Hurriers: Poor on the Roll [Exhibition]

Hurriers: Poor on the Roll
Exhibition taking place consecutively in two London venues, Nov. - Dec. 2021
APT Gallery: 2-5 Dec. 2021
Five Years Gallery: 9-18 Dec. 2021

‘Hurriers: Poor on the Roll’ co-curated by Anne Robinson and Frances Hatherley features new work by: Anne Robinson, Charlotte Squire, Lou Barnell, Ana Bennloch, Kathleen Mullaniff, and Shaheeda Sinckler: inter generational conversations about class, sexuality and working bodies, emerging from the collaborative processes of working on The Hurrier expanded film work during 2021.

The Hurrier five screen video installation with sound, uses experimental sound, film, peformance and imagiative time travel to expand unseen historical moments in the lives of the undocumented. At APT, the piece will be shown as a video installation in the gallery for four days accompanied by works by all artists involved in the the project, and historical research materials.

Collaborating artists were also part of the gallery exhibitions, showing audio work, video, prints, and drawings. The Feminist Library also contributed a book stall with items selected by Robinson as lead artist and Minna Haukka, Library curator on working class women.

The real ‘hurriers’ were women, who hauled and carried coal through narrow mine passages, through the trapper doors, on their knees, through water and up hill, until the mid nineteenth century. This ‘Hurrier’ is a time traveller.. this ‘Hurrier’ alights in bodies, expanding time and transmitting to the future. The work was developed through collaborations with performers and makers on improvisation, props, song and film experiments, working frame by frame and in the space between: a space to escape to when your time is regulated and brutal.

Associated with these exhibitions are a gallery publication, podcast, five screen video installation, composed ballad and short film.