Jamar Roberts’ film Cooped is part of Te Atamira’s current film programme Constraint and Freedom, screening on Fridays-Sundays 10am-4pm until 19 June. Cooped is a collaboration with musicians David Watson (bagpipes) and Tony Buck(drums). The film was commissioned by Works & Process, an annual performing arts series at the Guggenheim in New York City, which instigated Virtual Commissions in 2020 to support the creation of new collaborative works by 280 artists through successive lockdowns during the pandemic.

The work was inspired by the release of statistics showing the disproportionate amount of black and brown bodies being affected by the Covid-19 crisis and the way this reflects the historical trauma of black bodies being relegated to live within confined spaces.

Click here for more information on Constraint and Freedom and Cooped.

Click here to view Cooped on Youtube.

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If you are able to attend the talk in person, please come to Te Atamira by 11am on Tuesday 7 June.

If you would like to join the talk online, please join via Zoom here:

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