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The library supports the work of... - [Archive Collection](https://iniva.org/library/archive-collection/): Explore iniva’s history in art education, exhibition-making, publications, and previous projects centred around Black British art history from 1994 onwards.... - [Volunteer at Stuart Hall Library](https://iniva.org/about/vacancies/call-for-volunteers/): We welcome volunteers from all walks of life and are especially keen to involve people from communities underrepresented in the... - [Contemporary Art Space Project Year 2](https://iniva.org/learning/contemporary-art-space-project-year-2/): We are very pleased to announce the newly appointed artists for Year 2 of the Contemporary Art Space project: Haseebah... - [Reflections on Identity and Difference](https://iniva.org/continuing-reflections-on-identity-exploring-difference/): Identity manifests through personal, interpersonal and social experiences. To explore this dynamic interplay, Iniva Creative Learning is pleased to offer... - [Contemporary Art Space Project](https://iniva.org/learning/contemporary-art-space-project/): The Contemporary Art Space Project is a two-year programme of art-making and community engagement. The project reflects the RSA Academies‘... - [Cookie Policy](https://iniva.org/cookie-policy/): This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a... - [Delivery and Returns Policy](https://iniva.org/shop/delivery-and-returns-policy/): Delivery times Please note that orders are usually dispatched between 7-14 working days. Please note that we are unable to... - [Contact](https://iniva.org/contact/): iniva 16 John Islip St London SW1P 4JU For public enquiries you can contact us at info@iniva. org For library... - [Workshops](https://iniva.org/learning/workshops/): Iniva runs workshops throughout the year to support the use of our Emotional Learning Cards. 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My first... - [Stuart Hall Library’s New Vinyl Collection](https://iniva.org/stuart-hall-librarys-new-vinyl-collection/): iniva is pleased to announce it is launching an exciting new vinyl collection at the Stuart Hall Library that explores... - [Interludes: Sound Ritual Workshop Recording](https://iniva.org/interludes-sound-ritual-workshop-recording/): A sonic memory of the meditative workshop facilitated by Axel Kacoutié & Lou Mensah to encourage reflection and healing through... - [Salvage: Repair: Repeat – Archival Research Trip – Ghana – Part 2](https://iniva.org/salvage-repair-repeat-archival-research-trip-ghana-part-2/): Last Summer Archivist and Engagement Producer Kaitlene Koranteng travelled to Accra and Tamale in Ghana, to archiving and collecting practice.... - [The Visiting Arts Archive: A Legacy of Cultural Connection ](https://iniva.org/the-visiting-arts-archive-a-legacy-of-cultural-connection/): At iniva, we are thrilled to announce the accessioning and scoping of the Visiting Arts Archive—a collection of material chronicling... - [Meet Our Living Legacies Project Consultants ](https://iniva.org/meet-our-living-legacies-project-consultants/): iniva (The Institute of International Visual Arts) is delighted to introduce our project team to support the initial phase of... - [Salvage: Repair: Repeat - Archival Research Trip - Ghana - Part 1](https://iniva.org/salvage-repair-repeat-archival-research-trip-accra-and-tamale/): Last Summer Archivist and Engagement Producer Kaitlene Koranteng travelled to Accra and Tamale in Ghana, to archiving and collecting practice.... - [A Note on Rest](https://iniva.org/a-note-on-rest/): It’s that time of year when you start to reflect, look back, and look at the plans for the coming... - [Green Libraries Week: Connecting with the Land](https://iniva.org/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... - [Global Resiliencies: Activist Zines from 2010 to 2022 Reading List](https://iniva.org/global-resiliencies-activist-zines-from-2010-to-2022-reading-list/): Global Resiliencies is a project centred on activist zines produced between 2010 and 2022. It asks how grassroots publications can... - [Notes on Home: Resources](https://iniva.org/notes-on-home-resources/): ” Where do we find the words and actions to continually fight racism, Islamophobia and fascism? How can we collectively... - [Notes on Home](https://iniva.org/notes-on-home/): They say, home is where the heart is or home is where you lay your head or your hat. It’s... - [Review of The Rock Throwers by Chloe Tayali](https://iniva.org/review-of-the-rock-throwers-by-chloe-tayali/): The following post is a review of our recently catalogued tape The Rock Throwers by our previous volunteer Chloe Tayali.... - [Reflecting on Michael McMillan's practice by Cassia Clarke](https://iniva.org/reflecting-on-michael-mcmillans-practice-by-cassia-clarke/): Our recent archive volunteer Cassia Clarke reflects on the practice of Michael McMillan and the connection with her Caribbean heritage.... - [Current Journal Subscriptions (June 2024)](https://iniva.org/current-journal-subscriptions/): Stuart Hall Library journals collection contains over 400 titles including many rare items important to the UK Black Arts Movement,... - [Creative Mapping: Design and Architecture Lab by Charlene Prempeh](https://iniva.org/creative-mapping-design-and-architecture-lab-by-charlene-prempeh/): Introduction When we gathered in early March, it was ostensibly a moment to explore the resource needs of a community... - [Announcing DRIFT – Stuart Papers Publication](https://iniva.org/announcing-drift-stuart-papers-publication/): Originally printed in 2022, iniva is excited to announce the reprint of our publication, DRIFT – Stuart Papers. This special... - [Stories Told and Untold by Lyn French](https://iniva.org/stories-told-and-untold-by-lyn-french/): Introducing two new resources: A Return to Breath featuring a watercolour series by Jade de Montserrat and Making that remembers...... - [Our newest publication, Contested Sites](https://iniva.org/our-newest-publication-contested-sites/): iniva is excited to announce our newest publication Contested Sites is now available at Stuart Hall Library. This publication documents... - [Future Collect Film](https://iniva.org/future-collect-film/): As the third and final Future Collect commission prepares for opening at Towner Eastbourne, we are delighted to share this... - [Notes on Ageing](https://iniva.org/notes-on-ageing/): How do we mark the passing of time? Ageing or getting older is a privilege as it gives us the... - [Artists, Writers and Activists on Palestine](https://iniva.org/artists-writers-and-activists-on-palestine/): “What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you... - [Notes on Silence](https://iniva.org/notes-on-silence/): 4’33 In commemoration of the dead. Audre Lorde tells us, “your silence will not protect you”. iniva will no longer... - [The Sound I Sea - Shenece Oretha](https://iniva.org/the-sound-i-sea-shenece-oretha/): iniva is pleased to share the recent soundscape ‘The Sound I Sea’ by artist Shenece Oretha in collaboration with Open... - [The DRIFT Podcast](https://iniva.org/the-drift-podcast/): The DRIFT podcast is part of iniva’s postnational digital pavilion reflecting on the entanglement between land, water, movement and m/otherlands.... - [iniva Launches Online Archive Catalogue](https://iniva.org/iniva-launches-online-archive-catalogue/): iniva is delighted to announce a significant milestone in its journey as it approaches its 30-year anniversary. In alignment with... - [Chinese Artists Beyond China, 1989-2008: A journey through the ‘spotlight’ and ‘shadow’ of archive collections by Yang Li](https://iniva.org/chinese-artists-beyond-china-1989-2008-a-journey-through-the-spotlight-and-shadow-of-archive-collections-by-yang-li/): Our archive volunteer Yang Li reflects on her research into Chinese artists beyond China through her volunteering work in iniva’s... - [A review of INDEX Exhibition Workshop: Sharing memories over Kurdish cuisine by Yasmine Mattoussi](https://iniva.org/a-review-of-index-exhibition-workshop-sharing-memories-over-kurdish-cuisine-by-yasmine-mattoussi/): Our recent library volunteer Yasmine Mattoussi reviews INDEX Exhibition Workshop ‘Sharing memories over Kurdish cuisine’ as part of exhibition “Untitled,... - [A Living Archive – Research Progress by Dharma Taylor](https://iniva.org/a-living-archive-research-progress-by-dharma-taylor/): ‘Part of The Furniture’ Stuart Hall Artist Residency Pausing half-way through her artist residency at Stuart Hall Library, Dharma Taylor... - [Reflections on Prafulla Mohanti: Indian Village Tales](https://iniva.org/reflections-on-prafulla-mohanti-indian-village-tales/): Our recent archive volunteer Sondliwe Pamisa offers reflections on the publication, Prafulla Mohanti: Indian Village Tales. It’s funny how the... - [Behind the Display: Fashion within the Fabric of Identity](https://iniva.org/behind-the-display-fashion-within-the-fabric-of-identity/): Our recent placement student Tanya Srivarodom reflects on her research project focused on fashion resources at Stuart Hall Library. Growing... - [Future Commons publication](https://iniva.org/future-commons-publication/): iniva is proud to share a new publication by Future Commons. Future Commons is a peer-led network that has been... - [Artist Kitchen Salon Zine – Publication Launch ](https://iniva.org/artist-kitchen-salon-zine-publication-launch/): iniva is excited to launch a new publication, The Artist Kitchen Salon Zine. The Artist Kitchen Salon Zine documents a... - [Reflections at Stuart Hall Library by Stefano Cacaveri](https://iniva.org/reflections-at-stuart-hall-library-by-stefano-cacaveri/): Stefano Cacaveri reflects on his time volunteering at Stuart Hall Library to retrain as a librarian and learn about librarianship.... - [Review of Zine - Mine: an anthology of women’s choices](https://iniva.org/review-of-zine-mine-by-meredith-stern/): Our recent volunteer Hannah Dunsmore reflects on the zine Mine: An Anthology of Women’s Choices by Meredith Stern, found in... - [Final Future Collect artist commission announced](https://iniva.org/final-future-collect-artist-commission-announced/): We are delighted to announce that the third and final Future Collect commission has been awarded to artist Maria Amidu.... - [CVAN x INIVA Report on Anti-Racism and Equity in the Visual Arts](https://iniva.org/cvan-iniva-report-on-anti-racism-and-equity-in-the-visual-arts/): A report published today, sets out a new approach to tackling racism and inequity in the visual arts sector, and... - [Prafulla Mohanti: Village Letters — A Reflective Review by Shalmali Shetty](https://iniva.org/prafulla-mohanti-village-letters-a-reflective-review-by-shalmali-shetty/): Independent Writer and Curator Shalmali Shetty reviews Prafulla Mohanti’s artistic practice, influenced by his lived experiences between India and the... - [Game of Two Halves by Devaan Feese](https://iniva.org/game-of-two-halves-by-devaan-feese/): Devaan Feese explores questions of nationhood and representation through researching Offside! Contemporary Artists & Football exhibition in iniva’s archive and... - [Short reflections from Loophole of Retreat](https://iniva.org/short-reflections-from-loophole-of-retreat/): Within the etymology of the word retreat is the idea of drawing back, withdrawing or calling back. What does it... - [Youth Rising Creative Mapping Research Survey](https://iniva.org/youth-rising-creative-mapping-research-survey/): We are excited to announce that this month, iniva and Nowadays On Earth have partnered together to launch our Youth... - [A writer encountering an archive by Indra Tincoca](https://iniva.org/a-writer-encountering-an-archive-by-indra-tincoca/): Indra Tincoca reflects on her placement in Stuart Hall Library as part of the Writer in Residence Project for her... - [Into the archive: a powerful repository of knowledge](https://iniva.org/into-the-archive-a-powerful-repository-of-knowledge/): Our recent archive volunteer Teloni Thandiwe reflects on her time volunteering in iniva’s archives and the development of her approach... - [Shifting Hegemonies: the politics of nationalism at the Venice Biennale](https://iniva.org/shifting-hegemonies-the-politics-of-nationalism-at-the-venice-biennale/): Based on her recent master’s thesis, Stuart Hall Library volunteer Kirsty Flockhart reviews the politics of nationalism in the current... - [Interview with Rohan Ayinde](https://iniva.org/interview-with-rohan-ayinde/): As part of the Stuart Hall Library Artist-in-Residence 2021, Curatorial Trainee Tobi Alexandra Falade conducted a short interview with Rohan... - [Lift these ashes into your mouth by Sophie J Williamson](https://iniva.org/lift-these-ashes-into-your-mouth-by-sophie-j-williamson/): On 14th July 2022 we organised Approaching the Scar, a study day which took the form of an excursion to... - [iniva announce their Archives Revealed Cataloguing Grant](https://iniva.org/iniva-announce-their-archives-revealed-cataloguing-grant/): iniva is excited to announce that we have received an Archives Revealed Cataloguing Grant. Archives Revealed is a partnership programme... - [Pear Nuallak - reflections on ‘Contained Terrain’](https://iniva.org/pear-nuallak-reflections-on-contained-terrain/): On 16th May 2022 we organised the study day Contained Terrain: conversations