Family activist network performance
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Authors | McCloskey, Paula |
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Abstract | FAN is a group of 35 or so adults (academics and artists) and children, based across the UK (Cambridge, Chichester, Edinburgh, Lincoln, Liverpool, London, Norwich and Sheffield). FAN was formed to consider family life and climate change through a variety of art activist formats. Since its formation in 2014 FAN have exchanged slow mail correspondence, created a reading group This Changes Everything (Naomi Klein 2015), held recruitment events (Two Degrees festival, Artsadmin, London 2015), protested together (Time to Act, London, 2015; D12 Redlines in Paris for COP21, 2015), engaged in creating family performances showcase (Plas Caerdeon, Wales 2016), commissioned a science lecture about James Watt and the onset of Anthropocene Epoch (Glasgow Green, 2016), engaged in a themed discussion on Future Scenarios (2016), visited the site of the Happisburgh footprints, created Photo Books of FAN encounters (2015 – ongoing) and debated on FAN email list (2015 – ongoing). 'a place of their own' has been a member of FAN since 2014 and participated in all its performances and events, please see website links for more information. |
Keywords | family art activism; maternity and art; 'a place of their own' |
Year | 2014 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/623352 |
hdl:10545/623352 | |
File | File Access Level Open |
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Publication dates | Jan 2014 |
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Deposited | 23 Jan 2019, 15:28 |
Accepted | Jan 2014 |
Contributors | University of Derby |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/933xq/family-activist-network-performance
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