Collective
Dissent As activists with lived experience of mental health issues, we
have used the arts for many years, to empower others and create action for
positive social change. We employ creative resistance to address issues
of inequality, social justice and environmental crisis.
Projection on Home at St Mathew's Piece
Art activism supporting the Community campaign to protect St Matthew's Piece.
Artist/Activist: Jannie Brightman and Helen Judge
Object
Now was part of a film projected onto a house on Sturton Street directly across
from St Matthew’s Piece, gifted in 1898 for the recreation of local residents
“for ever”. The projection was shown over the last few days of the
10-month campaign by FoSMP to stop the development of a 6-storey building for
student accommodation on the northern half of the Piece. The only park in all
of Petersfield, with the smallest provision of green space per head of
population, in the densest Ward of Cambridge, the projection was shown over
several nights to alert residents of the deadline for sending in objections. As
a result over 50 additional objections were submitted. During the Covid-19
lockdowns, the park had served as a place of solace and mental well being for
residents, particularly over the hot summer days, as dappled shade caused by
the magnificent Plane Trees cast their magical shadows over the Piece. It
brought the Community together in mutual resistance to the plans. The planning
application was refused on March 24, 2021
To see a short film of the projection and other work please click here.
