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:10673@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250804T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250831T160000 DTSTAMP:20250731T123406Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/st-brides-church-hammer-in-hand- studios-presents-put-your-feet-in-my-shoes/ SUMMARY:: St Bride's Church: Hammer In Hand Studios Presents ‘Put Your Fe et In My Shoes’ DESCRIPTION:Hammer In Hand Studios Presents\n‘Put Your Feet In My Shoes ’\nby Michelle Wren and Kazem Ashourzadeh\n\nNew video artwork opening a t St Brides Church for Independents Biennial this month offers a refreshin g perspective on migration and those journeying to Europe to seek refuge\n \nFrom Monday 4th August to Saturday 30th August\, this new multimedia vid eo artwork by Michelle Wren and Kazem Ashourzadeh will be on display at St Bride's Church\, Percy Street\, Liverpool\, L8 7LT as part of The Liverpo ol Biennial Independents Programme.\n\nPut Your Feet in My Shoes is an ani mated film that follows protagonist Marco Polo as he undertakes the perilo us journey to Europe and fights to maintain his optimism and identity.\n\n Combining animation and live action\, this colourful\, funny and painfully honest film will sweep you off your feet\, across the world and into the author’s shoes.\n\nDrawing from parts of his own journey to Europe and n arrating the piece under the guise of heroic traveller Marco-Polo\, Kazem Ashourzadeh reframes his experience - resisting the role of victim. Marco Polo travelled the world without a passport and was considered a heroic ad venturer\, why aren't the people that take this journey seen in the same w ay?\n\nThe film is projection mapped onto an inflatable dingy\, suspended in the church and exhibited alongside scraps of wrecked dinghy washed up o n beaches in Greece\, this vibrant film expresses the deadly impact Europe an migration policy is having on people seeking refuge and brings the real ity of this crisis home to Liverpool.\n\nKey Details\nAddress: St Bride's Church\, Percy Street\, Liverpool\, L8 7LT\nEntry: Free\nPrivate View: Fri day 1st August 6pm - 9pm\nOpen: Mondays 10am - 4pm | Wednesdays 10am - 9pm | Saturdays 10am - 4pm\n\nCreated during a four month residency at FACT L iverpool’s Studio Lab and an on location shoot on the Greek Island of Ch ios\; the first island Kazem arrived at in Europe. The artists piece toget her fragments of memories using real photographs of Kazem's journey and by scanning Google Streetview. Blending traditional analogue techniques with digital technologies that include live video\, green screen digital and s top motion animation\, set building and prop making\; with an atmospheric soundscape created by Rob Wingfield.\n\n“This is a raw and defiant accou nt of the brutality that people face when they are forced to take this mig ration route to Europe\, not an explanation or apology for why people come ” said Michelle Wren\n\nThe work was inspired by Kazem's old battered sh oes that he walked to Europe in and the photos of his journey\, which feat ure Kazem - well dressed and presentable - passing for a tourist\, rather than expressing the reality of his dangerous mission. Running for 13 minut es\, the film is presented on a loop\, with audiences experiencing the wav es of battle between Marco Polo’s optimism and the position and characte r imposed on him by Europe.\n\nThe dinghy the artwork is projected into is whole and representative of the ones in which people are forced to cross the Mediterranean sea in\, but displayed alongside the artwork are real pi eces of dingy found washed up on Greek Island Mithilini. Donated by Lesvos Solidarity. These artefacts bring home the reality of the unseaworthy ves sels and dangerous situations that people seeking refuge in Europe face.\n \nThis urgent work challenges the growing anti-migrant sentiment across Eu rope that sparked race riots across the UK in 2024 and riots outside a hot el housing people seeking asylum in Liverpool in 2023. The piece draws on inspiration from the Zine ‘My Dream Is A World Without Hatred’  that the artists co-produced with a group of people in Liverpool who are seekin g asylum\, following the Race Riots in the summer of 2024.\n\nAs well as b eing a feature of the Independents Biennial programme this summer\, Put Yo ur Feet in My Shoes will be screened in community spaces in areas of Liver pool where people seeking asylum have experienced racism.\n\nAlongside the work\, the artists are hosting an event at The Museum of Liverpool:\n\nSa turday 16th August\, 1pm - 4pm | Screening and Talk | Museum of Liverpool\ nSolidarity beyond defence and the language of immigration \nScreening of Put Your Feet In My Shoes and Exhibition of Zine ‘My Dream is a World Wi thout Hatred’ followed by artist talk and public workshop hosted by the artists and Mr Boy Cookery School CIC.\n\nBook Free Event Tickets:\nhttps: //book.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/museumofliverpool/events/0197c0c4-fff9-8c6a -b7bf-bbdf4362f1f9 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2025/07/61e4eea8-4cf0-01dc-0de3-8090756adcd4.jpg CATEGORIES:Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR