Northen Collaboration Conference 2014: Popular Culture by Emily Parsons

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Popular Culture: Using special collections and archives to build cultural partnerships and promote civic engagement. Delivered at The Northern Collaboration 2014 Conference, 5th September 2014.

Popular Culture:
Using special collections and archives
to build cultural partnerships
and promote civic engagement.
Emily Parsons, Liverpool John Moores University

Overview
• Background
• Programme of external engagement
• Case study 1: England’s Erotic Dream
• Case Study 2: Writing on the Wall

• LJMU Special
Collections
and Archives
• Popular culture:
music, theatre,fashion
counterculture
• Support research and
teaching
• Civic engagement and
cultural partnerships

Outline
• LJMU partnership with Homotopia
• The England’s Erotic Dream exhibition
• The practicalities of exposure
• Evaluation and follow-up

England’s Dreaming:
The Jon Savage Archive
Adventures in Wonderland:
The Falcon Stuart and X-Ray Spex Archive

• Long-standing
partnership and
joint activities
• Luca Bartozzi’s
2011 degree show:
interest from
Homotopia in
a public exhibition
• Fitted well with
LJMU’s strategy

The exhibition and
the practicalities of exposure

Luca’s curatorial themes
• Gender, identity,
playfulness
• Re-examine images
with a queer gaze
• Subversion of the
heteronormative
take on sexuality
• A different view of the
performative element
of punk Interview with Luca on the Homotopia web site:
http://www.homotopia.net/festival-item/englands-erotic-dream/

MetQuarter Liverpool
• Homotopia Festival
2013
• Pop-up gallery in
shopping centre
• Liaison with Centre
management team
on content and
presentation in a
public space

Only image removed
• The “Jo Malone customer”
• Words:
“rent boys” were OK,
“erotic” was not
• Support from LJMU
managers and the marketing
team
• Consumerism and image…

• No complaints
• 799 visitors
• Curiosity and
comments

Homotopia
• Influence on programming
• Talks to students in
different disciplines
• Interest in future
collaborations with LJMU
including larger-scale
exhibition

LJMU
• Build on strengths:
• Involve students
• Resilience
• Being braver
• Public money =
public access
• Explore more
“hidden histories”

Who is George Garrett?
• Born Seacombe 1896, family soon
moved to the Dingle
• Early radical activism: 1911 dockers
strike
• Stowaway, then merchant seaman,
spent both Wars at sea
• New York 1920s: IWW and early writing
• 1930s: unemployment, activism, writing
and Orwell
• Founder member, Merseyside Left
Theatre/Unity Theatre
• Family life, died 1966
Michael Murphy, Nottingham Trent University, 1999

16-week evening class
• A Stoker with Punch
• Seaman, Syndicalist
and Scribe
• On the Parish
• Subterranean Theatre

Project aims
January – May 2014
• Catalogue the archive
• Digitise the archive
• Garrett web site, timeline,
book, exhibition, installation
and film
• Launch and programme of
events during WOW
Festival May 2014

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