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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/independents-biennial-y-bala-ann
 a-jane-houghton-and-abbie-bradshaw-the-royal-standard-l8-5af-dates-28-07-2
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SUMMARY:The Royal Standard: Independents Biennial: Y Bala: Anna Jane Hought
 on and Abbie Bradshaw
DESCRIPTION:Y Bala: Anna Jane Houghton and Abbie Bradshaw\nThe Royal Standa
 rd\, L8 5AF\nDate(s): 28/07/2023 - 03/08/2023\n12:00 pm - 6:00 pm\n\nY Ba
 la: Anna Jane Houghton and Abbie Bradshaw\n\nY Bala seeks to encompass two
  practices\, which use performance and sound to activate ambient and tacit
  histories of space. The exhibition combines themes of welsh folklore\, na
 rrative objects (primarily vessels)\, cinematic tropes of women in the fol
 k-horror genre\, body as primal investigative tool in landscape and the au
 ditory presence of place. The project is a collaboration between artists A
 nna Jane Houghton and Abbie Bradshaw\, Y Bala acts as a sister exhibition 
 to Lido (2022)\, partnered in their exploration of the space between\, act
 ivating presence\, and the validity of place through its relation to that 
 of another.\n\nY Bala interrogates folklore as its spring board\, in parti
 cular the tale of Lake Bala also known as Llyn Tegid\, known for its legen
 d of having a sunken town beneath its surface. There are two recorded vers
 ions of how the flooding occurred. This concept of augmented truths is a k
 ey theme throughout Y Bala. Firstly\, in that it allows chance artefacts f
 ound within a space to aid the realisation of a chosen belief. Secondly ho
 w the recounting\, or in this case\, recording of site\, will always be su
 bject to ones own experience within it\, particularly the communication of
  women’s experience of landscape in folk-horror cinema\, often considere
 d representational and prone to emotional bias rather than a definitive po
 rtrayal.\n\nY Bala in its form is primarily the act of performance documen
 ted cinematically exploring lost space through bodily activation and curat
 ed narratives that are unearthed through the surface of our skin\, generat
 ing a primal tacit knowledge.\n\nY Bala has found a natural link to the th
 is years Liverpool Biennial 2023 title\, Umoya: A Sacred Return of Lost Th
 ings- the lost town of Bala that lives under the surface of the water\, lo
 st spaces\, lost objects and lost narratives.\n\nAbout the artists: Anna 
 Jane Houghton &amp\; Abbie Bradshaw
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LOCATION:The Royal Standard\, Northern Lights\, Cains Brewery Village\, Gra
 fton Street\, Liverpool\, L8 5SD\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom
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