Echo Eternal 2019 (Exhibition Curator)
An arts and heritage programme taking place over twelve months from January 2018, Echo Eternal engaged young people at twelve Birmingham schools to produce a range of artistic responses to the personal testimonies of Holocaust Survivors. Commissioned by Core Education to curate the artworks and bring those responses together, this unique exhibition featured across three floors, at the Library of Birmingham.
Combined together, they reveal the depth to which the young people investigated, explored and responded creatively to this important and emotive subject. Considered and thoughtful responses, made by children and young people of all ages and abilities, creating a range of creative interpretations—to engage us, the audience—into sharing their creative observations, and in turn honouring the sharing of these testimonies by Holocaust Survivors.
Young people’s artwork (Drawings, Paintings, Textiles, Photography, Prints and Sculpture) featured in The Gallery. Selected artworks made by young people working alongside professional artists—during artists’ residencies at each school—demonstrate the broad range of creative endeavours the young people embarked on. They represent the final creative interpretations of the twelve Holocaust Survivors’ personal testimonies; some of which directly link to personal narratives, others influenced by the resilience and hope that so inspired the young people.
The Echo Eternal Reading Room supported the work in the The Gallery. In this space, visitors could read printed transcripts of the twelve Holocaust Survivors testimonies; alongside the young people’s thoughts, explorations, research and reflections—brought together in series of specially created books and printed text pieces.
Over the course of each project the young people’s responses captured on twelve multimedia films, were installed in the Foyer Space . Predominantly each film represents the young people’s residences with creative professionals, combined with Holocaust Survivors personal testimonies. At the centre of this video installation, an interactive installation The World We Dream Of — giving an opportunity for visitors to offer their own reflections of Echo Eternal.
Echo Eternal was an arts, media and civic engagement project inspired by the testimonies of Survivors of the Holocaust. The project was led by CORE Education Trust on behalf of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation.
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