Today we visited Tate Britain located in Westminster. Tate Britain comprises of British art and sculptures made by artists from the 1500 to our current period of time. It also includes international and contemporary art.
We were given a task during the lesson was called “A better world” we had around 15- 20 minutes to suggest an idea of how we may change the space we were in.
My group decided to focus on ‘Cunt Scum’ by Gilbert & George (1988). The art shows a series of images that depict life from the 1970s. In the 1970s, mixed raced immigrants began to move to the United Kingdom and were targeted hugely by the National Front.
To link this to the brief we were given, we created a manifesto which will use this piece of art specifically as well as the whole space to portray life from the 1970s. We propose our idea to be shown in a digital form via a video which will show different political subjects throughout that time to illustrate how it affected immigrants and coloured people, such as police brutality, discrimination and prejudice. Due the ever-changing development of technology we thought we could only go with using some sort of digital format as there will be a huge growth in 50 years. Alongside a video, audio and images will accompanied to give more context and ideas behind what happened. This combination will give the viewer a real sense and emotion of how large discrimination was which will almost make the viewer feel like they visited the past. Using a whole room on this subject is very important as we feel this subject should be highlighted more within the art as it is something people can forget about quite easily.