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Su Braden

Archive type: Interview
Archive ID: lcva_47071
Date: 2016
Location: Beyond London
Chroma: Colour
Duration: 00:33:57
Format: Digital file
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Su Braden trained as a visual artist in the 1960s, was the art critic on Time Out, then set up the Walworth and Aylesbury Community Arts Trust (WACAT) in south London in the mid 1970s.

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00:00 The Camera as a Group Imaginary 00:54 Starting out as a journalist then an architect’s assistant in the late 1960s 01:45 An eye-opening summer of Pop Art in New York 1967 02:45 Art school in 1968 03:08 Pavilions in the Parks 05:21 From site-specific sculpture to Community Art 06:00 Art on the Aylesbury Estate 07:14 WACAT: The Walworth and Aylesbury Community Arts Trust 08:21 The design of the Aylesbury Estate and its impact on the community 09:13 Introducing video workshops on the Aylesbury Estate 10:27 Video workshops on the Aylesbury: The camera as a group imaginary 12:11 Bringing isolated individuals and groups together - Alliance Building as Community Arts practice 13:37 How to define Community Video 15:12 Documenting a community in flux Michael Faraday School, 1977 17:06 WACAT finally acquire their own video equipment… 17:31 …that is stolen just days later 18:43 Linking up networks on the estate to create a joint enterprise 19:44 From the Aylesbury Estate to the forests of Cameroon 21:51 Returning to England and unemployment in 1979 22:21 Establishing Barefoot Video workshop in Brighton in the early 1980s 23:15 Working with unemployed youth in Newhaven 23:39 Health or Human Rights, 1984 25:30 Enabling the elderly to shoot video and represent their own experience 26:56 Alliance building encourages many small courageous acts 29:50 The wider impacts of Health or Human Rights 30:46 Expanding the use of video to enable alliances between rural communities and government 34:46 Alliance building as a key theme: video as a site for negotiations

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