Jumbies
Ashanti Harris, Zephyr Liddell & Patricia Panther
Jumbies is a collaborative ‘group-show-as-performance’ which weaves together the practices of visual artist Ashanti Harris, textile designer Zephyr Liddell, and sound artist Patricia Panther. Each artist has produced work in response to Jacques Derrida’s concept of ‘hauntology’, an interrogation of the ways in which people, places and things are ‘haunted’ by histories which are simultaneously neither present nor absent. Drawing from this concept, Jumbies is an exploration of the visible and the invisible across intersecting art forms and artistic practices.
Taking its title from the jumbie – a Caribbean colloquial for ghost – the project combines dance, sound, and printed textiles to create a space of layered fictions, alternate realities, apparitions and re-presentations.
The project was presented as a 360 work, and includes a publication produced in collaboration with independent Glasgow curators, Panel.
The JUMBIES performance is accompanied by this printed publication which brings together new writing and illustration by Harris, Liddell and Panther alongside commissioned texts by Raisa Kabir, Marie O’Connor and Ranjana Thapalyal, which further unravel and reveal the ideas and practices that configure JUMBIES.
Video
Movement & performance Ashanti Harris
Costume & Textile Installation Zephyr Liddell
Music composition & Narration Patricia Panther
Lighting Designer Robbie Thomson
Post Production Bevis Evans-Teush
Garment Maker Morag Seaton
Audio Mastering Jack Coghill
Lighting Technicians Dav Bernard, Shaun Murphy
Filmed on location at The Pyramid Anderston
Produced by Ashanti Harris and Zephyr Liddell
With thanks to Centre for Advanced Textiles, National Theatre of Scotland, The Work Room, Ben Ashton, James Farlam, Jen Martin, Arianna Mele at PrintClan, Raisa Kabir, Joanna Kinnersly-Taylor, Alicia Matthews, Netoya of Veritas Maat sees thru the veil youtube channel, Marie O’Connor, Jen Thomson, Ranjana Thapalyal and all the jumbies, ancestors and spirits whose apparitions have graced this project.
Publication
Edited by Catriona Duffy and Lucy McEachan, Panel
Graphic Design by Maeve Redmond
Cover Artwork by Zephyr Liddell
Cover & Insert Printed at Ashton Screen Print
Edition of 400
Installation
Images by Jen Martin
care of Ashanti Harris , Zephyr Liddell and Patricia Panther
Supported by Creative Scotland, Glasgow International and Panel