Who we are now, and then…

Collective IDentity 2021

An exhibition of visual art, photography and film work sharing perspectives on identity from the lives of dancers with Parkinson’s.

Directed and curated by Danielle Jones (Teale), Who we are now, and then...invites you into the shifting and evolving ideas surrounding care, identity, and compassion, shared by people with Parkinson’s through the process of dancing with Danielle Jones (Teale) Collective IDentity (CID Project). 

The exhibition will feature three commissioned artists who will present new creations alongside photographic work captured in dancers' homes by Sara Hibbert and the screening of excerpts from a documentary film directed by Danielle Jones (Teale) and Jaka Skapin.

The commissioned artists are Emma Brown, a visual artist with a focus on printmaking and illustration, Edwina Kung, a fine artist who explores how we respond to our surroundings to make meaningful relationships and David Armes who works with letterpress and focuses on print, language and geography.

Working with CILIP, the libraries association, the 14-venue tour will take in hospitals, libraries and arts centres across the UK. Launching during Libraries Week (4 - 10 Oct) the exhibition will open across two locations in East London, at Poplar Union and Idea Store Bow.

The full exhibition will tour to Poplar Union, East London (3 - 19 Oct), Wimbledon Library, South West London (1 - 11 Dec), Fleetwood Library, Lancaster (8 - 25 Apr), The Point, Eastleigh (5 - 18 Feb), and Colchester Library, Essex (4 - 29 Mar).

To accommodate the wide range of settings and to make the exhibition as accessible to as many people as possible, a smaller adapted version will also tour to 9 venues in areas the CID Project currently works. A digital version of the exhibition will also launch during the autumn, providing a fully accessible virtual space with artworks digitally accessed for optimum viewing along with audio description. Running alongside the exhibition will be a full events programme including talks, workshops and insight evenings will take place, details to be confirmed shortly.