re-enactment
British artist Jeremy Deller’s The Battle of Orgreave is a historical re-enactment of the violent confrontation between the striking miners and the police at Orgreave Coking Plant, which took place during 1984. This confrontation between the miners and the Thatcher’s Government was the most violent conflict, which came to epitomize the unremitting struggles.
Jeremy Deller was born in London in 1966. Much of his work involves collaboration with individuals and groups of people as well as a collection of performative arts. For the re enactment of The Battle of Orgreave, Deller recruited actors form re-enactment societies to partake in the event from across the country as well as enlisting the participation of both former miners and men from the police force. These collective groups of people are those who have taken part in the original 1984 clash. Deller, a long while ago, had planned to recreate the event which can be clearly seen when he summarise the nature of his work in his comment that, The Battle of Orgreave was “history painting from below”1.
The Battle of Orgreave is a broadcast television documentary that is a faultlessly orchestrated piece of historical drama that tracked the social and political resonance of the violent strike and subsequent police retaliation2. In entirety, The Battle of Orgreave is Deller’s most ambitious work till today as it challenges and gives to life a new view into the history of the original battle.
Deller’s re-enactment falls under the rubric of socially engaging and participatory art. The artwork has as well been described as a live performative and dialogical art and on top of that as an artwork, as described by French curator-critic Nicolas Bourriaud, “an art taking as its theoretical horizon the realm of human interactions and its social context, rather than the assertion of an independent and private symbolic space3.” Deller’s artwork too, forms part of a relational aesthetics practices as it seeks to enhance
Jeremy Deller was born in London in 1966. Much of his work involves collaboration with individuals and groups of people as well as a collection of performative arts. For the re enactment of The Battle of Orgreave, Deller recruited actors form re-enactment societies to partake in the event from across the country as well as enlisting the participation of both former miners and men from the police force. These collective groups of people are those who have taken part in the original 1984 clash. Deller, a long while ago, had planned to recreate the event which can be clearly seen when he summarise the nature of his work in his comment that, The Battle of Orgreave was “history painting from below”1.
The Battle of Orgreave is a broadcast television documentary that is a faultlessly orchestrated piece of historical drama that tracked the social and political resonance of the violent strike and subsequent police retaliation2. In entirety, The Battle of Orgreave is Deller’s most ambitious work till today as it challenges and gives to life a new view into the history of the original battle.
Deller’s re-enactment falls under the rubric of socially engaging and participatory art. The artwork has as well been described as a live performative and dialogical art and on top of that as an artwork, as described by French curator-critic Nicolas Bourriaud, “an art taking as its theoretical horizon the realm of human interactions and its social context, rather than the assertion of an independent and private symbolic space3.” Deller’s artwork too, forms part of a relational aesthetics practices as it seeks to enhance