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Ben Luke

Julianknxx: Chorus in Rememory of Flight at the Barbican review – transcendent and poignant

Julianknxx’s multi-video installation for the Curve has at its heart a journey of 4,000 miles. In one year, the poet, artist and film-maker travelled to cities with colonial histories across Western Europe, from Lisbon via Barcelona to Rotterdam and Berlin, and collaborated with Black communities.

The base for everything is the Sierra Leone-born artist’s poetry, which appears as text punctuating the videos of dancers’ movements, politicians’ and activists’ thoughts, and – most importantly – choirs’ songs.

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