shuffle booklet A5.pdf

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INTRODUCTIONShuffle Festival opened the gates of St Clements Hospital to the public for the first time since 1849, when the

institution was built as a workhouse, later to become a psychiatric hospital until 2007. Shuffle was a month long

exploration of the wealth of artistic talent in the area, curated by Danny Boyle and presented by the East London

Community Land Trust (ELCLT).

Shuffle is first and foremost a Community Arts Festival that aims to r aise the profile and viability of establish-

ing a permanent cultural hub on the site to complement the housing development. The housing development is

a ground breaking project as it will be the first ever Urban Community Land Trust in the UK. When built, it will

comprise of 23 of the 275 houses and be held in trust.

The ELCLT along with the thousands in attendance at Shuffle believe that the CLT will provide more in the way of

local enterprise, training, education and community cohesion. This will be possible through the use of the John

Denham building (which dominates the street frontage of the site) as a permanent cultural centre. This will incor-porate a wide range of facilities that support local people through careful programming, and selection of tenants

by the Community Foundation.

The running of this building would build on the popular activities over the summer, which are also currently lacking

in the area. These include: film, poetry, theatre, alternative mental health practices & guidance, artist studios,

woodwork, seasonal gardening and food growing, market stalls, small business, a community cafe, music recitals

and gallery space. We propose that the building is run and maintained by a group comprising the Community Foun-

dation, along with a professional space management company of their selection. We believe this will deliver a high

quality space with a lively and truly representative face for this exciting development.

CONTENTS

1 / The Team + Collaborators

2 / The Programme

a) Art camp

b) Outsider poetry

c) Cockney Heritage Festival

d)Theatre

e) Film Festival

f) Day Of The Mind

g) Compulsion

3 / Conclusion + Manifesto

4 / Reinvestment Strategy

5/ The Future of Culture & Community at St Clements


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THE TEAMShuffle was run by a team of 100 Volunteers and 4 members of staff. As observed by Danny Boyle, Shuffles huge

success was fuelled by the same spirit of the previous summers Olympic games one of volunteering, optimism,

and participation in the public realm. It was conceived of and executed within three short months as a response to

the forthcoming development and the local communitys desire to inhabit the space prior to development as away of seeding the space with a community heart and presence, to form the future of the site.

The festival set out to explore and honour the history of the site. St Clements has a chequered history and is of

great significance to many peoples lives in the area. Our team consists of people from all walks of life but we are

especially proud of our engagement with St Clements ex-patients and nurses, our friends at Friends Of East End

Loonies (F.E.E.L.), The Hearing Voices Network and artists like Bobby Baker who bring to the forefront issues and

taboos that still exist around people suffering from mental disorders.


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EAST LONDON FURNITURE & CRISIS

East London Furniture make furniture from 100% recycled materials, salvaged from waste meaning that most ma-terials used in their products have been diverted from landfill. They are supported by Crisis, and work together with

them to run training workshops that teach woodworking skills to Crisis members.

ELF partnered with the Shuffle team to build a caf on site, which they ran in the lead up and for the duration of the

festival. Crisis members built the furniture that was used in the caf during one of these workshops. They also built

planter boxes in which to grow flowers and vegetables on site, which were ready in time for the festival and served

in the caf.

BIODIVERSITY AT ST CLEMENTS

A huge part of the preparation for Shuffle involved working with St Clements Neighbours - Friends of Tower Hamlets

Cemetery Park and ethno-botanist Claudio Bincoletto, to transform the gardens and landscape of the site. We were

also very lucky to have volunteer groups from Barclays, Morgan Stanley and Ecotherapy helping in this process.

Old hospital trolleys that previously littered the site were wrapped in plastic and converted into mini greenhouses,

allowing tomatoes and courgettes to flourish in the summer sun. Planter boxes built by East London Furniture were

filled with salad leaves, radishes, herbs, and edible flowers. The once overgrown garden beds were restored and filled

with wildflowers, and the patch of grass surrounding the entrance to the cinema was transformed into a beautiful

bed of sweet peas and sunflowers.

All cuttings from the overgrowth were chipped and reused as a flooring for the outdoor cinema.

The garden worked to make the site infinitely more welcoming and was left behind as a legacy of Shuffle.


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BIKE WORKSHOPTower Hamlets Cycling Club ran a bike workshop on site for the duration of the festival. They are a local cycling

campaign group who operate to encourage more people to cycle, and educate people in safe cycling. They were on site

every day and ran the workshop out of a shipping container, selling and fixing bikes. People were encouraged to bring

their bikes to St Clements for advice and new parts.

SECURITY TRAINING ACADEMYOur security team ran a training academy during Shuffle festival. Sponsored by Poplar Harca, young local trainees

were brought in to observe operations and learn about the job.


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ART CAMP21st July - 13th August

Shuffle was more than just the festival; the site was active with numerous events during our busy build period.

This included playing host to Art Camp 2013 an exploration of the hospital grounds for children from the

surrounding estates and autistic students from the Phoenix School in Mile End. They let their creative sides free,

playing, acting and making artwork with the help of local professional artists. Lunch was provided for the children

at Shuffles caf, made from vegetables grown on site.

This interaction with local children continued on site with a history project hosted by East Side Community

Heritage. The connection established by these children with the hospital site will be an invaluable part of their ex-

perience of their local area. So rare it is in London to be given the chance to explore a space so full of mystery and

claim it as your own. Play and discovery are such an important part of childhood and we were delighted to provide

this experience. The project, run by Muf Architects was dictated by the children in response to their desires rather

than imposing ideas upon them.


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OUTSIDER POETRY25th July + 18th August F.E.E.L Campaign

F.E.E.L (Friends of East End Loonies) are an in-

dependent group that aim to empower people

to find the best-suited

solution to manage their mental health issues

and promote awareness about antipsychotic

drugs. The Group is run by retired physicianand poet David Kessel and Myra Garrett, a

local health, housing and anti-nuclear weapon

campaigner active in the community since

1976.

