OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS
The Poor Door
A Collective Exhibition Tackling the
Housing Crisis
I am curating an exhibition which will be
held at A-side B-side Gallery in October.
I’m currently looking for artists who make work about housing and the
home. Please see below for further
information about the show, and details for submitting work if you would like
to apply.
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| 'Contemporary, Spacious First Floor Double Room' Tinsel Edwards 2015 |
“This
Ghetto crowding is not through inclination, but compulsion.”
Jack
London The People of the Abyss
It’s 2015 and we are in the midst of a
major housing crisis in the capital. In 1903, Jack London wrote ‘The
People of the Abyss’, a book describing the cramped living conditions and
experiences of the poor in the East End of London. Reading the book in
2015, some of it seemed strangely familiar.
The extreme poverty experienced by many
people in Victorian London is another world and another time, but the soaring
rents and escalating house prices that London’s residents are experiencing
today are similarly disempowering.
“It
is notorious that here in the Ghetto the houses of the poor are greater profit
earners than the mansions of the rich.
Not only does the poor worker live like a beast, but he pays proportionately
more for it than does the rich man for his spacious comfort.”
Jack
London The People of the Abyss
The Poor Door exhibition is an arena
for debate and discussion surrounding the housing crisis, an opportunity to
challenge the status quo and to campaign for change through visual language
including painting, photography, sculpture and performance. The title is
inspired by the furore over the development at One Commercial Street in
Aldgate, which was built with two separate entrances. Luxury marble
floors, chandeliers and concierge for the wealthy city workers, and a
side-alley door for the ‘affordable’ housing tenants. The Poor Door is a
growing trend in new housing developments in London, but this divisive
phenomena seems reminiscent of the Victorian era.
“In
a civilization frankly materialistic and based upon property, not soul, it is
inevitable that property shall be exalted over soul”
Jack
London The People of the Abyss
Exhibition
Details and info on submitting work:
The show will be curated from an open
submission, a percentage of sales will raise money for the housing charity
Shelter. If you are making art work
about housing and you would like to take part in the exhibition please email jpegs, cv and info to: tinseledwards@hotmail.co.uk
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Maximum of 6 jpegs labeled with
your name and the title of the work
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CV
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Some brief info about the work
you are submitting and why it relates to the theme of the show.
Deadline
to submit artwork: 1st June
Venue: A-side B-side Gallery, Hackney Downs Studios, E8 2BT
Dates: First two weeks in October – Thursday 1st – Wednesday 14th.
Public
View: First Thursday
Throughout the week there will also be film
screenings, talks and events from several communities, groups and individuals.
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