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Flags fly in unusual formation on Usher Gallery roof due to Covid-19

Beth Scard by Beth Scard
May 4, 2020 - Updated on May 5, 2020
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The Electric Fence Exhibition by Annabel McCourt at the Usher Gallery, Lincoln. Photo: Bethany Scard.
Six of the flags on display at the Usher Gallery. Photo: Bethany Scard.
This neon sign refers to wider feminist concerns and the belief that milk is a cure-all. Photo: Bethany Scard.
The neon sign "Happy hour in the harmful factory" pre-installation. Photo: Annabel McCourt.
Installing the neon sign on to the wall. Photo: Annabel McCourt.
The Electric Fence, each segment of wire creates a different sound when touched. Photo: Bethany Scard.
The flags linking to the treatment of homosexuals in the concentration camps and Karl Wood, who was imprisoned for being gay, can be seen in the adjoining room through the electric fence wires. Photo: Bethany Scard.
Flags flying on the Usher Gallery's roof. Photo: Bethany Scard.
The black triangle on this flag represents the link to its use in the concentration camps during World War II. Photo: Bethany Scard.
Karl Wood was imprisoned for being homosexual, his goal to paint every windmill in Britain was therefore, never achieved. Photo: Bethany Scard.
Behind the yellow flag online is the testimony about "what could the fence mean to me?". Photo: Bethany Scard.
Behind the green flag are videos of a woman explaining what stops her from living freely, found on Annabel McCourt's website. Photo: Bethany Scard.
The blue flag is on show in the gallery, it reads "electric fence" within the arrow. Photo: Bethany Scard.
The purple flag was the final flag on show within the gallery, the others were on the gallery's roof. Photo: Bethany Scard.

The Electric Fence exhibition came to the Usher Gallery in February, but when the gallery closed in March so did access to the exhibit, stopping “The Changing of the Flags” from being changed.

Annabel McCourt, the Grimsby artist behind the exhibit, designed twelve flags which are either on display on the Usher Gallery’s roof or inside with the rest of the exhibit. McCourt had planned a sequence for the changing of the flags so that each design could be seen on a walk past the gallery in Lincoln.

The main spectacle in the exhibition is the Electric Fence which blasts sounds of construction and of the original homophobic hate speech that inspired the art piece when a wire is touched. The art exhibit also includes a neon sign which reads: “Happy hour in the harmful factory” in reference to feminism and popular culture.

Following the closure of the gallery, Annabel McCourt said: “I initially felt exceptionally depressed to lose the culmination of two-to-three years’ work.”

“However, the exhibition was always designed and curated in such a way to have an online presence.”

The story behind the orange flag: a screen shot from Annabel McCourt’s website.

Workshops were carried out in February where the people of Lincolnshire talked about their own personal fences and barriers in the LGBTQI community, these stories were then added to McCourt’s website for everyone to hear.

If you click on the coloured flags you’ll hear the testimonies of four different people, including a poem about one person’s trans-status and what it means to them.

The histories behind the six black flags with different designs on each one are also included. For example, the flag with a black triangle explains its link with the concentration camps during World War II and homosexuality.

Although the exhibit ends in physical form at the gallery on May 10, the voices and stories behind the Electric Fence exhibit will remain online indefinitely.

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