REROUTE (passenger 3)
by virtual migrants
multimedia art / live music performance / short films
4pm, Saturday 8th September
at Martin Harris Building (Manchester University), Coupland Street (off Oxford Road), Manchester M13 9PL
a special informal performance - free entry or voluntary donation
with video-media artist Kooj Chuhan and musicians Aidan Jolly, Jilah Bakhshayesh and Arash Fayyazi, plus singer and vocal-word artist Segun Lee-French, and including original work by acclaimed visual artist Keith Piper.
REROUTE takes us on a journey of juxtapositions, statements and pan-global relations across the human borders that burn us, using both lyrical rhythm and visual collision, and continuing the Passenger series of multimedia performances. A must-see artistic collaboration weaving a narrative which includes an Iranian Tar (played by Arash Fayyazi) responding to projected poetry performed by Tang Lin and Khasrow Mustafa, selected short film works, live vj-art, intelligent improvised acoustica and songs.
plus: Re-Launch of the new "EXHALE" publication, presenting 5 years of video, music and electronic art engaging with asylum and migration in a new world order
consisting of DVD, audio-CD and two booklets with 40 pages of essays, images and contexts, on sale at a reduced price for this night only! Otherwise available to purchase online NOW for just £15.99 - full details at www.virtualmigrants.com/exhale.
Virtual Migrants celebrate and present a selection of the work produced over the last 5 years, from the ground-breaking Terminal Frontiers exhibition to their variant musical collaborations (including with Hip-Hop band 4D). Created with and by a range of artists and collaborators across the UK from Glasgow to Plymouth, these works deconstruct the polemical and varying experiences of asylum in a globalised post-9/11 world, colliding documentary realism with poetic imagination, the personal with the epic, and including the unmissable Reroute performance.