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Today from 5.30pm tune in PASS for a special ‘Friday 13th Hauntological Version’ of artist Ralph Borland’s dub lecture on ‘Dubship I – Black Starliner’ (2019), a large-scale collaborative electro-mechanical musical sculpture that plays on the history of the Black Star Line shipping company, launched 100 years ago by the political activist Marcus Garvey.
This live broadcast will take in dub music’s memorialisation of Marcus Garvey, and its engagement with space travel, science fiction and technology. Focusing on the relationship of dub to ghosts and haunting, Ralph Borland draws from a range of dub music over it’s half-century history.
(Photo of the Dubship installed Zeits MOCCA earlier this year, by Nic Grobler and Tomasso Fiscaletti whose project @hemelliggaam is a meditation on the relationship between humans, the environment and astronomy, blending science and fiction through photography, sound and video.)