An in-conversation event that discusses the collaborative lockdown project, Riddle 57 - an Exeter City of Literature compact commission!
In 2020 Double Elephant Print Workshop worked with poet Jacob Polley and Anglo Saxon Poetry academics Megan Cavell and Chris Jones to explore the 1000 year old riddle 57 from the Exeter Book.
Over 250 members of the public submitted creative responses and working with filmmakers Luke and Corina Hagan, these formed an interactive digital version of the riddle - that could be played with endless possibilities.
Double Elephant’s Emma Moloney will be talking about their lockdown project, in which they collaborated with one another, a filmmaker, printmakers and members of the public through crowd-sourcing techniques to produce an interactive multi-media version of The Exeter Book’s Riddle 57 which was featured by the BBC as one of their ‘Culture in Quarantine’ projects in 2020.
Cost: Free
This event is one of a series organised by Megan Cavell (University of Birmingham) and Jennifer Neville (Royal Holloway, University of London) as part of the AHRC-funded Group Identity and the Early Medieval Riddle Tradition project. For more details, please contact Megan Cavell (m.c.cavell@bham.ac.uk) or Jennifer Neville (j.neville@rhul.ac.uk).
Accessibility Statement: The seminar will be hosted on Zoom. A link will be sent to all participants shortly before the seminar. Closed captioning will be enabled.
