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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20230406
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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/international-slavery-museum-dan
 cing-in-time-the-ties-that-bind-us/
SUMMARY:International Slavery Museum: International Slavery Museum: Dancing
  in Time: The Ties That Bind Us
DESCRIPTION:Launching on 6 April 2023\, artist LR Vandy\, who is represente
 d by October Gallery in London\, will create a new outdoor sculpture\, whi
 ch will see audiences engaging with International Slavery Museum from outs
 ide of its traditional walls.\n\nProviding a platform for multiple voices 
 in developing the overall vision of the Waterfront Transformation Project
 \, this installation\, named ‘Dancing in Time: The Ties That Bind Us’
  will feed into plans for the overall transformation of the new Internati
 onal Slavery Museum\, exploring storytelling\, interpretation\, and the wi
 der historic waterfront. Continuing in the same spirit as the first and se
 cond pop-ups\, this intervention\, and the placement of the sculpture on t
 he Canning Dock quayside\, echoes Vandy’s recent studio relocation to Ch
 atham Historic Dock Yard\, working with the Ropery\, a 19C building which 
 still makes rope in the traditional way.\n\nThe rope holds both symbolic a
 nd historic importance as it was used in ancient construction\, the buildi
 ng of Colonisation and Empire through shipping\, as well as its more sinis
 ter association with slavery and captivity. Vandy uses the materiality of 
 the rope to create abstract female figures out of twists and turns\, creat
 ing a new sculpture for the International Slavery Museum.\n\nThe sculpture
  is hand made by sewing sections of rope and binding the ends with twine. 
 The end form of the rope speaks to the origins of dance in hunting rituals
 \, carnival masquerades and spirit dancers of the African diaspora\, refle
 cting the title of ‘Dancing in Time.’ A source of inspiration for Lisa
  has been Barbara Ehrenreich’s book\, an exploration of dance as a manif
 estation of the timeless human need for communal joy in Dancing in the St
 reets: A History of Collective Joy.\n\nThrough her work\, Vandy brings tog
 ether both found and made objects to create new meaning. Using beautiful\,
  precious objects while exploring painful subjects of migration\, historic
 ally through the lens of the Transatlantic slave trade\, and currently th
 e many people making desperate\, treacherous boat journeys in hopes of a s
 afer life.\n\nThis final pop-up installation is part of the International 
 Slavery Museums’ series of activations and will be located beside the dr
 y dock in the public realm of Liverpool’s Waterfront. The National Herit
 age Lottery Fund Heritage Horizon Awards has supported us throughout this 
 series of pop-up activation\, and in helping us to re-imagine our ambition
 s for the newly transformed museum.
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LOCATION:International Slavery Museum\, Albert Dock\, Liverpool Waterfront\
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