{"id":8742,"date":"2019-04-12T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=8742"},"modified":"2020-02-25T15:06:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T15:06:19","slug":"susannah-gent-spectre-of-the-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/susannah-gent-spectre-of-the-real\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spectre of the Real – Susannah Gent’s ‘Unhomely Street’ in Brighton exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE SPECTRE OF THE REAL: SOCIAL ART AT SEAS BRIGHTON<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

13-21 APRIL 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Spectre of the Real<\/strong> exhibition takes place 13-21 April 2019 at SEAS (Socially Engaged Art Salon), at the BMECP Centre near Brighton Train Station. The exhibition includes an opening reception and artist talks open to the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Real\u00a0is an idea of what lies beneath the ideological construct of our culture. The Real was a concept of French philosopher\u00a0Jaques Lacan\u00a0in the 1960s, who described it as Nature before classification and symbolisation \u2013 how a newborn would see the world. The Real was given a new context by British philosopher\u00a0Mark Fisher\u00a0in 2014, who said it is what lies beneath the ideology of \u2018capitalist realism\u2019 \u2013 an example quoted is environmental disaster lurking beneath the happy face of consumerism. Entries to this exhibition might be abstract, cartoonish, photographic, painterly, figurative, or performative, any media or subject, but they refer to the idea of the Real. The Real is a subject or theme of\u00a0Social Art\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 which in my view is art that engages with understanding of culture or social transformation. It includes activist art by individuals, and art that engages communities or is produced by communities. The qualities of understanding, transformation or activism may need to be described in titles or documentation, to place the art in a social context. Social art is specifically not: pure aesthetics<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Russell Honeyman<\/a>, February 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018\u201cThe kingdom of culture is superimposed on that of nature \u2026 the world of words creates the world of things.\u201d In the realm of the Real, our union with the mother is experienced as perfect and complete.\u2019\u00a0<\/em>Jaques Lacan quoted and paraphrased in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture Eighth Edition by John Storey.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Real is what any \u2018reality\u2019 [or ideological construct] must repress\u2026 the Real is an unrepresentable \u2026 traumatic void that can only be glimpsed in the fractures and inconsistencies in the \u2026 apparent reality.\u201d<\/em>Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism (2009).\u201cWhen you come to think of it, all forms of representation are ghostly. Works of art are haunted, not only by the\u00a0ideal forms\u00a0of which they are imperfect instantiations, but also by what escapes representation.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures (2014).<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Unhomely<\/a><\/p>\n

Unhomely Street<\/em> follows a female protagonist in a state of fugue following a head injury as she wanders an alienating city underbelly of clubs and free parties. Through recollections of anti-capitalist conversations, historical information about wartime atrocity, and human brutality, she searches for hope in an increasingly frightening, subjective landscape.<\/p>\n

The film explores the Derridean concept of hauntology both in terms of its original context taken from Spectres of Marx where Derrida suggests that \u2018time is out of joint\u2019 and that we are haunted by spectres of those dead and those not yet born, as well as recognising Mark Fisher\u2019s interpretation that mourns the lost futures of the twentieth century, suggesting we live in a time of mental illness, unable to envisage a future that is different to current times.<\/p>\n

Unhomely Street<\/em> is a deeply personal film that aims to employ new approaches to filmmaking through multiple narrative strands and a focus on tone and metaphor in an attempt to communicate a subjective experience.<\/p>\n