F.E.E.L hosted two open-mic nights, one

before the official opening of Shuffle, and

one during Day of the Mind. Both succeeded

in bringing together ex-patients, nurses and

members of F.E.E.L. and opening a dialogue

about mental health in the setting of the

former hospital

COCKNEY HERITAGE FESTIVAL19th July + 26th July Film screening + free community entertainment

As part of the concurrent Cockney Heritage Festival, we joined forces and held two film screenings in the lead up

to shuffle. Somewhere Decent to Live was screened during the soft opening of our site on July 19th. The docu-

mentary follows Londons housing problem, the work of the GLC since 1965 in slum clearance and building and its

plans up to 1971, and includes a survey of tenants rehoused on GLC estates on their opinions on their new houses

and surroundings.

On the 26th July we again partnered up and screened the hilarious 1949 classic film Passport to Pimlico, in which

the residents of Pimlico declare independence, creating the need for a passport to Pimlico.


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THEATREStudents from the Central Foundation Girls School,

situated just down the road from St Clements,

produced two performances of The H.M. Case,

directed by Christopher Catherine. Presented in

conjunction with Theatre Company Complicite and

The Barbican Box Project, the play tells the stor y

of Emily, who travels to Quebec to work in a mental

institute. There she encounters Henry, who due

to an operation gone wrong is unable to form new

memories. The play is a wonderful study of memory,

based on Henry Molaison an American memory

disorder patient.

The Eyestrings Theatre group performed See What I See a piece

based on the relationship between Shakespeare and mental illness, and

specially adapted to be performed in the theatre - which was the social

club of St Clements. The play, directed by Owen Horsley, examined the

notion that Shakespeare had an exclusive grasp on the dynamic of the

human mind and found a way to articulate the dysfunctions of the hu-

man psyche. The performance explored text from different Shakespeare

pieces, placing them in the charged atmosphere of St Clements social

club. It followed the journey of a young doctor on his rounds. During his

watch, he witnesses three of Shakespeares female characters as they

relive their stories of pain, despair and delusions. His exposure to their

tragedy evoked questions about empathy, identification and care.

SHUFFLE FILM FESTIVAL8th August - 18th August INSIDE SCREEN / OUTSIDE SCREEN / RUCKSACK CINEMA SCREEN

Thursday 8th August OPENING NIGHT

16:00 Compulsion Exhibition Opening

18:00/20:30 Shallow Grave / dir. Danny Boyle / 1994 + short film presented by London Short Film Festival:

The Ellington Kid / dir. Dan Sully (indoor & TimeOut outdoor film screens)

+ Danny Boyle Q+A (indoor screen only)

21:00 The Very Best Soundsystem (live band)

+ bars, caf, food stalls, DJs, and free outdoor BFI Gothic Season shorts screenings until midnight

Friday 9th August

19:00/20:30 The Long Good Friday / dir. John Mackenzie / 1980 + short film: Noe Kuremoto: Muay Thai Kickboxer /

dir. Tubby Brother (indoor & TimeOut outdoor film screens)

21.30 Fat White Family (live band) + Idle Fret DJs

+ bars, caf, food stalls, DJs until midnight

Saturday 10th August

19:00/20.30 Withnail & I / dir. Bruce Robinson / 1987 + short film presented by London Short Film Festival:

Hoodie Monologue / dir. David Hewitt (indoor & TimeOut outdoor film screens)

21.30 Europes #1 Jimi Hendrix Tribute Band Are You Experienced (live band) + LSFF DJs

+ bars, caf, food stalls, DJs until midnight


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Sunday 11th August DAY OF THE MIND

19:00 All Divided Selves / dir. Luke Fowler / 2011 (Shuffle indoor screen) + short film: We Danced In Narrow

Spaces / dir. Asheq Akhtar + Q+A with Dr Daniel Glaser & Dr Victoria Childs (indoor screen)

20:30 One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest / dir. Milos Forman / 1975 + short film: White Other / dir. Dan Hartley

(TimeOut outdoor screen)

+ bars, caf, food stalls, DJs until 11pm

Monday 12th August BOLLYWOOD DAY (alcohol free)

17:00 Bollywood Dance Workshop with Sita Thomas free entry

19:00 Taare Zameen Par / dir. Aamir Khan / 2007 (Hindi, Engl subtitles) + short film: Jimmy Will Play / dir.

Mawaan Riswan + Danny Boyle & A.R. Rahman Q+A (indoor screen)

20:00 Danny Boyle & A.R. Rahman Q+A + Slumdog Millionaire / dir. Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan / 2008 + short

film: The Fiancee / dir. Tiberio Santomarco ( TimeOut outdoor screen)

+ caf and food stalls serving non-alcoholic drinks, curries, wraps and hala snacks, DJs until 11pm.

Tuesday 13th August

16:00 London Olympic Opening Ceremony / dir. Danny Boyle / 2012 + short film: All Eyes On Us / dir. Eelyn Lee +

short film Walk Tall / dir. Kate Sullivan (indoor screen)

20:00 Frankenstein National Theatre / dir. Danny Boyle / 2011 + Q+A with Danny Boyle & very special guests

hosted by Kim Newman (indoor screen)

20:30 Frankenstein National Theatre / dir. Danny Boyle / 2011 + short film: Darklight / dir. Richard Turley +

introduction by Danny Boyle (TimeOut outdoor screen)

+ bars, caf, DJs until 11pm

Wednesday 14th August

19:00 Attack The Block / dir. Joe Cornish / 2011 + short film: Wager Street / dir. Hoodforts + short film The Ting

/ dir. Jeremy Cole) + introduction by Joe Cornish (indoor screen)

20:30 Attack The Block / dir. Joe Cornish / 2011 + short film: Life Sentence / dir. Ray Panthaki + introduction by

Joe Cornish (TimeOut outdoor screen)


Thursday 15th August

19:00 Rosemarys Baby / dir. Roman Polanski / 1968 + short film: I Spy / dir. Luke Rodgers (indoor screen)

20:30 Trance / dir. Danny Boyle / 2013 + short film: Nocturnal Silence / dir. Mototake Makishima



Friday 16th August

19:00 Trainspotting / dir. Danny Boyle / 1996 + Secret Danny Boyle Film + short film Cool Unicorn Bruv / dir.

