People in Bristol were treated to a sneak peek of a major new art project launching in the city next year.
CARGO is a high-tech interactive exhibition space featuring a mix of video, sounds, poetry and multi-media, which offers an ‘alternative narrative’ to the transatlantic slave trade.
Through the stories depicted in images and poetry by Bristol’s Lawrence Hoo, CARGO provides an accurate historical account of the fight for the freedom of the enslaved, and their subsequent human and civil rights.
CARGO stands for Charting African Resilience Generating Opportunities, and Mr Hoo said he and the huge team of poets, videographers and artists who have put the project together, wanted to create a powerful and positive alternative way of looking at such an uncomfortable and controversial episode in Bristol – and Africa’s – history.
Yesterday the hard-hitting project was previewed at Watershed, giving a glimpse of what to expect when it is stationed on College Green in spring 2020 before going on tour.
The advance event gave visitors the opportunity to see the outlines of the exhibition through an immersive 360 degree video projection space, hear some of the poetry and view a VR walkthrough of the exhibition.
Source: First look at immersive multi-media experience CARGO at Bristol’s Watershed – Bristol Live