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Soufiane Ababri: In conversation
Soufiane Ababri: Their mouths were full of bumblebees but it was me who was pollinated.** 13 Mar-30 Jun 2024, The Curve.**

In his first exhibition at a major UK institution, Ababri transformed The Curve in a site-specific work. Uniting drawing, performance and installation, his work challenges the dominance of Western narratives in queer history, whilst exploring themes around diasporic queer experience, friendship and intimacy - and how queer nightlife can be used as a space for collective and personal emancipation.

In our film he describes his unconventional journey to becoming an artist: creating an identity and having it reflected it in his work. We also delve into the nuanced realities of LGBTQIA+ clubs and raves, underscoring how the promise of acceptance and freedom often coexists with societal inequalities. It's a striking call to action that prompts us to collectively rethink how we create and navigate spaces of belonging and resistance.

Join us in The Curve on Sun 30 June 2024
to mark the closing of the exhibition. Three dance performances will take place at 2pm, 3.30pm and 7pm - space is very limited so book tickets in advance to avoid disappointment:
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/event/soufiane-ababri-performance
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ScreenTalk: Love Lies Bleeding
Переглядів 195Місяць тому
ScreenTalk with director and co-writer Rose Glass on Love Lies Bleeding, hosted by Barbican Curator Sonia Zadurian. Rose Glass talks intimacy coordination, queer character representation and body-horror in this ScreenTalk. Show your support for the Barbican by making a donation and help inspire more people to discover and love the arts. www.barbican.org.uk/donate Pushing the boundaries of theat...
ScreenTalk: Civil War
Переглядів 467Місяць тому
A screening and ScreenTalk with writer & director Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Ex Machina), on his latest film: a group of journalists try to survive the recent outbreak of civil war in America. Interviewed by curator Sonia Zadurian. Show your support for the Barbican by making a donation and help inspire more people to discover and love the arts. www.barbican.org.uk/donate Pushing the boundari...
Ibrahim Mahama on making Purple Hibiscus
Переглядів 1,4 тис.Місяць тому
"It's almost like the Barbican has grown a new skin." We sat down with artist Ibrahim Mahama to talk to him about our latest commission Purple Hibiscus, which sees 2000 square metres of vibrant, hand-woven fabric from Ghana envelop our Lakeside facade. We are delighted to have Purple Hibiscus bringing colour and intrigue to our building from April until August 2024. We asked the artist behind t...
Making the fabric for Purple Hibiscus
Переглядів 2852 місяці тому
Get lost in this beautiful footage from Ghana, documenting how the fabric for Ibrahim Mahama’s Purple Hibiscus was created. The 2000 square metres of fabric which wraps our Lakeside Terrace was all made by hand, from the team who wove the market-bought cotton to the hundreds of craftspeople who sewed the pieces together at the Alui Mahama stadium in Tamale. Purple Hibiscus is free to visit unti...
Installing Purple Hibiscus
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Watch the transformation of our Lakeside Terrace as Ibrahim Mahama’s Purple Hibiscus was installed over several weeks. Made up of around 2km of fabric, the huge artwork weighs a total of 20 tonnes. To hang such an enormous work from our Grade II listed building involved considerable engineering experience and a dedicated team of riggers on site. Purple Hibiscus is free to visit until Sun 18 Aug...
Barbican Sessions: Anthony McGill
Переглядів 1922 місяці тому
In this Barbican Session, clarinettist Anthony McGill performs Three Smiles for Tracey by American composer Adolphus Hailstork, filmed in the Garden Room. Show your support for the Barbican by making a donation and help inspire more people to discover and love the arts. www.barbican.org.uk/donate Pushing the boundaries of theatre, dance, film, music and visual art, the Barbican is a world-class...
Dezeen x Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art. 13 Feb-26 May 2024.
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Using textiles, fibre and thread, 50 international artists challenge power structures and reimagine the world in this major group exhibition. Show your support for the Barbican by making a donation and help inspire more people to discover and love the arts. www.barbican.org.uk/donate Pushing the boundaries of theatre, dance, film, music and visual art, the Barbican is a world-class arts and lea...
ScreenTalk: Perfect Days
