Videotheque : Rights Wot Rights?
Repeator
Interdisciplinary collective REPEATOR presented a pop-up installation responding to newly digitised 80’s archive, beginning with workers campaigns against discrimination, original campaign print materials and audio from TURC Video and the Birmingham Trade Union Resource Centre. This rich archive of community media and early media arts production was inherited by Vivid Projects in 2013. In 1991, with the support of the Economic Development Unit of Birmingham City Council and West Midlands Arts, TURC Video joined with the community arts organisation Wide Angle and in 1992 was established as Birmingham Centre For Media Arts – which t/a ‘VIVID’ until closure in 2012. The archive is now under the stewardship of Vivid Projects and former VIVID staff Yasmeen Baig-Clifford and Marian Hall.
REPEATOR is a platform for research and production and is an ongoing project by artists Laurence Price, Cathy Wade and designer Keith Dodds that generates and manifests new work from exchange, conversation & collaboration. Their installation offered sharp insights into workers struggles and community action centred on women’s rights, anti- discrimination and social democracy in Birmingham.
The installation was part of the Rights Wot Rights? events series of screenings and talks to provide a lively, illustrative record of the means by which workers and campaigners organised access to media for public education and awareness.
Rights Wot Rights? presented newly digitised 80’s video archive and campaigning materials from TURC Video and Birmingham Trade Union Resource Centre. It will be introduced by Curator Yasmeen Baig-Clifford, Director of Vivid Projects who is overseeing the development of the ‘Birmingham Media Archive Project’; and Dr Chris Moores, Birmingham Fellow, Modern British History and historian of civil liberties activism in twentieth century Britain. His recent book Civil Liberties and Human Rights in Twentieth Century Britain (CUP, 2017) examines the relationship between local, national and transnational languages of rights and freedom and the political cultures around which civil liberties concerns manifested. Cathy Wade and Keith Dodds will introduce the work of interdisciplinary collective REPEATOR , who are exploring the alternative cultural history of the city, informed by historic activist practices, trade union resources and community actions.
Part of the Being Human festival 2017
17-25 November 2017 | beinghumanfestival.org | @BeingHumanFest
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