BS2, RESIST & REVOLT BLACK HISTORY, LIVE TRANSMISSION, Bristol Art Weekender, BEEF studios, Bristol, UK

Libita Clayton creates audio, performances and installations. Often working collectively, she considers what we inherit today from the nonarchival past, uncovering knowledge and experience through the body as container and carrier of memory. Clayton has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions which include; Quantum Ghost, Gasworks, London, In the Absence of Ruins there Will be Innovation, Arnolfini, Bristol and the Diaspora Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale.

Clayton’s percussive interventions punctuate Get Up, Stand Up Now throughout the duration of the exhibition. Musicians generate a series of improvised rhythms. Drum and cymbal become tools for Black innovation and liberation, rhythm a counter to the violent inherited legacies of colonial settlement and forced displacement of African peoples. Time, labour and survival are marked by every beat.