Cora Glasser and David Ball (Glassball) have been responding to a donation of 5000 unseen glass slides covering 50 years of Skelmersdale’s new town development.
Artists from Glassball, Institute for Urban Dreaming, Andre Stitt and Simon Tong have been using the slides to work alongside the town’s residents, illuminating the images from the recent past to inform and curate a series of temporary art installations and events, leading to a final socially engaged public artwork.
Illume has been openly debating how co-creation with communities can make an active response resonate with alternative futures of the town. The lead artists will be talking about their work and showing work in progress, along with a selection of the unseen slides.