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Global Eyes Exhibition

Victoria Baths Manchester
Preview - open to all: 19.10.07, 5-8pm

exhibition continues: 20/21.10.07, 12 - 5pm

Shoreditch Town Hall Gallery, London, EC1
Preview - open to all: 01.11.07, 5-9pm

exhibition continues: 02.11.07, 10-6pm & 03.11.07, 12-5pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Katrin Streicher (Germany):

Her work visually explores identity and memory in areas that have been affected by major changes in the more distant past. Her degree project in the former German Democratic Republic investigates how people today, 18 years after the break of communism, integrate memories of the socialist past into everyday lives. Through focusing on the visual surroundings of people – mainly places and objects – the artist will evoke memory and imagination to access to people's experiences.

 

 

 

 

 

Clara de Los Arcos Diez (Spain, Holland and the UK):

"My project was based around the Voedselbank, a food bank in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. My images deal, on the one hand, with the issues surrounding food waste, food aid and the process that the donated food in this setting goes through in order to become of 'value' again. On the other hand, the images attempt to reflect the process of self-improvement that the workers experience by working at the food bank, and the community that is formed as a result of their settings, their activities, and their personal moral beliefs."

 

 

 

 

Jana Carrey (Los Angeles, California):

"The thing about camp is that no matter who you may be back in the valley you can start over here; you can take off your mask and try out different ways of dealing with other people. Because people here won't judge you, you can decide what kind of person you want to be."*

"Envisioning Normality" looks at how youth with serious illnesses and chronic disorders maintain a sense of normality in their life and how they seek to define their identity in the face of life disruption. Marrying a documentary realist style with participant observation-based ethnography, this project looks at the embodied illness experience from an adolescent perspective. This work explores how positive self-image, and identity reconstruction are encouraged by participating in the embodied and collective social experience of summer camp in rural, upstate New York. This project also involves the use of photography as a collaborative and therapeutic tool through which children can reflect upon themselves and how their experiences at camp impact their developing sense of self.

* Anonymous quote taken from "Tillery, Randal K. 1992. Touring Arcadia: Elements of discursive simulation and cultural struggle at a children’s summer camp. In Cultural Anthropology 7 (3): 374-388."

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Atkins (Birmingham, UK):

THE CANAL CRUISE' aims to explore an aspect of the city difficult to enter with the camera: specifically how many men still cruise for public sex for many different reasons. For this performance the cruiser creates scenes that evade being seen, for in being seen he is forced to integrate this sexual performance act into his sense of self. Utilizing a collage of photography, sketch art and sound, I hope to represent the maintenance of ambiguity and objectification of the male body within a Public Sexualised Environment, whilst creating a sense of the physical environment. The images aim to show how the physical site is subverted through the embodied performance of the cruising encounter.

This exhibition is the culmination of three months of ethnographic work around a city centre cruising ground. By combining observations of the physical site, the sexual encounter, and the elicitation of online testimony, I hope to represent my experience of this ambiguous, anonymous and contested use of public space.

 

 

 

 

 

Niamh King (Wirral, UK):

This ethnographic study examines the organic relationships surrounding a Sheffield allotment site and how through the occupation of each plot, spaces are transformed into special places. It investigates how people find meaning through the temporal nature of allotment gardening in terms of personal expression, well-being and social engagement, which cannot be achieved in ordinary urban life.

 

 

 

 

 

Elissa Krowe (New York, USA):

The explicit and implicit ways in which street children living at a drop-in centre in Lusaka, Zambia learn and interact with each other, and how their pasts as well as their presents bring them together to enforce communitas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Claire Anholt (UK):

Produced collaboratively with young people in a Tsunami-affected slum in Chennai, South India, this work centres on issues of body image, gender and cinema celebrity. As documentary and art meet, and ethnography and design blur, dichotomies between realism and expressionism are opened up for debate.

 

 

 

 

 

Vania Celebicic Arielli (Bosnia and Israel):

The original aim of the project was to inquire into the Sarajevan Roma's sense of identification, belonging and memory. Yet, how does one represent such abstract topics through the use of still images? As the fieldwork progressed the use of photography evolved from a situational and documentary style to a staged and collaborative one. This exhibition follows the path taken by the photographer.