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Description: | Susan Hiller staged Street Ceremonies on Sunday 23 September 1973. This poster records that the event took place on Portobello Green, where the elevated Westway motorway crosses Portobello Road.
The event was designed as a ritual to strengthen a community under threat. At noon and at six o'clock that night, participants took up positions on the circumference of the circle marked by Hiller on a map. At noon, participants reflected the sunlight using mirrors, and at sunset, they lit candles.
Street Ceremonies was one of the earliest art events deliberately involving the local community. It reflects many of the concerns of the 1970s: political engagement, feminism, and alternatives to capitalism. The threats it was designed to ward off were the construction of the Westway, compulsory evictions and the beginnings of gentrification in Notting Hill. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Susan Hiller | Subjects: | Environment Transport Art and Design | Temporal: | 1973 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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