The Peculiar People

Description

Tent. Essex, Focal Point Gallery, 16-04-2016, 02-07-2016. - Aankondiging van de gelijknamige tentoonstelling, gedrukt op textiel. - The Peculiar People' is an exhibition and event series tracing the history of ideological and social-political communal living experiments throughout the 20th Century to the present day. These include the pioneering industrial worker estates at East Tilbury and Silver End, as well as the many alternative ideological communities such as the Tolstoy-inspired anarcho-naturist colonies; each revealing Essex as a place where utopias were imagined, traditional ways of living were challenged and revolutionary politics, art, architecture and literature were born and flourished