Exhibition

Memory Marathon

4 Mar 2010 – 14 Mar 2010

Regular hours

Thursday
10:00 – 18:00
Friday
10:00 – 18:00
Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
Sunday
10:00 – 18:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 18:00

Cost of entry

Free

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The Truman Brewery

London, United Kingdom

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A film by Simon Pope, conceived and produced by Film Video Umbrella

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Memory Marathon is artist Simon Pope's extraordinary 80-minute film bringing together East London's collective Olympic memories in a portrait reflecting on the enduring importance of personal recollection during times of major cultural and political change. On 7 November 2009, Pope walked 26 miles in twelve hours through the five East London boroughs hosting the 2012 Olympic Games. Starting out at dawn from Thamesmead in south-east London, and arriving twelve hours later at the entrance to Olympic Park in Stratford, Pope accompanied over a hundred local residents through Greenwich, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Waltham Forest. In an unbroken relay, in which each resident walked a 400-metre section of the 26-mile route alongside Pope, they were asked to speak about a personally significant moment from Olympic history, before passing the microphone to the next person. Recruited from the boroughs adjoining the Olympic site, and reflecting the diverse make-up of those communities and the inclusive, international spirit of the Games themselves, the participants' collective act of commemoration draws from a huge reservoir of sporting and cultural memory, encompassing both triumph and disaster, and highlighting the global, the intimate and the everyday. Pope's Memory Marathon traces a specially planned route linking historic film locations that pinpoint moments of transition and regeneration in London's past, in a contemporary city whose architecture and infrastructure continues to change with extraordinary rapidity. Evoking the lasting impressions of TV sports coverage and exploring the role of moving images in shaping and mediating our experiences, Memory Marathon is Pope's second major collaboration with Film and Video Umbrella. His interest in walking pervades much of his artistic output, which utilises and mobilises the physical and mental in acts of memory that create new visual constructs of familiar places. Memory Marathon is conceived and produced by Film & Video Umbrella, commissioned by the Olympic Delivery Authority and funded by the London Development Agency and Arts Council England.

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