INSPIRED BY THE WORKS OF ANTONIO KADIMA, THINKING INSIDE THE BOX: 1973 HAS CREATED ITS OWN ARCHIVE OF COLLABORATIVE POLITICAL ARTWORKS.
In April 2023, we’re running a series of workshops across Leeds to engage with a range of publics in collectively ‘thinking inside the box’. Guided by the theme of Hope, Struggle and Solidarity, we are drawing inspiration from the political artworks and printed material we have been exploring through the archives over the past months. By sharing these materials with our audiences, our goal is to reawaken the practice of visually representing hopes and struggles for a better future.
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For inspiration, we gave our audiences the following prompts…
¡Censored Voices!
Dictatorship in Chile meant highly restricted access to media and censored news. Additionally, many of those producing protest art did not have access to materials or equipment. In many places around the world, people still face these issues. When we consider access to social media nowadays, our understanding of limited resources is quite different to 1970s Chile, it can be hard to imagine!
How would you tell your story without social media? Think about creating something with limited resources.
¿Art or Necessity?
For many, protest art does not come from a wish to be creative but instead from an urgency to fight against opressors. In Chile in the 1970s, many pieces of protest art emerged after friends or family had gone missing. This sense of immediate threat was at the heart of protest art.
What feels most urgent to you? Think about the message that you most want to share with others.
¡Simplicity!
Many of those creating protest art had no artistic training and were creating messages for people who may not have been able to read or write. Posters needed to share meaning through images and often artists were inspired by the world around them, using imagery of birds, mountains and the sun. It would not have been possible to use words such as 'revolution' or 'resistance' in posters given the strict rules of the dictatorship so artists had to be careful when communicating their ideas.
How would you depict your message without words? Think about using imagery from the world around you.
