{"product_id":"a-voice-in-partial-vision-by-ben-judd","title":"A VOICE, IN PARTIAL VISION by Ben Judd","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eA Voice, in Partial Vision\u003c\/i\u003e is a publication by Hackney-based artist Ben Judd, reimagining five projects developed over the past decade in collaboration with writers, musicians, choreographers, students and community groups. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe book layers and blends fragments of musical score, documentation and a rich seam of archival material that informs Judd’s practice with texts by Jeffrey Kastner, Fiep van Bodegom and Fatoş Üstek.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWorking across London, Leicester, Liverpool and Kent, the projects respond to specific places, histories, collections and communities as the contexts for imagining fictional communities and the worlds they might inhabit.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Part Versus the Whole\u003c\/i\u003e, commissioned by the Victoria Gallery \u0026amp; Museum in Liverpool, Judd combined objects from the museum’s collections and archives with new sculpture, film and performance to imagine a lost community existing within the museum and the city. In Leicester, \u003ci\u003eNothing Human is Strange to Me\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Absolute\u003c\/i\u003e developed the fictional Welfarers, a community imagined to have occupied the site of De Montfort University; their history, beliefs and rituals were reconstructed through performance, costume, archival material, artefacts, music and moving image.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Origin\u003c\/i\u003e, developed through Judd’s Stanley Picker Fellowship at Kingston University London, brought local participants together to imagine a temporary community on a boat on the River Thames, as well as on a small island. In \u003ci\u003eThe Push \u0026amp; the Pull\u003c\/i\u003e, a fictional lost community of the Isle of Sheppey was embodied through Judd’s performance on a sailing barge, alongside contributions from local writers, musicians and community groups. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eA Voice, in Partial Vision\u003c\/i\u003e brings these projects together to explore how communities can be constructed from fragments of place, history, memory and imagination, and how these inventions might act as rehearsals for an alternative future.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eDesign By Modern Activity\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Self-published","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58850331754880,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/4524\/8002\/files\/avoicefrontcover.jpg?v=1788434969","url":"https:\/\/londonbookarts.org\/products\/a-voice-in-partial-vision-by-ben-judd","provider":"London Centre for Book Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}