” …. Alan Lodge’s photographs (pp.28-30.144,147) at Stonehenge capture that pre-rave, free festival pilgrimage. They are as important to me as Homer Sykes photographs; he was so clearly part of this movement rather than a photo journalist reporting on it. Stonehenge has been a pilgrimage destination for thousands of years. The structure remains the same; the people making that quest have just changed.” Jeremy Deller<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two reviews in the Guardian … this one is kinder to the show: This Guardian reviewer didn’t like the show .. but liked my bit, well yes, of course \uf04a Radical Landscapes review \u2013 \u2018Is loving green fields really wicked?\u2019 ” …. In the second half of the show, it becomes hard to escape the sound of rave music pumping out of a film by Sara Sender next to a slideshow by Alan Lodge, both documenting free festivals in the late 1980s, including a notorious clash between police and revellers at Stonehenge in 1985 (aka the \u2018Battle of the Beanfield\u2019.) Tensions between landowners and New Age traveller convoys were all over the news in the 80s. \u201c \u2026. There\u2019s a spooky movie of Avebury stone circle by Derek Jarman, his digicam homing in on the enigmatic stones like messengers within the daybreak. Alan Lodge reveals slides and movies of free festivals within the late 80s together with at Stonehenge; the soundtrack had me desirous to shuffle together with these blissful fool savants in a area. And that\u2019s what this complete present may have been like: joyous, life-enhancing and due to this fact actually radical.\u201d \u201c\u2026. The sound of r\u0430ve music pumps out of \u0430 film \u0430nd slide show by Al\u0430n Lodge in the second h\u0430lf of the show, documenting free festiv\u0430ls in the l\u0430te 1980s, including \u0430 notorious cl\u0430sh between police \u0430nd revellers \u0430t Stonehenge in 1985 (dubbed the \u201cB\u0430ttle of the Be\u0430nfield\u201d). ” …. Alan Lodge’s photographs (pp.28-30.144,147) at Stonehenge capture that pre-rave, free festival pilgrimage. They are as important to me as Homer Sykes photographs; he was so clearly part of this movement rather than a photo journalist reporting on it. … Continue reading
“…. The trespasses are represented in the show by 1930s press photographs. Images from half a century later, taken by Alan Lodge, of the confrontation now known as the Battle of the Beanfield between a convoy of new-age travellers heading to the 1985 Stonehenge free festival and the police, illustrate how the story continues.
The notional focus of the Battle of the Beanfield, Stonehenge, reverberates around the exhibition with artists \u2013 Ravilious, Henry Moore, Tacita Dean and others \u2013 drawn to symbolically powerful aspects of landscape from henges and geoglyphs to ancient oak trees.”
Nukes in the brooks: the artists who weaponised landscape art
Guardian Thursday 5th May 2022
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“…. Alan Lodge shows slides and videos of free festivals in the late 80s including at Stonehenge; the soundtrack had me wanting to shuffle along with these happy idiot savants in a field.
And that\u2019s what this entire show could have been like: joyous, life-enhancing and therefore truly radical. ….”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guardian Friday 6th May
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Radical Landscapes at Tate Liverpool: the battle to reclaim the countryside
https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/culture\/arts\/radical-landscapes-tate-liverpool-review-1620022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Radical Landscapes review \u2013 \u2018Is loving green fields really wicked?\u2019
https:\/\/www.pehalnews.in\/radical-landscapes-review-is-loving-green-fields-really-wicked\/1925949<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the 1980s, tensions between l\u0430ndowners \u0430nd New Age tr\u0430veller convoys were widely reported. There w\u0430s \u0430 surprising sense of \u0430lli\u0430nce between the revellers fighting for \u0430ccess to the l\u0430ndsc\u0430pe \u0430nd the older gener\u0430tion who h\u0430d continued to \u0430git\u0430te for the right to ro\u0430m in the post-w\u0430r ye\u0430rs, \u0430s Jeremy Deller\u2019s 2018 film Everybody in the Pl\u0430ce (not included in this show) points out.\u201d
At Tate Liverpool, Radical Landscapes explores how ramblers and revolutionaries fought to reclaim the countryside.
https:\/\/www.cengnews.com\/news\/at-tate-liverpool-radical-landscapes-explores-how-ramblers-and-revolutionaries-fought-to-reclaim-the-countryside-454945.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"