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_{Posted on Monday 9-7-2007}

School of arts, histories and cultures
Granada centre for
visual anthropology and the Whitworth art gallery at the university of Manchester

_{On Sunday 1st of July 2007, the author of 'The Atlantic Sound' Caryl Phillips took part in a lunchtime discussion with the artist Virginia Ryan, about the exhibition 'Castaways' which is being staged at the Whitworth art gallery, with a sound environment and film by Steven Feld, also invited to speak.}

_{virginia with castways 1}

_{Circa three hundred members of the public, including internationally respected anthropologists and art historians were present.}

_{watching the castaways film at the WhitworthManchester 2007}

_{A Soundwalk to Whitworth Art Gallery for Wine Reception was followed by the viewing of Castaways, a mixed media exhibition by visual artist Virginia Ryan in collaboration with acoustic anthropologist Steven Feld.

Front on of installation

This exhibition transformed the gallery into an environment concerned with the washed-in and washed-out history and memory of displacements, gold and slavery along the one-time African Gold Coast, resonating with the current anniversaries of Ghanaian independence and the abolition of slavery. The exhibition had also been planned and scheduled so as to address the creative and intellectual possibilities of the conference 'Beyond Text' and the RAI Ethnographic International Film Festival.}_{whitworth with caryl phillipsbreeeis and feld 1st july 2007

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