Estate: Art, Politics & Social Housing (Myrdle Court Press, London: 2010). Digital Download.

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"Estate is a beautiful book full of fragility and human life, apparently focused on the the Haggerston West & Kingsland Estates in Hackney, East London, but broadening out to touch on a variety of topics from public housing to art to innovation. The book contains 56 pictures ... full of the improvised solution that necessity brings on and the discarded remnants of life. They stand in stark contrast with the playful, sometimes opaque art that housing associations and others commission to rejuvenate areas." Thomas Neumark Jones, author and organiser


The pursuit of public housing provision was one of the 20th century's redeeming contributions. Yet, in the first decade of the 21st century, public housing as an ideal is contradictory territory resulting from the policies that value entrepreneurial charities or a subsidised private sector over state funded and administered housing.

Estate is a timely contribution to the debates entangling millions of individuals and countless neighbourhoods. The starting point is a visual essay on the Haggerston West & Kingsland Estates in Hackney, East London, in the process of demolition and rebuilding. The 56 photographs document the spaces left behind when people were moved out. Despite residents living in limbo for over 30 years as refurbishment plans were continuously proposed, shelved and re-proposed, the images highlight their innovative solutions to the difficulties of continuing to live while and idea and set of buildings were being abandoned around them.

Texts from Paul Hallam, Cristina Cerulli and Victor Buchli contextualise the artists' project through a broader set of questions resulting in a work that refuses to settle, creating dialogues between photographs, archaeology of the recent past, autobiography and critical theory.


Contents: http://myrdlecourtpress.net/est_contents.html

Reviews: http://myrdlecourtpress.net/press.html

Paperback: http://myrdlecourtpress.net/buy_estate.html


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