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A ScreenTalk with the iconic German director Wim Wenders and star Kôji Yakusho discussing their film Perfect Days, a beautiful, bittersweet drama set in Tokyo. Show your support for the Barbican by making a donation and help inspire more people to discover and love the arts. www.barbican.org.uk/donate Pushing the boundaries of theatre, dance, film, music and visual art, the Barbican is a world-...
Screen Talk: Oppenheimer
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A ScreenTalk with the talent behind Christopher Nolan's historical epic joined us for a ScreenTalk. Cinematographer Hoyt Van Hoytema, Composer Ludwig Goransson and editor Jennifer Lame chatted about catching their big breaks, collaboration on set, and building a musical identity in film. Show your support for the Barbican by making a donation and help inspire more people to discover and love th...
ScreenTalk: Maestro
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A ScreenTalk with director and lead Bradley Cooper and co-star Carey Mulligan, hosted by Barbican curator Sonia Zadurian. Maestro is Cooper's Oscar-winning biography of the acclaimed American composer Leonard Bernstein (West Side Story). Show your support for the Barbican by making a donation and help inspire more people to discover and love the arts. www.barbican.org.uk/donate Pushing the boun...
Artists in Residence: Chatting with Ayo Akingbade & Kieran Yates
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We sat down with housing journalist Kieran Yates and film artist Ayo Akingbade to talk about London, creativity and community, in approach to our cinema season Artists in Residence. Show your support for the Barbican by making a donation and help inspire more people to discover and love the arts. www.barbican.org.uk/donate Pushing the boundaries of theatre, dance, film, music and visual art, th...
Barbican Sessions: Matilda Lloyd
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Show your support for the Barbican by making a donation and help inspire more people to discover and love the arts. www.barbican.org.uk/donate Pushing the boundaries of theatre, dance, film, music and visual art, the Barbican is a world-class arts and learning centre. Subscribe: ow.ly/O44tx Like: barbicancentre Follow: barbicancentre Discover: barbicancent...
In the studio: Juliankknxx
Переглядів 1,2 тис.8 місяців тому
We spent a day in the studio with artist and poet Julianknxx, to discuss his influences and the ideas behind his art. Julianknxx: Chorus in Rememory of Flight is a free exhibition we have at our Curve Gallery on until Sun 11 Feb 2024: www.barbican.org.uk/Julianknxx Show your support for the Barbican by making a donation and help inspire more people to discover and love the arts. www.barbican.or...
RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology
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RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology
In the Conservatory with Ranjani Shettar
Переглядів 7 тис.8 місяців тому
In the Conservatory with Ranjani Shettar
Barbican Sessions: Fenella Humphreys
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Barbican Sessions: Fenella Humphreys
Chatting With: We Are Parable and Akwasi Poku
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Chatting With: We Are Parable and Akwasi Poku
Carrie Mae Weems: Artist Talk
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Carrie Mae Weems: Artist Talk
Barbican Film Picks: The Ties Up Balloon
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Barbican Film Picks: The Ties Up Balloon
Inside Rehearsal: King Stakh's Wild Hunt
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Inside Rehearsal: King Stakh's Wild Hunt
Ask a curator: Carrie Mae Weems
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Ask a curator: Carrie Mae Weems
Ask a Curator: Amazing Grace
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Ask a Curator: Amazing Grace
Barbican Sessions: Unthanks
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Barbican Sessions: Unthanks
Introduction to Carrie Mae Weems with Ronan Mckenzie
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Introduction to Carrie Mae Weems with Ronan Mckenzie
Barbican Sessions: Memory Song from A Strange Loop
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Barbican Sessions: Memory Song from A Strange Loop
Barbican Sessions: Patricia Kopatchinskaja
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Barbican Sessions: Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Inside the studio: RESOLVE Collective
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Inside the studio: RESOLVE Collective
Barbican Sessions: Yahael Camara Onono
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Barbican Sessions: Yahael Camara Onono

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @annie-francelaparre7234
    @annie-francelaparre7234 5 днів тому

    When visiting the Barbican Center a long time ago, it was terribly difficult to find the entrance and get through...

