In another part of the room, four “kitchen-table” conversations by well-known activists were shot on video. ![]() Simultaneously, their first experiences of activism were broadcast live on wall projections and in a twitter/social media campaign using the hashtag #silveraction. Throughout the five-hour performance, four sequential “acts,” one each hour, featured a hundred women at a time talking to each other at small tables. During the performance four hundred older women converged on The Tanks at Tate Modern for a live and unscripted performance of three tableaux. Prior to the performance, women from the miner’s strike, disability, ecology and feminist movements participated in a series of work- shops. ![]() In the midst of calls for budgetary austerity, support for the elderly-health care, housing and so on-was seen as a burden. Silver Action explored recent issues in British media around aging and, in addition, underscored a real public interest in past activist movements in the UK. Rather than dealing with leadership and visibility, the project examined the beginnings of personal political commitment through the narratives offered by women in or influenced by activist movements from 1960 to 1985. This project, loosely modeled on Crystal Quilt (1987), was Lacy’s “re-thinking” of the earlier work.
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