Partner search Culture sub-program Strand/category EU CREATIVE EUROPE COOPERATION PROJECTS RELATED TO THE EUROPEAN YEAR OF CULTURAL HERITAGE 2018 Deadline 22/11/2017 Cultural operator(s) Name Short description Nerve Centre The Nerve Centre is Northern Ireland s leading creative media arts centre (www.nervecentre.org). From its creative hub in Derry~Londonderry the Nerve Centre is involved in a wide range of programmes in the visual arts, music, film, creative technologies, peace-building, education and skills training, and digital fabrication. The organisation has in house recording studios, production suites, cinemas and multimedia training facilities, as well as two pioneering Creative Learning Centre in Derry and Belfast, which share training and best practice in creative technologies to the education sector. The Nerve Centre's innovative 2013 project Open the Shutters (European Cultural Fund part funded) explored photographic archives of conflict, identity and division in cities with histories of conflict and division - Berlin, Dubrovnik, Derry-Londonderry. Our Teaching Divided Histories project develops new educational approaches to the study of conflict in countries and societies around the world. Contact details David Lewis, d.lewis@nervecentre.org, 028 7126 0562 Project Field(s) Visual Arts, Photography, Conflict Education Description Making Citizens, Making Icons: Gilles Caron and the iconography of civil rights In his images of citizens in revolt be they workers, farmers, or students - Caron gives particular iconic importance to the figure of the stone thrower, like David again Goliath. This representation of the
body in action is like a repeated choreography which is performed continuously across the fronts of rebellion in Paris, May 1968, Prague 1968, and Derry~Londonderry 1969. Making Citizens, Making Icons is an international project bringing together the inherent power of both photojournalism and contemporary digital image technologies, to engage audiences in exploring the legacies of historic civil rights protests across Europe, and their lessons for teaching, learning and representing citizenship today. At the heart of the project is a unique artistic collaboration between cultural organisations in three European cities that have been zones of iconic social unrest on the 50 th anniversary of the events Prague (tbc?), Paris (Fondation Gilles Caron) and Derry- Londonderry (Nerve Centre) in 1968 and 1969. Making Citizens, Making Icons is a partnership led by the Nerve Centre with the Fondation Gilles Caron, part-funded by the Fondation Bru etc. In the late 1960s the French photographer and photojournalist Gilles Caron made a series of iconic photographs of civil rights protest and civil unrest across Europe. Caron s peripatetic practice as photojournalist links the struggles over civil rights that took place on the streets of Derry, Belfast, Paris, Prague in 1968 and 1969. Caron travelled between these locations, creating mesmerizing images of individuals caught within instances of public conflict and private drama. This project will excavate the deeper connections between the civil rights issues that were being forged, debated and battled over in each site.
Looking for Partners Countries Profile Prague, Czechoslovakia Visual Arts organisation / Commercial Gallery / Institution with a track record in creative approaches to conflict education and looking at the past Other e.g. Primary objective of proposal/maximum project duration/project deliverables etc Making Citizens, Making Icons is an international partnership cocurated by Declan Sheehan of the Nerve Centre, and Pauline Vermare of the ICP. The project will include a programme of exhibitions, public
artworks, screenings, talks, community engagement, and a comprehensive education programme targetted at second and third level focussing on the the legacies of civil rights struggles across Europe and contemporary issues of citizenship, civil rights. Featuring over a hundred colour and black-and-white prints, as well as contact sheets, publications and ephemera of the time it will tour across international gallery venues: - Czechoslovakia: Prague gallery tbc - 2018 - France: Paris gallery tbc - 2018 - Northern Ireland: Nerve Visual gallery in Derry~Londonderry and a gallery in Belfast tbc as well as siting prints across public sites in these cities - 2018/2019 Caron s vision of the Battle of the Bogside in Derry~Londonderry, the Prague Spring, and Paris May 68 as urban uprisings which were the catalyst for developing civil rights will be exhibited and reproduced as a catalogue and an online resource with texts and multimedia highlighting the importance of this body of work in the history of photography, and the history of civil rights in Europe. The show in Derry~Londonderry will be accompanied by an innovative interactive digital platform that will let viewers immerse themselves within the stunning visual memory that Caron created of the Battle of the Bogside, Derry~Londonderry in August 1969, and the screening of a documentary film made by acclaimed director Mariana Otero on Caron in Derry~Londonderry. The project Making Citizens, Making Icons: Gilles Caron and the iconography of civil rights will have the potential to tour more extensively in Europe and in the US in the months and years following its presentation at the Derry~Londonderry / Belfast, Prague and Paris in 2018 and 2019.