Occupation – Five Songs That Shook The World
Occupation – Five Songs That Shook The World
www.occupation.org.uk
“It is 2014 – People face death for the sake of liberty, and share this through text and image on new media – from the Arab Springs, to Pussy Riot and the turmoil in Ukraine.” (Hopkins, 2014)
New Songs on Contemporary Events – made and released online every two weeks
Digital creation for WNO’s Liberty or Death season 2014
Co-commissioners The Space.org.
Partners FfilmCymru/Wales, BFI Net. Also National Lottery Funded.
Commissions
Carleen Anderson (Grains of Dust, on protests in Ferguson, Missouri,*)
Judith Weir (Sleeping-Mat Ballad, on democracy protests in Hong Kong**)
Cerys Matthews (Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen, on racial injustice in the US,)
High Contrast (Black Christmas, on Christmas consumption,)
Dan-Wyn Jones (Occupation, using lyrics sourced from public online comment.*)
Hopkins – Artistic direction
Direction of two films*
Lyrics for Sleeping Mat Ballad
Link to Archive images of project website, online from October 2014
Link to The Space Archive of project
Website 10K + views at October 2015
Site offline from October 2016
Video of site in action on request
Stats
The Occupation website was active from the end of October 2014, releasing songs on Youtube and Vimeo between 14.11.14 and 23.01.15.
The site was editorially maintained until approx. 15.02.15.
Figs for the site and media platforms during 14.11.14 – 23.01.15
Views of Occupation website 4,494
Video views on Youtube& Vimeo 7,706
Twitter impressions 82,500
Facebook reach 17,000 (for Cerys Matthews’ video –other artists smaller numbers)
Soundcloud plays 1407
1 year post launch, although no new content added for 6 months, interest in songs and site persisted:
14.11.14 – 31.10.15
Viewsof Occupation website 8,831
Video views on Youtube& Vimeo 10,607
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