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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191213T100000
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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/tate-liverpool-theaster-gates/
SUMMARY:Tate Liverpool: Tate Liverpool: Theaster Gates
DESCRIPTION:THEASTER GATES: AMALGAM\n13 December 2019 – 4 May 2020\nSuppo
 rted by University of Liverpool and Tate Members\nOpen daily 10.00 – 17.
 00\nFor public information call +44(0)151 702 7400\, visit tate.org.uk/liv
 erpool or follow @tateliverpool\n#TheasterGates\n\nTate Liverpool presents
  the first solo museum exhibition in the UK of American artist Theaster Ga
 tes (b. 1973). Combining sculptures\, film\, dance and music the exhibitio
 n explores complex and interweaving issues of race\, territory\, and inequ
 ality in the United States.\n\nTheaster Gates: Amalgam takes as its point 
 of departure the history of Malaga\, a small island off the north east sta
 te of Maine\, USA. From the mid-nineteenth century\, the island was home t
 o an ethnically- mixed community living in relative isolation. Malaga’s 
 community was seen as an undesirable presence on land that could be used a
 s a tourist destination. In 1912\, the state governor ordered their evicti
 on and the community was forcibly relocated to the mainland. They were off
 ered no housing\, jobs or other support and some were involuntarily commit
 ted to psychiatric institutions. The island remains uninhabited to this da
 y.\n\nAmalgam presents a sequence of installations\, with its title referr
 ing to a weaving or blend\, and in the past\, was used as a derogatory ter
 m to refer to racial\, ethnic and religious mixing. Amalgam also reflects 
 Gates’s desire to create new sculptural forms and his imagining of art h
 istory as a pliable material that can be reshaped.\n\nThree large scale wo
 rks comprise the exhibition\; Island Modernity Institute and Department of
  Tourism 2019\, a multi-part installation depicting an imagined archaeolog
 ical study of Malaga\, incorporating artist made objects as well as items 
 retrieved from the island itself\; a 20-minute film\, Dance of Malaga 2019
 \, which combines the slow-moving choreography of American dancer Kyle Abr
 aham\, performed and filmed on Malaga island intersected with archival fea
 ture film footage. The film is accompanied by a new score from Gates’s m
 usical collective\, The Black Monks. The final section of the exhibition\,
  So Bitter\, This Curse of Darkness 2019\, is an immersive space\, populat
 ed with ash tree pillars\, some of which are topped with bronze casts of A
 frican masks\, themselves of uncertain heritage\, honouring the forgotten 
 people of Malaga.\n\nTheaster Gates was born in Chicago where he continues
  to live and work. Gates is best known for his architectural interventions
  and restoration projects\, and his deep interest in how knowledge and his
 tory is created and interpreted.\n\nTheaster Gates: Amalgam is organised i
 n collaboration with the Palais de Tokyo\, Paris where it is on view until
  12 May 2019. Curated by Kasia Redzisz\, Senior Curator and Laura Bruni\, 
 Assistant Curator\, Tate Liverpool with Katell Jaffrès\, Curator\, Palais
  de Tokyo.
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