about collecting natural histories, at the Stuart Hall... - [Volunteer reflections by Esther Cawte](https://iniva.org/volunteer-reflections-by-esther-cawte/): Our recent volunteer Esther Cawte reflects on her time volunteering in the Stuart Hall Library to learn more about art... - [Creole atlantic: in the rubble of what is still falling apart](https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-creole-atlantic-in-the-rubble-of-what-is-still-falling-apart/): Stuart Hall Library volunteer ines silva reflects on Angolan artist Délio Jasse’s careful reframing of family photographs from Portugal’s colonial... - [Reading to encounter](https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-reading-to-encounter/): Stuart Hall library volunteer Loulwah Kutbi reflects on her experience of migration, sharing her thoughts about the library space and... - [iniva announce Towner Eastbourne as partner for Year 3 of Future Collect](https://iniva.org/iniva-announce-towner-eastbourne-as-partner-for-year-3-of-future-collect/): iniva is pleased to announce that it has selected Towner Eastbourne as its partner for the third year of Future... - [Behind the display: Punk Zines](https://iniva.org/behind-the-display-punk-zines/): This essay is a transcript of a presentation given by Naomi Hart highlighting a selection of punk zines in Stuart... - [Emotional dimension of Stuart Hall Library](https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-emotional-dimension-of-stuart-hall-library-by-leda-yang/): Leda Yang is a current MA in Migration and Diaspora studies Student at SOAS who has completed her placement at... - [Artistic representations of Stuart Hall’s notion of the ‘familiar stranger’](https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-artistic-representations-of-stuart-halls-notion-of-the-familiar-stranger/): Agnes Perotto-Wills, a Stuart Hall Library volunteer, explores Stuart Hall’s term ‘familiar stranger’ in relation to the migration of Caribbean... - [My time at Stuart Hall Library ](https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-my-time-at-stuart-hall-library/): Yasmin Smith reflects on her time volunteering at the Stuart Hall Library and how this has developed her confidence to... - [Searching for the ‘Queer Caribbean’](https://iniva.org/guest-post-searching-for-the-queer-caribbean/): Zachary Myers, Stuart Hall Library volunteer, reflects personally on the resources in the library’s collections on the ‘Queer Caribbean’ Content... - [Disengagement with my own heritage](https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-disengagement-with-my-own-heritage/): Yasmin Smith reflects on the impact of classification, disengagement with heritage and what it means to be at the forefront... - [News from the North by Emii Alrai](https://iniva.org/news-from-the-north-by-emii-alrai/): Future Collect artist Emii Alrai has been researching for her new commission across the UK. Here she tells us of... - [Future Collect Artist Year 2 Emii Alrai](https://iniva.org/future-collect-artist-year-2-emii-alrai/): iniva and The Hepworth Wakefield announce the second artist to be commissioned for Future Collect – a programme of contemporary... - [iniva seeks charity trustees/non-executive directors](https://iniva.org/iniva-seeks-charity-trustees-non-executive-directors/): iniva seeks charity trustees/non-executive directors As we emerge from an extraordinary year, Iniva is seeking new trustees to join our Board... - [The Caribbean Archipelago Display](https://iniva.org/the-caribbean-archipelago-display/): In celebration of Libraries Week (4-10 October 2021), our volunteer Zach Myers has curated a display in the Stuart Hall... - [Reflections on Library Placement](https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-reflections-on-library-placement/): Tessa Roynon reflects on her short placement in the Stuart Hall Library as part of her MA in Library and... - [Stuart Hall Library Artist-in-Residence 2021: Rohan Ayinde](https://iniva.org/stuart-hall-library-artist-in-residence-2021-rohan-ayinde/): iniva and Stuart Hall Foundation are thrilled to announce that artist and poet Rohan Ayinde has been selected for the... - [Black Feminist Artists, Writers and Collectives](https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-black-feminist-artists-writers-and-collectives/): Tammi Bello, a placement student from Birkbeck College exploring black feminist artists, writers and collectives in Stuart Hall Library with... - [iniva announce Gallery Partner for Year 2 of Future Collect](https://iniva.org/iniva-announce-gallery-partner-for-year-2-of-future-collect/): Iniva is pleased to announce that it has selected The Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire as its partner for the... - [ice cream over bronze](https://iniva.org/ice-cream-over-bronze/): By Harun Morrison Part 1 from your fleshy animate body consider static, polished ones consider your skin in relation to... - [Uncover/ Discover/ Create](https://iniva.org/uncover-discover-create/): In the first of a new series of blog posts that coincide with our new monthly workshop series Ways of... - [Queen Britannia is a Mess and Kali Reigns Supreme at Tate Britain](https://iniva.org/queen-britannia-is-a-mess-and-kali-reigns-supreme-at-tate-britain/): By Hassan Vawda and Khaled Sofian Queen Britannia is ‘a mess' and Kali reigns supreme! The 123 year-old facade of... - [Interview with Xiaoyi Nie and Bo Choy](https://iniva.org/interview-with-xiaoyi-nie-and-bo-choy/): As part of Research Network programme: Global Re-visions, Curatorial Trainee Chloe Austin conducted a short interview with Xiaoyi Nie and... - [Interview with Deniz Sözen](https://iniva.org/interview-with-deniz-sozen/): As part of Research Network programme: Global Re-visions, Curatorial Trainee Chloe Austin conducted a short interview with Deniz Sözen to... - [Listing Iniva's Archives](https://iniva.org/listing-inivas-archives/): Iniva is excited to announce the creation of a new up-to-date listing of the Iniva Archive collection. In 2018, Iniva... - [The Contemporary Art Space Project Year 2](https://iniva.org/the-contemporary-art-space-project-year-2/): We are very excited to announce the newly appointed artists for Year 2 of the Contemporary Art Space project 2020... - [Notes on standing](https://iniva.org/notes-on-standing/): There are many ways to stand. You can stand up, stand down, stand together, stand with, stand for and stand... - [A note on voicing](https://iniva.org/a-note-on-voicing/): What should be the response from cultural institutions or institutions of any kind to the racial violence that we are... - [Review: AUTOICON: The digital body – a work by Donald Rodney](https://iniva.org/review-autoicon-the-digital-body-a-work-by-donald-rodney/): Stephen Weller, Stuart Hall Library volunteer reviews the recent lunchtime talk: AUTOICON : The digital body Prompted by the unique... - [A brief note on care](https://iniva.org/a-brief-note-on-care/): May Day is known as an international celebration of the worker that arose as a marker of the Haymarket riots... - [A brief conversation with artist Jade Montserrat](https://iniva.org/a-brief-conversation-with-artist-jade-montserrat/): In December 2019 Jade Montserrat’s exhibition at the Stuart Hall Library addressed the multitude of voices and conversations nurturing the... - [A note from the director](https://iniva.org/a-note-from-the-director/): This month we find our ourselves ‘working from home’, a commonly used phrase when in need of concentration, away from... - [The Contemporary Art Space Project: The Depths of Our History by Rudy Loewe](https://iniva.org/the-contemporary-art-space-project-the-depths-of-our-history-by-rudy-loewe/): In this blog post for our Contemporary Art Space Project based in the West Midlands, we hear from the CAS... - [COVID-19 Update](https://iniva.org/covid-19-update/): Dear friends and visitors, The Stuart Hall Library is temporarily closed to the public from Tuesday 17 March until further... - [Donate a book](https://iniva.org/donate-a-book/): We are grateful for the amazing new resources we have acquired this year for the Stuart Hall Library. For our... - [A view from elsewhere: Ten ‘Chinese’ Contemporary Artists](https://iniva.org/a-view-from-elsewhere-ten-chinese-contemporary-artists-by-i-ying-liu/): I-Ying Liu, Stuart Hall Library volunteer explores the theme of identity in Chinese contemporary art. When asked to write about... - [Interview with Matthew Krishanu](https://iniva.org/interview-with-matthew-krishanu/): In advance of his talk at the Stuart Hall Library, Iniva Programme & Operations Coordinator Simina Neagu caught up with... - [Rock, Riots and Racism : exploring the parallels between 1976 and present-day Britain](https://iniva.org/rock-riots-and-racism-exploring-the-parallels-between-1976-and-present-day-britain-by-cheraine-donalea-scott/): Cheraine Donalea Scott, Stuart Hall Library volunteer, explores her interest in contemporary Britain through grime music using Stuart Hall Library... - [Iniva announces new Artistic Director, Sepake Angiama](https://iniva.org/iniva-announces-new-artistic-director-sepake-angiama/): Iniva is pleased to announce the appointment of their new Artistic Director, Sepake Angiama. Sepake will officially start in the... - ["Making History and Oyster Card Holders" : Free Saturday Sewing Workshop with Meera Shakti](https://iniva.org/making-history-and-oyster-card-holders-free-saturday-sewing-workshop-with-meera-shakti/): Focusing on the theme of identity, community and celebrating diasporic histories, Iniva will host a 3-day sewing workshop with facilitator... - [Focal Point 2019 Art Book Fair](https://iniva.org/focal-point-2019-art-book-fair/): From Thursday 14th – Saturday 16th November 2019, Iniva will be taking part in the second edition of FOCAL POINT,... - [Reflections on Research Network Reading Group: Surviving on a Damaged Planet](https://iniva.org/reflections-on-research-network-reading-group-surviving-on-a-damaged-planet/): A reflective blog by Chloe Austin, Curatorial Trainee. On September 24th we held a reading group entitled Surviving on a... - [Volunteer Interview: William Gore](https://iniva.org/volunteer-interview-william-gore/): William Gore speaks with Chloe Austin, Curatorial Trainee about his experience volunteering at Stuart Hall Library. 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This is how Steve Ouditt describes himself in a... - [Fault Lines: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes](https://iniva.org/product/fault-lines-contemporary-african-art-and-shifting-landscapes/): In geological terms, fault lines reveal themselves as fractures in the earth’s surface but they also mark a break in... - [Modernity and Difference (Annotations 6)](https://iniva.org/product/modernity-and-difference-annotations-6/): Modernity and Difference includes an influential conversation between Professor Stuart Hall and Professor Sarat Maharaj on modernity, difference and untranslatability,... --- ## Projects - [Living Legacies: Collaboration, Community and Radicality](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/living-legacies-collaboration-community-and-radicality/): “Our archive is a living one—it reflects a genealogy of Black and international artists that belong to all of us.... - [Present Land](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/present-land/): Present Land is a community art project based in Westminster, exploring climate justice through creative collaboration. Over four participatory workshops... - [Dub Encyclopaedia](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/dub-encyclopaedia/): Dub Encyclopaedia is an immersive installation by artists Antonio José Guzman and Iva Jankovic, opening at the Stuart Hall Library... - [Braiding Sessions](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/braiding-sessions/): iniva and down river road are pleased to announce Braiding Sessions, a partnership programme between Stuart Hall Library and Karara... - [Culture Zine Club](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/culture-zine-club/): Are you a young person living in Westminster between 16 –18 looking for a creative way to explore your identity... - [11:11 x iniva Residency 2024](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/1111-x-iniva-residency-2024/): iniva and Residency 11:11 are thrilled to announce that curator, writer and researcher Beulah Ezeugo has been selected for Residency... - [Global Resiliencies](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/global-resiliencies/): Global Resiliencies is a project centred on activist zines produced between 2010 and 2022. It asks how grassroots publications can... - [The Gathering 2024](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/the-gathering-2024/): The Gathering 2024 offers a unique space centring Global Majority UK-based artists and cultural workers to convene in exploration of... - [KLA ART '24 Festival Artist-in-Residence](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/kla-art-festival-artist-in-residence/): iniva and 32° East are excited to announce that artist Seyi Adelekun has been selected as the KLA ART ’24... - [Promise Me Tomorrow](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/promise-me-tomorrow/): Promise Me Tomorrow is an exhibition that brings together the artistic and education practices