Bleue Liverpool, University of Sussex Stuart Hall Fellow, to present new work at Brighton Festival

The Stuart Hall Foundation is pleased to welcome Bleue Liverpool as the 2025 University of Sussex Stuart Hall Fellow. As part of her Fellowship, Intermedia artist Bleue will present new work at this year’s Brighton Festival on Friday 23^rd May.

Bleue Liverpool (b. Brooklyn, NYC) is a Caribbean-American Intermedia arts practitioner. She is a second-generation New Yorker from Grenada, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines and Haiti. Her practice derives its influence from the Fluxus tradition of Intermedia – utilising video, analogue film, photography and text, along with new media techniques to illustrate spatially visual manifestos of anti-colonial feminist and non-binary diasporic movement(s). Read more about Bleue on our Peer Network page.

At the Brighton Festival, Bleue Liverpool will collaborate with musician/sound artist Ibukun Sunday to create an unclassified syncretism – an audio-visual intervention with the Meeting House Chapel at University of Sussex, Brighton. The duo will composite the metaphysical abstractions of University of Sussex alumni Paul Gilroy with research into migration narratives of asylum seekers traversing the landscapes of the south east English Channel coastline port culture. Click here to read more about the event and to book tickets.

The event is part of the Festival of Ideas, which is a collaboration between the Faculty of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex and Brighton Festival that harnesses the transformative power of the arts and humanities to fashion new ways of thinking about the past, present and future.

“We are delighted to welcome Bleue Liverpool to the SHF Peer Network and as this year’s Stuart Hall Fellow at University of Sussex. The comprehensive scope of Bleue’s project is impressive and we look forward to how she will be using this time to further develop a distinctive, collaborative and archival depth to her exploration of diasporic identities.”

Professor Nasar Meer, Chair of the Stuart Hall Foundation’s Academic Committee, Professor Roshini Kempadoo, and Dr Ruth Ramsden-Karelse

“The Faculty of Media, Arts, and Humanities is thrilled to welcome Bleue Liverpool as our Stuart Hall Fellow for 2025/26. Bleue’s innovative, powerfully resonant work speaks to urgent contemporary concerns and to research and teaching strengths across our Faculty. Her presence at Sussex will galvanize new initiatives and exciting collaborative possibilities.”

Professor Mat Dimmock, Associate Dean (Research & Innovation) of the Faculty of Media, Arts and Humanities at University of Sussex

The Stuart Hall Fellowship at the University of Sussex is a partnership between the Stuart Hall Foundation and Sussex’s Faculty of Media, Arts and Humanities.  The Fellowship was established in 2018 to provide an opportunity for a talented, creative individual to develop their practice within an academic context. Hosted by the Faculty of Media, Arts and Humanities, the fellowship is open to practitioners and academics as well as artists in residence in all areas, reflecting the varied interests of the Stuart Hall Foundation, including cultural studies, film and visual arts.

Past Stuart Hall Fellows at the University of Sussex include performer, writer and activist Subira Joy; multi-disciplinary creative and activist Erin James; multi-media artist, activist and curator Susuana Amoah; photographer and Turner Prize nominee Ingrid Pollard; and investigative journalist Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi.