Dissonance and Disturbance
Lis Rhodes, 2012, UK, video, 27'
A mural drawn out of three earlier films: A Cold Draft (1988), In the Kettle (2010-12) and Whitehall (2012). In the 24 years between the films — inequity has widened the rift of inequality. The mural does not actually exist without the figures in Whitehall with the intention to resist the privatization of the public. The public assets have been taken and sold — student fees have been imposed — the Education Maintenance abolished in England. The resistance to inequity is echoed in many countries in 2011 — uprisings to the violence of “austerity” that has been demanded by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
