The installation of Re:LODE at the Bluecoat, Liverpool, comes as a result of the realisation of the exhibition In the Peaceful Dome curated by Bryan Biggs, Artistic Director of the Bluecoat.
The exhibition includes many works that relate in some way to the 300 year existence of the Bluecoat Chambers building.
The connection of ideas, the exchange of ideas as well as the exchange of goods, and that knowledge and trade is the basis for the creation of global power was at the heart of this project. Globalisation was a term being used in different ways back in 1992. In 2017 globalisation is a term that is a common currency, but needs interrogation at every turn. This is what Re:LODE will do in 2017 and into 2018, and as for as long as it takes!
The installation consists of:
22 crates forming the LODE cargo from 22 locations on a great circle that links a quayside in Hull with quayside in Liverpool.
One of the crates is open, revealing the cargo created on a beach near the headland known in the Irish as CEANN SLEIBHE, or Slea Head (see LODE-zone Eire page).
One large crate containing a video work that shows the three locations for the making of the LODE cargo in Eire. In the original exhibition there were six such large crates each showing video of Super8 film from Germany and Poland, India, Java in Indonesia, Australia, Colombia in the Americas, and Eire.
Two large screens showing video:
LODE_92 from espacelab on Vimeo.
Opening the LODE crates at Yellow House from espacelab on Vimeo.
The right hand screen shows the Yellow House unpacking the cargo after a twenty-five year long interlude. This screen will show new work generated in the Re:LODE project over the period of the exhibition on a bi-weekly or trip-weekly basis.
Three framed examples of the poster and pamphlet that was available and free for the audiences in Liverpool and Hull back in 1992.
