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We Refuse To Be Scapegoats

'Poignant and totally engaging... moving and beautifully put together.'

Thank you, Judith Burrows for these kind words and thanks to everyone who joined us for the in-person exhibition private view. We had great feedback! And a socially-distanced viewing success!

We Refuse to be Scapegoats runs from June 24th to July 10th 2021 onsite at P21 Gallery! It is free and open to all on Tue, Thu & Fri 12:00-18:00, Wed 12:00-20:00 and Sat 12:00-16:00!

We Refuse to be Scapegoats is the first UK solo exhibition in the last ten years by artist of mixed Eastern European Jewish heritage Pam Skelton @pamskelton2 Curated by Iliyana Nedkova @iliyananedkova, the exhibition takes the form of a multi-channel video and sound installation. In this exhibition, the artist explores her family history and the impact of the Jewish Shoah and the Palestinian Nakba on the ensuing generations.

  Find out more here: https://p21.gallery/current-exhibitions/we-refuse-to-be-scapegoats

Discover the exhibition resources on the artist’s website: https://www.pamskelton.org/artworks/we-refuse-to-be-scapegoats/pre-exhibition-discussion/

📸 We Refuse to be Scapegoats Private View at the P21 Gallery. Images by Mathilde Jourdan and Pam Skelton

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Tall Walls Wall Us

Watch an excerpt from Tall Walls Wall Us (2021)  – one of the new moving image works in Pam Skelton's solo exhibition We Refuse to be Scapegoats in advance of the in-person private view on 23 June 2021 at P21 Gallery.

This excerpt features a rare recording of Louis MacNeice's own reading of Prayer Before Birth (1944). Nearly 80 years after its publication this poem by the Irish poet Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) is still recited at protests and demonstrations by peace activists and human rights supporters.

We asked Pam Skelton how she had discovered the recording of this evocative poem.

‘I discovered Prayer Before Birth in 2008 while undertaking an artist's research into the archives of the Society for Co-operation in Russian and Soviet Studies (SCRSS) in London. During one of my research visits, I came across an old vinyl record titled ‘Some Recent English Poems.’ It was produced in 1946 by the SCRSS as a gift from British poets to their Soviet counterparts featuring author's readings by John Lehmann, Edith Sitwell and Louis MacNeice. As part of my residency at the SCRSS archives, I arranged for the digitisation of the record. MacNeice's is only one of the powerful voices of artsts and activists I have included in my new moving image works We Refuse to be Scapegoats at P21 Gallery.' Pam Skelton

Watch this 2 min excerpt from Tall Walls Wall Us (2021) here: https://www.pamskelton.org/prayer-before-birth/ as part of the exhibition resources curated by Pam Skelton and Iliyana Nedkova.

Find out more here: https://p21.gallery/current-exhibitions/we-refuse-to-be-scapegoats

📸 Screenshot from Tall Walls Wall Us (2021) by Pam Skelton

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We Refuse To Be Scapegoats

Screenshot from Ghost Town (2001) by Pam Skelton 

 Where We Live (2021), and its predecessor Ghost Town (2001), are two moving image works by Pam Skelton which form part of We Refuse to be Scapegoats solo exhibition at P21 Gallery. Both incorporate the artist’s own footage from her initial visit to the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto in 1993, and subsequently in 1995 and 1996. 20 years apart these works demonstrate Skelton's artistic research probing the gaps of knowledge in her own Jewish heritage, the ongoing Nakba and the entanglements of multidirectional memory.

Be the first to see Skelton's solo exhibition We Refuse to be Scapegoats in person at the private view at the gallery on 23 June 2021 18:00-20:00. Free and open all but advance registration is essential: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/private-view-we-refuse-to-be-scapegoats-tickets-157969508051

Find out more about the exhibition here: https://p21.gallery/current-exhibitions/we-refuse-to-be-scapegoats

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We Refuse To Be Scapegoats

Looking forward to joining in person at the gallery for We Refuse to be Scapegoats by Pam Skelton @pamskelton2?

