Brexit Tears

Colvin, C. (Speaker)

Contemporary Art Practice

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

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Street Level Photoworks

For the eighth in our series of In Focus talks we were joined by artist Calum Colvin and poet Robert Crawford as they discussed their collaboration Brexit Tears, which tells the story of recent politics through ‘instagraphs’ in which texts and images frolic and jostle together. Made during recent political convulsions, this project seeks to speak of and from this time, but also to sum it up in a way that looks forward to possibilities beyond.

Period	18 Feb 2021

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For the eighth in our series of In Focus talks we were joined by artist Calum Colvin and poet Robert Crawford as they discussed their collaboration Brexit Tears, which tells the story of recent politics through ‘instagraphs’ in which texts and images frolic and jostle together. Made during recent political convulsions, this project seeks to speak of and from this time, but also to sum it up in a way that looks forward to possibilities beyond.
Brexit Tears is a collaboration between poet Robert Crawford and photographer Calum Colvin. Crawford's forty 'instagraphs' speak, often from a Scottish perspective, of and from Brexit's convulsions, deceits and delusions. They frolic and jostle with Colvin's witty and hard-hitting images to produce a unique critique of Brexit, whilst also looking forward to possibilities beyond. Published to coincide with the exhibition Brexit Tears at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh, this book also appears in the week the UK ends its membership of the European Union.