Employing the Image. Making spaces for ourselves - ACE416.6

Sonia Boyce describes her work about "trying to negotiate our way in this industrial space that we live in…" for people who have "have no memory of ‘somewhere else’". Collating photographs with racist imagery; describes a book for children which illustrated how they could make themselves up into other characters; video includes extracts from King Kong (1933). Children watching. Talks about living in a city. Extracts from her Talking Presence (1987). Her crayon and pastel She ain't holding them up, she's holdin on (Some English Rose) (1986) which she believes should make the audience "ask a question"; she’s not sure if this is confrontational or not.