and processes of our two-year national... - [Transformation of Silence](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/transformation-of-silence/): Transformation of Silence into Words & Action is the title of an essay by poet, feminist, activist & educator Audre Lorde. Under... - [Unseen Guests](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/unseen-guests/): “I’m interested in the way that unseen guests arrive at parties, and become actually quite prominent party members, becoming central... - [Out of Margin: A Transnational Perspective Reading Group](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/out-of-margin-a-transnational-perspective/): Identity is not as transparent or unproblematic as we think. Perhaps instead of thinking of identity as an already accomplished... - [Materials Speak](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/materials-speak/): Opening: Thursday 25 January 2024, 5:30pm – 7:30pm BOOK HERE Materials Speak is a personal exploration of memory and narrative... - [Shifting the Centre: Anticolonial Ways of Seeing Exhibition](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/shifting-the-centre-anticolonial-ways-of-seeing-exhibition/): Opening Times Tuesday– Friday, 10am – 5pm Opening Event Monday 25 September 2023, 5:30pm – 7:30pm Shifting the Centre is... - [Research Network: Contested Sites](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/research-network-contested-sites/): Contested Sites is a research series that investigates events, perspectives and languages in recent canonised history beyond the borders of place, position and memory. - [Stuart Hall Library Artist's Residency 2023](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-artists-residency-2023/): iniva and Stuart Hall Foundation are thrilled to announce that artist and maker Dharma Taylor has been selected for the... - [Can publications be porous?](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/can-publications-be-porous/): Can publications be porous? is an exhibition of works by Sadia Pineda Hameed (LUMIN), Amber Akaunu and Fauziya Johnson (ROOT-ed... - [Fugitive Feminism Reading Group Sessions](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/fugitive-feminism-reading-group-session/): iniva x Silver Press invite you to join us at Stuart Hall Library for three reading group sessions in May,... - [Uncovering the Archive](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/uncovering-the-archive/): Uncovering the Archive is an archival collaboration between iniva and MayDay Rooms (MDR). We are offering a free series of... - [Show-and-Tell Tours](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/show-and-tell-tours/): The show-and-tell tours is a series of talks that highlight key collections from iniva’s archive currently being catalogued as part... - [Iniva x The Laundry Arts](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/iniva-x-the-laundry-arts/): ‘How can we create a universal moment that also recognises difference? ’ is the question posed by The Laundry Arts... - [Future Collect Artist Year 3](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/future-collect-artist-year-3-maria-amidu/): iniva and Towner Eastbourne are delighted to announce that the third and final Future Collect commission has been awarded to... - [Untitled: an exhibition of works in progress by Maria Amidu](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/maria-amidu-exhibition-untilted/): Featuring Maria’s series of works on paper, the exhibition includes: somewhere (2020) and episode(s) (2022). The showcase explores Maria’s utilisation... - [On Our Table](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/on-our-table/): On Our Table is a series of short lunchtime tours, which aim to showcase contemporary art histories and challenge conventional... - [Youth Rising Creative Mapping](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/youth-rising/): iniva and Nowadays On Earth have partnered to research ways that iniva can support young people in Westminster to engage... - [CoLab](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/colab/): CoLab brings together artists, mental health workers and educators to take iniva’s artistic programme to schools. CoLab invites artists to... - [iniva x Afterall Bookshop](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/iniva-x-afterall-bookshop/): From October 2022 – October 2023 iniva and research and publishing institute, Afterall will be partnering to create an iniva... - [Research Network: If Sea Is History - What Is Nation?](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/research-network-if-sea-is-history-what-is-nation/): What is conjured in our memory through food, in gathering together over an evening meal? If Sea is History? –... - [Village Letters](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/village-letters/): Opening 27 September 2022, iniva is proud to present Prafulla Mohanti’s first solo exhibition in London since 2008. Following Prafulla... - [Dancing In The Ellipsis // A Cartographer's Black Hole](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/dancing-in-the-ellipsis-a-cartographers-black-hole/): iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) are pleased to present Dancing In The Ellipsis // A Cartographer’s Black Hole, a... - [DRIFT - a post-national digital pavilion](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/drift-a-digital-european-pavilion/): drift. iniva. org iniva proposes DRIFT – a post-national digital pavilion; a series of radical re-imaginings of Europeanness which reflect... - [Emii Alrai : Future Collect Commission 2](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/emii-alrai-future-collect-commission/): Artist Emii Alrai (b. 1993) will present A Core of Scar at The Hepworth Wakefield this spring. Alrai, who lives... - [Pink Tongue, Brown Cheek](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/pink-tongue-brown-cheek/): We are pleased to present Pink Tongue, Brown Cheek, showcasing the work of Rosa-Johan Uddoh. With its title punning on... - [Stuart Hall Library Artist-in-Residence 2021](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-artist-in-residence-2021/): iniva and Stuart Hall Foundation are thrilled to announce that artist and poet Rohan Ayinde has been selected for the... - [Showcase – A Perpetual Remaking](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/emii-alrai-showcase-a-perpetual-remaking/): iniva are pleased to present Emii Alrai as the second artist to be commissioned by Future Collect. Showcase – A... - [Future Commons](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/future-commons/): Future Commons is a responsive space for support, critical discussion and connection. The group emerged from the needs expressed for... - [Making History](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/making-history/): Making History is a collaborative project initiated by Meera Shakti Osborne, exploring notions of migration, displacement and self-love through storytelling,... - [Project: Me Myself and I](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/project-me-myself-and-i/): ArtLab+ reverses the damage of inherited mistakes in art education... I think you have to look at how a project... - [Contemporary Art Space Project: Year 2](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/contemporary-art-space-project-year-2/): After a very tricky year of postponements and delays we were all very excited to get back into schools to... - [I As Monument](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/i-as-monument/): “The idea behind the book was to monumentalise the works produced by the artists who participated in the workshops just... - [Research Network: Archipelagos in Reverse](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/research-network-archipelagos-in-reverse/): The mountain peak is a tip A tip is also a clue A clue to the archive’s archipelagic relations No... - [Celebrating Westminster’s Women](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/womens-history-month-celebrating-westminsters-women/): “I’m actually proud of myself (and everyone else) for not going into judgement and backing out of a public display.... - [Reflections on Public Realm](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/reflections-on-public-realm/): Between March and April Iniva is working in partnership with GLA on a project for the ‘Commission for Diversity in... - [Supporting Year 6 Transition](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/supporting-year-6-transition/): These colourful, helpful resources are designed to support Year 6 children as they transition to Year 7. Created by Lyn... - [Children's Art Week Activity Resources: Inspiring Creative Emotions](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/childrens-art-week-activity-resources-inspiring-creative-emotions/): Order your free copies for schools Iniva Creative learning have produced a printed and downloadable leaflet with the support of... - [ArtLab+ at Earlsmead Primary School](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/artlab-at-earlsmead-primary-school/): In January this year, we began our second year of delivering ArtLab+ for 15 pupils across Years 4 – 6... - [Proximate Currents: When Everything Fuses Together](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/proximate-currents-when-everything-fuses-together/): Iniva is delighted to present a new moving image work by artist Ben Yau. Echoing Stuart Hall’s 2011 essay “The... - [Stuart Hall Library Artist’s Residency 2020](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-artists-residency-2020/): Iniva and Stuart Hall Foundation are delighted to announce that artist, writer and educator Rosa-Johan Uddoh has been selected for... - [Chatting in the Stacks](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/chatting-in-the-stacks/): If you’re missing the library, you can feel connected through our new podcast Chatting in the Stacks. Over the last... - [Research Network: Global Re-Visions](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-research-network-global-re-visions/): This year’s Research Network, selected through open call, will reignite debate and reflect on the concept of globalisation and new... - [Jade Montserrat](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/jade-montserrat/): Preview: 12 December 2019, 6-8pm Iniva is delighted to present the second exhibition in its new space on John Islip... - [Contemporary Art Space Project](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/contemporary-art-space-project/): The Contemporary Art Space Project is a two-year programme of art-making and community engagement. The project reflects the RSA Academies‘... - [Corvus. A painting installation by Matthew Krishanu](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/corvus-a-painting-installation-by-matthew-krishanu/): Crows, rooks, jackdaws and ravens: corvid, corvus, and corvidae. They are considered to be cosmopolitan creatures endowed with a preternatural... - [Syllabus](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/syllabus/): Now in its fifth year, Syllabus provides a learning programme for artists over a ten-month period and is supported using... - [Future Collect](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/future-collect/): Future Collect is a three-year programme designed to create a dynamic new model to transform the culture of commissioning and... - [#MyWestminster: Zines and Beats...](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/mywestminster-zines-and-beats/): Over the last year Iniva Creative Learning has been delivering a series of artist led workshops using materials from the... - [Art Night 2019](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/art-night-2019/): Image: Shiraz Bayjoo, ‘Ile de France’ (2015), HD video still. Please note this event will take place at: Empire Cinema,... - [Stuart Hall Library Artist’s Residency 2019](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-artists-residency-2019/): Image: My Friend’s Job, video still, Alicja Rogalska & Komunitas Pengamen Jalanan, 2016-17 Iniva and the Stuart Hall Foundation are... - [Stuart Hall Library Research Network: More-than-Human Care](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-research-network-more-than-human-care/): This year’s Research Network, selected through open call, will expand on the previous series Duties of Self-Care with artists looking... - [Creating Interference: making art, developing methods, re-imagining histories/memories](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/creating-interference-making-art-developing-methods-re-imagining-histories-memories/): The aim of Creating Interference is to develop, explore and identify creative strategies to disrupt knowledge conventions and dominant discourses... - [London Art Fair 2019](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/london-art-fair-2019/): Iniva is delighted to announce its participation in London Art Fair 2019 within the Art Projects section and as a... - [Young People in the Stuart Hall Library](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-workshops-for-young-people/): We are developing a series of explorative workshops aimed at engaging young people aged 16 to 24 with all that... - [London Art Fair 