Ninian Doff + Danny Boyle Q+A hosted by Dave Calhoun (indoor screen)20:30 Trainspotting / dir. Danny Boyle / 1996 + short film The Lights & Then the Noise / dir. Fran Broadhurst,

Mathy Tremewan + introduction by Danny Boyle (TimeOut outdoor screen)

22:00 Richard Fearless (Death in Vegas) DJ set

+ bars, caf, DJs and free outdoor East End Film Festival short screenings until midnight


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Saturday 17th August

19:00 London: The Modern Babylon / dir. Julien Temple / 2012 + short film: Jela / dir. Will Robson-Scott + Julien

Temple Q+A hosted by James Mulligan (indoor screen)

20:30 London: The Modern Babylon / dir. Julien Temple / 2012 + short film presented by London Short Film

Festival: Good Night / dir. Muriel DAnsembourg + introduction by Julien Temple (TimeOut outdoor screen)

22:00 Julien Temple DJ set + Outsider Music by Igor Toronyi Lalic (live music)

+ bars, caf, DJs until midnight

Sunday 18th August

12:30 21:00 All Day Movie Marathon: Great Expectations/ dir. Davis Lean / 1946 + A Prophet / dir. Jacques

Audiard / 2009 + Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind / dir. Michel Gondry / 2004 + short films: Rite / dir. MichaelPearce + Unveiling Maeva / dir. Olan Collardy, Ola Masha + The Busker & The Coin / dir. Doraly Rosa (indoor cinema)

20:30 Elephant Man / dir. David Lynch / 1980 presented by BFI Gothic Season + introduction by Dexter Fletcher


21:00 Gorgeous George (live band) + Shuffle DJs

+ bars, caf, DJs, live bands & free outdoor short screenings until 11pm

THE DAY OF THE MINDThe Day of the Mind was and all-day free family event held on Sunday August 11th. Sixteen exciting activities

based around the theme of The Mind were installed for the event. More than 1500 people visited the site on this

day.

The Roxy + Rudi Roadshow

Artist Bobby Baker and her team launched a new project at Day of the Mind, as part of their on-going Daily Life

Project. This is a three-year exploration of the East End, meeting individuals with an experience of mental health

issues. The Local Wellbeing Field Research trial team occupied the ornate former St Clements Board of Guardians

Room. Visitors were invited to assess themselves as either a cat or dog person, paint a watercolour of their chosen

animal, then asked a series of questions by team members clad in lab coats and fluorescent yellow hats. After

marking their residential location on a map of East London, they were given a decorated biscuit of their chosen

animal. The Roadshow aimed to discover and promote peoples unacknowledged expertise for developing creative

strategies for daily living. It ran from 11am 6pm and was supported by the Wellcome Trust.

Guerilla Sciences Memory Clinic

A replica of a previous Memory Clinic installed in the Barbican Centre as part of the Wellcome Trusts Wonder

Season was commissioned for Day of the Mind. The 5m x 8m maze was constructed by Guerilla Science and Shuffle

volunteers in the days leading up to Day of the Mind, and remained in position for the remainder of the festival.

The maze structure comprised of shelves of hanging test tubes into which visitors were invited to leave written

memories. These were based on five prompt questions designed to trigger different memories stored in particular

parts of the brain. They were also invited to read the anonymous memories of previous visitors. Volunteer staff

spoke of the different parts of the brain, such as the amygdala, hippocampus and neocortex, and the roles they

play in memory. It ran from 11am 7pm, then daily from 6pm 9pm from the 12th 18th August and was sup-

ported by the Wellcome Trust.


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Build-a-Brain with Dr Lizzie Burns

Scientist-turned-artist Dr Lizzie Burns and her group of ten volunteer neuroscientists, psychologists and artists

ran a colourful workshop on the structure of the brain. Over two large tables in the former St Clements Social

Club, participants in conversation with the volunteers were encouraged to experiment with modelling clay to build

their own brain. The workshop was based on the evolution of the brain from reptilian to human, and stories about

what happens when different parts are damaged. Build-a-brain ran from 11am 3.30pm and was supported by

the Wellcome Trust.

3-2-1-Ignition* by Ignite!

3-2-1-Ignition* is a portable project from Ignite! - a not-for-profit company that promotes creativity in learning

by engaging participant s in art and science. The team at Day of the Mind consisted of two members of the Ignite!

Staff team, an artist and two volunteers - graduates in cosmology and music. The workshop set out its portabledisplay of boxes, jars and vials ondisused hospital trolley s from the site. Par ticipants could choose from five

activities:

1. Science busking simple experiments designed to provoke surprise and curiosity about what else the workshop

had to offer.

2. Curiosity jars shelves of scientific and technological curiosities, designed to educate the visitor about less-

er-known facts.

3. Vials of smells designed to evoke memory, compounding the experience of the Memory Clinic.

4. Horror and science fiction movies in a box dioramas inside boxes with spy holes designed to surprise and

provoke laughter.

5. Taste characteristics activity an opportunity to experience tastes (foods) and explore how we assign emo-

tions and words to flavours, from one sense to another.

3-2-1-Ignition* ran from 11am 6pm and was supported by the Wellcome Trust.

