Tate Exchange – Dale Farm – The Eviction

 5th – 9th June 2019

Tate Exchange, 5th Floor, Tate Modern, 53 Bankside, London SE1 9TG

198 Contemporary Arts and Learning is pleased to present Dale Farm: The Eviction as part of our 2019 Associate programme at Tate Exchange, Tate Modern. This year 198 will be working in partnership with other organisations to deliver an innovative series of events and discussions. To mark Gypsy, Roma and Traveller month in the UK we have partnered with Oblique Arts and Traveller-Art-Performance to create a 5 day event which investigates the eviction of Traveller families from Dale Farm.

On 19th October 2011 eighty Traveller families lost their 10 year legal battle for their homes. Dale Farm: The Eviction, explores this important event from the perspective of artists from different communities. Artists from the Travelling community and elsewhere will present creative responses to the eviction, aiming to broaden the discussion about Dale Farm and acknowledge that not everyone backed or agreed with the eviction by the local authorities, which the UK government supported and in part financed. Against a backdrop of negative media coverage and social media attacks on Traveller communities, this event also aims to be therapeutic for the Traveller artists’ and the community members impacted by the loss of their homes.

As well as visual art, performance, music and video, audiences will have the opportunity to view unique Traveller archival material from Grattan Puxon’s archive together with artefacts from Dale Farm, removed at the time of the eviction.

This event is curated by Phien O’Reachtigan of Traveller-Art-Performance and Beverley Carpenter of Oblique Arts in association with Tate Exchange Associates 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning.

 

 

Programme

 

Wednesday 5th June 12pm -6pm

12pm – Talk by Grattan Puxon. A veteran campaigner for Traveller rights, Grattan Puxon has an extensive archive that is now housed at the Bishopsgate Institute. His archive material from the 10-year legal struggle at Dale Farm forms part of the TEX installation.

12.30pm – Press tour

1pm – Discussion with Jacob Willis. Jacob Willis was an activist present at Dale Farm and was arrested at the time of the eviction. He will be speaking about his experience of this historic struggle where activists and others stood alongside the Travellers of Dale Farm.

1.15pm – Phein O’Reachtigan. Dale Farm: The Eviction. Phien O’Reachtigan was born into a Pavee Traveller family in England.  Following site evictions, he became a community activist and advocate speaking at conferences and demonstrations. Phien has contributed a collection of his artwork and artefacts retrieved from the Dale Farm eviction site and has curated the work of the artists who will contribute to the project.

1.30pm – 2pm – Performance/ Roundtable. A round table discussion will invite visitors to talk about Dale Farm and the legal struggles of Travellers around eviction taking inspiration from the Traveller women who in 2011 invited politicians to join them outside the High Court of Justice to negotiate rather than engage in a violent eviction.

2pm – Meet the curators and team. The curators will speak about what led them to develop this project from the points of view of a Traveller and activist. As artists they will explore how art is able to convey a powerful message and open up discussion around the land rights of the Traveller community and the discrimination that they have faced over many generations.

2.30pm – Archive room tour of artefacts from The Grattan Puxon Archive and Bishopsgate Institute.

3pm – Schools/College visits.

3.30 – Performance – by The dance collective. A performance exploring the territory between politics, performance and audience in this work that utilises footage from the Dale Farm eviction and unique artefacts from the project space.

4pm – Photo opportunity for general public on the Dale Farm barricades.

 

Thursday 6th June 12pm-6pm

12pm – Schools / college visits (talk, tour and activity). *

3pm – College visits. *

4pm – Performance by The dance collective.

Singer ‘Moonview”; an eco-activist, will perform a piece in response to his experience at Dale Farm in 2011.

 

Friday 7th June 12pm-6pm

12pm Midday – Visitors and discussions (tbc).

1pm – Discussion about human rights with Marc Willers. Human rights Lawyer, Marc Willers will speak about his experience of defending Travellers against discrimination in a number of successful legal struggles. Fundamental problems that Travellers’ face legally when planning laws and other agencies fail to recognise their rights as a unique ethnic minority will be discussed.

4pm – Performance by The dance collective; Caterina Danzico, Emmanuel Ndefo, Kashish Gaba, Lucy McMahon, Isabel Estevez, Anna Kazaner and Mike Turner-Lee. A performance exploring the territory between politics, performance and audience in this work that utilises footage from the Dale Farm eviction and unique artefacts from the project space.

7pm – Opening event by invitation only.

 

Saturday 8th June 12pm-10pm

12pm – Performance/ Roundtable. A round table discussion will invite visitors to talk about Dale Farm and the legal struggles of Travellers around eviction taking inspiration from the Traveller women who in 2011 invited politicians to join them outside the High Court of Justice to negotiate rather than engage in a violent eviction.

2pm – Invited speaker – Legal/discussion (tbc).

4pm – Performance by The dance collective; Caterina Danzico, Emmanuel Ndefo, Kashish Gaba, Lucy McMahon, Isabel Estevez, Anna Kazaner and Mike Turner-Lee, with music by Pavee Band.

4pm – Archive room tour.

5pm – Performance by The dance collective.

7pm – Performance.

Singer ‘Moonview’; an eco-activist will perform a piece in response to his experience at Dale Farm in 2011.

8pm – Music performance Pavee band.

 

Sunday 9th June 12pm-6pm

2pm – Performance/ Roundtable. A round table discussion will invite visitors to talk about Dale Farm and the struggles of Travellers around eviction taking inspiration from the Traveller women who in 2011 invited

politicians to join them outside the High Court of Justice to negotiate rather than engage in a violent eviction.

3pm – College visits. *

3pm – The dance collective; Caterina Danzico, Emmanuel Ndefo, Kashish Gaba, Lucy McMahon, Isabel Estevez, Anna Kazaner and Mike Turner-Lee.

4pm – Performance Singer ‘Moonview’; an eco-activist will perform a piece in response to his experience at Dale Farm in 2011.

 

 

* For school, college or group visits please book by emailing info@198.org.uk

 

 

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