weren’t happy. They said that they thought the workers were putting words into their mouths: “girls wouldn’t talk like that……”.
The event also included a screening of the film Giro-Is this the modern world? (1984) produced by the Birmingham Film & Video Workshop with Dead Honest Soul Searchers.
Giro explores the social and economic prospects facing young people in the context of mid-80s Britain.
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THURSDAY 14 NOVEMBER, 6PM
Cathy Wade in conversation with Karen Newman
Artist Cathy Wade shared the outcomes of her one week public residency for SLIDE/TAPE.
She was joined by Karen Newman, Research Fellow (Digital Media) at Coventry University’s Centre for Disruptive Media and previously Curator at Open Eye Gallery and FACT, Liverpool.
Kodak stopped manufacturing 35mm slide projectors in 2004. In this talk, the inherent narrative of the slide projection was unpicked.
