{"id":904,"date":"2020-09-07T22:24:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T21:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/festivalofthemind.sheffield.ac.uk\/2020\/?post_type=exhibit1&p=904"},"modified":"2020-09-18T12:23:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T11:23:27","slug":"what-must-we-dream-of","status":"publish","type":"exhibit1","link":"https:\/\/festivalofthemind.sheffield.ac.uk\/2020\/futurecade\/what-must-we-dream-of\/","title":{"rendered":"What Must We Dream Of?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This online exhibition takes us on a journey through Neepsend and Parkwood Springs. Scarred by industrialisation, deindustrialisation, slum clearance and war, these inner city areas are being reinvented in surprising ways. The project began when artists Patrick Murphy and Anton Want embarked on a series of city walks with Dr Amanda Crawley Jackson (School of Languages and Cultures), whose research explores post-traumatic landscapes in literature and the visual arts. What they saw has inspired them to create a unique document. This collection of photographs and mixed media pieces immerses us in a place where little utopias of creativity, resilience and hope jostle with big municipal and commercial developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gallery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Anton Want\u2019s photographs and literary responses, displayed here as a series of diptychs, offer a contemplative approach to city landscapes, chance encounters, nature and memory. The work offers viewers an interpretation of everyday post-traumatic landscapes through the prism of Amanda\u2019s research, and the artists\u2018 engagement with local communities to gain a deeper understanding of an area rich in its layers of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n