Jumbies

Lighting design for Ashanti Harris, Zephyr Liddell and Patricia Panther’s Jumbies at Glasgow International festival
2021.

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.

Credits:

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

Supported by Creative Scotland, Glasgow International and Panel

Images by Jen Martin