Alison Lloyd

MY PUNK IS NOT DEAD
Important statement of intent from an artist whose personal experience from the mid 1970s, jump to the mid 1980s, early 90s and now appear in a new era of many catastrophes.

A playful interpretation of my early experience of Punk Rock. The ebbs and flows of my participation in protests, demonstrations and strikes. Keeping in mind the bands, the venues, and my friends at this time from the 1970s onwards. None of these characters are fully apparent in this short film. It is much more an atmosphere that I have searched for and want to maintain and work with, now and in future work. Ideas that are now being talked about again due to the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter Movement, Trans Lives Matter protests and rallies, climate catastrophe and XR protests, UCU, NEU, the national RMT and CWU Strikes.

Working with the 16 mm Bolex camera plays with all the things that can and did go aslant as I learnt how to manipulate the technology of filmmaking.

Book recommendation from Linda Kemp (fellow meadow-wasteland appreciator) ALISOUN SINGS (Caroline Bergvall 2019) the character insists and gets my attention,

To be clear I am taking this at face value, and remain not entirely sure what nuanced argument Bergvall is suggesting. That is my inability to understand (so far) and not the writer’s ability to communicate via the character, Alisoun.

144 x 30 SECONDS, 2016 - 2022
During the 2020 lockdown I visited a meadow wasteland, about 900m from my front door. I named this place The #MeadowBehindBars. It is site that features in MY PUNK IS NOT DEAD and 144 x 30 seconds door. Earlier iterations appeared on The_Edgeworker as four one-week Instagram residencies in June, September, and December 2020 and March 2021. Thank you to Layla Curtis for inviting me to contribute to The_Edgeworker on Instagram from June 2020 to March 2021. Finally thank you to all the friends, relations and neighbours who joined me on my almost daily visits to the meadow.

I also recommend to readers, Socialism or Extinction: The Meaning of Revolution in a time of Ecological Crisis (Martin Empson 2022), Transgender Resistance: Socialism and the fight for Trans Liberation (Laura Miles), Ricky Reel: Silence is not an Option (Sukhdev Reel July 2022).