2018](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/london-art-fair-2018/): Iniva is delighted to announce its participation in London Art Fair 2018 within the Art Projects section and as a... - [The Stuart Hall Library Saturday Reading Group](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/the-stuart-hall-library-saturday-reading-group/): Join us in the Stuart Hall Library for our monthly Saturday Reading Group facilitated by Senior Library Assistant Lexi Frost.... - [Stuart Hall Library Research Network: Duties of Self-Care](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-research-network-duties-of-self-care/): This year’s Research Network, selected through open call, will revolve around how artists attend to self-care in an economic climate... - [Stuart Hall Library Research Network 2017: Virtualities](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-research-network-virtualities/): Gary Zhexi Zhang, The Kernel Process This season of the Stuart Hall Research Network, selected from an open call for... - [Stuart Hall Library Artist’s Residency 2018](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-artists-residency-2018/): Iniva and the Stuart Hall Foundation are delighted to announce that collective Squirrel Nation has been awarded the second Stuart... - [Public Programme: The Place is Here](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/public-programme-the-place-is-here/): Image: A selection of magazines from the Stuart Hall Library Collection. Iniva has devised a public programme for The Place... - [Alien Nation](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/alien-nation/): Alien Nation is an ambitious and thought-provoking touring exhibition that explores the complex relationship between science fiction, race and contemporary... - [Ansuman Biswas: Gnomon](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/ansuman-biswas-gnomon/): Light boxes incorporate kinetic elements which echo the lines and angles of the building and bookshelves. The work responds to... - [Art Lab](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/art-lab/): Iniva Creative Learning believes that contemporary art can stimulate our understanding of the world around and within us. A partnership... - [Dislocation : Central St. Martin's Students Respond](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/dislocation-central-st-martins-students-respond/): Phil Alcock, Keshav Anand, Sofia Bracamontes,Nicole Coson, Sarah J Hamilton, Roshanak Khakban, Louisa Macnamara, Faun Nash, Tosin Ogunsanya, Delphine Simeao,... - [Iniva Student Research Lab : Supporting Art Studies](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/iniva-student-research-lab-supporting-art-studies/): The Iniva Student Research Lab is a pilot project to support the studies of local students undertaking their A/AS Levels... - [Hackney Live : See the arts differently](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/hackney-live-see-the-arts-differently/): Iniva contributes to a new initiative showcasing emerging creatives through online profiling of the arts and creative industries with Hackney... - [Family: A Space and Stoke Newington Secondary School](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/family-a-space-and-stoke-newington-secondary-school/): Exhibition in the Education Space at Rivington Place from 2-23 May 2013. Working with A Space and Stoke Newington Secondary... - [Emotional Learning Workshop Series](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/emotional-learning-workshop-series/): Workshop Series Following the success of our summer Emotional Learning Card workshops, Iniva developed a series of evening courses for... - [Spooling the Ethnographic](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/spooling-the-ethnographic/): The Spooling the Ethnographic course will take as a starting point Hal Foster’s 1996 essay The Artist as Ethnographer, which... - [It's All Lies](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/its-all-lies/): Photography exhibition It’s All Lies is part of a scheme created by Iniva to provide professional guidance and support to... - [On Borrowed Time(s)](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/on-borrowed-times/): On Borrowed Time(s) showcases the work of students and alumni from MA Photographic Studies, University of Westminster. The University of... - [Becoming the Other](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/becoming-the-other/): Becoming the Other is a contemporary art exhibition with works by students from Central Saint Martins College of Art and... - [A Place for Conversation](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/a-place-for-conversation/): About the project A Place for Conversation project was created with Newport Primary School to make a space for parents,... - [Occupied Spaces: A Political GIF Project](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/occupied-spaces-a-political-gif-project/): Saturday 28 February 2-6pm Special Viewing with the curator of the project Teresa Cisneros. Occupied Spaces is a project designed... - [One & Other: Superheroes](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/one-other-superheroes/): Young people from Brooks Community School have collaborated with artist Larry Achiampong, with assistance from artist Barbara Lambert, to research... - [One & Other: How do you hear culture?](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/one-other-how-do-you-hear-culture/): Young people from St. Scholastica’s Primary School have collaborated with artist Larry Achiampong to research and create artwork inspired by... - [One & Other: Food of Champions](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/one-other-food-of-champions/): Young people from Shacklewell Primary School have collaborated with artist Agnes Poitevin-Navarre to research and create artwork inspired by food,... - [One & Other: Hybrid of Tales](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/one-other-hybrid-of-tales/): Young people from Sebright Primary School have collaborated with artist Dia Batal to research and create artwork inspired by domestic... - [Mapping Shoreditch with Shoot Experience](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/mapping-shoreditch-with-shoot-experience/): Rivington Place was the setting for an interactive photo safari on 3 July 2010. Teams of budding photographers took pictures... - [The strange world of Roderick Wood](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/the-strange-world-of-roderick-wood/): Education Space, 2 June – 24 July 2010 Thursday 12-9pm, Friday & Saturday 12-6pm “Don’t trust your ego”, you will... - [One & Other exhibition](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/one-other-exhibition/): Young people from four schools in the Borough of Hackney showcase artwork produced from the One & Other project exploring... - [Cart·og·ra·phy: the unfolding of mobile narratives](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/cart%c2%b7og%c2%b7ra%c2%b7phy-the-unfolding-of-mobile-narratives/): Education Space 2 June – 24 July 2010 Thursdays 12-9pm, Fridays & Saturdays 12-6pm Artist Dia Batal’s commission Cart-og-ra-phy: the... - [Document/ Image/ Memory: Treasures from the Iniva Archive](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/document-image-memory-treasures-from-the-iniva-archive-2/): Iniva’s Archive is a fascinating resource containing audio-visual material, unique artistic ephemera and historical documents related to the creation of... - [Maths Matters: Millfields Community School](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/maths-matters-millfields-community-school/): Pupils from years 2 to 4 at Millfields Community School in the London Borough of Hackney worked with artist Dia... - [Creative Mapping - Year 1](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/creative-mapping-year-1/): The Iniva Creative Mapping Project considers how and why contemporary artists from across the globe are opening up the concept... - [Creative Mapping - Year 2](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/creative-mapping-year-2/): This is the second year of the 3-year learning initiative exploring the politics, ethics and aesthetics of map-making through the... - [At the Intersection: Art & Economies](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/at-the-intersection-art-economies/): Why economics through art? When we talk of economics we are often lead to think about the financial crisis, banking,... - [Joining the Dots](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/joining-the-dots/): Artist Maria Amidu and multimedia designer Michael Uwemedimo have created an interactive web-based work, which innovatively evaluates and archives inIVA’s... - [Touchstones](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/touchstones/): What are the resonances of architecture and space to the communities that use them? What happens when that space is... - [Threshold](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/threshold/): Threshold, a new light and sound installation by Faisal Abdu’Allah and Charlie Dark mediates between the architecture of memory and... - [Another Country](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/another-country/): Another Country is a year-long residency programme situated in the village of Great Alne, Warwickshire culminating in a series of... - [Inspire Network](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/inspire-network/): From November 2006 – April 2007, Iniva and independent cultural producer Colin Prescod developed and implemented the Inspire Network Course.... --- ## Reading Lists - [Young People Reading List](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/young-people-reading-list/): A reading list designed for younger readers aged 16 and under. - [Hou Hanru](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/hou-hanru/): Reading list for curator Hanru Hou - [Culture Identity and Art in the Age of the Internet](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/culture-identity-and-art-in-the-age-of-the-internet/): This bibliography provides a list of materials around the development of the Internet and its ramifications for art, culture, and... - [Sonia Boyce - Scat: Sound and Collaboration](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/sonia-boyce-scat-sound-and-collaboration/): This bibliography provides a list of material available in the Stuart Hall Library, and resources that can be found online... - [Stuart Hall](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/stuart-hall/): This bibliography is based on a collection of materials available in the library, by/about cultural theorist and sociologist, Stuart Hall.... - [Maud Sulter : Stuart Hall Library collection holdings](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/maud-sulter-stuart-hall-library-collection-holdings/) - [Gypsy and Roma art and artists](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/gypsy-and-roma-art-and-artists/) - [Frantz Fanon](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/autograph-abp-frantz-fanon-bruno-boudjelal-2015/): A reading list on Frantz Fanon to accompany Frantz Fanon-Bruno Boudjelal exhibition, Autograph ABP, 2015 - [Bibliography: Park Chan-kyong and Lina Selander 14 Jan – 21 Mar 2015](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/bibliography-park-chan-kyong-and-lina-selander-14-jan-21-mar-2015/): Iniva's Library team have produced a bibliography to support the two solo exhibitions of work by Swedish artist Lina Selander... - [Autograph ABP, Black Chronicles II](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/autograph-abp-black-chronicles-ii/): The selection includes publications on the history of black photography in Africa, Britain and the USA and writings on the... - [Issa Samb : From the Ethics of Acting to the Empire Without Signs](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/issa-samb-from-the-ethics-of-acting-to-the-empire-without-signs/): Iniva's Library team have researched and produced a bibliography of select material to support the exhibition of work by the... - [Burak Delier: Freedom has no Script](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/burak-delier-freedom-has-no-script/): Iniva's Library team have researched and produced a bibliography of select material to support the exhibition Burak Delier: Freedom has... - [Anna Boghiguian & Goshka Macuga: Tagore's Universal Allegories](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/anna-boghiguian-goshka-macuga-tagores-universal-allegories/): Iniva's Library team have researched and produced a bibliography of select material to support the exhibition Anna Boghiguian & Goshka... - [Keywords](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/keywords/): A bibliography of material available in the Stuart Hall Library and resources that can be found online supporting the exhibition... - [Peter Clarke: Wind Blowing on the Cape Flats](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/peter-clarke-wind-blowing-on-the-cape-flats/): A bibliography of material available in the Stuart Hall Library and resources that can be found online supporting the exhibition... - [Roee Rosen: Vile, Evil Veil](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/roee-rosen-vile-evil-veil/): This bibliography provides a list