ASSEMBLY – a film about the exhibition in St.Lawrence Chapel, Ashburton.
Film commissioned by N-E-W and made by Matt Ryder
ASSEMBLY is an ongoing collaboration organised by N-E-W a UK, South West based Arts Collective.
ASSEMBLY was conceived and curated by Robert Manners.
ASSEMBLY is a response to part of a text, The Total Economy, by Wendell Berry. This raises questions about the motivations that lie behind the political and social construct that we live in, and into which we bring our children. Education is a critical part of this and is obviously an important tool in any social construct. Education has a profound impact on anyone who experiences it.
The Wendell Berry text raised powerful questions about education or more specifically the type of education that we offer to particularly the youth in our societies. The youth ,that in time, will be running the ‘construct’. Do we demonstrate to them how to be constructively critical of the world. A world that they have no choice but to live in.
Do we support them to be different and creative?
Do we show them how to be happy and fulfilled?
ASSEMBLY is a small group of artists and students who have collaborated to produce a collection of works that together, hopefully, are greater than the sum of their parts.
ASSEMBLY was conceived, produced and delivered in the space of ‘not knowing’. ASSEMBLY is an experiment and experiments always carry risk.
Living well is difficult and is a risky business.
