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:6408@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20211016 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20220124 DTSTAMP:20210604T111904Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/bluecoat-rosa-johan-uddoh-practi ce-makes-perfect/ SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Bluecoat: Rosa-Johan Uddoh: Practice Makes Perfect DESCRIPTION:Practice Makes Perfect is focused on childhood education in Br itain. Rosa Uddoh looks at how schooling forms an early understanding of w hat it means to be British\, but also at what within this is marginalised or left out. Responding to current debates about Black history within the National Curriculum\, Uddoh has approached creating new work for this exhi bition as therapeutic ‘wish fulfilment’ in a time of uncertainty and t ension.\nThe exhibition includes a major new work by Uddoh - a large scale collage - which investigates the historical figure of Balthazar. Accordin g to tradition\, Balthazar was one of the three biblical Magi and later a Saint\, who offered the gift of Myrrh to Jesus. Depicted since medieval ti mes as a lone black figure in artistic imagery of the Nativity scene or ‘Adoration’\, this King is often the first time school children encoun ter a Black person of importance in a performance.\nHistorically\, Balthaz ar is also a figure through which white artists and their patrons in Europ e first constructed ‘Blackness’. Through her research\, with the assis tance of Nasra Abdullahi\, Uddoh has found and catalogued around 150 histo rical ‘Balthazars’ featured in ‘Adoration’ paintings made througho ut European history. Thinking about the real\, Black European sitters for these paintings\, Uddoh’s billboard-style collage brings these Black kin gs together in friendship groups on a long march of solidarity to change t he West.\nThe exhibition is also accompanied by a new publication publishe d by Focal Point Gallery and Book Works in partnership with Bluecoat\, Liv erpool and The Bower\, London. The book comprises a collection of scripts by Uddoh\, each aiming to interrogate how a particular character in popula r culture performs (and produces) Black British identity. Presented as scr ipts\, sheet music &\; instructional worksheets\, the reader is encoura ged to insert their own experiences and interpretations\, in their head or through live performances of their own. Selected texts will also be exhib ited as works on paper within the exhibition. The book is designed by Rose Nordin.\nExhibition at Focal Point Gallery\n17 May to 29 August 2021\nExh ibition at Bluecoat\n16 Oct 2021 to 23 Jan 2022.\nOpening 15 Oct 2021. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2021/06/Here-I-am-Baby.jpg 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:20210328T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211031T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR