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MA Lectures 2009 - Carol Tulloch & Syd Shelton

Carol Tulloch & Syd Shelton

A Riot of our Own: A Review

Wednesday 10th June 2009 5.00pm

Woodlane Lecture Theatre

This presentation will review the exhibition A Riot of Our Own which was held at Chelsea Space, London in 2008. The show documented the Rock Against Movement (RAR) of 1976-1981 through the personal archive of Syd Shelton and Ruth Gregory. The talk will comprise personal reflections on the movement and its creative activism by Syd, and the consideration of the curatorial approaches and analytical perspectives that informed the show by Carol Tulloch, a co-curator of the exhibition.

Carol Tulloch is the TrAIN/V&A Senior Research Fellow in Black Visual Culture. She has published and curated exhibitions on dress, black identities, self-telling, place and cultural heritage. Most recently Carol was principle investigator of the Dress and the African Diaspora Network.

http://www.transnational.org.uk/people/19-carol-tulloch

Syd Shelton is a director of Graphcsi design agency, London. Syd has worked as a photographer and graphic designer since leaving art school in 1968. Recently his work was included in the exhibition A Riot of Our Own at Chelsea Space, London. Syd has produced a range of graphics for clients from the public and private sector over the past 40 years. He co-edited the book series ‘A day in the life of', including the award winning A Day in the Life of London.

www.graphicsi.com

A Riot of Our Own was a ‘self-archiving' narrative on RAR. Ruth and Syd were RAR committee members, and key graphic designers of the movement's associated material such as RAR's official paper Temporary Hoarding, posters and stickers, badges, and illustrations. Syd photographed performers and members of the audience at RAR carnivals, gigs and demonstrations, as well as contextual social and cultural images that informed the anti-racist politics of RAR, across England and Ireland.

The archive is a unique repository of this pivotal period in Britain when difference was championed as a form of empowerment, anti-establishment and a post-modern act, that helped to define Britain's character, and simultaneously affected personal identities. Therefore the archive is the residue of a collective engagement with, and the offensive of, anti-racism through creativity. Such a tangent as this illustrated presentation re-visits the energy of RAR from the design studio to carnivals, gigs, national tours and demonstrations.

10 June 2009 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm