| Like Love Parts One and TwoJanuary 30, 2010- March 28, 2010
Sonia BoyceMark Gandy dances with support worker Ellie O'Hanlon | |
The exhibition will evolve across three partner venues in Bristol, Liverpool and Stoke, and each manifestation of the show will be different. The second stage of Like Love in Liverpool will feature elements from the Meriton alongside new work made by Boyce in collaboration with the Blue Room, a year round arts service for adults with learning disabilities that operates three days a week at the Bluecoat, in partnership with Liverpool City Council. The different encounters with care these adults have experienced inspired and informed Boyce’s new works.
Like Love is accompanied by another exhibition Action for which Boyce has been invited to take on the role of curator in celebration of her involvement in Black Skin/Bluecoat, her first exhibition here in 1985. Her selection showcases emerging British artists whose themes, issues and approaches (loosely defined as ‘Post Black’) differ from the platform of ideas presented 25 years ago. The paradoxical nature of this presentation - on the one hand highlighting the work of 'black' artists, while at the same time opening up a debate on what constitutes their practice - is a timely and critical position. In asking Boyce to take on the role of curator as well as producer, it is hoped that the theme of ‘care’ will be extended to include examination of artists’ professional practice, as well as the nurturing role of the Bluecoat.
Like Love is commissioned by Spike Island and is an Arts Council England National Touring Exhibition in partnership with the Bluecoat and The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, and will be documented in a joint publication at the end of the tour.
Recommendations of Like Love Parts One and Two
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