Arts Week with Judy Murphy

The role of the Atlantic Ocean in the African slave trade, which ran between the 16th and 19th centuries and resulted in up to 12 million people being shipped to the Americas to face lives of slavery and degradation, is explored in a new exhibition at Galway Arts Centre.

The effects of capitalism, Detroit techno, Afro-futurism and the mythology of an underwater Black nation will also be examined in A Sphere Of Water Orbiting A Star, which goes on show in the city venue from this Saturday, May 13. It’s the work of the Otolith Group, a London-based, artist-led collective, which has been nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize.

The exhibition will open this Saturday at the Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street, with a preview from 2pm. This will include moving images, audio works, performances, and installations, involving archival and contemporary images, recorded sound, documentary accounts, fictional narratives, a video essay and lecture that will also involve performance.

At 3pm, in the Galway Arts Centre’s Nuns’ Island Theatre, there will be a talk by the founders of the Otolith Group, Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar. From London, Anjalika is a curator, moderator, writer film director and photographer, while Kodwo is a British-Ghanaian writer, filmmaker and theorist.

Following their talk, musician DeForrest Brown Jr will give a lecture on the history of techno.

The show will then be formally launched at 5pm in the Arts Centre on Dominick Street. Finally, at 8pm, De Forrest Brown Jr will perform a live electronic music set in The Galway Distillery, Merchants’ Road.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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