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Lost Anchor


Artists Ben Burtenshaw and Tess Faria are in search of the Deptford missing anchor. Tomorrow morning a contingent of fourteen people will walk from The Albany, Deptford to the south end of Deptford high street; the previous site of an anchor monument. The contingent will lay down bin bags in the shape of an anchor on the ground. We will wait for 2 minutes during the organised silence and then remove the bags and return to the Albany. After this we will meet back at our studio for a shared lunch in front of the fire. Sunday 10th November : we are beginning to understand this performance as an act of rekindling/ sparking, in a conflict between some of Deptford's community and the development process taking place there. The contingent we have assembled to join us in this performance are key in the rekindling/sparking process as sites of and potential sites of disdain or activism. How they approach, ignore or come to terms with this existing site of conflict will become evident over lunch

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