Talk Policing The Crisis with Meera Shakti Osborne

What is the role of an institution, artist, researcher, practitioner in this wounded time?

Join Meera Shakti Osborne who will be sharing their research on the Prevent, censorship, youth work and racism. We will be looking at ways in which the state control and criminalises people and institutions who are calling for an end to the violence and occupation of the Palestinian people.

Reflecting on hysteria in the media around racialised mugging present within Stuart Hall’s book Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order (1978), Meera will explore how the government is using terror laws to make false narratives which create an unsafe environment for everyone.

Veggie samosas and chai will be served during this talk.

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

Accessibility

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Biography

Meera Shakti Osborne is an art practitioner and youth worker from north London. Meera’s work focuses on collective healing through creative self-expression. Their practice engages with accessibility and confidence building in both formal education settings and casual encounters. In recent years Meera has focused on questions around history making, the ethics of collaboration and processes that allow for flexing, glitches and love.

Meera is currently a LOEWE Foundation / Studio Voltaire resident artist. They have an upcoming solo exhibition at PEER Gallery (2024) and a painting series at the inaugural exhibition at the Women’s Museum in Barking, opening March 2024. Recent exhibitions include department of Unruly histories, Cubitt Gallery (2023). Meera has worked with Nottingham Contemporary, iniva, Newbridge Project, Peckham Platform, Focal Point Gallery, The Gap Arts Project, The Drawing Room, Reprezent FM and is a visiting lecturer at UAL. Meera graduated in Design at Central School of Speech and Drama in 2015 and Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Science in 2018.

Image credit: Where are you really really really really really from? (photo collage 2023) © Meera Shakti Osborne