 Hi, we're at the Living Immocracy Democracy democracy Okay, so we have the This is the Brunei gallery at Soez here at the University of London The School of African Studies School of Oriental and African Studies. So we're here and We're actually we're here at the exhibition space and they've got an exhibition going on that shows that is showing People places and politics from five different countries and it is It is Brazil, Ethiopia, Fiji, UK, US and India Yeah, so yeah, so me and I actually have films and photographs and and Yeah, a bunch of different items that are also on display at this exhibition Yeah, so it's been running for about 3-4 days now last week Thursday So it's like five days now and it's gonna run for the next couple of months. So let's walk through the exhibition Yeah, let's let's give a little guided tour. Oh, let's show. Let's show. So these are like photos from the different Countries that are the elections time. Yeah, and this is It's all has to do with elections and politics, but yeah, these are specifically elections for you. Yeah You can see Brazil at the top there and then it comes down to India India was at the top And then you come down and this is us. This is Fiji And then it comes down to you Okay You should get a lot of that maybe Bit back But I mean the thing is it's just given like it's been nice and to come to the exhibition For moment How are we check and test? We're just gonna photo and a word from our sponsors And our super stuff for today It was nice yesterday We're the entrance If you look on the other side Very nice curtain that's Suspension It's actually made up of like We call it like Yeah, the failure the election telling about this section from Brazil. They're so long And the next the whole exhibition is made up of proteins like that To go let's start with this like some fun sections. We probably go in the opposite direction So we've got If you want you can vote our politicians all the same I will vote yes Jokes no, I will go no And then But in I have voted as democracy in action if you come this side is like all the These are these are actually what you call it like marketing materials campaign Camping merchandise can campaign much of us. Yeah campaign much of us So that's like what something from Brazil might look like if you look down below this Fiji Fiji first which is our former former party that is in power in Fiji Camping t-shirts Yeah And all these are all of the The campaign memorabilia here is has is of countries and areas and that they'd have something to do with the exhibition But actually in the exhibition these things man. These things are so nice All I got from Fiji was his bands and look at what Texas has Freakin medals whatever This is a Donald Trump supporter of boxes But yeah, there's really cool like this place obviously at write-ups and I'm assuming newspapers around the exhibition is a timeline Traces of the expenses candle Oh I wonder if it was like, you know, somebody put like 12 grand for life. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's it Come on. It's funny. This is something that someone islands like that But yeah, there's all this great detail like there's more you know detailed stuff in the exhibition detail, right? Which is this one is all the paintings. I really love this section painting from Ethiopia Which is the artist And you quite happy you really like this as well. Yeah, that's my favorite part of the animation of this It's called my body And it's animated a retelling of the Tigray war the effect on women Really nice really lovely animation. So definitely come on and check it out. Yeah Yeah, there's there's lots of images there's lots of photos and write-ups and you've got like these Little sections we can listen into things As Richard we just know the steps is like You can listen to the interviews of the the relevant Person that you know, you portrayed on the front of him This is the social media world so this is actually Like loads and loads of photos check out how long this thing is it's loads and loads of photos of politicians from their personal social media pages from all like from the five different countries So you have like, yeah From images from their own personal Instagram and Facebook accounts Twitter, etc This is a fish section fish section. There's right this side of the file And here's well if the Four photos from that was chosen by The Nora and also here is the same audio Several things about questions that our interview question is that she answers about those specific photos Do you have a camera listen? Just like you can just give the camera Please wrap it on Alexi Okay I might break that thing. This is pretty cool Just tracking, you know, like the hand movement in When politicians speak And I love how the camera follows. Yeah follows the hands around and just track tracks. It's so cool I'm just glad that it's like There's no audio no audio and so it means you check the things like a handspeed Do they have like little tattoos like they do like on the hand? But so far I haven't seen any tattoos on this video on these politicians hands. This is us. This is the Fiji bit That's Ariella Melli and I and Yeah, this is like an actual See to like a this map you can actually come and sit down here and kind of enjoy this film This film is actually this discussion is about it's over an hour long So people come in and sit down and hang out here for a