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The first in a series of talks from the British Art Network: British South Asian Visual Art Post Cool Britannia with speakers George Chakravarthi, Jai Chuhan and Alia Syed chaired by Raksha Patel. This event looked at the placement of the diasporic body within the traditions of Western European art. Three artists shared their depictions […]
https://youtu.be/tdXMec_Sjhg Online gatherings to explore collective and disparate work by black artists and artists of colour living in Britain and the diaspora. How can archival experimentation help us contend with, question and interrogate the narrative the nation tells about itself through the work of black artists and artists of colour in Britain? These online gatherings […]
https://youtu.be/mpwN_jzOIpU Online gatherings to explore collective and disparate work by black artists and artists of colour living in Britain and the diaspora. How can archival experimentation help us contend with, question and interrogate the narrative the nation tells about itself through the work of black artists and artists of colour in Britain? These online gatherings […]
https://youtu.be/vfn-uteiU68 Online gatherings to explore collective and disparate work by black artists and artists of colour living in Britain and the diaspora. How can archival experimentation help us contend with, question and interrogate the narrative the nation tells about itself through the work of black artists and artists of colour in Britain? These online gatherings […]
CCA Derry~Londonderry invites you to join us for an online seminar series accompanying the launch of the exhibition Irish Modernisms. The exhibition and seminar series have been co-curated by Catherine Hemelryk (CCA Derry~Londonderry) and Matthew Retallick (Manchester School of Art). To coincide with the new exhibition Irish Modernisms: legacies of modernism in the North, the CCA Derry-Londonderry […]
Thursday 1 July 2021, 14:00–16:00 Panel discussion with Shaheen Merali, Rita Keegan and Hassan Aliyu. This panel focussed on the 1980s and early 1990s when a variety of Black and Asian curatorial practices, projects and spaces came to light. How can we account for the emergence of Black curatorial practices? How to name them? And […]
In 1978, the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stated that “people are really afraid that this country might be swamped by people with a different culture”. For the last 40 years this infamous speech has been confronted by artists, who have visually challenged its content. This event explored how 3 contemporary artists, Bhajan Hunjan, Hardeep […]
Thursday 8 July 2021, 14:00–16:00 Panel discussion with Gilane Tawadros, Dr Nima Poovaya-Smith and Mark Miller. “When you go through the door (…of ambivalent mainstreaming) it is a dangerous territory; it is an incredibly tricky territory and all sorts of monsters are waiting on the other side to assimilate you up”. Stuart Hall’s 2006 observation […]
Session 2: Irish Modernisms Exhibition – Meet the Artists Wednesday 14 July, 13.00–14:30 A discussion with the exhibiting artists (James Ashe, Rachel Campbell-Palmer, Phillip McCrilly, Grace McMurray, and Ben Weir) of the CCA Derry-Londonderry show Irish Modernisms. The pre-recorded podcast will be aired during this session, followed by a live Q&A with the artists and […]
Thursday 15 July 2021, 14:00–16:00 Panel discussion with OOMK, Raju Rage and Ajamu. Moving beyond a narrow focus on exhibition making this panel explores recent contexts for understanding Black and Asian curatorial practices in the ‘expanded field’. Curatorial collectives, archival practices, independent publishing and cultural activism are transforming notions of the curatorial and ‘Blackness’, producing […]
Session 3: Latin American Modernisms Wednesday 4 August, 13.00–14:30 Join Dr Harper Montgomery and Jorge González for the next in our series of lunchtime talks. The speakers will explore Latin American Modernisms, with a focus on craft, colonialism, and how legacies of modernism inform contemporary artistic practice. Dr Harper Montgomery is Assistant Professor of Modern […]
CCA Derry~Londonderry invites you to join us for an online seminar series accompanying the launch of the exhibition Irish Modernisms. The exhibition and seminar series have been co-curated by Catherine Hemelryk (CCA Derry~Londonderry) and Matthew Retallick (Manchester School of Art). To coincide with the new exhibition Irish Modernisms: legacies of modernism in the North, the […]
