The Pansy Project
Monday October 29th until November 19th
The Pansy Project
St Johns Gardens
Free
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In July 2007, Liverpool City Council released the findings of the Stormbreak
Report. The report was compiled in response to a general lack of community
safety amongst the LGBT community. As our response to this report Homotopia
commissioned artist Paul Harfleet to present his internationally recognised ‘Pansy
Project’.
Artist Paul Harfleet revisits locations where homophobia has been experienced
and plants pansies. These self seeding pansies act as a living memorial
to this abuse and operate as an antidote to it; some pansies wither whilst
others thrive in car park borders and windswept road verges. Each Pansy’s
location is named after the abuse received, photographed then posted on
his website:. What began as a small-scale autobiographical artwork has grown
into an international project, which has been included in festivals in Manchester,
New York and London.
For Homotopia, Harfleet will plant 2000 pansies in St John’s Gardens;
the installation will visually dissect the park creating a memorial to a
homophobically motivated murder. Paul enables others to get involved by
distributing pansies to the public who will make symbolic plantings across
Liverpool. For further information visit
thepansyproject.com
thepansyproject.blogspot.com
Generously supported by
Merseyside Police
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