Event
Performance: Imani Robinson and Libita Clayton Welcome Note in a Welcome Speech
05 Jul 2019
Spike Island
Bristol, United Kingdom
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Libita Clayton, Untitled (2018) Courtesy the artist and Brain the Tool
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Courtesy Libita Clayton
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Libita Clayton, Quantum Ghost (2019) Installation view. Produced by Gasworks. Courtesy of the artist. Photograph by Andy Keate
Exhibition
Libita Clayton: Quantum Ghost
6 Jul 2019 – 8 Sep 2019
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 133 Cumberland Road
- Bristol
- BS1 6UX
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 506 via Temple Meads
- Bristol Temple Meads
Event map
A major new commission by British-Namibian artist Libita Clayton, comprising an immersive sound installation, a series of large-scale photograms and a programme of live performances. Quantum Ghost maps a journey through archives and territories related to the artist’s heritage.
About
Spike Island presents Quantum Ghost, a major new commission by Bristol-based artist and Spike Island studio holder Libita Clayton. Comprising an immersive sound installation, a series of large-scale photograms and a programme of live performances, Quantum Ghost maps a journey through archives and territories related to the artist’s heritage.
Digging deep into personal documents and oral histories, the exhibition unearths the subterranean histories and political undercurrents connecting the mining regions of Namibia and Cornwall. From mined ores and sedimentary rocks to precious metals and rare earths, it examines the raw materials at the core of capitalist extraction, revealing how the echoes of colonialism and diasporic migration reverberate through the deep-time of geology.
