Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Slave’s Lament is a five-channel video artwork. It was commissioned for Scotland + Venice 2015 by the partnership of Creative Scotland, The British Council and National Galleries of Scotland, and was curated by Hospitalfield. The artwork formed part of Fagen’s solo exhibition for Scotland + Venice at the 56th Venice Biennale, which attracted 33,458 visitors.<br/><br/>Written in 1792, Robert Burns’ poem Slave’s Lament was the only work, at that time, which clearly communicated the appalling realities of the transatlantic slave trade. Despite being more than 200 years old, the song brings the social, political and human tragedies of today into sharp focus. Fagen’s contemporary interpretation connects Scottish and Caribbean history through seemingly disparate musical cultures – Burn’s verse and Jamaican reggae – actioning Fagen’s intentions to link the two countries by methodologically overlaying the past with the present. <br/><br/>For the piece, Fagen collaborated with composer Sally Beamish. The song is performed by the Scottish Ensemble and Reggae singer Ghetto Priest and is produced by Adrian Sherwood.<br/><br/>Fagen’s research forms an important part of the developing conversation on colonialism and the legacy of the slave trade, as a selection of comments from the exhibition of The Slave’s Lament at the National Galleries of the Bahamas demonstrate: ‘The reflection on British colonialism’s impact and cultural dominance of slavery is exceptionally and poignantly explored by the artist.’ <br/><br/>Tate acquired The Slave’s Lament for their permanent collection and it has been exhibited widely through the UK, the USA and China. The work has also been toured by the British Council in Canada and the Caribbean. Several publications have been produced about the artwork’s historical basis and social impact.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".