Green Libraries Week: Connecting with the Land
For Green Libraries Week 2024 (7-13 October 2024), we’re highlighting some of the books and zines that were featured in…
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For Green Libraries Week 2024 (7-13 October 2024), we’re highlighting some of the books and zines that were featured in…
” Where do we find the words and actions to continually fight racism, Islamophobia and fascism? How can we collectively…
They say, home is where the heart is or home is where you lay your head or your hat. It’s…
Introduction When we gathered in early March, it was ostensibly a moment to explore the resource needs of a community…
Introducing two new resources: A Return to Breath featuring a watercolour series by Jade de Montserrat and Making that remembers…….
Our recent library volunteer Yasmine Mattoussi reviews INDEX Exhibition Workshop ‘Sharing memories over Kurdish cuisine’ as part of exhibition “Untitled,…
‘Part of The Furniture’ Stuart Hall Artist Residency Pausing half-way through her artist residency at Stuart Hall Library, Dharma Taylor…
Independent Writer and Curator Shalmali Shetty reviews Prafulla Mohanti’s artistic practice, influenced by his lived experiences between India and the…
Within the etymology of the word retreat is the idea of drawing back, withdrawing or calling back. What does it…
As part of the Stuart Hall Library Artist-in-Residence 2021, Curatorial Trainee Tobi Alexandra Falade conducted a short interview with Rohan…
On 14th July 2022 we organised Approaching the Scar, a study day which took the form of an excursion to…
On 16th May 2022 we organised the study day Contained Terrain: conversations about collecting natural histories, at the Stuart Hall…
Future Collect artist Emii Alrai has been researching for her new commission across the UK. Here she tells us of…
iniva and Stuart Hall Foundation are thrilled to announce that artist and poet Rohan Ayinde has been selected for the…
Iniva is pleased to announce that it has selected The Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire as its partner for the…
By Harun Morrison Part 1 from your fleshy animate body consider static, polished ones consider your skin in relation to…
By Hassan Vawda and Khaled Sofian Queen Britannia is ‘a mess'[1] and Kali reigns supreme! The 123 year-old facade of Tate…
As part of Research Network programme: Global Re-visions, Curatorial Trainee Chloe Austin conducted a short interview with Xiaoyi Nie and…
As part of Research Network programme: Global Re-visions, Curatorial Trainee Chloe Austin conducted a short interview with Deniz Sözen to…
There are many ways to stand. You can stand up, stand down, stand together, stand with, stand for and stand…
What should be the response from cultural institutions or institutions of any kind to the racial violence that we are…
May Day is known as an international celebration of the worker that arose as a marker of the Haymarket riots…
Stephen Weller, Stuart Hall Library volunteer reviews the recent lunchtime talk: AUTOICON : The digital body Prompted by the unique…
This month we find our ourselves ‘working from home’, a commonly used phrase when in need of concentration, away from…
In December 2019 Jade Montserrat’s exhibition at the Stuart Hall Library addressed the multitude of voices and conversations nurturing the…
I-Ying Liu, Stuart Hall Library volunteer explores the theme of identity in Chinese contemporary art. When asked to write about…
In advance of his talk at the Stuart Hall Library, Iniva Programme & Operations Coordinator Simina Neagu caught up with…
Cheraine Donalea Scott, Stuart Hall Library volunteer, explores her interest in contemporary Britain through grime music using Stuart Hall Library…
Iniva is pleased to announce the appointment of their new Artistic Director, Sepake Angiama. Sepake will officially start in the…
A reflective blog by Chloe Austin, Curatorial Trainee. On September 24th we held a reading group entitled Surviving on a…
William Gore speaks with Chloe Austin, Curatorial Trainee about his experience volunteering at Stuart Hall Library. He shares his top…
Stephen Weller, Stuart Hall Library volunteer explores his interest in New Media and Net Art (Internet Art) and artists in…
Luca Campione, a student at the Birkbeck University on MA History of Art course, reviews his work placement at Iniva…
Iniva’s Engagement Assistant, Luca Campione reviews his interactive talk: Representation of Identities in South African Photography held at Iniva in…
Watch this short documentary produced by Fatma Wardy for BBC News about the re-opening of the Stuart Hall Library. On…
Iniva Programme and Operations Coordinator Simina Neagu transcribed and edited a conversation between performance company There There (Dana Olărescu and…
Iniva’s Director and Chief Curator Melanie Keen will leave Iniva at the end of September 2019 to join the Wellcome…
Iniva’s Director and Chief Curator, Melanie Keen, reflects on Iniva’s 25th year anniversary as Stuart Hall Library opens its door…
Artist Anna Walker shares an account of her event as part of the Research Network: Duties of Self-Care series The…
Children at Earlsmead Primary School, Tottenham, took part in Saturday workshops over the Spring term that were inspired by the…
A reflective report by Tavian Hunter, Library and Archive Manager On 10 January, we held our first reading group of…
It has been a wonderful first few weeks at Iniva as the new Library and Archive Manager of the Stuart…
Dear Friends, Early October sees Iniva and the Stuart Hall Library move to a new home. The library will be…
RESEARCH NETWORK The Research Network is Stuart Hall Library’s public programme of monthly presentations and reading groups. It is a…
Continuing our ICL blog series, Lyn French, A Space Director highlights themes featured in our most recently published set of…
In advance of ‘Research Network: Luxury’ at the Stuart Hall Library, we caught up with participating collective Fresh New Anxieties. …
On 29 March 2018, artist Ada Xiaoyu Hao presented a new lecture-performance, The Mask of Sanity at the Stuart Hall Library. This…
Twice in one week, we witnessed two monumental historic occasions that expressed how through great adversity, human resolve can bring…
In the lead up to the Stuart Hall Library Research Network: Duties of Self-Care. Stephanie Moran, Manager of the Stuart Hall Library, sat…
Text by guest blogger Carson Arthur, Stuart Hall Library Volunteer. As I near the end of my final year studying…
In advance of ‘Research Network: DREPM THE WOELD’ at the Stuart Hall Library, we caught up with participating artist duo…
A text by guest blogger Tiffany Webster “We shouldn’t be afraid to take up space.” – Rochelle White On September…
Susan Thomson’s acclaimed trilogy, Ghost Empire, explores the impact of British colonialism on LGBT legislation across the globe. The trilogy of…
An interview with Ebony Francis, Alexandrina Hemsley & Seke Chimuntenwende In advance of ‘Research Network: Predictions, Projections and Speculations‘ at…
An interview with Susan Thomson In advance of ‘Research Network: Ghost Empire’ at the Stuart Hall Library, we caught up with…
A text by guest blogger Alani Nelson “The time is now and the place is here, and there, and here,…
An Interview by Something Human. In advance of ‘History Lessons: Fluid Records’ event at South London Gallery, Something Human interviewed…
A text by guest blogger Melissa Gitari. In her thought-provoking text Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-fi and Fantasy Culture, Ytasha…
An Interview by Something Human. In advance of ‘History Lessons: Fluid Records’ event at South London Gallery, Something Human interviewed…
A text by guest blogger Naomi Bulliard On the 19th April 2017, UAL’s Black Artists and Modernism project team organised a…