The Mind in the Cave by Guerilla Archaeology

A dynamic, hands-on (but eyes-off) activity designed by artist Paul Evans. Mind in the Cave explored the role

of phosphenes the experience of seeing light without light actually entering the eye - in art. It looked at the

origin phosphenes may have had in universal abstract art forms, and the similarities between the brains of ancient

artists and the present-day participant sitting blindfolded at a table in St Clements.

Participants were asked to put on a blindfold, relax, and draw exactly what they saw. Most required gentle stim-

ulation of the eyeballs (rubbing/gentle pressure) to stimulate phosphenes or entoptic phenomena - lights seen in

darkness. The resulting patterns were compared to form constants or similar patterns in evidence across time

in the art of various cultures. An explanation was given of the role such patterns may have played in the origin of

art.

The activity, performed in conjunction with the archaeology department of the University of Cardiff, included a

performance element - making it fun, helped remove skill barriers that might have prevented participation in

drawing, and helped facilita te relaxed conversa tion. The Mind in the Cave ran from 11am 6pm and was support-

ed by the Wellcome Trust.

Lionel, the Spaceship of Our ImaginationLionel is a camper van on the outside but a two-person private cinema on the inside. Visitors were welcomed by

Lionels pilot, Andrew Glester, and invited to watch one of nine short films on neuroscience from the Wellcome

Trusts archive and Steve Coogans Production company - Baby Cow. The films were viewed alone in the privacy

of the campervan, its windows darkened to create a cosy and immersive space. Andrew was available outside for

longer conversat ions with visitors about the subject of the films and many other things. L ionel invited visitors

between 11am and 6pm, and was supported by the Wellcome Trust.

Guerilla Sciences Sonic Tour of the Brain

This consisted of a twenty-minute audio tour exploring wha t the brain sounds like. A giant model of a brain,

bursting with cogs and flowers, drew visitors over to the far corner of the St Clements theatre. Visitors were in-

vited by volunteers in lab coats to sit in a beanbag with a Bluetooth headset and listen to a looping track of sounds

of: surgical saw, wobbling jelly, an epileptic seizure, an auditory nerve, a cochlear implant, mosquito frequency,

a neverending scale, a Shepard-Risset Glissando, a binaural illusion, phantom words, reconstructed speech, and

music of the hemispheres. As a Shuffle special, visitors were also given a brain-shaped dessert to enjoy. The Sonic

Tour ran from 11am 3.30pm and was supported by the Wellcome Trust.


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Lightbox Cinema

A stop-motion animation workshop for children, resulting in a film about the story of St Clements. A rtist Laura

Kloss and volunteers invited kids to cut out, tear and stick images onto big sheets of paper to create an animation

telling the story of St Clements as a workhouse, psychia tric hospital and ultimately as housing. Images were

sourced online, from magazines, and from Lauras own photos of the Shuffle opening night. The activity ran from

11am 2.50pm, at which point the footage was edited into a short stop-motion animation, and screened in the

theatre at 5pm. The final film can be seen at http://lightboxcinema.wor dpress.com/2013/08/18/shuffle -anima-

tion/.

Home Live Art

Home Live Art set up an alternative village fte in the circular garden at St Clements. This involved six artists,

who developed installations in tents as part of the fte. It ran from 11am 6pm and were supported by Arts

Council England. These included:

Happy Brains: Artist Eleanor Shipman invited visitors to delve into happy memories, their favourite fantastical

places or simply share what makes them feel good by creating, drawing and labelling their own happy brain scan.

Madame Exs Paint and Taint session: Madame Ex sat with visitor s and painted the portrait of their ex. With a spinof the wheel, the fate of the portrait was decided will it be hung up to dry or will the visitor knock its block off?

This farewell to the past ritual was broken up with a group sing-along.

Total Eclipse of the Head

An interactive perf ormance for one. Artis ts Ella Good and Nicki Kent invited visitors into their mini caravan to

their fantasy hairdo, inspired by different soundtrack. These mainly involved crimping, teasing and loads of glitter

hairspray! Total Eclipse of the Head was responsible for a number of the vertical hairstyles seen around site on

Day of the Mind.

Car Boot Disco Bingo: A glitzy, 80s disco game run from the boot of a car. Participan ts played bingo on giant cards,

interspersed with group dance sessions to music blaring through the car loudspeakers.

Animated Living Room: A cosy outdoor living room was set up in the site gardens in which visitors were encour-

aged to express their minds by taking part in a collaborative animated film using craft materials. Woolly thoughts,

in particular, were expressed with knitted puppets and giant knitting needles.

The Machine of Visual Delights: A live illustrat ion machine by Pentapaper. Visitors were asked to think what

advice theyd give their seven-year-old self, and in return received a unique, bespoke piece of art based on them

and their lifes journey.

Mindfulness

When St Clements was a working hospital, Hycinth Taylor was employed to run the newly-founded St Clements

Social Club. The only non-medical profession al working with patients on site at the time, Hycinths job was to

organise activities to engage patients. These included art classes, social events, picnic trips, and other things to

allow inpatients to feel normal . She now works as a meditation counsellor and returne d to St Clements to run a

Mindfulness sessio n for Day of the Mind visitors. This session ran from 4-5pm in the theatre, the site in which the

Social Club was based. It was provided pro-bono by Hycinth with the help of her daughter and son-in-law.

In Our Shoes

An oral history walk around the site of St Clements. Molly Carroll guided groups of visitors to atmospheric spots

on site, at each of which a person was waiting.

Each of these people had an experience concerning mental illness, which they were willing to share. Visitors

listened to the stories, music, poetry and in doing so were able to explore different experiences of mental illness.

