Visualising the Housing Crisis

From ICVisual Lab website:http://icvlstudio.com/the-cage-visualising-the-housing-crisis

THE CAGE: Visualising The Housing Dysfunction, is a publication that emerged from a three-day experimental workshop with Spanish artist Julian Baron, IC-Visual Lab, and twelve other workshop participants in Bristol (UK). The housing crisis is explored through the construction and interrogation of an eclectic archive composed of visual materials from official and unofficial archives, public and private collections as well as community and online sources.The book encapsulates the work around four conceptual areas: Living Costs and Standards of Housing, Privatisation and Home Ownership, Tenant Identity, and Homelessness. Here we repurpose visual materials from historical and contemporary events such as the slums of 1930s Wigan; the destruction of houses in World War Two; the construction (and destruction) of tower blocks; the sell-off of social housing; the cycle of housing bubbles; the rise of ‘Generation Rent’; or the culpable homicide of Grenfell Tower.

This workshop was also supported by ACORN Bristol, a tenants union fighting against unfair laws and housing services. They contributed to our archive with visual evidences of their tenants’ damaged houses. All the profits generated through this publications will be donated to ACORN Bristol to support their activities.

The workshop was held in the graphic design studios at UWE Bristol, and was a collaboration with: People’s Republic of Stokes Croft; Acción Cultural Española (AC/E); Arnolfini; The University of West of England, and the Arts Council England.

Workshop Participants: Emma Iris-Hill, Alastair Myers, object…, Tom Cullimore, Tom Roche, Matthew Gonzalez Noda, Robert Ruszczyk, Renia Maj, Stephen Monger
Facilitators: Julián Barón / Alejandro Acín
Guest Participants: Nick Ballard (ACORN), Lua Ribeira, Lisa Furnes and Colin Pantall.
Camera and film editing: Sam Hardie
Video Art Direction: Alejandro Acín & Sam Hardie