Contested Ground

January 2009
176 Gallery

Contested Ground was an event curated by students from Goldsmiths MFA Curating and Royal College of Art Curating Masters on the 17 and 18 January 2009 at the 176 Gallery in London. During the afternoons, Davina and Daniel enlisted the help of gallery visitors to produce CLAIM a set of Davina and Daniel flags, which were then tied to the front railings at the front of the building. Back in the gallery Stand Your Ground a series of Tug Of War Contests were held with people being asked to consider something that they would be prepared to fight for, a cause (political or personal, profound or light hearted). The winner of each contest wore a gold crown.

On the Saturday evening, a larger scale Tug Of War titled PULL was contested between students representing the two groups of students responsible for curating Contested Ground.

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