Follow us here to find out what has inspired the artist's new moving image works featured in We Refuse to be Scapegoats including her long-term research deriving from her own family history and the impact of the Jewish Shoah (Holocaust) and the Palestinian Nakba (meaning ‘catastrophe’ or ‘disaster’) on the ensuing generations in diverse geopolitical contexts.

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We Refuse To Be Scapegoats

We are pleased to share an excerpt of Michael Rothberg‘s influential book Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the of Age of Decolonisation (Stanford University Press, 2009) – one of the catalysts for Pam Skelton's new moving image works to be presented to the public for the first time as part of our forthcoming exhibition We Refuse to be Scapegoats at P21 Gallery from 24 June – 10 July 2021. 

Download Michael Rothberg‘s book excerpt as part of We Refuse to be Scapegoats extensive exhibition resources, compiled by the artist Pam Skelton and exhibition curator Iliyana Nedkova, here: https://www.pamskelton.org/multidirectional-memory-remembering-the-holocaust-in-the-of-age-of-decolonisation/

 Join us for the We Refuse to be Scapegoats exhibition private view in person at the gallery on 23 June 2020. Free and open all but registration here is essential: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/private-view-we-refuse-to-be-scapegoats-tickets-157969508051

Find out more about the exhibition here': https://p21.gallery/current-exhibitions/we-refuse-to-be-scapegoats

Screenshot from Where We Live (2021) – one of Pam Skelton's moving image works featured in We Refuse to be Scapegoats exhibition at P21 Gallery

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We Refuse To Be Scapegoats

Tell her we need the wall to keep us safe is a video fragment from Pam Skelton’s artistic research leading to her solo exhibition We Refuse to be Scapegoats at P21 Gallery 24 June – 10 July 2021.

This fragment features Jennie Stoller and references Seven Jewish Children. A Play for Gaza by Carly Churchill performed at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 2009. It was written in response to the 2008/09 military strike on Gaza and contains seven moments in Israel history, from the Holocaust via the first intifada to the present day.

The play acts out what adults tell their children and what don’t. Seven Jewish Children. A Play for Gaza is free to download and can be read and performed anywhere by any number of people. Watch the extract A Play for Gaza from Pam Skelton's research as part of We Refuse to be Scapegoats exhibition resources curated by the artist and Iliyana Nedkova here: https://www.pamskelton.org/a-play-for-gaza/

Find out more about We Refuse to be Scapegoats here: https://p21.gallery/current-exhibitions/we-refuse-to-be-scapegoats 📸 Seven Jewish Children. A Play for Gaza (2015) © LeAnne Vincent Photography

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We Refuse To Be Scapegoats

Just a few more hours before the exhibition We Refuse to be Scapegoats private view at the gallery!

We Refuse to be Scapegoats is the first UK solo exhibition in the last ten years by artist of mixed Eastern European Jewish heritage Pam Skelton @pamskelton2 Curated by Iliyana Nedkova @iliyananedkova, the exhibition takes the form of a multi-channel video and sound installation. In this exhibition, the artist explores her family history and the impact of the Jewish Shoah and the Palestinian Nakba on the ensuing generations.

Find out more here: https://p21.gallery/current-exhibitions/we-refuse-to-be-scapegoats

Discover the exhibition resources on the artist’s website: https://www.pamskelton.org/artworks/we-refuse-to-be-scapegoats/pre-exhibition-discussion/

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We Refuse To Be Scapegoats

The spoken word is a powerful component in Pam Skelton's new moving image works, which could be viewed (and listened to) as an immersive installation at P21 Gallery 24 June –10 July 2021 as part of her solo exhibition We Refuse to be Scapegoats.

How did Pam Skelton create the soundscape of We Refuse to be Scapegoats? We found the answer in an extract from a forthcoming interview of Pam Skelton with exhibition contributor Dr Caterina Albano, an academic and author of Memory, Forgetting and the Moving Image (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016) 'I approached an old friend – musician and composer Wayne Brown. In fact, Wayne composed Memory Rooms, the soundscape that accompanied my solo exhibition Groundplans (1989) at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. Working with Wayne on We Refuse to be Scapegoats has made a huge difference. The sound is much more layered now and more specifically integrated within the multiple voices that inhabit the video works. He has created dramatic interludes that I think resonate throughout the project, emphasising the operatic relationship between voice and arranged music and uniting the words and ideas of those who have contributed so profoundly to peace and human rights struggles.' PAM SKELTON

  Find out more Wayne Brown and We Refuse to be Scapegoats here: https://p21.gallery/current-exhibitions/we-refuse-to-be-scapegoats

📸 Screenshot detail from We Refuse to be Scapegoats (2021) by Pam Skelton

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We Refuse To Be Scapegoats

Poetry is one of the catalysts of Pam Skleton's artistic action research leading to her solo exhibition We Refuse to be Scapegoats at P21Gallery.

