Description: Researching and countering Bristol's memory of enslavement through dance
Researching and countering Bristol's memory of enslavement through dance
One year after the acquittal of the Colston Four – the free, new augmented reality (AR) mobile app has launched in the city to offer the public an opportunity to take a remarkable AR immersive trail for a closer, interactive look at it’s links to the transatlantic slave trade, it’s effect on communities within the city and the expansion of Britain’s colonial rule.
Decolonising Memory is an interactive immersive experience informed by the citizens of Bristol. App users are taken on a journey through the streets of Bristol to explore through AR a reimagined cityscape responding to colonisation through new works of 3D visual art, film, music, spoken word, movement and storytelling.