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Loraine Leeson

Archive type: Interview
Archive ID: lcva_33594
Date: 2016
Location: Unknown
Chroma: Colour
Duration: 00:19:40
Format: Digital file
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Loraine Leeson is a senior lecturer at Middlesex University and director of cSPACE. She has worked with communities through the visual arts for nearly forty years, creating artworks and initiatives in the public domain.

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00:00 Start 01:52 My First Use of Video 02:57 Coming Back from Germany: Film and Video Fellowship 03:46 Emergency: Bethnal Green Hospital Occupation Video 06:16 Video or Photography 08:11 The Limitations of Video 09:58 The Docklands Community Poster Project 12:25 Art as a Campaigning Tool 13:10 A Change in Politics: What We Did Next 14:10 What I learnt from Community Art 15:21 Getting Back to Community Video 16:58 The Future of Community Video

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Camera: Rosie Saunders
Editor: Siobhan Schwartzberg
Interviewer: Siobhan Schwartzberg
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