Why We Shout - Art of Protest

08 AUGUST 2021 - 19 SEPTEMBER 2021

Curated by Lee Cavaliere

Banksy, Jeremy Deller, Ed Hall, Greenpeace, Jacob Love, Martha Rosler, Liberate Tate, Bex Wade, Kacey Wong

  • Dancefloors To Demos, 2011 - 2021

    Bex Wade,

    12 photos, each 35 x 50cm

  • The Battle of Orgreave (An Injury to One is an Injury to All), 2001

    Jeremy Deller, (b.1966)

    Video, 62min, Directed by Mike Figgis

  • Masks, 2016

    Art direction: Hannah Davey for Greenpeace

    Design and fabrication: Christopher Kelly for Greenpeace

  • Email to Lee Cavaliere, Curator, 2021

    Kacey Wong, (b.1970)

    This is an email received just before this show opened, describing the artist’s current self-imposed exile in Taiwan.

  • S.S.T.U., 2019

    Kacey Wong, (b.1970)

    Video, 9 mins

  • Resistance is Beautiful , 2021

    Jacob Love, (b. 1980)

    Holographic foiled print, Limited edition of 300 - Signed, 70cm x 50cm

  • Unite Tolpuddle Banner, 2010

    Ed Hall, (b.1944)

  • Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975

    Martha Rosler, (b.1943)

    Performance video, 6min 9 sec

  • Paula, the Polar Bear

    GREENPEACE

    Ex-theatre, two-person puppet

  • The Gift, 2016

    Performance by Liberate Tate.

    Film by Tom Costello and Richard Hougez

Why We Shout - Art of Protest

 

In GIANT’s dedicated Project Space, ‘Why We Shout – the Art of Protest’ has been curated by Lee Cavaliere, Director of VOMA, the world’s first virtual museum created entirely for digital.

In association with Greenpeace, ‘Why We Shout: The Art of Protest’ is a group show looking at the ways in which contemporary artists respond and contribute to protest and activism. With the right to protest being curtailed in many countries round the world, including the UK, it is important to look at its origins, outlets and impact on wider culture.

Artists have often been at the forefront of protest movements, using their work as a way to broadcast, challenge and invite debate. This exhibition brings together renowned artists working in this field and asks us to look at the relevance of protest in contemporary society.

The exhibition brings together points of view from across the globe, from US artist Martha Rosler's feminist video, to Turner-Prize winner Jeremy Deller and Hong Kong activist-artist Kacey Wong.

We see the protest community spill from Dancefloors to Demos in the photography of Bex Wade and see the ways in which Greenpeace have used art to highlight important environmental issues, alongside additional works by Banksy, Jeremy Deller, Ed Hall, Jacob Love and Liberate Tate.

The show will run concurrently with an exhibition at VOMA, featuring some of the same artists and taking a more historical view of protest; this exhibition features the work of Francisco Goya, Dread Scott, Barbara Kruger, Pieter Bruegel and Diego Rivera.

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