  •  7 днів тому

  • @solitudebychoice
    @solitudebychoice 19 днів тому

    It’s even legal to play so badass? 😮

  • @mindsurfer101101
    @mindsurfer101101 26 днів тому

    That was moving, though I feel it was more the music doing the heavy lifting

  • @Engineeringpower
    @Engineeringpower Місяць тому

    Wow, this is the first time I see it. I started in the 70s to hear and enjoy electronic music. I heard Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Edgar Froese and I have visited some concerts. Some in special locations, like the Fabrik in Hamburg/Germany (I have done a small cassette recording there) and some big at the CCH in Hamburg too. Later I got the chance to buy one of the unique synthesizer instruments of Tangerine Dream and luckily kept it until today. The seller told me, this is from Tangerine Dream and after that, I have seen in in a Tangerine Dream Story of the "Keybord" magazine in Germany. This has been the only instrument without name in the description. Later I continue my hunt in electronic music and collected a lot of LP and later CD with this music or direction (Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Kitaro, W. Carlos, Alan Parsons P., Mike Oldfied, a lot of K. Schulzes IC Label, Tomita (left handed Dream), Brian Eno, David Bowie (low), OMD, Human League, Software, J.M. Jarre, up to nowadays Nils Frahm (Berlin) wow and much more! I have spend a lot of money to buy sythesizers, effects and drum machines by myself and also the audio equipment. At that time I enoyed that music mostly with headphones - so I can shut down and take a fly appart of all problems and have a free fly all around, which has been very important for me!!!

  • @rogsoft
    @rogsoft Місяць тому

    Textil soul made by human hands!

  • @fredexdelivers
    @fredexdelivers Місяць тому

    That scene where the brother/sister are in that room full of lights.. Where is that?

  • @djokowitjaksono3371
    @djokowitjaksono3371 Місяць тому

    Is that electric sitar? Im not sure

  • @PUMIC
    @PUMIC Місяць тому

    👏

  • @Clara-td9ob
    @Clara-td9ob Місяць тому

    Amazing!

  • @IwonaD070874
    @IwonaD070874 Місяць тому

    Thank you for this exhibition 💓💓💓

  • @ViceArancibia
    @ViceArancibia Місяць тому

    not 10$ anymore damn

  • @franciscoreza8295
    @franciscoreza8295 Місяць тому

    ⚫️ this is this and that is that

  • @henkbouwmanmetrex331
    @henkbouwmanmetrex331 Місяць тому

    One of the very few well-detailed developments of OMA. Normally their buildings start falling apart after five years. In most cases that is a great luck for society

  • @nickbirkby2521
    @nickbirkby2521 Місяць тому

    Excellent lecture!

  • @blackvirgo09
    @blackvirgo09 Місяць тому

    Love him 💓

  • @aus-10xxx50
    @aus-10xxx50 Місяць тому

    🫡So Much MaDD ReSPecT…

  • @user-xg9et2jv3n
    @user-xg9et2jv3n Місяць тому

    Very impressive modern music!

  • @wearebeautifulcreatures
    @wearebeautifulcreatures Місяць тому

    I am in love with this poem.

  • @ruthbrewis957
    @ruthbrewis957 Місяць тому

    Fabulous❤

  • @vd3sensei
    @vd3sensei Місяць тому

    1:35 My wife dead

  • @rayn7596
    @rayn7596 2 місяці тому

    18:15 to 29:24

  • @anthonycooper3191
    @anthonycooper3191 2 місяці тому

    Women's natural body hair is beautiful! It is lovely to see!

