Fugitive Images
Thoughts on a future where exclusivity and exclusion should surely be indefensible; an evening with Fugitive Images and guests.
Since 2009 the artist collaboration Fugitive Images has used their home, Haggerston & Kingsland Estate, as a starting point for a series of projects reflecting on the rapid changes taking place in the local area. After years of neglect the estate has been transformed into a flagship regeneration project. The old estate is scheduled for complete demolition by 2012 only to immediately reappear in a new guise; the mixed dwelling combining luxury flats with social housing in a high-density development.
For the event Fugitive Images will screen their short film I KNOW IT IS NOT A PALACE and talk about their photo installation I AM HERE
To further explore our work at and the ongoing regeneration of Haggerston & Kingsland Estate they have invited two guest that recently have conducted extended researched on these issues.
David Roberts
Urban Studies Masters student and Architectural Design PhD
candidate
"My interest lies in the instability and possibility of public art in social change. Has I AM HERE opened a new dialogue between residents and their city? Has a symbol of defiance inspired an unfolding culture of empowerment and protest? How can this transformative potential continue as residents negotiate their future?"
Therese L Henningsen
Anthropologist
"My research follows residents on Haggerston West and Kingsland Estates in order to examine an apparent givenness of a built environment at a moment of imminent transition. How do the residents perceive the changes to the spaces in which they live? How do they understand the reasons for the transition and what are their hopes, fears and dreams for the new rooms and roofs to be called 'home'."