\n

Susannah Gent<\/a>\u00a0is a filmmaker and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media Arts &Communication at Sheffield Hallam University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE SPECTRE OF THE REAL: SOCIAL ART AT SEAS BRIGHTON 13-21 APRIL 2019 The Spectre of the Real exhibition takes place 13-21 April 2019 at SEAS (Socially Engaged Art Salon), at the BMECP Centre near Brighton Train Station. The exhibition includes an opening reception and artist talks open to the public. \u201cThe Real\u00a0is an idea of what lies beneath the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8633,"featured_media":661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[5,1483,124,591,115,326,1482,1481,154,155],"class_list":["post-8742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-art-and-design-research-centre","tag-brighton","tag-film-research","tag-hauntology","tag-media-arts-research","tag-screenings","tag-social-art-at-seas","tag-spectre-of-the-real","tag-susannah-gent","tag-unhomely-street"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2016\/12\/GENT-unhomely-street-Oberhausen-1.jpg?fit=1379%2C776&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-2h0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8751,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/limbo-susannah-gent-unhomely-street\/","url_meta":{"origin":8742,"position":0},"title":"Limbo – Susannah Gent’s ‘Unhomely Street’ in Brighton exhibition","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"01\/05\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Limbo Saturday 04 May 2019 SEAS - Socially Engaged Art Salon, Brighton Limbo isn\u2019t just the imaginary place or state of all holy souls after death, but a real condition. The artists in the exhibition present limbo spaces that have risen due to Brexit, austerity, socio-economic insecurity, racism and xenophobia.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Image from Susannah Gents Unhomely Street film","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2016\/12\/GENT-unhomely-street-Oberhausen-3-e1487156775725.jpg?fit=1200%2C347&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2016\/12\/GENT-unhomely-street-Oberhausen-3-e1487156775725.jpg?fit=1200%2C347&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2016\/12\/GENT-unhomely-street-Oberhausen-3-e1487156775725.jpg?fit=1200%2C347&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2016\/12\/GENT-unhomely-street-Oberhausen-3-e1487156775725.jpg?fit=1200%2C347&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2016\/12\/GENT-unhomely-street-Oberhausen-3-e1487156775725.jpg?fit=1200%2C347&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1698,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/susannah-gent-solar-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":8742,"position":1},"title":"Researcher Blog by Susannah Gent of SOLAR: Walking at the Speed of Light #3 Next Steps","author":"Alison Honnor","date":"04\/05\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"About the author Susannah Gent is Senior Lecturer in Film & Media Production\u00a0and a founder member of the Walking Arts Research Group in Media Arts. \u00a0 In this post, as the\u00a0SOLAR: Walking at the Speed of Light\u00a0closes,\u00a0Susannah looks to the future for the Media Arts Walking Research Group. \u00a0 With\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Researcher blog"","block_context":{"text":"Researcher blog","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/category\/researcher-blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"SOLAR: walking at the speed of light","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/03\/WALKING-GRP-2017-03-news-solar-SLIDECROP.gif?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/03\/WALKING-GRP-2017-03-news-solar-SLIDECROP.gif?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/03\/WALKING-GRP-2017-03-news-solar-SLIDECROP.gif?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/03\/WALKING-GRP-2017-03-news-solar-SLIDECROP.gif?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13101,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/susannah-gents-psychotel-2-at-wollaton-street-studios-nottingham-03-27-june-2024\/","url_meta":{"origin":8742,"position":2},"title":"Susannah Gent’s ‘Psychotel 2’ at Wollaton Street Studios, Nottingham, 03 – 27 June 2024","author":"Phoebe Bolton","date":"31\/05\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Psychotel 2 is a cinematic installation project exploring the uncanny. The exhibition employs elements from cinema\u2019s supernatural horror genres; bizarre interpretations of psychoanalysis; and philosophical investigations into the structure of identity. Visitors are subjected to slow nuanced arrangements of objects, kaleidoscopic sequences of images, filmic topologies of thought, and lightly\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Events"","block_context":{"text":"Events","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/category\/events\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2024\/05\/Psychotel2FlyerSG-e1717161816483.jpg?fit=700%2C394&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2024\/05\/Psychotel2FlyerSG-e1717161816483.jpg?fit=700%2C394&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2024\/05\/Psychotel2FlyerSG-e1717161816483.jpg?fit=700%2C394&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2024\/05\/Psychotel2FlyerSG-e1717161816483.jpg?fit=700%2C394&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5762,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/walk-out-walking-arts-exhibition\/","url_meta":{"origin":8742,"position":3},"title":"‘Walk Out’ – Exhibition of the Walking Arts Research Group opens in Sheffield with private view on Thursday 29 November","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"28\/11\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"WALK OUT is an exhibition of the work made through engagement with the Walking Arts Research Group (WARG). Much of the work is a free-form response to the rural and urban environment. WARG at Sheffield Hallam University provides a collaborative space for the investigation of cross-practice creative production linked to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Exhibitions"","block_context":{"text":"Exhibitions","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/category\/exhibition\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Walk Out exhibition banner","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/11\/2018-11-WARG-Walk-Out-New-Banner.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/11\/2018-11-WARG-Walk-Out-New-Banner.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/11\/2018-11-WARG-Walk-Out-New-Banner.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/11\/2018-11-WARG-Walk-Out-New-Banner.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1666,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/testing-testing-exhibition-and-symposium\/","url_meta":{"origin":8742,"position":4},"title":"‘Testing, Testing’ – Exhibition and Symposium","author":"Rachel Finch","date":"10\/08\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Testing, Testing SIA Gallery, Sheffield Hallam University Emma Bolland, Rose Butler, Michael Day, Susannah Gent, Debbie Michaels, Emma O'Connor, Bernadette O'Toole, Jo Ray, Rachel Smith, Rachel Emily Taylor Artists speak about \u2018making\u2019 all the time, but what making looks like, feels like, where it takes place and how it occurs\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Doctoral research"","block_context":{"text":"Doctoral research","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/category\/doctoral-research\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Imaging containing text 'Testing, Testing'","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/04\/testing-testing.jpg?fit=860%2C290&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/04\/testing-testing.jpg?fit=860%2C290&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/04\/testing-testing.jpg?fit=860%2C290&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/04\/testing-testing.jpg?fit=860%2C290&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1232,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/walking-arts-research-group-solarsolar-walking-at-the-speed-of-light\/","url_meta":{"origin":8742,"position":5},"title":"Walking Arts Research Group launch SOLAR: Walking At The Speed Of Light – exhibition open until 23 April","author":"Alison Honnor","date":"09\/03\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"SOLAR: walking at the speed of light SIA Gallery, 153 Arundel Street, S1 2NU Wednesday 15 March - Sunday 23 April 2017 Open daily (including weekends, except Easter Bank Holiday 14-18 April) Admission is free SOLAR is a collaborative arts and technology project which maps the solar system across the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Exhibitions"","block_context":{"text":"Exhibitions","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/category\/exhibition\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"SOLAR: walking at the speed of light","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/03\/WALKING-GRP-2017-03-news-solar-SLIDECROP.gif?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/03\/WALKING-GRP-2017-03-news-solar-SLIDECROP.gif?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/03\/WALKING-GRP-2017-03-news-solar-SLIDECROP.gif?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/03\/WALKING-GRP-2017-03-news-solar-SLIDECROP.gif?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8742"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8752,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742\/revisions\/8752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}