The walk also intended to explore the relationship between the personal, the social and the political and demon-

strate that distress doesnt exist in a bubble. The Tower Hamlets Assertive Outreach team asked staff and service

users to contribute and participat e as speakers. In Our Shoes was supported by Arts Council England.

Newham Books bookstall

Independent bookshop Newham Books ran a stall for the duration of Day of the Mind, selling a selection of books

on and around the subject of mental health. Ten per cent of the stalls takings were donated to the St Clements

Social Club with the purpose of organising future community events at St Clements.

Buskers Corner

Buskers performed in the caf area and around site during the day.


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Day of the Mind evening programme:

Out of her Mind, by Ruby Wax

Comedian, actress and converted neuroscientist Ruby Wax performed the acclaimed Out of her Mind, which with

dark humour draws on her own experience of depression and mental illness. The talk took place in the theatre

between 6 and 7pm, and was the first of the evenings ticketed events. The money raised from Rubys talk was

directed to creating furthe r community events on the subject of mental illness at St Clements. Rubys appearance

was provided pro-bono, and its documentation supported by the Wellcome Trust.

Discussion

Dr Daniel Glaser and Dr Vaughn Bell chaired a dynamic discussion on the history of the closure of asylums such as

St Clements around the country. The panel was opened up to the audience who examined - with input from the

experts - what this change in care reflected in terms of attitudes and treatments of mental illness; both socialand chemical.

All Divided Selves

Luke Fowlers film about revolutionary psychiatrist R. D. Laing, was screened in the indoor theatre after a panel

discussion. As seating in the theatre was limited, the nominal price of 10 purchased a ticket to see the evenings

indoor events: Out of her Mind by Ruby Wx, the panel discussion, and the screening of All Divided Selves. In total,

the evenings indoor events ran from 6pm 10.30pm and were supported by the Wellcome Trust.

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

A screening of the 1975 classic ran from 8pm on the Time Out-sponsored outdoor screen. The event was ticketed,

and attendees watched the film sitting on deckchairs with Bluetooth headsets, allowing music and revelry to

continue by fairy light at the caf/bar next door.

COMPULSIONLocal artists, inspired by the poignancy and beauty of a derelict psychiatric hospital and former workhouse,

transformed St Clements Hospital, Bow soon to be the first urban community land trust in the UK - into a

vibrant celebration of compulsive behaviour exploring childhood, mutability and societys perception of normality.

The building resonates with its history. Eight artists were given access to this crumbling building prior to redevel-

opment in an exhibition, COMPULSION where they presented a series of site-specific installations which responded

to the palpable tensions in the abandoned rooms.

The transformation of this historic building was part of the summer 2013 Shuffle Festival, which included theatre,

poetry readings, and films curated by director and local resident, Danny Boyle. The exhibition aimed to inspire the

local community to take ownership of this amazing building and ensure its future use as both a world-class cul-

tural centre and heart of Bow. This facility forms part of a community led transformation of housing where homes

rather than commodities become the norm.

- Miranda Housden, exhibition curator and board member of the ELCLT

The exhibition ran from 8-18 August throughout rooms in the John Denham building.

The following pages are a catalogue of the exhibition.

http://vimeo.com/72541965


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Susan Aldworth

Susan Aldworth regularly exhibits nationally and internationally and her work is held in many collections including

the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and British Museum. Recent exhibitions include The Portrait Anatomised,

the National Portrait Gallery, London (2013), Transience, GV Art gallery, London (2013), Brain: the mind as matter,

the Wellcome Collection (2012) and Reassembling the Self at the Hatton Gallery and Vane Gallery in Newcastle

(2012). Her work will be included in Nerves at the Science Museum from December 2013. Aldwort h is a regular

broadcaster on BBC radio including A Room for a View (2013) Start the Week (2013), The Print Master (2012) and

The Portrait Anat omised (2011). Al dworth is represented by GV Art gallery, London.

Memoirs 2012

Animation, editing and music by Barney Quinton

This short film is inspired by the book Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Daniel Paul Schreber, published in 1903.

Written before the term schizophrenia was first coined in 1911, Schrebers extraordinary account of his mental

collapse has become a seminal text on the subject. The book reveals how he considered himself chosen to

redeem the world, and to restore to it the lost state of Blessedness. This, however, he could only do by first beingtransformed from a man into a woman.... Aldworth collaborated with animator and musician Barney Quinton to

re-create Schrebers extraordinary testament by collaging together archive film footage into a compelling but

unsentimental narrative.

Aldworth made this film during her residency at the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University (who

funded the film) where she researched some of the neuro-scientific and personal narratives of schizophrenia.

Memoirs was first shown in the exhibition Reassembling the Self at Hatton Gallery in Newcastle in 2012.

Going Native 2006

Animation by Michael Northeast

Editing and music by Barney Quinton

Going Native examines the fragility of self. The film considers some of the philosophical questions around human

identity. Aldworth knits together brain scans, live footage, drawings and super-8 footage of her childhood as she

explores the temporal nature of self what is the relationship of the small child in the archive footage to the

artist making the film? How is consciousness conjured from the three pounds of jellied flesh of the brain? What

turns matter into imagination? She marvels at the dependency of who we are on the physical brain what is a

self? The film offers no answers... but thanks to Busby Berkeley for his inspiration.

Going Native was first shown in the exhibition Matter into Imagination at the Menier Chocolate Factory in 2006and was funded by Arts Council England.

Reassembling the Self and Dreaming Voices 2012

Lithographs made at the Curwen Studio with Stanley Jones

These suites of lithographs have been called anti-portraits. The prints were made at the Curwen Studio with

Stanley Jones in 2012 during Aldworths residency at Newcastle University where she researched into some of

scientific, clinical and personal narratives of schizophrenia. Not wanting to impose a personal definition of what

the experience of the condition might be, Aldworth decided to make portraits of Schizophrenia itself using both

individual testaments and reassembled body parts to suggest the uncompromising relationship of the mind to the

body.

