Jeremy DellerThe Battle of Orgreave Archive (An Injury to One is an Injury to All) 2001

The Battle of Orgreave Archive (An Injury to One is an Injury to All) is an installation comprising texts, documents, objects, videos and other archival material, which provide a context for examining the intertwined narratives of two events: the 1984 strike by the National Union of Mineworkers (in particular the specific confrontation between striking miners and the police that occurred at the Orgreave Coking Plant in Yorkshire on 18 June 1984), and Jeremy Deller’s 2001 re-enactment of the same conflict, which the artist called The Battle of Orgreave. Split between two rooms, the installation presents its constituent materials in a way that blurs the boundaries between their status as objective documents on the one hand, and historical relics on the other… (read more)