Exhibition
The Music is Black: A British Story
Sound experience supported by Sennheiser
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back2back: Up Ya Archives x Rendezvous Projects
A one-day artist-led takeover shaped by Nia Archives through her creative platform Up Ya Archives, in collaboration with Rendezvous Projects.
Taking the Amen break as a connective thread, Up Ya Archives reimagines the archive as something living, collective and in motion. Co-curated with Rendezvous Projects, the programme explores how music travels across time and geography, and how histories are constructed, circulated and contested.
Through DJ sets, talks, workshops and screenings, this back2back will trace the past, present and future of jungle, foregrounding the hyper-local infrastructures of East London that have sustained the genre and its wider ecosystems, from pirate radio and record shops to visual culture and community-led archiving.
Developed in dialogue with The Music is Black: A British Story, this takeover moves through a constellation of sonic encounters beyond display, honouring originators while amplifying the voices shaping what comes next.
Full programme details and booking information for the workshops will be released soon.
Filming and photography will take place at this event.
If you have any access requirements, please let us know in advance by emailing accessibility@vam.ac.uk
Through DJ sets, talks, workshops and screenings, this back2back will trace the past, present and future of jungle, foregrounding the hyper-local infrastructures of East London that have sustained the genre and its wider ecosystems, from pirate radio and record shops to visual culture and community-led archiving.
Developed in dialogue with The Music is Black: A British Story, this takeover moves through a constellation of sonic encounters beyond display, honouring originators while amplifying the voices shaping what comes next.
Full programme details and booking information for the workshops will be released soon.
Filming and photography will take place at this event.
If you have any access requirements, please let us know in advance by emailing accessibility@vam.ac.uk
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Header image: Nia Archives by Tanya Hanley