Memoirs 2012 / Animation, editing and music by Barney Quinton

Going Native 2006 / Animation by Michael Northeast / Editing and music by Barney Quinton


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Silke Dettmers

Born in Germany, Silke Dettmers has lived in the UK since 1981. She trained at St Martins School of Art and the

Royal College of Art, London. Her artistic practice comprises sculptures, sometimes with the inclusion of sound,

drawing and photography. She exhibits regularly. In 2012 her work was included in the group exhibition Territories,

Windkracht 13 Gallery, Den Helder, The Netherlands. In 2009 she exhibited in Workshop of Hereafter, Blyth Gallery,

London, and Faultline, The Nunnery, London. In 2008 her work was selected for Art Projects at the London Art

Fair and exhibited as part of Concrete Dreams, APT Gallery, London. Dettmers lectures at a number of British arts

universities, and has recently taught in Poland and Colombia. She also curates exhibitions and writes on arts related

subjects.

Fail-Safe 2003

Reclaimed wood, model figures

The secure home has become a hazard, and its uncertain future depends on our collective faith for support.

Raft 2003

Reclaimed wood, model figure, toy caravan

Raft is part of the series Grey Light which consists of nine miniature mise en scenes, each of which recreates an

everyday existential drama / human dilemma.

In Case of Emergency 1994

Wood, glass, turkey egg

The perplexing interdependence of opposites - a comment on the seductive lure of the impossible. The perplexing

interdependence of opposites

Home 1995/ 2013

Bird cage, photograph, wire, egg

Silkes practice often involves the use of manufactured objects or their re-making in a foreign material o r scale. It is

the mutability of objects that interests her and the creation of paradoxes and disruption of known meanings.

Engel (Angel) 1996/2013

Latex balloon, coat hanger, feathers, wooden cradleThe sculptor Louise Bourgeois once said:

My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.

In Case of Emergency 1994Home 1995/ 2013


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Raft 2003 Raft 2003

Fail Safe 2003


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Engel (Angel) 1996/2013 Engel (Angel) 1996/2013

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Tessa Garland

Tessa Garland lives and works in London. She studied fine art at Northumbria University Newcastle specialising in

sculpture but for the past ten years has focused her practice mainly on the moving image. She has shown her work

both nationally and internationally since the mid-1990s including the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) the

Whitechapel Art Gallery, Queens Museum of Art, New York, MACVAL Contemporary Art Museum, Paris and shortly will

be showing at the Australian Museum for the Moving Image, Melbourne as part of the International Biennale of Video

Art.

For many years Garland curated the international moving image exhibition, Visions in the Nunnery, the Nunnery

Gallery, London. She is also a freelance arts educator and has worked for the British Museum, Tate, the Wellcome

Trust, BBC and Bow Ar ts Trust.

Above the Skyline 2011

Above the Skyline is a video work made around an elaborate miniature construction, an outcrop or deserted set,

strewn with detritus. The obsessively collected and subsequently discarded objects form the narrative that the cam-era explores. The slow pan embraces the chaotic hoarding which heightens the paranoia and sense of isolation. With

its use of scale and filmic devices Above the Skyline plays with illusion and explores the tension between theatricality

and reality.





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Miranda Housden

Miranda Housden studied as a sculptor at Falmouth University then Chelsea College of Art and Design before becom-

ing a Rome Scholar in Sculpture at the British School at Rome. She has had a number of exhibitions both in the UK and

internationally and is based at Chisenhale Arts Place, Bow.

She has lived near to St Clements Hospital for 14 years, is a parent and foundation governor at Central Foundation

Girls School, Bow and is on the Board of Trustees for the East London Community Land Trust.

Housden is the London Director at the Institution of Civil Engineers responsible for promoting civil engineering across

the capital. Previously she worked at the Royal Institute of British Architects as their London Director responsible for

running the RIBA Awards, architecture festivals and exhibitions.

Smartipants 2011

Steel, childrens pants, speaker wire, sawdust

Its a huge shopping bag. Larger than life, it bears down over the viewer. The dynamic outline suggests it is bulging

with treats, suggesting plenty and pleasure. At first glance its empty but look close up and you discover the bag ismade of cute childrens pants, small and fragile. These are the items of clothing, worn close the skin and not seen.

They carry pictures of fairies, cartoon characters, superheroes and princesses. They announce Puppy Love, Cutest

Kitten Around, Football Chick and Shop Till You Drop. It turns out that the bag is a holdall of childrens fantasies and

societys pressures and restrictions.

Angel Trumpet: Devil Trumpet 2012

Steel, Barbie underwear, foam, unicorn, berries, doughnuts, cakes, sweets, fruit

Datura Metel is locally referred to as an angels trumpet and by others, a devils trumpet. It looks like an elaborate

cornucopia/horn of plenty. The plant belongs to the witches weeds along with deadly nightshade. It was also used

to make poisonous arrowheads, in divination ceremonies and women used to rub the juice into their eyes to enlarge

their pupils to enhance their beauty. The horn of plenty, a symbol of fertility, prosperity and abundance, is a precur-

sor to the unicorn and the Holy Grail. The horn has supernatural powers, which gives whoever possesses it whatever

they want. This sculpture contrasts the nurturing safe and fragile world of early childhood with the enticing, tempt-

ing fantasy of growing up and its more sober reality.

Deadly Sins: acedia, superbia and avaritia 2013

Steel, ribbon, washing nets, feathers, grapes, birds, butterfliesThese magical wands, inspired by poisonous plants, reflect societys censorship of giving in to sins such as pride,

sloth and greed whilst immersing everyone from childhood with a constant barrage of temptation.

Priceless 2012

Paper and graphite pencil

Each drawing depicts a precious object belonging to someone who inspires her. The contrasting surfaces of the object

and the intense graphite background hint at a vibrant glimmer of hope emerging from an isolated abandoned space.

Swing 2013

Plastic sweets, polystyrene, ribbon

An inedible childhood fantasy just out of reach.

Smartipants 2011


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Angel Trumpet: Devil Trumpet 2012

Swing 2013

Deadly Sins: acedia, superbia and avaritia 2013


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Take me Home / Windowlene 2013

Kerry Lawrence

Kerry Lawrence was born in 1964 in the East End of London and lives and works in Italy and Cornwall. Lawrence is

a visual artist who studied at Camberwell College of Arts and Falmouth University. She works with a broad range of

mediums and has performed and participated in numerous site specific events in Italy, India and the UK. Lawrence has

an avid interest in physical theatre and dance. She has collaborated with Shallal Dance Company and Kneehigh Theatre

Company and has created sculptures and installations for Wild Walks.

Lawrence has worked as a specialist art educator for Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall, Artshare, Action for Development

and Disability, REACH Kolkata, Lilluah Home for Women Kolkata, Shiva Youth Theatre, Shallal Dance Company and

Kneehigh Theatre.

Take me Home 2013

Windowlene

Lawrence transforms the cell-like turret of Saint Clements into a crystalline lace haven made from Windowlene. The

toxic, pink liquid is re-worked into threads of lace. As the lace is laboriously executed, there is always the dangerof it disappearing under hand. The world outside is blocked out by the industrial substance which is o ften used as a

screen on the windows of closed down premises to stop people looking in. Here Lawrence reverses the use, creating

an almost suffocating lacey trap, a suburban metaphor echoing Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper and yet at the same

time paying homage to the painstaking craft that women and children were engaged in during their time in the

Victorian workhouses. The images are taken from a mixture of family heirlooms and cheap netting, the contrast

between the permanence of the antique lace and the transience of Windowlene lace is stark. Take me Home, refers

to a longing to return, words taken from Lawrences relative who was once a patient at St Clements, it expresses the

desire for healing and coming home.


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Susie MacMurray

Susie MacMurray, a former professional classical musician, retrained as an artist, graduating with an MA in Fine Art in

2001. She now has an international profile and shows regularly in the USA and Europe as well as across the UK.

Two Hairnets no 5 2011

Pen on paper

Two Stretched Hairnets 2011

Pen on paper

An engagement with materials is central to MacMurrays practice. Her role is one of alchemist: combining material,

form and context in deceptively simple ways to stimulate associations within the viewers minds and to elicit nuanced

meanings.

MacMurray uses the process of drawing to develop a more intimate, often obsessive relationship with her physicalmaterials. In addition to her large-scale pen & ink work she extends the possibilities of making drawings using

unconventional materials such as hair, wax, rubber tubing and corrugated water hose. This process hovers across

boundaries and can result in either drawing or sculpture. In contrast to her site specific interventions this work is

a more formal exploration of the sculptural possibilities of working with mark-making and line, in materials that

maintain their own physical references.


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Jo Stockham

Jo Stockham studied at the University of Hertfordshire College of Art & Design, Falmouth University, (BA Fine Art)and Chelsea School of Art and Design (MA Fine Art). On leaving college she worked at Chisenhale Studios, helping

to found the studios, gallery and education programme. In 1989 she was the Kettles Yard/Henry Moore Fellow at

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge which led to solo shows at Kettles Yard and Camden Arts Centre. Other residencies

included The Mead Gallery, University of Warwick (solo show and catalogue Scape), the Kunstbrucke residency in

Berlin and a Yaddo Fellowship (New York 2001). A residency at the Centre for Drawing at Wimbledon School of Art

2007 produced the publication Jo Stockham; Notes.

Stockhams practice is installation-based, often dealing with the histories o f a site or found image, using print,

sculpture, sound, projection and archive sources. Commissions include If Not Now, When? for Caf Gallery Projects,

London and work for Triplicate shown at Tate St Ives Southampton and Eastbourne City Galleries.

Stockham is Professor of Printmaking at the Royal College of Ar t and is involved in research around the material

image. The relationship between the computer and digital processing and wider social histories of the images we

make and consume is of particular interest.

Signs of life 2013 (opposite)

Motors, pin-boards, digital prints, tape, screenprints

Signs of life 2013

This woman will have ECT in approximately 60 years into the future

of the photographed image. She was born in Lyme Regis and learnt to

speak French from the Belgian refugees she encountered in Devon who

had fled mainland Europe in 1914. During the Second World War she

worked in Fleet Street in London where this pho tograph must have been

taken, She must have recently returned from the small Caribbean island

of St. Vincent (since she is wearing a wedding ring) leaving her husband

and young daughter behind. Intending to j oin her they were prevented

by outbreak of war in 1939.

In this photograph is she tr ying to present a composed and beautiful

self to her husband who is miles away with her young daughter? She is

working as the editor of a romance magazine while her own romance is

shattered she will not see her daughter for ten years and her beloved

husband will re-marry in that time.

She was given Electro Convulsive Therapy at the age of 88 but not

hospitalized and continued to live until the age of 99 and a half when

she died shortly after falling down the stairs in her own home.

According to statistical evidence one in four people visiting this exhi-

bition will experience some kind of mental illness in the next year. Will

it be through predisposition, through biology through a bad encounter

with the world, through tragedy, through overwork, through alcohol or

drugs? We are all at some point patients, in need of care, as the sign in

this room said when I began; Please See.