of resources available in the Stuart Hall Library relating to Roee Rosen and his work.... - [Social Fabric](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/social-fabric/): This bibliography provides a list of related materials in the Stuart Hall Library supporting Social Fabric, 19 January - 10... - [Abdoulaye Konaté: Window Commission 2011](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/abdoulaye-konate-window-commission-2011/): This bibliography provides a list of materials in the Stuart Hall Library relating to Abdoulaye Konaté: Window Commission 2011, on... - [The Militant Image](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/the-militant-image/): The Militant Image is a programme of film screenings and discussions on filmmaking practice of late 20th century liberation struggles.... - [Entanglement: the Ambivalence of Identity](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/entanglement-the-ambivalence-of-identity/): This selected bibliography provides a list of related resources available in the Stuart Hall Library that support the exhibition. The... - [terms & conditions](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/terms-conditions/): A bibliography of selected materials to support the terms & conditions project and series of events. terms & conditions was... - [Rabih Mroué: I, the Undersigned - The People are Demanding](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/rabih-mroue-i-the-undersigned-the-people-are-demanding/): Iniva's Library & Information team have researched and produced a bibliography of selected materials to support the exhibition Rabih Mroué:... - [Document/Image/Memory: treasures from the Iniva archive](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/documentimagememory-treasures-from-the-iniva-archive/): Iniva's Library & Information team have researched and produced a bibliography of selected materials to support the exhibition Document/Image/Memory: treasures... - [Sheela Gowda: Therein & Besides](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/sheela-gowda-therein-besides/): Iniva's Library & Information team have researched and produced a bibliography of selected materials to support the exhibition Sheela Gowda:... - [Nilbar Güres](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/nilbar-gures/): A selection of materials available in the Stuart Hall Library supporting the Nilbar Güres window commission showing at Rivinton Place... - [Jia Aili and Lu Chunsheng: Counterpoints](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/jia-aili-and-lu-chunsheng-counterpoints/): Iniva's Library & Information team have researched and produced a bibliography of selected materials to support the exhibition Jia Aili... - [Autograph ABP: Ever Young; James Barnor and The Paris Albums 1900: W.E.B Du Bois](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/autograph-abp-ever-young-james-barnor-and-the-paris-albums-1900-w-e-b-du-bois/) - [Whose Map](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/whose-map/): Iniva's Library & Information team have researched and produced a bibliography of selected materials to support the exhibition Whose Map. - [Progress Reports: art in an era of diversity](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/progress-reports-art-in-an-era-of-diversity/): Iniva's Library & Information team have researched and produced a bibliography of selected materials to support Progress Reports: art in... - [Future perfect: art, gallery education and regeneration](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/future-perfect-art-gallery-education-and-regeneration/) - [NS Harsha and Chen Chieh-jen](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/ns-harsha-and-chen-chieh-jen/): Iniva's Library & Information team have researched and produced a bibliography of selected materials to support Iniva's Autumn programme at... - [Hollywood Librarians](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/hollywood-librarian/) - [Zineb Sedira: Currents of Time](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/zineb-sedira-currents-of-time/) - [Second Skins: Cloth and Difference](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/second-skins-cloth-and-difference/): Related readings for the Symposium organised by Christine Checinska and Iniva at Rivington Place, 30 April 2009. - [14 Jan 2009 AUTOGRAPH ABP exhibition](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/14-jan-2009-autograph-abp-exhibition/): This bibliography provides a list of related resources in the Stuart Hall Library supporting AUTOGRAPH ABP's exhibition Santu Mofokeng showing... - [Philomena Francis: mo'lasses III](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/philomena-francis-molasses-iii/): The attached bibliography covers the exploration of black female representation and can be used as a jumping off point for... - [States of Exchange : Artists from Cuba](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/states-of-exchange-artists-from-cuba/): The attached bibliography from the Stuart Hall Library supports Iniva's dynamic and thought provoking exhibition exploring economic and information exchange... - [Lubaina Himid](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/lubaina-himid/): The Library team have produced a bibliography of published works about or by Lubaina Himid based on the collections of... - [Keith Piper: Unearthing the Bankers Bones](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/keith-piper-unearthing-the-bankers-bones/) --- ## ICL Resources - [A is for Adolescent Anger](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/a-is-for-adolescent-anger/): Whatever our age, we've all been a teenager. We know from experience that this is a challenging phase of life... - [NEW: A-Z of Values Resource 2: Artist-led exercises](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/new-a-z-of-values-resource-2-artist-led-exercises/): Values are what we consider to be of greatest importance in life. Exploring values is about more than naming and... - [Understanding anger and its opposites](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/understanding-anger-and-its-opposites/): Anger is a natural feeling that everyone experiences. In common with all of our emotions, anger gives us information that... - [A is for Anxiety](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/a-is-for-anxiety/): Anxiety is something we can all feel. It varies in intensity - sometimes it is very strong and may even... - [NEW: A-Z of Values Resource 3: Worksheets](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/new-a-z-of-values-resource-3-worksheets/): Values are what we consider to be of greatest importance in life. Exploring values is about more than naming and... - [Exploring betrayal and its opposites](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/exploring-betrayal-and-its-opposites/): All of us experience big and little betrayals in the course of everyday life. There will be instances, too, when... - [A is for Assertive vs Aggressive behaviour](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/a-is-for-assertive-vs-aggressive-behaviour/): Aggression isn't just about getting into conflicts or disagreements - it can also be evident in how we behave. Any... - [NEW: A-Z of Values Resource 4: Multiple Choice and Art Task Worksheets](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/new-a-z-of-values-resource-4-multiple-choice-and-art-task-worksheets/): Values are what we consider to be of greatest importance in life. Exploring values is about more than naming and... - [Case Studies: An Art Psychotherapist’s perspective](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/case-studies-an-art-psychotherapists-perspective/): Jess Linton, art psychotherapist, shares some examples from her work with adult asylum seekers illustrating how she has used the... - [The stories that make us: Exploring personal histories](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/the-stories-that-make-us-exploring-personal-histories/): This resource is based on a project undertaken by Iniva and A Space which was commissioned and part-funded by Newport... - [B is for understanding BEREAVEMENT](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/b-is-for-understanding-bereavement/): The word 'bereaved' comes from Old English. It means to have something or someone taken away. We are bereaved when... - [What do you feel? Building an Emotional Vocabulary](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/what-do-you-feel-building-an-emotional-vocabulary/): This new resource accompanies our Emotional Learning Cards 'What do you feel? ', describing each featured artist’s work on each... - [Who are you? Where are you going? Building an Emotional Vocabulary](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/who-are-you-where-are-you-going-building-an-emotional-vocabulary/): This new resource accompanies our Emotional Learning Cards 'Who are you? Where are you going? ', describing each featured artist’s... - [How do we live well with others? Building an Emotional Dictionary](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/how-do-we-live-well-with-others-building-an-emotional-dictionary/): This new resource accompanies our Emotional Learning Cards 'How do we live well with others? ', describing each featured artist’s... - [E is for learning about our EMOTIONAL LIFE](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/e-is-for-learning-about-our-emotional-life/): The word 'emotion' has its roots in the 12th C French word 'emouvoir' which means 'to stir up'. This makes... - [Case Studies: Using the Emotional Learning Cards in School based Therapy Sessions](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/case-studies-using-the-emotional-learning-cards-in-school-based-therapy-sessions/): Jo Evans and Tara Richards, both A Space therapists share some examples from their work with young people which illustrate... - [F is for Family](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/f-is-for-family/): The word 'family' has the same root as 'familiar'. As we know, families are made up of people who are... - [Emotional Learning Cards Word Bank](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/emotional-learning-cards-word-bank/): This worksheet contains words and phrases which can be used in conjunction with our Emotional Learning Cards series What do... - [F is for FEMININITY](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/f-is-for-femininity/): Part of who we are is linked to our gender. We are physically either male or female. However, ideas about... - ['What do you feel?' Franklyn Rogers Workshop](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/what-do-you-feel-franklyn-rogers-workshop/): A working example of how an entire workshop can be created out of a single card. This resource describes a... - [Reflecting on Endings Resource Packet](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/reflecting-on-endings-resource-packet/): This resource packet contains: 3 x Worksheets that can be printed and used in individual or group therapy sessions or... - [M is for MASCULINITY](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/m-is-for-masculinity/): Many boys and men feel under pressure to be a certain way simply because they are male. Girls and women... - ['What do you feel?' Exploring Shame in Childhood](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/what-do-you-feel-exploring-shame-in-childhood/): Uses a selection of 5 cards from the “What do you feel? ” set of Emotional Learning Cards as a... - [Exploring Adolescence conference- paper by Angie Doran](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/exploring-adolescence-conference-paper-by-angie-doran/): In July 2013,A Space and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies (CPS) at the University of Essex co-hosted a conference at... - [Exploring adolescence conference- paper by Lyn French](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/exploring-adolescence-conference-paper-by-lyn-french/): In July 2013,A Space and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies (CPS) at the University of Essex co-hosted a conference at... - [Exploring adolescence conference- paper by Sue Kegerreis](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/exploring-adolescence-conference-paper-by-sue-kegerreis/): In July 2013, A Space and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies (CPS) at the University of Essex co-hosted a conference... - [Who are you? Where are you going? New Beginnings](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/who-are-you-where-are-you-going-new-beginnings/): A range of exercises to support those experiencing new beginnings Whether it be a new school, home or relationship, the... - [Who are you? Where are you going? Exploring the Christmas Holiday Season](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/who-are-you-where-are-you-going-exploring-the-christmas-holiday-season/): A resource to help understand the different emotions we feel around Christmas The Christmas holiday can be complicated, stressful and... - [Case Studies: Using the Emotional Learning Cards – a Dramatherapist’s Perspective](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/case-studies-using-the-emotional-learning-cards-a-dramatherapists-perspective/): Jodie Cariss, Sesame-trained