Family Day: Assembled Identities

Assemble and animate a new identity

Sackler Centre for Education

1 Nov 2015 - 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Family Day: Assembled Identities

Admission Free

Artist Larry Achiampong invited families to assemble and animate an alternate identity.

Families worked with Larry Achiampong to explore and construct new identities using an assemblage of unexpected parts and pieces. Participants animated their assembled selves and saw their new identities come to life on screen. Together we turned our realities upside down and reconsidered the world around us.

This Family Day was a free, drop-in event and was open to people of all ages.

The Serpentine Galleries have signed up to the Family Arts Standards. We welcome families and to help you enjoy your experience we are committed to ensuring we meet these Standards. More information for visiting the Serpentine Galleries with your Family

Featured Artist

Larry Achiampong

Larry Achiampong's practice uses sound, live performance and imagery to explore representations of identity in the digital age and the dichotomies found within a world dominated by facebook/tumblr/youtube-based cultures.

He crate-digs the vaults of history, splicing audible and visual qualities of the personal and interpersonal archive-as-material - offering multiple dispositions that reveal the socio-political contradictions in contemporary society.

Achiampong has exhibited, performed and presented projects within the UK and abroad including Tate Britain/Modern; London, David Roberts Art Foundation; London, Modern Art Oxford; Oxford, New Art Exchange; Nottingham, SAVVY Contemporary; Berlin, and Bokoor African Popular Music Archives Foundation; Accra.

Achiampong (b. 1984, UK) completed a BA in Mixed Media Fine Art at University of Westminster (2005) and an MA in Sculpture at Slade School of Fine Art (2008). He lives and works in London.

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