Abstract
A Civil Soldier is the title of an ongoing artistic visualisation of a dense and complex archive collection belonging to Brigadier Edmund Paton Walsh. This archive is housed in The Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives (LHCMA), part of King's College London Archives Services. The LHCMA manages hundreds of unique collections relating to the history of modern warfare, which are used for teaching, research and public engagement.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 11 Oct 2016 |
| Event | Arts & Humanities Festival 2016 - King's College London, London, U.K. Duration: 10 Oct 2016 → 21 Oct 2016 |
Bibliographical note
Media: Exhibition and film screeningNumber of Pieces: 3
Impact: Charlotte Cullinan (of artists duo, Cullinan Richards) is researching these archives alongside Head of Archives, Geoff Browell, with the artistic purpose of unpacking a very dense catalogue compiled by Brigadier Paton Walsh, the artist's maternal grandfather, and present it with a new set of perspectives from the point of view of an artist. The aim of this research is to provide further context and meaning, and to learn more about it through the perspective of an artist - and to make the archive accessible through a live situation. The broader artistic aim is to question how knowledge creation is visualised in new, playful, and innovative ways and how it can be disseminated to a wider audience.
Together with the artist's son, Louis Masters, Charlotte Cullinan will present three small films which they co-directed, in an evening event. The material for these short films was collated during research trips to Nuremberg in October and November 2015 on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials. The films mix material found in the LHCMA archives with found footage and still photography taken on trips to Nuremberg city and The Nuremberg Palace of Justice. The films will be presented alongside two cabinet exhibitions in the main entrance to the King's Building, and accompanied by a website, acivilsoldier.com.
Institution: Kings College London Great Hall and River Room Strand Campus
Keywords
- Art and design