Thu 19 - Sat 21 Nov

The Pansy Project

Project Description:

Artist Paul Harfleet revisits locations where homophobia has been experienced and plants pansies. These self seeding pansies act as a living memorial to this abuse and operate as an antidote to it; some pansies wither whilst others thrive in car park borders and windswept road verges. Each Pansy’s location is named after the abuse received, photographed then posted on his website: What began as a small-scale autobiographical artwork has grown into an international project, which has been included in festivals in Liverpool, Manchester, New York and London.

For SHOUT, Harfleet will plant pansies along Hurst Street; the installation will reclaim the street and create a living memorial to homophobic abuse experienced in the gay village area and the wider city. Paul enables others to get involved by distributing pansies to the public who will make symbolic plantings across Birmingham.
Search 'The Pansy Project' on Facebook to take part in the project."

For further information visit

thepansyproject.com

or the thepansyproject.blogspot.com

Image Shown – Heh! Fucking Queer Boy – Cross Street, Manchester

Venue:

Hurst Street. Birmingham. Plus other city centre locations

Project Times: TBA

Admission Free