drama therapist introduces her tips for using the Emotional Learning Cards. - [NEW: A-Z of Values Resource 1: Introduction to Values](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/new-a-z-of-values-resource-1-introduction-to-values/): This resource provides teachers, educators, multi-disciplinary practitioners and therapists with ideas on how to creatively explore the subject of values... - [A to Z of Leadership: Exploring Anxieties](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/a-to-z-of-leadership-exploring-anxieties/): This resource has been designed to be used in conjunction with our NEW set of Emotional Learning Cards - A-Z... --- ## Directory - [Matanda Abondance](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/matanda-abondance): Abondance Matanda is an arts and culture writer and poet. Being based in London proper informs her subject matters and... - [BBZ](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/bbz): BBZ (Burgeoning Brazen Zamis or Babes) is a creative duo that consists of filmmaker Nadine Davis and photographer Tia Simon-Campbell,... - [Moran Stephanie](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/moran-stephanie): Stephanie Moran is an artist and researcher, studying for a 3D3-funded PhD with Plymouth University’s interdisciplinary digital research group, Transtechnology... - [Keiken](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/k/keiken): Keiken, Japanese for experience, is a cross-dimensional collaborative practice based in London and Berlin and founded in 2015 by artists... - [Mitra Rinku](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/mitra-rinku): Rinku Mitra has over 15 years’ experience in the cultural, heritage and voluntary sector with extensive knowledge of the formal... - [Dymond Susan](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/dymond-susan): Susan Dymond has extensive experience of planning and delivering high-quality, audience-focused heritage interpretation at a range of venues. She collaborates... - [Sohal Neena](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/s/sohal-neena): Neena Sohal has over 20 years’ experience in the arts and heritage sector specialising in strategic development, project management, evaluation,... - [Rutherford Ananda](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/r/rutherford-ananda): Ananda Rutherford is an experienced researcher and museum collections manager. Her research and professional practice focus is on ethical and... - [Cusimano Amanda](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/c/cusimano-amanda): Amanda Cusimano has over 16 years’ experience in working data, research, evaluation and strategies development within the arts and cultural... - [Hunjan Bhajan](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/hunjan-bhajan): Bhajan Hunjan is a UK-based artist-educator who creates commissions for the public realm and built environment. She also works collaboratively... - [Hunter Tavian](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/hunter-tavian): Tavian Hunter is a librarian, programme coordinator and editorial publishing manager. Since 2018, she has been Library and Archive Manager... - [Wong Carmen](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/w/wong-carmen): Carmen Wong is an artist-researcher, a curiously hungry migrant, and a recovering academic with student debt. Her practice often experiments... - [Resolve Collective](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/r/resolve-collective): RESOLVE is an interdisciplinary design collective that combines architecture, engineering, technology and art to address social challenges. They have delivered... - [Bare Minimum Collective](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/bare-minimum-collective): bare minimum collective bare minimum is six-person interdisciplinary anti-work arts collective. We believe in doing nothing or at the very... - [Bryce Shanice](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/bryce-shanice): Shanice Bryce is an artist and movement teacher based in London. She is the founder of OOM, which explores the... - [Nwaby-Ekeoma Victory](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/n/nwaby-ekeoma-victory): Victory Nwabu-Ekeoma is an Igbo-Irish zine-maker, writer, storyteller, content designer and the founder and editor of Bia! Zine – an... - [Francois Janine](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/f/francois-janine): Janine Francois is a Black British feminist writer, academic and cultural producer. Janine’s research focuses on ethics of care, Black... - [Axel Kacoutié & Lou Mensah](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/axel-kacoutie-lou-mensah): Lou Mensah founded Shade Podcast to create a space for Black artists and creative practitioners to talk about their work... - [Dennis Angela](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/dennis-angela): Angela Dennis is a visual artist and registered somatic movement educator accredited by the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy... - [Ifekoya Evan](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/i/ifekoya-evan-2): Evan Ifekoya is an interdisciplinary artist working in community organising, installation, performance, sound, text and video, whose practice is an... - [Osajivbe-Williams Danielle](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/o/osajivbe-williams-danielle): Danielle DZA Ifakemi Osajivbe-Williams is an integrative counsellor and psychotherapist, consultant, author (‘Race is complicated: a toolkit for psychological therapies... - [Broomes Mele](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/broomes-mele): Mele Broomes is an award winning artist and director. She has a multidisciplinary practice in dance, movement, choreographer and vocal... - [Goh Joon-Lynn](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/g/goh-joon-lynn): Joon-Lynn is a cultural organiser working at the intersections of art, infrastructure, and social justice. They embrace organising as a... - [a-n](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/a-n): We are the artists’ advocate. Guided by our members and advised by our Artists Council, we campaign on crucial issues,... - [Natalegawa Dhiyandra ](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/n/natalegawa-dhiyandra): Dhiyandra Natalegawa (b. 1991) is an Indonesian Creative Educator and Producer born and raised in Brent, London. Throughout the last... - [Muir Evie](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/muir-evie): Evie Muir (she/they) is a nature writer and founder of Peaks of Colour – a Peak District based nature-for-healing community... - [Earthchild Remedies](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/e/earthchild-remedies): Earthchild Remedies is a company, founded in 2022 by Rebekah Williams that explores wellness through practices that seek to re-connect... - [Dhaliwal Suzanne](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/dhaliwal-suzanne): Suzanne Dhaliwal is a Climate Justice Creative, Campaigner, Researcher, Lecturer in Environmental Justice and Trainer in Creative Strategies for Decolonisation.... - [Maxwell Yvonne](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/maxwell-yvonne): Yvonne Maxwell is a Saint Lucian-Nigerian self-taught documentary photographer whose work explores issues surrounding migration, collective and individual memory, community... - [Whitley Zoé](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/w/whitley-zoe): Dr. Zoé Whitley is Director of the non-profit Chisenhale Gallery in London. She co-curated the acclaimed Tate Modern exhibition Soul... - [Henry Joseph](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/henry-joseph): Joseph Henry is a designer, urbanist, and curator whose practice advocates for a more equitable built environment through policy and... - [Kailey Deep K](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/k/kailey-deep-k): Deep K Kailey is an artistic director and cultural narrator. The former Condé Nast fashion director went from styling iconic... - [Tajudeen Bolanle](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/t/tajudeen-bolanle): Bolanle Tajudeen is the founder of Black Blossoms, an art school and curatorial platform dedicated to amplifying the practices of... - [Harris Ashanti](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/harris-ashanti): Ashanti Harris is a multi-disciplinary artist, researcher and lecturer exploring ways of disrupting historical narratives and re-imagining them from a... - [Barton Camille](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/barton-camille): Camille Sapara Barton is a Social Imagineer, multi-disciplinary artist and somatic practitioner, dedicated to creating networks of care and liveable... - [Taylor Foluke](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/t/taylor-foluke): Foluke writes, teaches, practices therapeutics, and sometimes referring to herself as writer*therapist (with an asterisk* signalling Black feminist modes of... - [Arefin Maymana](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/arefin-maymana): Maymana Arefin (she/they) is an artist, community organiser and writer based in London. Through leading nature immersions, plant and fungi... - [Neagu Simina](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/n/neagu-simina): Simina Neagu was Programme and Operations Coordinator at iniva from 2017 to 2022. She has previously worked with various arts... - [Malik Tarini](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/malik-tarini): Tarini Malik (b. 1988, New Delhi, India) is the Shane Ackroyd Associate Curator of the British Pavilion at the 2024... - [Givanni June](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/g/givanni-june): Dr June Givanni is a pioneering international film curator who has considerable experience in film and broadcasting for over 30... - [Harvey James](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/harvey-james): Dr James Harvey is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Media at the University of Hertfordshire. His research is preoccupied... - [Adelekun Seyi](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/adelekun-seyi): Seyi Adelekun is a London-based multidisciplinary artist of Yoruba-Nigerian heritage. Their practice employs installation, performance, and sound as storytelling devices... - [Berhane Misgane](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/berhane-misgane): Misgana Berhane is an accredited person-centred therapist and a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Her... - [Watson Anne-Marie](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/w/watson-anne-marie): Anne-Marie Watson is an artist, arts facilitator, curator and project manager specialising in creative arts and wellbeing. She has worked... - [Addae Yaa](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/addae-yaa): Yaa Addae (she/they) is a writer, researcher, and participatory curator who is committed to imagining ways of being outside of... - [Teyie Alexis G.](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/t/teyie-alexis-g): Alexis G. Teyie is a poet, data scientist, curator, and publisher. Teyie was one of the co-founders of Enkare Review,... - [Qualmann Clare](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/q/qualmann-clare): Clare Qualmann (she/her) is an artist/researcher whose work focuses on socially engaged, site specific, and experimental modes of contemporary creative... - [Bhattacharyya Gargi](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/bhattacharyya-gargi): Gargi Bhattacharyya (they/them) is Professor of Anti/Post/Decolonial Theory and Praxis at UAL Decolonising Arts Institute and recently worked as Professor... - [Clarke Cassia](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/c/clarke-cassia): Cassia Clarke is a Luton-born British-Caribbean self-taught archivist, researcher and facilitator. She uses an autoethnographic and co-curatorial approach to engage... - [Woolford Joshua](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/w/woolford-joshua): Joshua Woolford is the 2023/24 Research and Interpretation artist in residence at Tate Britain and will be producing a series... - [Jay Priya](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/j/jay-priya): Priya Jay is a writer and faciliator. Her practice is led by questions of literacies, embodiment, sustenance and liberation: through... - [Dhallu Amrita](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/dhallu-amrita): Amrita Dhallu is a curator and researcher based in London. She provides support structures for emerging British artists through commissioning,... - [Prempeh Charlene](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/p/prempeh-charlene): Charlene Prempeh is the founder of A Vibe Called Tech, a creative studio and art consultancy that is dedicated to... - [Agbetu Nate](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/agbetu-nate): Nate Agbetu is the founder of Free Form, a cultural curator and educator who highlights emergent thinking through research, art... - [Biamah-Ofosu Nana](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/biamah-ofosu-nana): Nana Biamah-Ofosu is an architect, writer and director of YAA Projects, an architecture, design and research practice dedicated to exploring... - [Shah