{"id":2084,"date":"2014-01-30T23:24:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T23:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tashuk.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/30\/facebook-conversation\/"},"modified":"2014-01-30T23:24:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T23:24:18","slug":"facebook-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/2084","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Life on the Road&#8221; Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><span style=\"font-size:2em;line-height:1.5em;\">Photography \/\/ New exhibition featuring Tom Hunter celebrates 90\u2032s festival spirit and life on the road<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-post\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<div>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.arts.ac.uk\/london-college-of-communication\/files\/2014\/01\/Andrew-Gaston-Czechno-low-res.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"&lt;br \/&gt;\n\" alt=\"Andrew Gaston, Czechno low res\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.arts.ac.uk\/london-college-of-communication\/files\/2014\/01\/Andrew-Gaston-Czechno-low-res-836x1024.jpg?resize=640%2C784\" width=\"640\" height=\"784\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">A new exhibition at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.ac.uk\/lcc\/\"><b>London College of Communication<\/b><\/a>, featuring photographers\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomhunter.org\/\"><b>Tom Hunter<\/b><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>Dave Fawcett<\/b>, and filmmaker\u00a0<b>Andrew Gaston<\/b>, conjures the countercultural spirit of young travelling communities in the 1990\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Opening on Wednesday 5 February 2014,<b><i>\u00a0Life on the Road<\/i><\/b>\u00a0captures a remarkable moment in time, in the 1990s, when young people travelled around Europe in a variety of vehicles adapted as homes, forming transitory communities based around festivals, music and a shared rejection of the increasingly consumerist values of Western society.<\/p>\n<p>Travelling in decommissioned buses and vans, these new explorers constructed a vision of a kind of utopia, which is now embedded in our collective memory of the 1990s. From Hunter\u2019s documentary of everyday life on the road, to Fawcett\u2019s meticulous record of traveller buses, and Gaston\u2019s elegiac footage of parties, this exhibition, which is an integral part of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.ac.uk\/lcc\/inside-lcc\/greenweek\/\"><strong>LCC<\/strong><b>\u00a0Green Week<\/b><\/a>, is both celebration and memorial.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/ual.force.com\/apex\/EventFormPage?id=a0RD0000009ZQt2MAG&amp;book=true\">\u2018Life on the Road\u2019<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b><b>Opening Party:\u00a0<\/b>Wednesday 5 February 2014 6\u20139pm<br \/>\n<b>Exhibition Open:\u00a0<\/b>6 \u2013 26 February 2014, 10am \u2013 5pm (closed Sunday)<br \/>\n<b>Venue:\u00a0<\/b>Upper Street Gallery,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.ac.uk\/lcc\/\">London College of Communication<\/a>, Elephant &amp; Castle SE1 6SB<\/p>\n<p>At the Opening Party Tom Hunter will be signing copies of his book\u00a0<b>Le Crowbar\u00a0<\/b>published by Here Press. Copies of Dave Fawcett\u2019s publication Traveller Homes will also be on sale.\u00a0<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Win a copy of\u00a0Tom Hunter\u2019s book Le Crowbar and more in our Instagram competition starting on Friday. Follow\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/lcclondon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@LCCLondon<\/a>\u00a0for more details.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photography \/\/ New exhibition featuring Tom Hunter celebrates 90\u2032s festival spirit and life on the road A new exhibition at\u00a0London College of Communication, featuring photographers\u00a0Tom Hunter\u00a0and\u00a0Dave Fawcett, and filmmaker\u00a0Andrew Gaston, conjures the countercultural spirit of young travelling communities in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/2084\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}