Exhibition
Jennet Thomas: The Unspeakable Freedom Device
4 Jul 2015 – 22 Aug 2015
Address
- Grundy Art Gallery
- Queen Street
- Blackpool
- FY1 1PX
- United Kingdom
For summer 2015, the Grundy Art Gallery presents a new commission: THE UNSPEAKABLE FREEDOM DEVICE, an experimental narrative film and multimedia sculptural installation by artist Jennet Thomas.
About
The film presents a kind of absurd fairy-tale, in which a strange mythical tribe surrounding the ‘Blue Lady’, based on a memory of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, holds sway. The tribe takes a fictional pilgrimage through a future-primitive world, where the difference between magic and technology is now forgotten.
THE UNSPEAKABLE FREEDOM DEVICE establishes a fictional world with bizarre costumes and characters, creating a “Victorian Sci-Fi” aesthetic from Blackpool’s Winter Gardens - the final destination of the pilgrimage and the site of many of Thatcher’s most famous speeches at Party Conferences.
The film will be screened at the following times daily, within opening hours:
10.00
10.40
11.20
12.00
12.40
13.20
14.00
14.40
15.20
16.00