Essay Outline

TOPIC SENTENCES
1. The reenactment occurs close to the location of the original conflict in order to enable the memory of the past conflict.

The artist's intentions are to inform the public about the police brutality on the workers.

The work is dialogic yet not into the sphere of public art. The location is extremely important in the re-creation of the battle in order to get across the messsage that the artist is attempting to portray.

THESIS
2. In the model of dialogic artists, Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave acts as an interactive piece for the community. The use of actual workers that participated in the original conflict helps the workers to openly talk about the past struggle.

Final Thesis: The re-enactment of The Battle of Orgreave elucidates the situation regarding the workers and policemen in hopes that an audience will become cognizant of the issue.

3. "The spatial logic of capitalism may have changed over the past century, but the underlying goal to extract the maximum amount of value out of the labor of the workers for the minimum possible expense"--Grant Kester

"As an artist I was interested in how far an idea could be taken, especially an idea that is on the face of it a contradiction in terms" --Jeremy Deller from Participation

"The artwork has been positioned within a narrative of the Miners' Strike that allows retrospective consideration of the political and social ramifications of the industrial action" ---Alice Correia

" Is it one of the most poignant spectacles that a contemporary artist has managed to produce or a triumph of naivety?" ---Dave Beech