British Art Show 9 Announce New Opening and Tour Dates / /
The long-awaited opening of British Art Show 9 has been announced by Hayward Gallery Touring. Aberdeen will be the first stop then touring to Wolverhampton, Manchester and Plymouth.
The artists presented in the exhibition respond in critical ways to this complex context
British Art Show 9, will now be opening in Aberdeen, Scotland on 10 July 2021 and touring to Wolverhampton, Manchester and Plymouth. The British Art Show is the biggest touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK and it is widely acknowledged as the most important recurrent exhibition of contemporary art produced in this country, unrivalled in its ambition, scope and national reach. The exhibition will be presented across numerous galleries and exhibition spaces in each city, resulting in an ambitious and wide-ranging programme that explores new tendencies in artistic practice.
Manchester City of Literature is heading leads a creative lockdown festival of 18 virtual events from partners across the city The two week long celebration is centred around UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day (IMLD), which is takes place globally on 21 February. Manchester’s fourth annual IMLD event
(16-28th February, 2021) is a collaborative celebration of the city’s impressive cultural diversity which sees almost 200 languages spoken, making it the ‘UK’s language capital’ and likely to be the most linguistically diverse city in Europe, according to research by the University of Manchester. The 18 events, suitable for all generations, take in poetry, translation, community identity and international connections, including link ups with other UNESCO Creative Cities, and are delivered by Manchester City of Literature’s network of libraries, cultural venues, community groups, universities, schools, poets and writers.
Darren Byler
Darren Byler is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder and the author of the forthcoming book
Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City (Duke University Press 2021). His current research focuses on surveillance infrastructure and state power in China and Southeast Asia.
Byler received his Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington in 2018. He has published research articles in
Contemporary Islam,
Central Asian Survey, and the
Journal of Chinese Contemporary Art, and has contributed essays to volumes on ethnography of Islam in China, transnational Chinese cinema, and travel and representation. He also writes and curates the digital humanities art and politics repository The Art of Life in Chinese Central Asia.