Name: Jay Bernard: The Last Seven Years
Start: 2023-09-01T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2023-09-01T20:30:00+01:00
Location: Bold Tendencies

**Jay Bernard** (b.1988) has embraced a holistic approach to artmaking. Pivoting around their desire to explore the relationship between inner truth and grand political narratives, their oeuvre spans poetry, audio-visual media, graphic illustration, theatre-making, archiving, and film programming. Expansive in its output, Bernard’s work is tied together by its consistently interrogative undercurrent, presenting themes of injustice, queerness, family relationships and state surveillance, in critical and unexpected ways.

Bernard presents this new work, *The Last Seven Years*, composed of the voices and experiences of British people throughout this turbulent time period, across the four nations of the UK. Bernard has been meeting with people from all walks of life and corners of the nation, encouraging them to open up about their lives, and to recall in detail the last seven years. With the question of what people remember versus what was actually going on as a starting point, what emerges is the correlation between individuals and the seismic socio-political events that have occurred from 2016 onwards, with Brexit and the Global Pandemic as bookends.

For one night only, Bernard will present an experimental performance of the conversations, inviting people to experience a polyphony of voices, fragments of a larger online work that is yet to come.

*The Last Seven Years* has been commissioned by Artangel, and is presented in collaboration with Bold Tendencies.

All ages

Presented by Bold Tendencies.

No Covid-19 entry requirements

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