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GHost aims to address the various roles ghosts play in contemporary culture by bringing artists, writers, curators, researchers and others together. Curated by Dr Ricarda Vidal & Sarah Sparkes. |
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To date GHost has held two exhibitions and screenings of moving image art and performance at St Johns Church on Bethnal Green and two workshops, so-called 'hostings' in the haunted rooms at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies. GHost is led by Sarah Sparkes and Ricarda Vida.
The most powerful ghosts to haunt any conscious human being are the ones we carry with us in our minds. To survive, we suppress memories and choose to forget. That is until our senses are unexpectedly triggered by an object, a place, a smell or sound.
In Exhumation, Rebecca Feiner explores a memory, and a ghost of violence, bought on by a simple pain of glass found in a window of a domestic setting. Dragging the ghost from the cellar of the mind, exposing it to the gaze of light, releases it's brutality. A new dwelling place for the ghost is created that is ephemeral, intangible and dreamlike.The places we are told are the most safe, marriage, family, childhood, and home, are statistically the greatest source of violence, madness and dysfunction. It is here we find the source of all our ghosts.
The Belfry
The Belfry is a free exhibition space allowing artists to respond to the architecture and ambience of its location, within the context of this John Soane grade one-listed building, the local community and geography. The Belfry project was initiated by Ami Clarke and Ananda Pellerin in 2007 and is now managed by St John on Bethnal Green. |