Arpita](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/s/shah-arpita): Arpita Shah is a photographic artist and educator based in Eastbourne, UK. She works between photography and film, exploring the... - [Charles Kaia](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/c/charles-kaia): Kaia Charles is a Cultural projects commissioner and curator whose work is rooted in contemporary art practice. Charles has commissioned... - [Uambembe Helena](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/u/uambembe-helena): Helena Uambembe, born in 1994 in Pomfret, South Africa, is an artist of Angolan descent whose work is heavily influenced... - [Sahmland Susi](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/s/sahmland-susi): Susi Sahmland looks after educational outreach for the Frank Bowling Studio. She works closely with schools, galleries and museums and... - [Petersen Leanne](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/p/petersen-leanne): Leanne Petersen is a curator, creative producer and freelance writer. She has curated and produced several projects for organisations including... - [Paintsil Anya](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/p/paintsil-anya): Anya Paintsil, London-based textile artist of Welsh and Ghanaian heritage. Her practice combines traditional hand rug making techniques with afro... - [Wan Jessica](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/w/wan-jessica): Jessica Wan is a curator and writer who works to rethink access from the perspectives of transnationalism, migration and feminist... - [Ruddock Shamica](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/r/ruddock-shamica): Shamica Ruddock is an artist often found working between sound and moving image. Shamica’s current research concerns sound cultures and... - [Camp Ibiye](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/c/camp-ibiye): Ibiye is a British Nigerian multidisciplinary artist. Her work engages with technology, trade and material within the African Diaspora. Ibiye’s... - [Mboya Renée Akitelek](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/mboya-renee-akitelek): Renée Akitelek Mboya is a writer, curator and filmmaker. Her custom relies on biography and storytelling as a form of... - [Dennis Nolan Oswald](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/dennis-nolan-oswald): Nolan Oswald Dennis is a para-disciplinary artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Their practice explores ‘a black consciousness of space’... - [Kalichini Gladys](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/k/kalichini-gladys): Gladys Kalichini is a contemporary visual artist and researcher from Lusaka, Zambia. Her work centres around notions of erasure, memory,... - [Ling Wessie](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/l/ling-wessie): Wessie Ling, Ph. D. , a Professor of Transcultural Arts and Design at London Metropolitan University where she directs The... - [Brown Nicholas](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/brown-nicholas): Nicholas Brown, a librarian and doctoral candidate researching Black British artists and print culture, with particular attention to independent magazine... - [Brenha Renata](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/brenha-renata): Renata Brenha, a London-based Brazilian womenswear designer with an MA in fashion from the Royal College of Art (2018) and... - [Oshin Péjú](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/o/oshin-peju): Péjú Oshin, a British-Nigerian curator, writer, and lecturer working with young and emerging visual artists from the African diaspora. Sitting... - [Tay Anushka](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/t/tay-anushka): Anushka Tay, a London-based artist and researcher interested in the ways that bodies move through space. Her research examines the... - [Kellay Meneesha](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/k/kellay-meneesha): Meneesha Kellay is a curator working across art, architecture, design, and performance. Currently the Senior Curator, Contemporary Programme at the... - [Duah Lauren-Loïs](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/duah-lauren-lois): Lauren-Loïs Duah is a cross-disciplinary artist, writer and spatial-designer whose work focuses on the ways in which creativity, craft, and... - [Douglas Stan](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/douglas-stan): STAN DOUGLAS (b. 1960, Vancouver, CA) Since the late 1980s, Stan Douglas has created films and photographs—and more recently theatre... - [Kihara Yuki](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/k/kihara-yuki): YUKI KIHARA (b. 1975, Sāmoa) is an interdisciplinary artist of Japanese and Sāmoan descent whose work seeks to challenge dominant... - [Khaireh Hudda](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/k/khaireh-hudda): Hudda Khaireh is an independent researcher and artist with a background in Public International Law whose practice focuses on the... - [Dhlamini Karen](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/dhlamini-karen): Karen Dhlamini, MBPsS, MBACP, BSc (Hons) in Psychology, and MSc in Integrative Counselling, is a dedicated Counsellor, Coach, Mental Health... - [Börner Susanne](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/borner-susanne): Dr Susanne Börner (she/her) is Assistant Professor in Human Geography at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on youth... - [Crooks Exodus](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/c/crooks-exodus): Exodus Crooks is a British-Jamaican, multidisciplinary artist, and educator, interested in self-determination and how it is steered by religion and... - [Nembhard Candice](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/n/nembhard-candice): Candice Nembhard (they/them), also known as okcandice, is a writer, artist-curator, archivist, and musician between Birmingham and Berlin. They are... - [Douglas Hollie](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/douglas-hollie): Hollie Douglas is a curatorial trainee currently working at the Towner Gallery Eastbourne, on Future Collect, an iniva project which... - [Paris Henrique J.](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/p/paris-henrique-j): Henrique J. Paris is an Angolan transdisciplinary artist, graduated in Philosophy with film at the University of Hertfordshire. His works... - [Malik Orsod](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/malik-orsod): Orsod Malik is a UK-based Sudani curator, writer, producer, and digital strategist. Orsod’s curatorial practice focuses on developing methods to... - [Sadiq Lamya](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/s/sadiq-lamya): Lamya Sadiq works across social histories, sonic and visual worlds and psychoanalytic theory to locate tools for other-world making. Her... - [Hussayni Êvar](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/hussayni-evar): Êvar Hussayni is an artist whose work focuses on Kurdish genealogies, colonial violence in archives and their relationship with the... - [Languid Hands](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/l/languid-hands): Languid Hands is a London-based artistic and curatorial collaboration between Rabz Lansiquot, a filmmaker, curator, and DJ, and Imani Robinson,... - [Adusei-Poku Nana](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/adusei-poku-nana): Nana Adusei-Poku is an Assistant Professor in the History or Art and African American Studies Department at Yale University. She... - [Lin April](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/l/lin-april): April Lin 林森 (b. 1996, Stockholm — they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and independent curator investigating image-making and world-building as... - [Gill Nikita](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/g/gill-nikita): Nikita Gill is an Afro-Caribbean artist and curator at Manchester Art Gallery. She received her MA in Art Gallery and... - [Moussawi Sally](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/moussawi-sally): Sally Moussawi (she/they) is committed to building sustainable anti-capitalist infrastructures for organisations. She is currently part of Barefoot 5. 0... - [Prowse Jamila](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/p/prowse-jamila): Jamila Prowse is an artist, writer, researcher and lecturer who employs art making as a methodology for articulating and processing... - [Craig Lauren](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/c/craig-lauren): Lauren Craig (she/her/hers) is a social-media shy, internet- curious cultural futurist based in London. Her practice intentionally moves slowly between... - [Akaunu Amber](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/akaunu-amber): Amber Akaunu is a Liverpool born Nigerian-German filmmaker working in cinema and art to document and explore Black culture, identity,... - [Hameed Sadia Pineda](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/hameed-sadia-pineda): Sadia Pineda Hameed is a Filipina Pakistani artist and writer based in the Ebbw Valley, Wales. She works in film,... - [Taylor Dharma](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/t/taylor-dharma): Dharma Taylor is a multidisciplinary designer and maker with a background specialising in menswear and textiles. She graduated from Rochester... - [Emejulu Akwugo](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/e/emejulu-akwugo): Akwugo Emejulu is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Her research interests include the political sociology of race,... - [Bellebono June](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/bellebono-june): June Bellebono is a London-based writer, cultural producer and facilitator. They are the founder of oestrogeneration, a magazine platform highlighting... - [Hart Tamara](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/hart-tamara): Tamara Hart is a visual anthropologist based in London. Their research adopts visual caretaking as a mode to explore identity... - [Adegbite Princess Arinola](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/adegbite-princess-arinola): Princess Arinola Adegbite (she/her) or “P. A. Bitez” is a Jamaican-born Nigerian poet, songwriter, filmmaker, and student based in Manchester.... - [rae mandla](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/r/rae-mandla): mandla rae (they/them) is a writer and performer from Zimbabwe, raised in London and now based in Manchester. mandla’s first... --- ## Events - [Reading Cycles](https://iniva.org/programme/events/reading-cycles/): Reading Cycles Wednesdays in September 2025 5:30–7:30pm Stuart Hall Library, iniva Join us for a series of reading cycles expanding... - [Zine Making with Open Age](https://iniva.org/programme/events/zine-making-with-open-age/): A pilot zine-making workshop with Open Age Westminster facilitated by artist Bhajan Hunjan, exploring the theme of home and belonging... - [Zine Making with Mozart Community Champions](https://iniva.org/programme/events/zine-making-with-mozart-community-champions/): This pilot zine-making workshop with Mozart Community Champions was facilitated by artist Bhajan Hunjan. It explored the theme of home... - [Garden of Feelings](https://iniva.org/programme/events/garden-of-feelings/): Rich in representation and symbolism, gardens are powerful metaphors frequently featured in literature and art. Often interpreted as spaces of... - [Sound and Music Workshop with ETAT](https://iniva.org/programme/events/sound-and-music-workshop-with-etat/): This pilot workshop reconnected ETAT participants with their previously recorded vinyl EP, which features spoken word, rap and wartime classics.... - [Garden of Belonging](https://iniva.org/programme/events/garden-of-belonging/): A workshop led by A-Space art psychotherapist Nathalie Roset with Young at Hearts group at the Abbey Centre exploring personal... - [Getting to Know iniva: Archive and Library Tour for Open Age](https://iniva.org/programme/events/introduction-to-iniva-stuart-hall-library-and-archiving-with-open-age/): A welcoming and informative session introducing the Stuart Hall Library and iniva’s archive to older adults from Westminster, Kensington and... - [Archiving and Photography with Avenues Youth Project](https://iniva.org/programme/events/archiving-and-photography-with-avenues-youth-project/): A creative and hands-on session exploring photography, storytelling and the art of archiving. Led by Cassia Clarke and Tavian Hunter,... - [Present Land: Open Call](https://iniva.org/programme/events/open-call-artist-commission/): Deadline: Saturday 5 July 2025, 11:59pm Artist Fee: £3,750 Project Timeline: July 2025 – January 2026 Location: Stuart Hall Library,... - [Dub Encyclopaedia Opening Preview](https://iniva.org/programme/events/dub-encyclopaedia-opening-preview/): BOOK HERE Join us for the exhibition opening preview of Dub Encyclopaedia! Dub Encyclopaedia is an immersive installation by artists... - [Altars of Planetary Healing](https://iniva.org/programme/events/altars-of-planetary-healing/): BOOK HERE Join artist Seyi Adelekun for a participatory performance exploring how we might embody planetary healing in the face... - [Grow Your Collection: Book Sale](https://iniva.org/programme/events/grow-your-collection/): Support the Stuart Hall Library’s collection and build your