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FRIDAY FEATURES
Ruth Beale
Sing Me a Song with Social Significance, 2010
A specially-formed choir of art students perform 'Sing Me a Song with Social Significance', a hit song in the 1930s musical revue 'Pins and Needles', the first-and-only trade union Broadway hit). The song was found reproduced in the Pioneer Songbook, a 1944 publication held in the Goldsmiths Library, published to celebrate the centenary of the world's first successful consumer cooperative, the Rochdale Pioneers). A set of drawings forms a fictional archive of the song's real-life origins.
Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art Degree Show, London
A programme of performances hosted on a Soapbox Stage, including covers of 'Sing me a Song with Social Significance' performed by The Pioneer Singers (Goldsmiths MFA students), The Strawberry Thieves socialist choir and three other bands and musicians: Panther Society, Laurence Carey and Macolm Benzie. Twelve drawings of secondary artefacts - souvenirs, commemorative items and library books - were framed on the opposite wall
8-12 July 2010
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Ruth Beale graduated from Goldsmith's with an MFA in Fine Art in 2010.
Photos: Michael Heilgemeir
Ruth Beale, The Aesthetics of Power: A Play with Hats, London, United Kingdom, 2009
ndependent curator and researcher Karen Gaskill profiles the work of Ruth Beale.
London-based artist Ruth Beale considers the evocative relationships between culture, governance, social discourse and representation. Beale’s practice includes drawing, performance, video and the collection and re-presentation of archival materials.
Her contexts draw from the history of social structures and the way in which knowledge has traditionally been used as an instrument of social control. Her interest in the hierarchies revealed through the availability of knowledge to a public interestingly connects to the role of the archive as preserving not just bodies of knowledge, but also these hierarchies themselves. ...
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Edinburgh, Aurora, designer: Ruth Beale, 10 August 2006.