This lecture performance uses a format I call ‘Power Point cinema’ to tell the story of how on April 29, 2006, a twenty-foot boat was spotted off the south-eastern coast of Barbados. On board, eleven bodies were found by the coastguards, preserved and desiccated by the sun and salt water. The ghost ship was adrift for four months on the Atlantic Ocean. It set sail on Christmas day in Praia in the Cape Verde Islands, full of migrants from Senegal, Guinea Bissau, and Gambia, en route to the Canary Islands. Four months later the boat was found on the coast of Barbados.

Performed at
▪ Keynote Society for Artistic Research University of Plymouth (2018)
▪ Black Lens La Colonie/Khiasma Paris (2018)
▪ The Atlantic Project, Plymouth (2018)
▪ Akademie Schloss Solitude (2018)
▪ Delfina Foundation (2018)
▪ Slade School of Fine Art (2018)
▪ SALT Istanbul (2019)
▪ LUX Scotland and Glasgow School of Art (2019)
▪ Nottingham Contemporary (2019)
▪ Liverpool Biennale (2019)
• ‘Hotspots' Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne, (2019)

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/25830