‘Noise’ – Rose Butler presents art, material and research at ‘Creative Interruptions’ festival of arts and activism

2019-06 BUTLER Rose - Creative Interruptions festival

Creative Interruptions: A Festival of Arts and Activism
Monday 17 – Tuesday 18 June 2019
BFI Southbank

Rose Butler will be presenting art, material and research titled Noise on Tuesday 18 June 2019. The work centres on contemporary surveillance and the reinforcement of UK borders following the EU Referendum and in the build up to Brexit.

Still from Butler, Noise, 2017

Creative Interruptions: A Festival of Arts and Activism will explore how marginalised communities use the arts, media and creativity to challenge exclusion. The festival hopes to shed light on the local and global dynamics that rupture, alienate, and marginalise communities and the creative tools used to address and tackle disenfranchisement. Bringing together activists, artists, academics and policy-makers, the festival aims to create new networks and facilitate local, national, and global debates surrounding the arts, media, diversity and inequality.

The current uncertainties around immigration, cultural difference, rights and responsibilities have resurfaced global debates on colonialism, borders, race, and resistance and brought to light the creativity that these circumstances produce. With this in mind, the aim of this interdisciplinary festival is to explore why and how particular kinds of creative forms, textures and (alternative) aesthetics are used in arts and activism. What is it about theatre, film, or the digital medium that makes each of them the most appropriate or enabling forms and spaces to communicate, share and enable activist messages, for example around race and class politics? In what circumstances does everyday creativity constitute a creative intervention?

Find the programme online here.


Rose Butler is an artist, researcher and senior lecturer of Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University, she works with video, photography, sound, animation and installation. She is a Doctoral Researcher registered in C3RI and sponsored by the SHU Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship Scheme. She is also a board member of Bloc Projects and a freelance artist mentor. Find out more about Rose’s work here.