Art, speakers and stalls to mark Battle of Orgreave

Catcliffe Recreation Ground becomes the latest staging post on an artists’ pilgrimage tomorrow as Jimmy Cauty’s 2016 ADP Riot Tour comes to town and sets up camp near the Battle of Orgreave site.

The tour is described as “a pilgrimage to 38 sites of historic civil unrest across the UK” and centres on the display of a 40 ft shipping container containing “a spectacular post-apocalyptic landscape in miniature 1:87 scale”, entitled The Aftermath Dislocation Principle (ADP).

The event runs from 11am to 4pm every day from tomorrow to Saturday and will feature speeches, stalls, exhibitions and music, with the Orgreave Truth and Justice campaign to be represented at the launch event from noon to 4pm tomorrow.

The origins of the shipping container piece lie in a series of works known as A Riot in a Jam Jar,  created by former KLF member Jimmy Cauty.

Cauty constructed tiny scenes of a riotous nature inside upturned jam jars in which

violence, humour and socio-political commentary vied for position in contained and

domesticated bite-size portions.

The ADP in a Shipping Container is designed to be artwork that can go anywhere “to seek its audience”.

At each stage of the tour, the artists are handing out leaflet that discuss each location’s “riot”, written by a local resident — in Rotherham’s case, the Battle of Orgreave.

As the container travels the country, it is also collecting graffiti from each site, constantly transforming it as an ongoing form of folk art.

A spokesman for the event said: “Far from inciting another riot, the event's organisers hope the experience will be a peaceful and thought-provoking one, with the only real disturbance being the constant  chatter of miniature police radios, dotted all over the exhibit.”