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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20190301
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20190331
DTSTAMP:20190220T125620Z
URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/the-arts-centre-ehu-strange-land
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SUMMARY:The Arts Centre: The Arts Centre EHU: Strange Lands And How To Surv
 ive
DESCRIPTION:STRANGE LANDS AND HOW TO SURVIVE\n\n1st Mar 2019\, 10:00am - 30
 th Mar 2019\, 6:00pm\n\nThe Arts Centre\,\n\nEdge Hill University\, St Hel
 ens Road\, Ormskirk\, Lancashire\, L39 4QP  01695 584480\n\n \n\nTrans-A
 sian Photos On Show in Ormskirk\n\nThe story of a remarkable journey of ri
 sk and adventure is captured in photographs in an exhibition\, “Strange 
 Places And How To Survive”\, at Edge Hill University’s Arts Centre thr
 oughout March. When transgender artist Mandy Romero set off to cross Asia 
 from China to Turkmenistan in the summer of 2017 she was determined to bri
 ng back a visual record of her encounters in some of the most illiberal an
 d intolerant regimes in the Northern Hemisphere.\n\nTravelling with a larg
 e square of red silk as her main costume resource\, to signify both the co
 mmunist origins of the countries en route and the Silk Road route she was 
 following she brought back to the UK a set of portraits of herself taken b
 y a fascinating variety of photographers\, most of them met for the first 
 time along the way.\n\nThe portraits include location shots from China\, K
 azakhstan\, Kyrgyzstan\, Tajikistan\, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. In all 
 of these countries transgender is unrecognized and often threatened by leg
 islation and attitudes which outlaw LGBT individuals\, with sanctions that
  range from imprisonment to sterilization. Despite this situation many of 
 the shots reveal Mandy made welcome by local people in her photoshoots.\n\
 nThe exhibition shows the images in the context of each country’s histor
 y and politics. Mandy Romero\, otherwise the transgender “other” of br
 oadcaster Roger Hill\, has provided an account of the journey and the char
 acters encountered. A parallel art-work\, a sound-and image installation c
 alled “The Fall” produced by Roger Hill with Andy Hunt\, which explore
 s the sacred and secular spaces of Central Asia\, opens at the same time i
 n the Arts Centre.\n\nMandy Romero\n\nMandy Romero is a transgender artist
 \, a created identity but not a conventional alter ego. The artist has pro
 duced films\, writing and has performed in plays and cabaret but her main 
 performance focus is on Live Art actions and interactions\, which she has 
 carried out in places as diverse as Barcelona\, Shanghai\, Copenhagen and 
 the Pearl River Delta. She is based in Liverpool and has had a long associ
 ation with the Bluecoat Arts Centre there\, producing many of her art-work
 s for them. She took on the mantle of Queen Of Culture for the Liverpool 
 ’08 Capital Of Culture celebrations. Since 2010 she has produced a numbe
 r of solo performances based on autobiographical material\, including “S
 tevenage”\, and “Scandinavia Has Been Good To Me”\, both  premiered
  at The Bluecoat\, and “Consolation no 3” recently performed at The Ar
 ts Centre\, Edge Hill University. Mandy publishes a regular blog in the on
 line publication\, Transgender Universe.
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