Free Artist Talk by Andy McKeown and Maggie Love

Andy McKeown and Maggie Love will be talking about their new media installation ‘The First Casualty of War is Truth’, which is taking place on the balcony of the Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery during June. The installation, which commemorates the 5286 people from Shropshire’s Roll of Honour who lost their lives during WW1, sets this heart-rending loss alongside the mass media, communications and propaganda of the day. During June, people are being invited to visit the exhibition and participate in the creation of a visual and audio record of the Roll of Honour by transcribing a single name from the list to a single handwritten Telegraph card and making a voice recording of that person’s name. A single unique voice for each name on the Roll of Honour. The completed cards will be placed below a continuous stream of names, to grow and develop throughout the residency. Andy and Maggie will also examine the mass media of the era and its impact on the population during the conflict, stripping back historically from now to WW1, discarding technologies (and their impact) along a time line.

Suitable for
Any age

Admission
Advance booking - free tickets via Alexa Pugh, email alexa.pugh@shropshire.gov.uk or phone 01743-257731

Website
http://www.shrewsburymuseum.org.uk/events/

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/wm000021?id=EVENT527875