England riots 10 years on: arrested protestors find a voice in augmented reality work
A new augmented reality piece by the Ghanaian-UK artist and filmmaker Baff Akoto will revisit the England riots of 2011—one of Britain’s most unsettling and violent recent historical events—which erupted across several English cities following the shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham, North London.
The shooting of 29-year-old Duggan on 4 August a decade ago, and the subsequent handling of the incident by police, sparked some of the biggest riots in modern English history, resulting in five deaths and more than 3,000 arrests over the course of five days (6-10 August).
Akoto’s AR work, Up:Rise (from 6 August), can be accessed by scanning QR codes on posters placed in London, Liverpool, Bristol, Manchester and Birmingham. The piece includes archive footage and testimonies from those who participated in the riots nationwide including people who were arrested and convicted.
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