Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop presents a new commission from Scotland based artist Ashanti Harris. Taking the novel Signposts of the Jumbie (1981), written by Faustin Charles, as a starting point, Harris will interlace ideas of communal and grassroots cultural production with her research and long personal experience of West Indian Carnivals.
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Through the lens of the Caribbean Carnival and associated collective making, Ashanti Harris has developed a series of sculptural and performance works that play with the peripheralities of cultural identity.
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Created by Ashanti Harris and performed in collaboration with three dancers, Dancing a Peripheral Quadrille is a Carnival in the making. Public can enjoy free, drop-in performances at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop throughout Edinburgh Art Festival 2022.
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Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop – Saturdays 30 July, 13 August, and 27 August at 1pm.
Ashanti Harris is a multi-disciplinary artist, teacher and researcher. Working with dance, performance, facilitation, film, installation and writing, Ashanti’s work disrupts historical narratives and re-imagines them from a Caribbean diasporic perspective.