Art of Attachment – On Film

Film Installation

2020, 60 mins

“There is no sentimentality in this piece, it does not ask us to judge or to pity – but allows us to witness the exhausting labours involved in experiencing, acting out and recovering from trauma.” Rachel Thomson, Professor of Childhood and Youth Studies, University of Sussex

In 2018, Artistic Director Charlotte Vincent and Poet Lemn Sissay were commissioned by Brighton’s Oasis Project to produce new works in collaboration with women and children affected by substance misuse.

Combining testimonies from Oasis’ service users, provocative visual imagery and deeply moving performances by four women in recovery working alongside VDT collaborators Robert Clark and Antonia Grove, Vincent’s Art of Attachment is “agonisingly visceral, and often beyond words… a piece about love as an enduring source of hope.” The Psychologist.

The Art of Attachment film installation makes explicit the devastating impact of physical, sexual and emotional abuse on women’s lives and explores the complex bond between substance misusing mothers and their children. The work celebrates the everyday hope, resilience and resolve of women and children overcoming adversity, whose stories demand to be seen and heard.

Art of Attachment will be part of VDT’s new installation HOME TRUTHS premiering in Coventry in autumn 2021.

Suitable for age 14+ with adult supervision

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ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES

Art of Attachment is accompanied by a range of creative workshops, talks and debates addressing the themes of the work.

Workshops for families, parents, adoptive parents, foster carers and health, wellbeing and social care professionals, facilitated by VDT are available.

Talks with participant performers from Oasis Project involved in making the work / Cath Lambert Associate Professor of Sociology at Warwick University in conversation with Charlotte Vincent discussing socially engaged arts /  Health and Wellbeing specialists discussing how attachment and trauma impacts on family life.

Who's Who

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Art of Attachment - On Film (2020)

RESOURCES

For support with substance misuse call Oasis Project on 01273 696970.

COMMISSIONERS

Art of Attachment was commissioned by Oasis Project, supported by Wellcome Trust. Vincent Dance Theatre is a National Portfolio Organisation, funded by Arts Council England, an Associate Company at Brighton Dome and Festival and Dream Artist at Pavillion Dance South West.