Festival of Ideas: an unclassified syncretism

Bleue Liverpool (b. Brooklyn, NYC) is a Caribbean – American Intermedia arts practitioner. She is a 2nd generation New Yorker from Grenada, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines and Haiti. Her practice derives its influence from the fluxus tradition of Intermedia – utilizing video, analog film, photography and text, along with new media techniques to illustrate spatially visual manifestos of anti-colonial feminist and non-binary diasporic movement(s). Movement(s) of inheritance and resistance with specificity in socio-cultural transatlantic cosmopolitan dynamics e.g. port cities. Initially trained as a documentary filmmaker, she broadened to produce non-linear expanded cinematic essays and multimedia informed post-minimalist sculptural installations. Liverpool holds an MFA in film/video from Bard College (2022), New York, U.S.A. She was The Mary Ellen Mark Memorial Scholar for the certification program in New Media Narratives at The International Center Of Photography (2018), NYC. Liverpool attended Université Paris VIII St. Denis Vincennes for Cinema Studies and Brooklyn College for Documentary Film Production.

Her candidacy in the practice-based doctoral program at Goldsmiths University of London in the Visual Cultures department will commence in September 2025, under the supervision of Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva and Dr. Anthony Faramelli. Liverpool has exhibited globally at the New Museum, NYC; The International Center of Photography, NYC;  Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; and at Espace d’Exposition de la HEAD, Geneva. Since 2021 Liverpool has been a monthly resident on Radio alHara on her show UNRELATED AXIOMS. She lives and works between NYC and SE London.

For her work with the Stuart Hall Foundation, Liverpool will produce a new expanded cinematic piece compositing the metaphysical abstractions of sociologist Paul Gilroy with research into migration narratives and landscapes of the English Channel coastline between Brighton and the cliffs at Seven Sisters, UK. 

Ibukun Sunday is a sound artist, experimental ambient musician, violist, and classical musician from Lagos, Nigeria, raised in Lagos, Nigeria. Ibukun Sunday uses sound to create ambient music, electronic music, sound art, soundscape, noise music, experimental sound, field recording, and improvised music. The sound produced by Ibukun Sunday shows the tight connection between the wild and human feelings. His kind of sound is a transcendental sound journey into the inner depths.