little bit Listen to a little bit of it and just chat and ask questions about things Melli and I have sat here and kind of just, you know Entertain groups that have come through with you know by answering questions and things like that So that's pretty cool. So most of the questions seem to be centered around what is curve or what? They're more fascinated with the actual this process and these things then the actual what's going on in this question Yeah, so that's pretty cool This is a section they created by a Brazilian artist that's contributed to this And it's it's pages from What is it like different I want to say different versions of the bills that were written up Yeah, executive and like drafts the drug will be our bills bills Yeah, and she's creating some kind of map out of which is really cool She should you can probably check out the website and find out more detail or even better come here to the room Yeah, even better come here and you can find out what exactly that's about The laughing American SPG The laughing American SPG This is the US Texas section You've got all these really interesting art that depicts the various aspects of the US political scene Who's the artist? Nicola Sara So she drew this really interesting So you know you have photos that are one thing that's basically a capture of a moment But I always like artist interpretations of Whatever is whatever they think they see so this is like human-minded artists or what they think US politics is like which is quite chaotic and messy Nice Yeah, then this is like the intro kind of their gallery basically Oh, this is so I think you should put the photo in the left And then finally this is us again This is the PG section This is a photo by Ian There's actually just to acknowledge that there's actually quite a few contributors while you know like Melee and I Did a lot of assembly I guess The way to put in assembly work and creating the story where there was actually the imagery and the videos and all that kind of stuff That was all possible because of you know there's a bunch of shooters in PG that we used They were not the captains images, they were not the captains you know this footage And also a lot of people gave up their time quite freely To be interviewed To be interviewed and they spoke quite passionately about the country So that was really like all of these materials are possible because of all this kind of collaboration So thank you again, thank you everybody And I'm sure everyone's like, and then how come we never came too easily So yeah, but I mean great great work and it's being displayed again and it's being well received Wait here's the last one The last one is This is a Okay maybe we should whisper This is a three screen area So what happens is The films come out in like The films that get displayed on this wall there's like a seating bench here And then the films that get displayed on this wall are like in three sections You know it's like super all in super panoramic kind of view Super panoramic yeah It's like an animal kind of viewer So they're pretty cool It's like a collision of sounds and rhythms around elections and politics and all So that's kind of this area And there is a lot to happen Screening Screening of this film right here It's called The Wheels of Democracy It's created by a friend Meticou and Tess Foghoun Tess Foghoun who we met on the steps Tess Foghoun there And so they're about to show their film here Our film will show here at the latest stage I think Or not here At the Khalili theater No I mean Is the exhibition continues Our film will also show here Oh after our premiere The premiere is actually different theater But like you know like kind of run cash making this space That's cool So yeah So this is the exhibition You should come and check it out for yourself You know while we might be giving some kind of a What is it like Really broad overview Yeah while we give you some kind of really broad overview Like it's really cool to just come and experience this for yourself And it's a Oh we should show them how it looks like So this is the Brazil film Right This is the Ethiopian film This is a film from Chef Fields That was created These are all Portions of these are all screened here And then full length films also And this is the film that Millie and I worked on Which I mean we worked on a bunch of different films But this is like the feature length A bunch of different films that screened there But then those are short films Thought short films This is our feature documentary Yeah and this is like over an hour So from Fiji there's like There's you know this feature length film There's Like they said a bunch of short films There's a bunch of photographs There's a bunch of campaign memorabilia Of the different parties There's also the Tamil section outside Which is like a different kind of film But it definitely Linked to politics nonetheless Very casual Discussion of politics I think our approach is a little bit different From other approaches Because we're not We're not ethnographers Or ethnographers So it is a different perspective It's really like With every manning's perspective That's a great approach Come and check out the Brune Gallery This is running through the month of film And into March I think March 4th I believe it ends So come check out the exhibition while it's up And hopefully You enjoy as much as we've been Enjoying it Cheers, Naka