Concrete Heart Land

‘A cinematic drift through the destruction of the Heygate Estate’

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concrete Hartlands - Laura Oldfield-Ford

Steven Ball and Laura Oldfield-Ford will present their individual responses to the Social cleansing of the Heygate Estate through the screening of Steven Ball and Rastko Novaković film ‘Concrete Heart Land’ and the presentation of drawings and a live reading of texts produced by Laura Oldfield-Ford.

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6pm on Tuesday 27 January 2015

Film and Drama studio
Arts 2 Building, (first floor)
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London
E1 4NS

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Laura Oldfield Ford is a London-based artist and writer concerned with issues surrounding contemporary political protest, urbanism, architecture and memory. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2007 she has become well known for her politically active and poetic engagement with London as a site of social antagonism. She is the author of Savage Messiah.
http://lauraoldfieldford.blogspot.co.uk/

Concrete Heart Land,a film by Steven Ball and Rastko Novaković, exposes the social cleansing of the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle, South London. It marks the moment that the estate was finally lost as social housing to make way for an unjust ‘regeneration’ scheme.
http://concreteheartland.info/

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We drift through a digitally expanded terrain, immerse ourselves in its hidden signals; play with its codes, in search of alternative futures. CODED GEOMETRY is an anti-disciplinary collective carrying out ambulant research and cognitive mapping of the digitally expanded terrain. Research towards a FUTURE COMMUNISM

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