  • @trupax2210
    @trupax2210 2 місяці тому

    Amazing

  • @idefugal
    @idefugal 2 місяці тому

    Thanks! ❤🎉😊

  • @idefugal
    @idefugal 2 місяці тому

    ❤🎉😊

  • @SpencerAllnatt
    @SpencerAllnatt 2 місяці тому

    That is fabulous what a talent or rather two!

  • @pochettezakea2610
    @pochettezakea2610 2 місяці тому

    ❤ Jean Michel -I play 1:37

  • @pochettezakea2610
    @pochettezakea2610 2 місяці тому

    Sorry 0:16 loving alone me not art not job not photography not reading not TV

  • @markgendala5689
    @markgendala5689 2 місяці тому

    Great idea - wrong continent!

  • @yavorkovachev8692
    @yavorkovachev8692 2 місяці тому

    💜

  • @Chimpy_Mc_Gibbon
    @Chimpy_Mc_Gibbon 2 місяці тому

    Wondeful

  • @papaguche
    @papaguche 2 місяці тому

    This is a thing i guess

  • @bachelorofstuff
    @bachelorofstuff 2 місяці тому

    I'm all for upcycling but this stuff is plain fuggo

  • @clarissademedeiros
    @clarissademedeiros 3 місяці тому

  • @TangerineTux
    @TangerineTux 3 місяці тому

    I don’t recognise the music at 0:42-1:20 and 1:48-2:54. Which recordings are they from? They almost sound more like Free System Projekt than Tangerine Dream.

  • @salodip3480
    @salodip3480 3 місяці тому

    It's definitely Ariosto not Vivaldi

  • @danieldiangelis6502
    @danieldiangelis6502 3 місяці тому

    I love that this was while Sinead O Connor was still alive. Christene is a genius and true fucking artist.❤❤❤❤

  • @betaniaher
    @betaniaher 3 місяці тому

  • @felixfene0n
    @felixfene0n 3 місяці тому

    Corporate Queerdom.

  • @howardtyler7
    @howardtyler7 3 місяці тому

    I still can’t believe that the genius that was Cathal has gone! I’m pleased to have called him an old and greatly treasured friend!

  • @jeffpaton9673
    @jeffpaton9673 4 місяці тому

    Just bought two from IKEA. There pure brilliant.

  • @ditisen4697
    @ditisen4697 4 місяці тому

    Sculptures which blend and seem an integral part of the natural surroundings. They actually do provoke that meditative mood hoped for by the artist, even when seen briefly in a video. Beautiful.

  • @peterkadelbach7010
    @peterkadelbach7010 4 місяці тому

    Oh my goodness, how much these songs meant to me as I tried to figure out the world of the mid 80’s.

  • @paneko1
    @paneko1 4 місяці тому

    Jean Dubuffet opened the door to infinity of greatness.. where everyone can participate. In Chicago he has a 3D giant doodle sculpture I'm regularly visiting and walking through.. "Art Brut artists draw their themes, ideas and means of expression from their 'own resources', from their 'impulses and humors', without referring to the usual means, without any consideration for the accepted conventions".. "Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is".. who wouldn't love this beautiful man!

  • @MaxArgibay
    @MaxArgibay 4 місяці тому

    Great video! What´s the music did you use?

  • @rodsilver8887
    @rodsilver8887 4 місяці тому

    Tangerine Dream's music had a profound effect on me as it broke through prior forms of music to create a sound that was pure, new, and interesting; and showing that it was possible to break out of old modes with new technology.

  • @kassiscc1
    @kassiscc1 4 місяці тому

    We live near the barbican, look out where William Blake is buried, and I love that non conformists, poets and creative still find inspiration in this part of town, overrun by co-working spaces and pret-a-mangers!

  • @tomaszolszewski8947
    @tomaszolszewski8947 4 місяці тому

    Beautiful video, well done!