‘Andrew Cooper Unseen’ brings together wood, carvings, animated films, drawings and paintings within their historic participatory environments and situations.
This page aims to compile and link the hundreds of images of work Andrew Cooper has created, along with collaborative projects he has undertaken, primarily with others fighting for housing justice. The main outline of his proposed research is presented in the proposal, and this page serves as a supplementary resource.
Boot is exchanged for money which is used to get goblet. The money from the goblet it is used to get shoes. The value is moving and undergoing metamorphosis, money is the larval form of value.
The Marx Show speaks to the great many people are experiencing the grinding truths of their exploitation, and it exposes the super exploitation of our fellow humans, in many countries which feed investments of the super rich and even the infrastructures here.
Art can open out hidden relationships between people, things and the world we inhabit; how then does art realise its potential to question and open out hidden relations including the social relations of art itself?
Through a workshop in Bergen, Andrew Cooper deepened the understanding of capitalism’s impact on daily life and explored ways to resist its detrimental effects. The session also highlighted the role of art in supporting social struggles, particularly in housing activism.
GHOST TRAIN TO SOULS TOWN- Domestic fragments answer back A ruinous ghost train. A working ghost train in which people were wheeled into a space containing many carved tools and domestic fragments and a film in which they came alive.
Those Whose Souls Resist Repossession shows the fate of former occupants of a council house. They have come back to life but have been embodied in bits of furniture and parts of the house like door frames they try and find each other and make sense of things.
Andrew Cooper Unseen 