Threads of Time - ACE440.3

Flowers floating. Words in Punjabi, written in flower petals. Caption: "‘When all else fails, take to the sword.’ Guru Gobind Singh." Merali describes a batik on silk, Production Protection, as reflecting on anti-colonialist economic co-operation in the 1940s, particularly in cotton production. Gaumont Graphic newsreel item, "Flouting of the Government’s salt monopoly continues…": demonstrations; Gandhi; people collecting sea-water and evaporating it. (Dandi Salt March 1930). Dancer. Woman’s VO reading: "I was not killing your memories with my offering, merely showing my experiences of this land. I am part of the process, not merely part of you… my hands give birth to those who have flowers dancing on their ashes." Hunchar says that galleries in Britain exhibit work by black artists primarily to please their funders and to satisfy their equal opportunities policies. Though this does offer opportunities, if the work is categorised as "ethnic art", this can put the artists at a disadvantage. Painting. Merali talks about an "apartheid system" in galleries, but believes that it will break down. Dancer on hillside. Credits.