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Glass half full 2013

Laundry trolley, Aluminium foil, lamp

When asked to be in a show at St Clements I hesitate; the site is overwhelming as a physical edifice and as a history. I

spend two days just photographing, mainly the signs and the boarded up windows. The eyes of the wooden shuttering

have grown into faces and the activity of seeing into things, reading into shapes, so much a part of a certain kind of

art, seems to be mo ckingly present in the photographs. I find an o bject, which looks like art since I cannot name its

function but it has an aesthetic appeal, like a bottle rack. There is Babel of signs. The building was once a place where

people felt cared for and is itself now un-cared for. The sense of dereliction seems like a comment of the absence

of care when in fact the care has moved up the road. In an empty site I look for signs of people, people with names

rather than the generic signs on the toilet doors. I find two appointment cards with the names of local people from

the 1970s and destroy them, I feel that to keep or use them would be to invade their privacy somehow. The language

of the hospital signs is a restrained and polite authority, now accompanied by the language of warning KEEP OUT. Care

has become hazard. Anti-Climb Paint, Asbestos, Trip Hazard, Risk. Amidst this are new signs of the social, a bar, a

re-animated theatre, a generous gatekeeper and a garden, communities spring into being.

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Stacks 2002

Amikam Toren

Amikam Toren was born in Israel in 1945. He lives in London and has a studio at Chisenhale Studios, Bow. His work is

shown internationally and is represented by Anthony Reynolds Gallery. Amikam taught at Reading University and was

founding co-editor o f Wallpaper.

Stacks 2002

Cardboard box, reclaimed wood, umbrella, glass

These objects /sculptures are derived from a variety of images printed on cardboard boxes as warning signs and or

instructions to the handler. It is a primitive and effective international language, translated into objects / sculpture

magnifying its meaning.

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CONCLUSIONA casual visitor to St Clements between the 8th and 18th of August 2013 might have thought that the purpose of

the events there was simply pleasure, a local version of the festivals that scatter England every summer. But Shuffle

festival was a strategic and important part of a long-running campaign to educate, inform and engage the local

community, and secure long-term affordable housing in the heart of the east end of London.

St. Clements is a former psychiatric facility in Mile End, E3. Founded in 1849 as a workhouse, the site has a long and

fascinating history. Adjustments to the 4.63 acre site over the years reflect societys changing attitudes to mental

health and its treatment; for example the construction of an on-site theatre as the home of the St Clements Social

Club in the 1950s a place for service users to socialise and express themselves artistically, through poetry, painting

or theatre. St Clements closed completely in 2005, and sites ornate, listed Victorian buildings have been disused

since.

In 2014, the GLA, in partnership with Linden Homes, Peabody and the ELCLT, will begin the redevelopment of St

Clements as housing. As seen in many areas of the city, these new flats will be beyond the financial reach of the ma-

jority of the families currently living in the area, a problem compounded by Tower Hamlets dubious honour of being

one of the poorest (and most densely populated) boroughs in London. To address this, the East London Community

Land Trust (ELCLT) has run an eight-year campaign to deliver permanently affordable housing, using a model born of

the Civil Rights Movement in the USA whereby housing remains in trust and is priced in relation to local wages, not

market forces. By building a base membership of 1000, and working alongside local residents and Mayor of London

Boris Johnson, a por tion of the housing in St Clements will now become the site of the UKs first urban Community

Land Trust.

Inherent within the objectives of the ELCLT is engaging the local community in the space to be kept in trust, and so

in 2012 the Meanwhile and Mixed Uses committee of the ELCLT revived the St Clements Social Club that had once

provided alternative forms of therapy for inpatients. However, instead of functioning as it had historically - within

an inward-facing site that had often been characterised by isolation and observation the Social Club would now

lead the rejuvenation of the site as an outward-facing place that embraced and was embraced by its surrounding

community. It would show the variety and viability of community use in St Clements: a place where people could

hang out with friends, put on plays, start a business, eat good food, learn something new, and join activities which

strengthened the community as well as enhanced health and well being. And so Shuffle festival was born.

Shuffle was the St Clements Social Clubs main event of the summer, an 11-day festival of activities and cinema

running from 8th- 18th August. Films were curated by Danny Boyle, director of the Olympic Opening Ceremony and

a local resident, and support provided from more than 20 local organisations including the Friends of St Clements

Hospital, the Cockney Heritage Festival, Central Foundation Girls School, the East London Furniture Company, Friends

of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, Mile End Films, Mile End Residents Association, the New Testament Church of God

and Stepney City Farm.1

The aim of the festival was to establish a permanent community and cultural heart for Mile End on this historic and

iconic street frontage.

REINVESTMENT STRATEGYThe aim of Shuffle was to establish a community and cultural centre in the hear t of Mile End. We are pleased to

announce that the funds we raised from tickets sales for completely sold out events, are to be re-invested into more

projects. The aim of these projects is to bring the community together and provide a creative outlet and opportunity

for as many people as possible.

Ideal Plan for John Denham Building.


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THE FUTURE OF CULTURE & COMMUNITY

AT ST CLEMENTSMile End needs a heart. Through years of community consultation, local research, conversations and cups o f tea, we

have found a unanimous desire for St Clements to be that cultural heart of the community. St Clements is a place

of local significance - built to serve the public as a workhouse and later a psychiatric hospital - it is now home to

Londons first Community Land Trust. When development is complete, the freehold of the land will be owned by a

Community Foundation who will redistribute ground rents to the surrounding community. St Clements should be a

development with lasting cultural legacy - shaped by and for its community.

Shuffle festival showcased the type of groups, arts, activities and commercial ventures that could have a permanent

home in the John Denham building. 10,000 people visited Shuffle over the course of the month, and together we

formed a rough plan of how the space could work in the future. We are now in the process of applying for a Heritage

Lottery grant to buy and restore the building as well as setting up the Community Foundation (with local residentsand stakeholders as the majority membership) who will establish a management strategy. Our aim is to ensure the

building does not include residential units, an outcome that could limit the ability to deliver exciting and creative

uses and be a possible detriment to its economic sustainability.

SPONSORS


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Documents

shuffle booklet A5.pdf