Project: Acts of Transfer, 2021
A collaboration between artist Katy Beinart and writer Lizzie Lloyd, this project uses image and text to reactivate past socially engaged art projects, making visible their legacies to better understand their ongoing effect. Beinart and Lloyd have worked with 9 artists and project participants to revisit an artwork. Through ‘re-enacting’ the original work they reflect on the meaning of the work, how the memory of it shifts, and what both artists and participants have taken away from it. These re-enactments have been made into a series of short films, images and texts documenting the conversations Beinart and Lloyd have held with each artist/participant.
The project worked with artists: Gil Mualem-Doron, Young In Hong, Eelyn Lee, Paula McCloskey and Sam Vardy, Harun Morrison, Benjamin Owen, Matt Stokes, Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley.
And project participants:
Bernadette Buckley, John Edwards, Kate Flannery, Lynn Hanna, Marion Howell, Sarah McCarthy, Annetha Mills, Mark Anthony Pearce, Chris Welton.
Funded and supported by Arts Council England, the Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics at the University of Brighton, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton Centre for Contemporary Art, SEAS, and the University of the West of England.
The Acts of Transfer book is now available to buy from Volt Gallery/Devonshire Collective, Eastbourne.
Publication Design and Art Direction by Des Lloyd Behari. Social Art Publications, 2022
Exhibitions and Events:
Structures of Community symposium, Brighton CCA, 2023
Front Room Film: Acts of Transfer, Brighton CCA, 2022
Acts of Transfer talk with Marianne Mulvey, Arnolfini, 2022
Acts of Transfer: Sharing Social Practice Workshop, Towner Eastbourne, 2022
Really Saying Something Symposium, 2022
Acts of Transfer Book Launch, with Sophie Hope and Lizzie Lloyd, Brighton CCA, 2022
Acts of Transfer Exhibition, Phoenix Brighton, 2021
Films can be viewed here:
A stretched-out memorial (a place of their own)
In the Moment That you’re In (Katy Beinart & John Edwards)
There was a kind of dissonance (Gil Mualem-Doron)
In their own way (Young In Hong)
Be someone Completely Different (Matt Stokes)
From a place of grace (Eelyn Lee)
This is power-to (Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley)
The fabric of this place/the soulfulness of that (Benjamin Owen)
Images: stills from Acts of Transfer films, Beinart & Lloyd 2021
Top to bottom:
Warren & Mosley
Katy Beinart
a place of their own
Ben Owen
Young In Hong
