An immersive audio experience, With Fire and Rage combined testimony with photography, visual art, poetry and music – all that was needed was a smartphone and headphones to explore the powerful role creativity plays in the face of invasion.
This piece has been created by Parade-Fest and Artists on the Frontline and supported by Everyman & Playhouse.
Visitors were invited to immerse themselves in the stories of artists on the frontline in Ukraine as they walked the streets of Liverpool With Fire and Rage.
A collaboration between by Parade-Fest and Artists On The Frontline, With Fire and Rage featured some of Ukraine’s most radical and innovative artists. Their stories took you from music concerts in metro stations during air raids, to smuggling artworks out of cities as rockets fall, to creating subversive street art under Russian occupation. Their words exposed attempts to eradicate the country’s cultural identity – a tactic of war – highlighting the human cost behind standing up to an empire.
Walking through Liverpool, visitors could encounter narratives of creative resistance at key public and cultural locations, with the stories of those protecting Ukraine’s spirit rising from the city streets.
This was an immersive audio experience sharing stories from artists on the frontline in Ukraine.
