Carrie Talks about her work and the Disobedient Objects show & Step installation at the V&A. Carrie Reichardt: The relationship of my craft to my activism is that I feel that I use all my skills as an artist to try and bring about social change; to try and use it for good. Working in the communities or with the public work that I do, I’m always just trying to use whatever talent I have as a vehicle to help put forward, you know, push forward a social agenda.
For me, this piece is all about trying to tell the people’s history of civil disobedience and dissent in a kind of a ceramic way. We’re trying to make these two big pieces that from a distance - when you look at them - they just show the aggression of the state oppression, of authority.
The writing on the steps, that’s all just my favourite quotes and favourite sayings that again I think will try and encourage people to think about really, really fighting back on a civil disobedience creatively.
14 ноя 2014
