Watch the video of our "Elephant Meets" talk about the power of community art, in the Covid and BLM era, with Plymouth's Still/Moving

We’re delighted to bring you our The Elephant Meets’ discussion of a few weeks ago with Still/Moving (thanks so much to our colleague Maria Dorthea Skov for editing and production).

Still/Moving are the brilliant Plymouth art group who created the above public signage installation, named “Speedwell” and placed across the shorefront at Plymouth. This was their contribution to the city’s Mayflower 400 celebrations and commemorations. (Click on the embed above to see their full presentation and discussion with the Zoom attendees).

“Speedwell”, named after the ship which didn’t join the Mayflower that made it to America, was (we felt) an extraordinarily powerful and clear work - the permutation of No, New, World and Worlds like a set of slow messages from the collective unconscious.

In the video recording of our session above, we were really pleased to hear from the artists of Still/Moving about their complex relationship with issues like colonialism and local pride; about how locals had taken the artwork to their hearts—and minds'; and what their experience has taught them about the potency of public art, for communities facing the intermixed challenges of pandemics, Brexit and historical legacy.

More from The Elephant Meets… series here.