Between a Gaze and a Gesture
With images sourced from the Liberty human rights archive, this installation shows post-colonial and racial tensions in mid-20th-century Britain.
Netherlands
IFFR 2019
An ever-evolving performance using a carousel slide projector and Cauleen Smith’s vinyl record, Black Utopia LP brings together the artist’s research into Sun Ra, Afrofuturism and the African diaspora. Incorporating new slides from research in the Netherlands, the performance plays around with a constellation of sounds, images and histories to unravel a dynamic and musical flow.
Sun 27 Jan, 14:00-15:20, Kunsthal Rotterdam, €6. Also see Sojourner, Drylongso and compilation programme Calling Planet Earth.
Programme
This exhibition and series of performances spotlight works that explore history and memory from a personal perspective through the carousel slide projector.
Read more about this programmeWith images sourced from the Liberty human rights archive, this installation shows post-colonial and racial tensions in mid-20th-century Britain.
Netherlands
IFFR 2019
A constellation of sounds, images and histories from research into Sun Ra, Afrofuturism and the African diaspora is brought together in this slide-projection performance.
80'
USA
IFFR 2019
This flickering installation with multiple slide projectors is a study of motion that activates fossils that have been stationary for millennia.
Belgium
IFFR 2019