Experience a special activation of Torkwase Dyson’s sculptural installation Liquid A Place 2021 to mark the temporary closure of Tate Liverpool and following the end of the Liverpool Biennial 2023, uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things.
Torkwase Dyson and Lynnée Denise will discuss the principle of uMoya meaning spirit, breath, air, climate and wind through the lens of the Blues.
DJ Lynnée Denise will read excerpts from her new book Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters, discussing vocal genius in the Blues, improvisation, and the force of queer Black imagination.
Dyson will read from her forthcoming book of poems A Dark Plunge to discuss the effect of abstraction and why hauntology is fundamental to her form.
The event lasts approximately 40 minutes and is followed by a Q&A.
DJ Lynnée Denise
DJ Lynnée Denise was shaped as a DJ by her parent’s record collection. She’s an artist, scholar, and writer whose work reflects on underground cultural movements, the 1980s, migration studies, theories of escape, and electronic music of the African Diaspora.
Her work is inspired by underground cultural movements, migration studies, queer cultural production, and electronic music of the African Diaspora in the 1980s.
Torkwase Dyson
Torkwase Dyson (b. 1973, Chicago) describes herself as a painter working across multiple mediums to explore the continuity between ecology, infrastructure, and architecture. Dyson’s abstract works are visual and material systems used to construct fusions of surface tension, movement, scale, real and finite space. With an emphasis on the ways black and brown bodies perceive and negotiate space as information, Dyson looks to spatial liberation strategies from historical and contemporary perspectives, seeking to uncover new understandings of the potential for more liveable geographies.