Kathleen Herbert |
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I may be a wage slave on Monday but I am a free man on Sunday 2011 I may be a wage slave on Monday but I am a free man on Sunday is a lyric from a Ewan MacColl folk song, Manchester Rambler, in which he describes the mass trespass on the then private land of Kinder Scout in 1931. Inspired by this Œmass trespass¹ in the Peak District, which led to the opening up of the countryside & the creation of National Parks, Kathleen Herbert¹s film explores the idea of contemporary landscape as a politicised space in which it is treated as an object rather than a resource. The viewer is taken on a journey through different visions of the land, from the urban spaces used to contrive a form of natural landscape to the rural. The raw contrasting soundtrack embellishes the imagery of the land as a lost ancient antiquity. Co-commissioned by the National Trust and Southbank Centre. |
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Stable 2007 Stable is film documenting a performance instigated by Kathleen, where for one night she bought horses into Gloucester Cathedral to walk freely through and explore the architecture of the space. During the English Civil War, Puritan troops, in an act of political bravado, used the Cathedral to stable horses. Through use of the uncanny, the film blurs boundaries between fact and fiction, myth and reality, investigating ideas around superstition, rituals and histories. Hebert draws out the apparent uninteresting or unspoken, redefining social, political, historic spatial narratives. |
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