BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8373@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240503T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240630T000000 DTSTAMP:20240223T212955Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/bluecoat-michelle-williams-gamak er-our-mountains-are-painted-on-glass/ SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Bluecoat: Michelle Williams Gamaker: Our Mountains Are Pa inted on Glass DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nMichelle Williams Gamaker: Our Mountains Are Painted on G lass\n\n\n\nOur Mountains Are Painted on Glass is an exhibition by Miche lle Williams Gamaker\, as part of our The Lives of Artists season. The Lives of Artists asks audiences what might be uncovered about ourselves when we listen to the testimony\, histories\, and stories of artists refle cting on their lives.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Williams Gamaker: Our Mountains are Painted on Glass\nFriday 3rd May - Sunday 30th June\n\nThro ugh her practice British-Sri Lankan artist Michelle Williams Gamaker exp lores race\, identity\, her love of cinema and the power of storytelling.\ n\nKnown for her inventive filmmaking and screenwriting\, Williams Gamaker draws on and celebrates the classic movies she watched growing up\, and t akes inspiration from early Hollywood and British cinema. The exhibition a t Bluecoat will screen Thieves\, a fantasy adventure retelling of The Thie f of Bagdad. The Thief of Bagdad\, a silent\, black and white film from 19 24\, was remade in colour in 1940.\n\nWilliams Gamaker reimagines the marg inalised characters as claiming leading roles in her film\, played in the originals by Chinese-American actor Anna May Wong and Indian-born American actor Sabu. Now\, both characters reclaim the story as their own\, challe nging the racial discrimination of the film industry. Told as a movie with in a movie\, in Thieves Anna May Wong is found on set by Sabu\, but ther e is something wrong: she is in black-and-white while everything else is i n Technicolor\, and both find themselves trapped in their screen-images. B oth must navigate the structural violence on set (in this case\, the casti ng of white actors to replace actors of colour) by joining forces to overt hrow the set and those in charge.\n\nThieves is a vivid retelling\, blend ing classic analogue methods with contemporary practices. The artist celeb rates the best of past and present filmmaking and shares her love of cinem a through the stories she unpicks.\n\nOur Mountains Are Painted on Glass w as co-commissioned by South London Gallery and DCA.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAwa rd winning moving image artist Michelle Williams Gamaker (b.1979\, Londo n) has developed Fictional Activism to interrogate 20th Century cinema\, b y retelling the histories of marginalised actors and by proposing critical alternatives to colonial storytelling in British and Hollywood studio fil ms.\n\nShe is joint winner of Film London’s Jarman Award (2020) and has an extensive national and international profile\, including prestigious BF I London Film Festivals (2017\, 2018\, 2021)\, Aesthetica (winner of Best Experimental Film\, 2021\, 2023) and LSFF (2022\, 2024). Recent exhibition s include Our Mountains Are Painted on Glass at South London Gallery and D undee Contemporary Arts (2023)\, I Multiply Each Day\, Gus Fisher Gallery\ , Auckland (2021)\, The Whitechapel London Open 2022\, Like There is Hope and I Can Dream of Another World at Hauser &\; Wirth and a major public commission Springfield Eternal in the atrium of Springfield Hospital for charity Hospital Rooms (2023).\n\nWilliams Gamaker’s work is in the Arts Council Collection\, her films are distributed by LUX and her entire film ography has been recognised and preserved by the BFI National Film Archive . She is a Studio Artist at Gasworks\, where she is also trustee. Williams Gamaker is Reader in BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College\, University of Lo ndon\, and is currently a British Academy Wolfson Fellow. She champions em erging artists\, most recently as Selector for the prestigious John Moore ’s Painting Prize (2020) and Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021.\n\n\n\n\ n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2024/02/Michelle-Williams-Gamaker-Thieves-behind-the-scenes-2022.-Photo- Ellen-Jane-Rogers.jpg CATEGORIES:Exhibitions LOCATION:Bluecoat\, School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United K ingdom GEO:53.404542;-2.984173 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=School Lane\, Liverpool\, L 1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bluecoat:geo :53.404542,-2.984173 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240331T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR