Description
”On 30 January 1972 British Army paratroopers killed 13 unarmed civil rights demonstrators on a peaceful march through the city of Derry/Londonderry in the North of Ireland. Pictures of the murders made by photojournalists and TV camera crews were immediately published and broadcast around the world. These images, which quickly became iconic, appeared to confirm the unjustified and unjustifiable brutality of the murders, the innocence of the victims and the solidarity of the Derry community. Concurrently with the events in Derry the Imperial War Museum in London, an institution founded during the First World War to commemorate British and Commonwealth losses, established a programme to commission artists to ‘record’ the escalating conflict in the North of Ireland. This talk tells the story of the British State’s attempts to use art and artists to control the narrative of the contentious conflict known as ‘The Troubles’ which lasted from 1968 until 1998. Using this example, I will look at how art, artists and arts originations can intervene in militarized conflict and geopolitical process.” (Clare Carolin, 2023)| Period | 2 Nov 2023 |
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| Held at | Tranzit, Iasi , Romania |
| Degree of Recognition | International |