Snapshots of Live Resistance
Amy True live music Trinity Centre
Peaches, Trinity, 2016 Credit: Jessica Bartolini
Resonators, Trinity, 2018, Khali Ackford
Alesandra Seutin I Vocab Dance Company, Trinity, 2018, Jessica Bartolini
Kiesha Thompson, Trinity, 2018, Jessica Bartolini
This gallery is part of Art of Resistance, a two year project documenting creative responses to resistance movements in Bristol. The women featured in this exhibition are known for their creative power and for their commitment to changing society.
Using music as their platform, Peaches takes a bold and unexpected approach to the topics of sex, feminism, queerness, gender, and new millennium politics. Fronted by Faye Houston and Kassia Zermon, Brighton reggae band, Resonators, draw influences from original Jamaican sounds and riddims.
Keisha Thompson and Alesandra Seutin both use performance to explore race, identity, and gender issues, often creating highly personal and thought provoking work.
Protest history and the art it has created is both formal and informally documented. It is held within memories, private collections, people’s art, posters, music, and poetry. We hope these pictures inspire you to remember your own creative acts of protest, large or small, to share them with us and be part of building a people’s archive.
Art of Resistance is funded by Heritage Lottery Fund
