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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190329T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190512T180000
DTSTAMP:20190513T113422Z
URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/tate-liverpool-arthur-jafa-love-
 is-the-message-the-message-is-death/
SUMMARY:Tate Liverpool: Tate Liverpool: Arthur Jafa - Love is The Message\,
  The Message is Death
DESCRIPTION:ARTHUR JAFA\nLOVE IS THE MESSAGE\, THE MESSAGE IS DEATH \n\n29 
 March – 12 May 2019\n\nOpen daily 10.00 – 18.00 \nFor public informati
 on call +44(0)151 702 7400\, visit www.tate.org.uk/liverpool or follow @ta
 teliverpool #ArthurJafa\n\nTate Liverpool will be the first gallery in the
  north of England to present the critically acclaimed artwork Love is the 
 Message\, The Message is Death 2016. Made by American artist and film-make
 r Arthur Jafa (b. 1960)\, the seven-minute video shows a montage of histor
 ic and contemporary film footage to trace African American history and exp
 erience.\n\nPresented in almost total darkness\, visitors will be immersed
  in the video installation\, accompanied by Kanye West’s gospel-inspired
  hip-hop track Ultralight Beam\, whose lyrics envelop Jafa’s rapid editi
 ng style.\n\nLove is the Message\, The Message is Death brings together cl
 ips from multiple sources\, including pop videos\, TV news\, and police ca
 meras. Moments include: a civil rights march\, former US President Obama s
 inging Amazing Grace at the eulogy for the 9 Charleston parishioners kille
 d by a white supremacist\, Martin Luther King waving from the back of a ca
 r\, Beyoncé in music video 7/11\, a police officer throwing a teenage gir
 l to the ground at a pool party in Texas. These images are interspersed by
  footage shot by Jafa himself\, including his daughter’s wedding\, his m
 other dancing\, and footage from previous works\, mixing his personal expe
 rience with a collective one.\n\nIn addition\, the video work features a r
 ecurring image of the sun. Jafa commented\, ‘…the sun is the appropria
 te scale at which to consider what’s going on. It’s fundamentally an a
 ssertion that black people’s lives should be seen on a cosmological leve
 l…I want you to look up at these things that are happening to black peop
 le\, not down – the way you would stare at the sun.’\n\nMississippi-bo
 rn Arthur Jafa is a film director\, cinematographer\, and visual artist wh
 o has worked with musicians and directors\, including Stanley Kubrick\, Sp
 ike Lee\, Solange Knowles and Jay-Z. Jafa explains: ‘I have a very simpl
 e mantra and it’s this: I want to make black cinema with the power\, bea
 uty\, and alienation of black music. That’s my big goal. The larger preo
 ccupation is how do we force cinema to respond to the existential\, politi
 cal\, and spiritual dimensions of who we are as a people. Music to me is a
  convenient marker of that. Music is the one space in which we [as black p
 eople] know we have totally actualized ourselves\; we don’t ever have to
  write another song to contribute as magnificently as we already have. So 
 a cinema like the music—that’s what Love Is the Message is trying to d
 o.’\n\nThe display is curated by Elisa Nocente\, Exhibitions Assistant\,
  Tate Liverpool.
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