The Woolworths Choir of 1979
The Woolworths Choir of 1979
The Woolworths Choir of 1979
By Elizabeth Price
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The Woolworths Choir of 1979
The Woolworths Choir of 1979
The Woolworths Choir of 1979
The Woolworths Choir of 1979 is the video work with which Elizabeth Price won the prestigious Turner Prize in 2012. She takes three seemingly unrelated topics – Gothic church architecture, the choir, and the infamous fire at a Woolworths department store in Manchester in 1979 – and combines these historical sources together to create a new story. The film consists of a rhythmic montage of various visual sources (archival images, documents, original visual material), through which subjects are logically connected in an associatively reflective way.