In advance of the in-person private view on 23 June 2021 at the gallery, we would recommend a deep reading analysis of Rashid Hussein’s poem Love and the Ghetto (1963) by Honaida Ghanim. It is from Ghanim's text WhenYaffa Met ( J)Yaffa about the intersections between the Holocaust and the Nakba. Download WhenYaffa Met ( J)Yaffa as part of the exhibition resources curated by Pam Skelton and Iliyana Nedkova here: https://www.pamskelton.org/when-yaffa-met-jyaffa/ Find out more about We Refuse to be Scapegoats here: https://p21.gallery/current-exhibitions/we-refuse-to-be-scapegoats

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We Refuse To Be Scapegoats

We Refuse to be Scapegoats

We asked Pam Skelton what has inspired the title of her solo exhibition coming soon at P21 Gallery 24 June - 10 July 2021. In the artist's own words:

“During a demonstration in London in 2019, I heard the Palestinian youth activist Ahed Tamimi defiantly proclaim that she refused to be a victim, that she had reached the point of no longer being scared to speak out. Fear is the weapon that silences us. The fact is that we still live in an era of camps, detention centres and ghettos echoing what Louis McNeice declared in his 1944 anti-war poem Prayer Before Birth ‘tall walls wall us. These are only some of the powerful words and voices of activists and artists alike I have included in my new moving image works featured in We Refuse to be Scapegoats.” – Pam Skelton

Be the first to see We Refuse to be Scapegoats in person at the private view at the gallery on 23 June 2021 18:00-20:00. Free and open all but advance registration is essential: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/private-view-we-refuse-to-be-scapegoats-tickets-157969508051

Find out more about the exhibition here: https://p21.gallery/current-exhibitions/we-refuse-to-be-scapegoats

📸 Screenshot from Tall Walls Wall Us (2021) by Pam Skelton

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We Refuse To Be Scapegoats

We released two excerpts from the new moving image works in Pam Skelton’s forthcoming solo exhibition 'We Refuse to be Scapegoats' featuring archival footage of Angela Davis from 1972, which resonate with the ongoing Nakba.

Watch here https://www.pamskelton.org/freedom-is-a-constant-struggle/ where you can also access all other exhibition resources curated by @pamskelton2 and @iliyana.nedkova ahead of the in-person private view of 'We Refuse to be Scapegoats' onsite, at P21 Gallery at 23 June 2021.

Find out more about the exhibition here: https://p21.gallery/current-exhibitions/we-refuse-to-be-scapegoats

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We Refuse To Be Scapegoats

#DYK that you can watch, listen, read, and download over 25 free, online resources related to We Refuse to be Scapegoats – our forthcoming exhibition by British artist @pamskelton2.

Access all exhibition resources curated by @pamskelton2 and @iliyana.nedkova at the artist's website www.pamskelton.org ahead of the in-person private view of We Refuse to be Scapegoats onsite, at P21 Gallery at 23 June 2021.

Find out more on the exhibition here: https://p21.gallery/exhibitions/we-refuse-to-be-scapegoats

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We Refuse To Be Scapegoats

Delighted to announce our next onsite exhibition ‘We Refuse To Be Scapegoats’ running June 24th to July 10th 2021!

‘We Refuse to be Scapegoats’ is the first UK solo exhibition in the last ten years by artist of mixed Eastern European Jewish heritage Pam Skelton @pamskelton2 Curated by Iliyana Nedkova @iliyananedkova, the exhibition takes the form of a multi-channel video and sound installation.

Keep an  👀 on our social media for more information or browse our website to find out more now!

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