What Would Essex Look Like? 2022

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Audio

9:36 minutes

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This is the audio work for the final chapter, An Afro Future Narrative for Essex, of the three-part film Othered in a region that has been historically Othered, which reimagines Essex as a site of transformation and reconfigured social relations. An insistent techno rhythm runs through its structure, a nod to  Essex’s 1990s rave culture. The composition centres Black, queer, and marginalised voices in Essex as part of a collective address that unfolds through an expanded listening space, echoing the chapter's proposition that Essex is a site where inherited hierarchies are destabilised, and new social possibilities begin to emerge.

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Commissioned by Focal Point Gallery as part of the solo exhibition Othered in a region that has been historically Othered, 2022. Funded by Arts Council England, Focal Point Gallery and Southend-on-Sea City Council.

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Credits: Designed by Trevor Mathison with Elsa James; Voice-over: Nathan Chaplin; Film stills: Andy Delaney

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