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Riding on a Blue Note: a live performance in response to the exhibition

Julianknxx: Chorus in Rememory of Flight

Installation view Barbican Art Gallery  14 September 2023 – 11 February 2024 © Eva Herzog / Barbican Art Gallery

A dance, music and poetry performance responding to Julianknxx’s Chorus in Rememory of Flight film installation with tyroneisaacstuart and Victoria Adukwei Bulley.

Join interdisciplinary artist tyroneisaacstuart and award-winning poet Victoria Adukwei Bulley as they add their contributions to the chorus of Julianknxx’s exhibition. They'll guide audiences through an evening of live dance, music and poetry readings in The Curve. 

This is a free, ticketed performance which involves the audience walking throughout the space of The Curve gallery. Audience members can sit on sofas or on the carpet in the Reading Room at the far end of the space.

 

Performers

Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer, and artist. Her work has appeared widely in publications including The White Review, the London Review of Books, and The Atlantic, and she has held residencies internationally in the US, Brazil and the V&A Museum in London. Victoria is the winner of an Eric Gregory Award, and her critically acclaimed debut poetry book, QUIET, won the Folio Prize for Poetry, the John Pollard International Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. QUIET is published by Faber & Faber in the UK and in North America by Knopf, Penguin Random House. 

tyroneisaacstuart is an East London born and based interdisciplinary artist. He works with dance, music and theology as materials for digital and live spaces. He regularly collaborates with Julianknxx and is one of the participants in Julianknxx’s 2023 film work, Chorus in Rememory of Flight. tyroneisaacstuart’s works often draw on his training as a Jazz musician and Street/Contemporary dancer to make conceptual works focused on positively contributing to the imagination of artistry in the UK.

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