'The project's conversations and findings present data where all kinds of voice are seen to be integral to making change. The way WTJ and Clean Break work has allowed me to identify different registers of these voices and join spatial realms that travel back and forth between the individual and communal, each entwined in the real and imagined.' laura dean, artist
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un:mute


un:mute
drawing > retranslated clean break archive material of founders jenny hicks and jackie holborough > digital collage

not quite me
This image responds to that shared performance of identity in the WTJ interviews and the presence of care and wit from both interviewers and interviewees.

like no home place
photography > object > retranslated clean break archive material > film footage

5 Channels and Nothing to See Here #1
photography > retranslated footage from clean break production, Sweatbox > digital collage

5 Channels and Nothing to See Here #2
photography > retranslated footage from clean break production, Sweatbox > digital collage

5 Channels and Nothing to See Here #3
photography > retranslated footage from clean break production, Sweatbox > digital collage

5 Channels and Nothing to See Here #4
photography > retranslated footage from clean break production, Sweatbox > digital collage

5 Channels and Nothing to See Here #5
photography > retranslated footage from clean break production, Sweatbox > digital collage

coming out of the margins, from writing in the margins series
photography > screenprint > retranslated material from working process of Clean Break production, Inside Bitch

wider margin, from writing in the margins series
photography > screenprint > retranslated Clean Break archive material

mightier than the sword, from writing in the margins series
photography > screenprint > retranslated Clean Break archive material

align centre justify, from writing in the margins series
photography > screenprint > retranslated Clean Break archive material

just like me
drawing > photography > collage > text by author Lin Coghlan for Apache Tears, retranslated from Clean Break production archive

just like me #2
drawing > photography > collage > text by author Lin Coghlan for Apache Tears, retranslated from Clean Break production archive

explain prison to a child, from writing in the margins series
photography > drawing > text detail from Clean Break production process for Inside Bitch, Royal Court Theatre, London

shifting glimpsers #2
photography > retranslated clean break archive material

shifting glimpsers #2
photography > retranslated clean break archive material

what's it like out #2
retranslated images from Clean Break exhibition 'I am a theatre': 40 years of Clean Break Theatre Company. Swiss Cottage, London, 2021

heart #1 - not torn but turned not static but still
retranslated footage and subtitles from Clean Break: Changing Lives and Changing Minds

heart #2 - not torn but turned not static but still
retranslated footage and subtitles from Clean Break: Changing Lives and Changing Minds

heart #3 - not torn but turned not static but still
retranslated footage and subtitles from Clean Break: Changing Lives and Changing Minds

heart #4 - not torn but turned not static but still
retranslated footage and subtitles from Clean Break: Changing Lives and Changing Minds

heart #5 - not torn but turned not static but still
retranslated footage and subtitles from Clean Break: Changing Lives and Changing Minds

heart #6 - the kitchen
collage > Clean Break premises > retranslated Clean Break archival footage

bombed
photography > retranslated footage from Clean Break production Pests, Royal Exchange Theatre, London > digital collage

cuffed
photography > retranslated footage from Clean Break production Pests, Royal Exchange Theatre, London > digital collage

lockdown
drawing > photography > paper fragments > retranslated content from Working with Incarcerated Women in the Context of Covid seminar > digital collage

cellular, from lockdown series
photography > digital painting > retranslated content from Working with Incarcerated Women in the Context of Covid seminar

discomfort eating
watercolour painting > photography > retranslated content from Working with Incarcerated Women in the Context of Covid seminar

safer behind my door
installation detail > retranslated content from Working with Incarcerated Women in the Context of Covid seminar

early release
painting > screenprint > spray paint > retranslated content from Working with Incarcerated Women in the Context of Covid seminar > digital collage


lady godiva 21st century, 2022
pencil drawing > response to presentation by Sarah Bartley - Poverty, Criminalisation and Representation: Performance Strategies from Clean Break Theatre. WTJ seminar series, The Criminalisation of Poverty, University of Leeds

calm down clam up
drawn fragments > photography > digital collage

transportation
photography > paper fragments > retranslated seminar content > digital collage

asymmetry
photography > paper fragments > retranslated content from Working with Incarcerated Women in the Context of Covid seminar > digital collage

in plain sight, from lockdown series
drawn paper fragments > retranslated content from Working with Incarcerated Women in the Context of Covid seminar > digital collage

