"Like being in a village community. I never thought you could create a village hall in a city!” – Visitor
In autumn 2015, a remarkable structure arose from within the bombed-out remains of Temple Church in Bristol. For 24 days, 24 hours a day, the site was transformed into an intimate place of listening, in which to hear the city like never before. Between 6pm on 29th October until 6pm on 21st November, Theaster Gates’ Sanctum hosted a continuous programme of sound over 552 hours, sustained by performers, musicians and bands in a temporary structure within the shell of Temple Church, Bristol
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..."In a great technological breakthrough, they have built a working time machine, and regularly travel to a low carbon, more just, fair and equal 2030, a 2030 that delights in its diversity, and when there, they record what it sounds like, and bring those recordings back to 2024."...
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The Memory Vortex Inn is a sanctuary nestled within the liminal corridors of time, blending the realms of Black temporalities, the mysteries of quantum physics, and the interwoven heritage of African and Afro-Diasporic time and memory practices.
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What follows is a manifesto for how to imagine otherwise, with care, and with the aim of imagining our way towards an ecologically just, intersectionally aware, future.