FACT Liverpool – Uncertain Data 

15 September 2021 — 3 October 2021

What impact do our emotions, sentiments, and reactions have on how we see the world? Uncertain Data brings together four FACT artists (YAMBE TAM, ANGELA YT CHAN, TESSA NORTON, ANDRIUS ARUTIUNIAN) whose work reveals the many layers that define the data that regulates us and calls into question our faith in it. Four newly commissioned artworks invite us to travel to the ocean’s depths by controlling our emotions in an interactive VR work; to question whether a computer algorithm can tell whether we’re lying or telling the truth; and to uncover hard facts and data to reveal the human stories beneath them, ultimately exposing the uncertainty on which our world is built.

The Bluecoat – Rosa-Johan Uddoh: Practice Makes Perfect

15 October 2021 – 23 January 2022

Uddoh is a multidisciplinary artist who is influenced by Black feminist thought and practice. She has performed live at the Bluecoat before, as part of her residency with Liverpool John Moores University and New Contemporaries in 2018.

Practice Makes Perfect is a documentary about the importance of childhood education in the United Kingdom. Rosa-Johan Uddoh examines how schooling shapes a young person’s perspective of what it means to be British, as well as what is left out or marginalised within this. Uddoh has viewed producing new art for this show as therapeutic “wish fulfilment” in a period of uncertainty and stress, in response to contemporary discussions regarding Black history in the National Curriculum.

A major new piece by Uddoh, a large-scale collage that examines the historical character of Balthazar, is included in the exhibition. Balthazar was one of the three historical Magi, and subsequently, a Saint, who presented Jesus with the gift of myrrh, according to legend. This King, who has been shown as a lone black guy in creative depictions of the Nativity scene or adoration since mediaeval times, is frequently the first time schoolchildren see a Black person of prominence in a play.

International Slavary Museum – Lambeaux (scraps) by Gilles Eli-Dit-Cosaque

Permanent Display

Gilles Eli-Dit-Lambeaux Cosaque’s (scraps) is a fictitious diary assembled from different materials. It’s also a Creole diary – not in the geographical sense, but in the sense of a state of mind, relating to the notion of creolisation. Like the experience of recollection, the broken pages are a work of art that is always in motion.

The Lambeaux aestheticizes the labour that occurs before a project is completed by using the note taking trope as its form. Each piece is a two-page spread from a notebook with a centre binding fold. Gilles’ work is vibrant, allowing for movement and many perspectives. Lambeaux is part of the ISM’s Challenging Histories exhibition, which showcases contemporary artworks reacting to the history and impact of transatlantic slavery.

Tate Liverpool – Emily Speed : Flatland

25 September 2021 – 2 January 2022

Emily Speed will produce a new project for Tate Liverpool in 2021, which will focus on the body’s interaction with architecture. Speed’s work looks at how individuals are shaped by the institutions they’ve lived in and how they inhabit their own psychological space. On a regular basis, Speed collaborates with choreographers, dancers, and filmmakers, as well as incorporating community organisations and real-life stories into her work. Sculpture, drawing, performance, and cinema are among the mediums in which she works.