Talk Is a shared history possible? Orsod Malik, Jacob V. Joyce, Kaitlene Koranteng

Join us online for an in-conversation with curator Orsod Malik, artist Jacob V. Joyce and archivist Kaitlene Koranteng to explore the idea of contested archives and histories.

Orsod’s curatorial approach focuses on exploring cultural and political entanglements within archival material to explore shared histories. His curatorial work questions what kinds of ideas emerge when those resisting dominant forces are the protagonists of world history?

In this discussion, the panel will focus on discussing what are the practical tools that we require to shift historical narratives around archives? to develop and inform Orsod’s curatorial practice.

This talk is part of iniva’s Research Network programme Contested Sites. It is supported by funding from Freelands Foundation.

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Biography

Orsod Malik, International Curators Forum’s Curator and Digital Strategist, is a Sudanese curator, writer, content producer. He’s also the founder of Code__Switch, an archive dedicated to connecting anticolonial struggles and ideas across time and space. Orsod’s curatorial approach focuses on exploring cultural and political entanglements in a variety of visual and textual materials to explore shared histories. He serves as the Executive Director of the Stuart Hall Foundation and held the position of Archivist-in-Residence at the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD) in 2021.

Kaitlene Koranteng is Archivist and Engagement Producer at iniva. Her work involves increasing accessibility to archive materials and the development of strategies to increase engagement within iniva’s archive.

Jacob V Joyce is an artist, researcher and educator from South London. Their work is community focussed ranging from mural painting, illustration, workshops, poetry and punk music with their band Screaming Toenail. Joyce has illustrated international human rights campaigns for Amnesty International and Global justice Now, had their comics published in national newspapers and self published a number of DIY zines. Their work with OPAL (Out Proud African LGBTI) has gone viral across the African Continent and increased the visibility of activists fighting the legacies of colonially instated homophobic legislation.

Joyce was recently awarded a Support Structures Fellowship from the Serpentine Gallery and a Westminster PhD research scholarship at C.R.E.A.M, (Centre for Research and Education in Art Media.) Previous recognitions include a collaborative residency at Serpentine Galleries Education Department with Rudy Loewe 2020, TFL (Transport For London) Public Arts Grant 2019, Artist Participation Residency at Gasworks London/East Yard Trinidad Tobago 2019, Tate Galleries Education Department Residency 2019, Nottingham Contemporary Community Artist Residency 2017. Joyce is a non-binary artist amplifying historical and nourishing new queer and anti-colonial narratives.

Image credit: Collage of Kaitlene Koranteng, Orsod Malik and Jacob V. Joyce, 2023