Performance Lecture with Kialy Tihngang

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Join Kialy Tihngang for a performance lecture expanding the research behind ‘The Bluest Eye’, using sound, images, and video to subterraneanly explore memory, migration and myth.

About ‘The Bluest Eye’

‘The Bluest Eye’ on display at the Gallery 13 June – 17 October, is part of The Avebury Papers Project. This is a four-year UKRI funded project to digitise, explore and share the multimedia archive of Avebury’s Neolithic origins and ongoing investigation. To encourage creative reuse of the archive and inspire new stories, The Avebury Papers Project commissioned two artists, Dr Gayle Chong Kwan and Kialy Tihngang, to respond to the wealth of material digitised as part of the project.

‘The Bluest Eye’ takes as its starting point the theory that Avebury’s stone circles were built to commemorate the domestic dwelling of a group of early farmers who migrated to southern England some 5,800 years ago. Thes people risked their lives, crossing the channel and bringing skills to enrich the country. Drawing upon notions of the circle and the ripple, alongside the materiality of sediments and standing stones, she visualises the hopes, experiences and challenges encountered by new peoples and ideas arriving in Britain.

About this event:

This event is free, thanks to funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. There is an opportunity to choose an amount to donate to the Art Gallery below. The more you feel able to donate, the easier it is for us to offer an exciting programme for as many people as possible. Thank you in advance for your support, which really does make a huge difference.

Image: Kialy Tihngang, The Bluest Eye (still) 2025, courtesy of the artist