{"product_id":"the-moon-is-right-over-my-head","title":"The Moon Is Right Over My Head","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe title is taken from the One Love Peace Concert at The National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica on April 22, 1978, held during the height of the political civil war between two opposing parties: the People’s National Party and the Jamaican Labour Party. Bob Marley improvises lyrics as he waits to see if the impossible will happen: for Prime Minister Michael Manley to join him on stage with the leader of the opposition Edward Seaga, in the hopes of bringing peace to a waring Jamaica. \u003cem\u003eThe Moon Is Right Over My Head\u003c\/em\u003e speaks of those moments on the cusp, when anything is possible, and nothing is certain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarianne Keating’s research examines the resulting legacy of the undocumented migration of the Irish diaspora to Jamaica during the nineteenth century, addressing their impact on contemporary Jamaica whilst responding to the cultural legacies of colonialism and the human consequences of imperialism. The exhibition examines both Ireland and Jamaica’s fight for self-determination and independence from the British Empire, which mirrored similar anti-colonial and liberation movements across the globe. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the centre of the exhibition are three film\u003cem\u003es. Better Must Come – A New Jamaica (2019)\u003c\/em\u003e interrogates the impact of the enduring two-party political system and the resulting gang violence on contemporary Jamaica. \u003cem\u003eA Beautiful Dream (2020)\u003c\/em\u003e explores Ireland during 1920 and the escalation of the Irish War of Independence. \u003cem\u003eA Riotous Assembly (2020)\u003c\/em\u003e examines the 1938 workers strikes in Jamaica, a pivotal moment in the nation’s history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKeating situates her practice within the historiographic turn in contemporary art discourse and in relation to the Archive, examining unrecorded, private and disregarded histories. Her multi-disciplinary approach to the research, the archival record and the archival image, questions the legitimacy of the Archive within recorded image and text. She aims to determine new historical readings that counter the dominant “master narratives” of Western nationhood, identity and culture, rewriting the histories of the dominated “Other” in order to amplify voices which were previously rendered mute.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Moon Is Right Over My Head\u003c\/em\u003e examines Irish\/Jamaican connections and the search for a new liberation when history is not history, but what happens now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOnline Film Screenings:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlongside the exhibition and online conversations, additional films by the artist will be available to view at blacktowerprojects.com.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLandlessness\u003c\/em\u003e 21\/09 - 27\/09\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLand- Path of Migration\u003c\/em\u003e 28\/09 - 4\/10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBelow Cliff- A Vanishing Village\u003c\/em\u003e 05\/10 - 11\/10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eJourney to King’s Valley\u003c\/em\u003e 12\/10 - 18\/10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey don’t do much in the cane-hole way\u003c\/em\u003e 19\/10 - 25\/10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMake the Economy Scream\u003c\/em\u003e 26\/10 - 31\/10\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOnline Conversations\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThursday 8th October 8pm\u003cbr\u003eMarianne Keating in conversation with Davinia Gregory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThursday 15th October 8pm\u003cbr\u003eMarianne Keating in conversation with Merrise Crooks-Bishton and Derek Bishton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThursday 2nd October 8pm\u003cbr\u003eA panel discussion with Holly Bynoe (St. Vincent \u0026amp; The Grenadines), Annalee Davis (Barbados), Matilde Dos Santos (Brazil\/Martinique), Sharelly Emanuelson, (Aruba), and Oneika Russell (Jamaica).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Tower Projects","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52115712803063,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/5960\/5751\/files\/MK_Install01_web.jpg?v=1794186800","url":"https:\/\/shopvalnora.shop\/products\/the-moon-is-right-over-my-head","provider":"Norchester","version":"1.0","type":"link"}