Name: Mic Drop
Start: 2017-10-21T17:30:00+01:00
End: 2017-10-21T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall

Mic Drop

Beaconsfield

Keith Piper with Professor Paul Goodwin as part of a performative symposium on Saturday 21 October starting at 5.30pm.
Participating performers respond to Keith Piper’s new commission Mic Drop including:
dubmorphology
Rinkoo Barpaga
Tansy Spinks and Maya Amrami
Sharon Bertram
Jheni Arboine
 
FREE EVENT
 
A founding member of the Blk Art Group and early pioneer of digital art, Keith Piper is a Black British artist of international significance and the exhibition Jet Black Futures I presents the new Beaconsfield Commission, Mic Drop, in the context of his latest body of work.
Working with the frisson and anxiety associated with futurological speculation, the new single-screen digital work takes as its focus the ‘mic drop’: a confrontational performative gesture dating back to 1980s Rap, globalised by Barak Obama in 2016 and signalling the definitive end of a statement. Given the allusions contained within Piper’s exhibition title – ‘the terror of looming ‘black futures’, the ‘tech noir’ of science fiction and the void of global annihilation’ – the mip drop takes on a dangerous edge. 
The new work is contextualised by the first London screening of Unearthing The Banker’s Bones (2016), an Arts Council Collection 70th Anniversary commission.

Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall

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