REWIND << FASTFORWARD >> RECORD
08th - 28th August 2022
REWIND<<FASTFORWARD>>RECORD (RFR) will take up a three-week residency at the Void Gallery, Derry. Through a series of workshops and tours, the RFR project will explore the history of Foyle Pride and LGBTQ+ activism in Derry.
Working with local community groups and artists, RFR will introduce participants to the 'Games For Artists and Non-Artists' workshop methodologies to create new artworks that will be installed as part of RFR's evolving and expanding exhibition to coincide with Foyle Pride 2022.
During this time the RFR team will also work closely with the Rainbow Project, taking inspiration from an unofficial archive of found photographs and collected newspaper clippings documenting Foyle Pride over the decades.
The Rainbow Project, Archive
The Rainbow Project, Archive
Scrapbook Workshop, Research Trip
Scrapbook Workshop, Research Trip
Placard-Making Workshop, LGBTQ+ Youth
Placard-Making Workshop, LGBTQ+ Youth
Placard-Making Workshop, LGBTQ+ Youth
Placard-Making Workshop, LGBTQ+ Youth
Placard-Making Workshop, LGBTQ+ Youth
Placard-Making Workshop, LGBTQ+ Youth
Placard-Making Workshop, LGBTQ+ Youth
Exhibition Launch
Exhibition Launch
Exhibition Launch
Exhibition Launch
Exhibition Launch
Exhibition Launch
Exhibition Launch
EVENTS
GFANA Workshop with Non-Artists for LGBTQ+ Adults
Tue, 9th August 2022, 12-4 pm
“It is not the place of the theatre to show the correct path, but only to offer the means by which all possible paths may be examined" - Augusto Boal.
This workshop will draw on each participants' immediate responses to the unofficial Foyle Pride Archive in the care of the Rainbow Project. Activating a series of techniques and exercises we will locate commonalities and intersections within their formed perspectives. Through the consideration of our bodies as both subjects and sculptural objects, participants will have the opportunity to physically manifest their ideas and concepts. This new manifestation may allow us to elaborate on how we may perceive or locate ourselves, the viewer, in this exchange of ideas. As we physically occupy the triangle of Viewer, Artist and Art-object we may attempt to develop a new line of collective questioning. Considering ideas around art, protest and our place within this sphere. A series of meditations and responses will take place offering a new ‘way in’ to the archive activating the space as a discursive platform and crucially an intergenerational place to belong.
Placard-Making Workshop for LGBTQ+ Youth
Wed, 10th August 2022, 12-3 pm
In this workshop, artist and researcher Hannah Tiernan will deliver a short introduction to the history of modern Irish LGBTQ+ Activism and a selection of placards and banners that have been used during various LGBTQ+ protests. This will be followed by a placard-making workshop facilitated by artist and educator Sarah Edmondson, where participants will be guided through a process of combining typography with line drawings to create strong visual statements.
Derry Rainbow Walking Tour
Tues, 16th August, 2022, 6.30 -8.30 pm
ALL WELCOME!
Join Eimear Willis of Rainbow Project for a fascinating stroll through Derry where you will encounter some of the founding members of Foyle Pride and other LGBTQ+ activists who will share historic stories of the city and their own experiences along the way.
GFANA Workshop with Artists
Wed, 17th August 2022, 12-4 pm
“It is not the place of the theatre to show the correct path, but only to offer the means by which all possible paths may be examined" - Augusto Boal.
Re-visions: Your Practice, My Body. Experimental workshop drawing on each artist’s area of research and studio practice through Augusto Boal’s Image Theatre techniques.
This workshop will draw on each artist's area of interest and through a series of techniques and exercises, we will locate commonalities and intersections within their practices. Through the consideration of our bodies as both subjects and sculptural objects, artists will have the opportunity to physically manifest their ideas and concepts. This new manifestation may allow us to elaborate on how we may perceive or locate the viewer in this exchange of ideas. As we physically occupy the triangle of Viewer, Artist and Art-object we may attempt to develop a new line of collective questioning.
Official Opening of RFR installation
Tue, 23rd August 2022, 6.30-8.30 pm