"stay at home", from lockdown series
photography

"stay at home" #2, from lockdown series
photography

not-home, from lockdown series
photography > paper fragments > digital collage

wish you weren't here, from lockdown series

wish you weren't here #, from lockdown series

wish you weren't here ##, from lockdown series

dreaming not leaving #3, from lockdown series
photography > retranslated clean break archive material > digital collage

dreaming not leaving #2, from lockdown series
photography > paper fragments > digital collage

flight path, from lockdown series
photography > paper fragments > digital collage

dreaming not leaving, from lockdown series
photography > retranslated clean break archive material > paper fragments > digital collage

the bones of me, from lockdown series
photography > retranslated content from Working with Incarcerated Women in the Context of Covid seminar

what's she building in there
retranslated photo of Clean Break premises under construction 1998 > retranslated footage of production [BLANK] by Alice Birch, Donmar Warehouse, London

un:mute exhibition at The Shard, London
































































un:mute at Queen Mary University of London, Peopling The Palace(s) Festival 2023




Sweatbox (detail), shown in collaboration with un:mute at Peopling The Palace Festival, Queen Mary University of London, 2023.
Written by Chloë Moss, Directed by Anna Herrmann, originally conceived by Imogen Ashby.

Sweatbox (detail), shown in collaboration with un:mute at Peopling The Palace Festival, Queen Mary University of London, 2023.
Written by Chloë Moss, Directed by Anna Herrmann, originally conceived by Imogen Ashby.

Sweatbox (detail), shown in collaboration with un:mute at Peopling The Palace Festival, Queen Mary University of London, 2023.
Written by Chloë Moss, Directed by Anna Herrmann, originally conceived by Imogen Ashby.

Sweatbox (detail), shown in collaboration with un:mute at Peopling The Palace Festival, Queen Mary University of London, 2023.
Written by Chloë Moss, Directed by Anna Herrmann, originally conceived by Imogen Ashby.

Sweatbox (detail), shown in collaboration with un:mute at Peopling The Palace Festival, Queen Mary University of London, 2023.
Written by Chloë Moss, Directed by Anna Herrmann, originally conceived by Imogen Ashby.

Sweatbox (detail), shown in collaboration with un:mute at Peopling The Palace Festival, Queen Mary University of London, 2023.
Written by Chloë Moss, Directed by Anna Herrmann, originally conceived by Imogen Ashby.

Long Table with Professor Lois Weaver, Peopling The Palace Festival 2023, Queen Mary University of London

Coventry City of Culture event_Un:mute exhibition at the Criterion Theatre as part of the Resonate Festival. Photography by Richard Elmes.

Coventry City of Culture event_Un:mute exhibition as part of the Amazing Women Festival. Photography by Richard Elmes.

Coventry City of Culture event_Un:mute exhibition as part of the Amazing Women Festival. Photography by Richard Elmes.

Coventry City of Culture event_Un:mute exhibition as part of the Amazing Women Festival. Photography by Richard Elmes.

Coventry City of Culture event_Un:mute exhibition as part of the Amazing Women Festival. Photography by Richard Elmes.

Coventry City of Culture event_Un:mute exhibition as part of the Amazing Women Festival. Photography by Richard Elmes.

Coventry City of Culture event_Un:mute exhibition as part of the Amazing Women Festival. Photography by Richard Elmes.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Festival, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. The artwork sits in a non-art place of the Business Lounge, temporarily liberating that space into new negotiation – it makes space a question

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Festival, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. The artwork sits in a non-art place of the Business Lounge, temporarily liberating that space into new negotiation – it makes space a question

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Festival, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. The artwork sits in a non-art place of the Business Lounge, temporarily liberating that space into new negotiation – it makes space a question

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Festival, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. The artwork sits in a non-art place of the Business Lounge, temporarily liberating that space into new negotiation – it makes space a question

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Festival, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. The artwork sits in a non-art place of the Business Lounge, temporarily liberating that space into new negotiation – it makes space a question

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Festival, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. The artwork sits in a non-art place of the Business Lounge, temporarily liberating that space into new negotiation – it makes space a question

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Festival, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. The artwork sits in a non-art place of the Business Lounge, temporarily liberating that space into new negotiation – it makes space a question

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Festival, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. The artwork sits in a non-art place of the Business Lounge, temporarily liberating that space into new negotiation – it makes space a question