own! - [Detroit Techno](https://iniva.org/programme/events/detroit-techno/): BOOK HERE FOR THE LUNCHTIME TALK From Fordism to Motown, from Kraftwerk to Afro-futurism and mythical Atlantics, Detroit Techno is... - [Detroit Techno Reading Group](https://iniva.org/programme/events/detroit-techno-reading-group/): BOOK HERE FOR THE READING GROUP From Fordism to Motown, from Kraftwerk to Afro-futurism and mythical Atlantics, Detroit Techno is... - [Against Witness](https://iniva.org/programme/events/against-witness/): BOOK HERE iniva and down river road invite you to join us in a poetry gathering at Stuart Hall Library,... - [Restorative Practices](https://iniva.org/programme/events/restorative-practices/): BOOK HERE Join us for a lunchtime sharing session where we will explore the books and zines surrounding the topic... - [When will we be good enough?](https://iniva.org/programme/events/when-will-we-be-good-enough/): Join interdisciplinary artist Osman Yousefzada and writer and curator, Ekow Eshun in a conversation exploring Yousefzada’s sculptural installation ‘When will... - [Creative Mapping: Art Educators Lab](https://iniva.org/programme/events/creative-mapping-art-educators-lab/): The Creative Mapping: Art Educators Lab will gather art educators working in traditional and untraditional settings to connect and discuss... - [Magic(k)al Practices](https://iniva.org/programme/events/on-our-table-magickal-practices/): BOOK HERE Join us for a lunchtime sharing session where we will showcase books, journals, and articles featuring the use... - [Open Call for Zines](https://iniva.org/programme/events/global-resiliences-open-call-for-zines/): iniva is looking for protest and activist zines which focus on documenting, investigating, and holding space for global social and... - [Autumn Book Fair](https://iniva.org/programme/events/autumn-book-fair/): The iniva bookshop is a destination for books on art, identity & social justice and we stock items from Afterall,... - [Connecting with the Land](https://iniva.org/programme/events/on-our-table-connecting-with-the-land/): Join us for a lunchtime sharing session where we will showcase books, journals, and articles which champion and highlight indigenous... - [The Gathering 2024 – Open Call for Participants](https://iniva.org/programme/events/the-gathering-2024-open-call-for-participants/): Initiated by iniva (Institute of International of Visual Arts), The Gathering 2024 offers a unique space centring Global Majority UK-based... - [11:11 x iniva Residency](https://iniva.org/programme/events/1111-x-iniva-residency/): Open Call for 11:11 London residency, in November 2024 (duration 4 weeks) in collaboration with Iniva’s specialist collections library: Stuart... - [Salvage: Repair: Repeat - A research presentation](https://iniva.org/programme/events/salvage-repair-repeat-a-research-presentation/): BOOK HERE Join Archivist and Engagement Producer Kaitlene Koranteng she as presents reflections developed during a research trip to Ghana... - [Resonant Journeys: A Listening Circle](https://iniva.org/programme/events/resonant-journeys-a-listening-circle/): SIGN-UP HERE How can we link sounds with our cultural identities? Where do those links exist? Join us for an... - [Listening Party - Canto IX (after Listening All Night To The Rain)](https://iniva.org/programme/events/listening-party-canto-ix-after-listening-all-night-to-the-rain/): BOOK HERE Event Schedule: 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM: Opening Playlist Join us for a curated selection of music with... - [drunk & disorderly with DRR](https://iniva.org/programme/events/reading-sessions-in-collaboration-with-down-river-road-ddr/): iniva and Down River Road invite you to be ear to ear with voices that will not respond to you,... - [whya (a listening exercise)](https://iniva.org/programme/events/whya-a-listening-exercise/): whya (a listening exercise) invites listeners to be guided through an auditory journey into the digital artwork ‘whya’ by Nolan... - [Locating Absence](https://iniva.org/programme/events/locating-absence/): BOOK NOW Join us for an evening panel discussion focusing on the artistic practice of John Akomfrah, exploring themes such... - [Global Resiliences](https://iniva.org/programme/events/global-resiliences/): BOOK HERE Join us for this brief lunchtime session titled “On Our Table: Global Resiliences”. This talk showcases zines, books,... - [Anticolonial Thinking on Archives, Water and Climate Justice](https://iniva.org/programme/events/study-day-anticolonial-thinking-on-archives-water-and-climate-justice/): RSVP NOW As part of the public programme for the British Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, iniva presents Unseen... - [Art+Feminism x iniva: Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Palestine](https://iniva.org/programme/events/artfeminism-x-iniva-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-on-palestine/): BOOK A SLOT “Wikipedia matters because it is a go-to source of information, the tenth most visited site in the... - [PRIM x iniva: Navigating Violent Terrains](https://iniva.org/programme/events/prim-x-iniva-navigating-violent-terrains/): BOOK HERE Together with PRIM and iniva, Joshua Woolford will be hosting a reading group around themes and topics Ingrid... - [Honour Thy - Archiving to Remember](https://iniva.org/programme/events/honour-thy-archiving-to-remember/): BOOK HERE “Had her name been scribbled on the back of the albumen print, there would be at least one... - [Out of Margin: A Transnational Perspective - Practice](https://iniva.org/programme/events/out-of-margin-a-transnational-perspective-practice/): BOOK HERE “I wanted to make stories for my kids and other black kids to see a future in which... - [in the perpetual back and forth](https://iniva.org/programme/events/in-the-perpetual-back-and-forth/): Maria Amidu is the third artist in iniva’s Future Collect Commission partnership programme. Her exhibition, in the perpetual back and... - [CoLab Eastbourne](https://iniva.org/programme/events/colab-eastbourne/): Aiming to extend the legacy of Future Collect, in 2023-24 CoLab takes place in Eastbourne, led by artist Arpita Shah... - [Stuart Hall Library & Contested Sites Publication Launch](https://iniva.org/programme/events/stuart-hall-library-contested-sites-publication-launch/): BOOK HERE iniva invites you to join us in celebrating our upcoming publication Contested Sites in our newly refurbished space.... - [Art Pedagogy](https://iniva.org/programme/events/on-our-table-art-pedagogy/): BOOK HERE This brief session, titled ‘On Our Table: Art Pedagogy,’ aims to delve into the role of books in... - [Unseen Guests – Open Call for Writers](https://iniva.org/programme/events/open-call-for-writers/): iniva is pleased to announce an open call for writing commissions as part of Unseen Guests – Post-National Digital Pavilion.... - [Out of Margin: A Transnational Perspective - Theory](https://iniva.org/programme/events/out-of-margin-a-transnational-perspective-theory/): BOOK HERE Identity is not as transparent or unproblematic as we think. Perhaps instead of thinking of identity as an... - [The Local and Global in the Art of Frank Bowling](https://iniva.org/programme/events/the-local-and-global-in-the-art-of-frank-bowling/): Join us for a creative and interactive afternoon exploring the work of artist Frank Bowling as part of Hauser &... - [Out of Margin: A Transnational Perspective - History](https://iniva.org/programme/events/out-of-margin-a-transnational-perspective/): BOOK HERE Identity is not as transparent or unproblematic as we think. Perhaps instead of thinking of identity as an... - [Entangled Threads: Revisiting the Clothes, Cloth & Culture Group](https://iniva.org/programme/events/entangled-threads-revisiting-the-clothes-cloth-culture-group/): "Entangled Threads: Revisiting the Clothes, Cloth & Culture Group," draws on the legacy of the CCCG, reinterpreting Stuart Hall’s writings... - [The Ghosts Will Not Give Up On Us](https://iniva.org/programme/events/the-ghosts-will-not-give-up-on-us/): In this talk, Lamya Sadiq will attempt to trace some of the characteristics and contours of ancestral wounds, using the... - [Creative Mapping: Design and Architecture Lab](https://iniva.org/programme/events/creative-mapping-design-and-architecture-lab/): iniva’s Creative Mapping: Design and Architecture Lab is a gathering dedicated to artists, designers and architects from the global majority.... - [Storytelling Through Objects](https://iniva.org/programme/events/storytelling-through-objects/): Reflecting on the exhibition themes, the session with students from Millbank Academy will support young people to learn about the... - [Artists' Books](https://iniva.org/programme/events/artists-books/): BOOK HERE This brief session, titled ‘On Our Table: Artist Books,’ aims to spotlight materials from the Stuart Hall Library... - [KLA ART 24 Festival Residency](https://iniva.org/programme/events/kla-art-24-festival-residency/): APPLY HERE iniva and 32° East Trust are pleased to announce a new partnership and opportunity through British Council’s Biennials... - [Part of the Furniture](https://iniva.org/programme/events/part-of-the-furniture/): Join us for an in-conversation with Dharma Taylor and Kaia Charles where she’ll be sharing her journey as the sixth... - [Policing The Crisis](https://iniva.org/programme/events/policing-the-crisis/): What is the role of an institution, artist, researcher, practitioner in this wounded time? Join Meera Shakti Osborne who will... - [Insurgent Rituals](https://iniva.org/programme/events/insurgent-rituals-spectral-talismans/): At a time when our unfreedoms are so pronounced; wars are raging and we are reminded safety is conditional. Pleasure,... - [Transformation of Silence: Group Read-In](https://iniva.org/programme/events/transformation-of-silence-group-read-in/): BOOK HERE Transformation of Silence into Words & Action is the title of an essay by poet, feminist, activist &... - [We Shape Ourselves, Fugitive Feminism reading group](https://iniva.org/programme/events/fugitive-feminism-reading-group-with-hudda-khaireh/): BOOK HERE Imagine you were never considered to be human. How would you perceive the world? What future is possible?... - [Reflecting on Family Archives](https://iniva.org/programme/events/reflecting-on-family-archives/): As part of Shifting the Centre – Anticolonial Ways of Seeing‘s Public Programme, artist Beverley Bennett, supported by therapist Stephen... - [CoLab Birmingham](https://iniva.org/programme/events/colab-birmingham/): CoLab promotes interdisciplinary education and well-being practices through contemporary art. The Birmingham edition of CoLab is led by local artist... - [Shifting the Centre: Anticolonial Ways of Seeing - Reading Session One](https://iniva.org/programme/events/shifting-the-centre-anticolonial-ways-of-seeing-reading-session-one/): BOOK HERE As part of our Shifting the Centre: Anticolonial Ways of Seeing exhibition, International Curators Forum (ICF) are hosting... - [Shifting the Centre: Anticolonial Ways of Seeing – Reading Session Two](https://iniva.org/programme/events/shifting-the-centre-anticolonial-ways-of-seeing-reading-session-two/): BOOK HERE As part of our Shifting the Centre: Anticolonial Ways of Seeing exhibition, International Curators Forum (ICF) are hosting... - [Shifting the Centre: Anticolonial Ways of Seeing - Film Screening](https://iniva.org/programme/events/shifting-the-centre-anticolonial-ways-of-seeing-film-screening/): BOOK HERE Join International Curators Forum (ICF) and iniva at the Stuart Hall Library for a special screening of Edward... - [Is a shared history possible?](https://iniva.org/programme/events/is-a-shared-history-possible/): Join us online for an in-conversation with curator Orsod Malik, artist Jacob V. Joyce and archivist Kaitlene Koranteng to explore... - [Livity](https://iniva.org/programme/events/livity/): Join us for an interactive reading and listening group with Dharma Taylor as we explore sociocultural vibes and the crowd’s... - [Authenticity and Dub](https://iniva.org/programme/events/authenticity-and-dub/): Join us for an interactive reading group with Gary Stewart as we explore the authenticity of dubbing sound. Gary works... - [Slow Time: a research presentation](https://iniva.org/programme/events/slow-time-a-research-presentation/): BOOK HERE Join Future Collect curatorial trainee Hollie Douglas as she presents on research developed over her traineeship with iniva... - [Migration, Memory and Music: Bringing an archive of songs from Bengal to London.](https://iniva.org/programme/events/migration-memory-and-music-bringing-an-archive-of-songs-from-bengal-to-london/): Book tickets ‘Uncovering the Archive’ is thrilled to present Moushumi Bhowmik, a Calcutta (Kolkata)-based Bengali singer, composer and practice-led researcher... - [Activating iniva's Archive: Catalogue Launch event](https://iniva.org/programme/events/activating-inivas-archive-catalogue-launch/): Book Free Ticket Join us on 25th October 2023 from 5. 30-7. 30pm to celebrate the launch of iniva’s first... - [Piecing Together X-Space](https://iniva.org/programme/events/piecing-together-x-space/): BOOK HERE This instalment of our show-and-tell series focuses on iniva’s X-Space collection. X-Space was iniva’s virtual gallery and online... - [Auteurship](https://iniva.org/programme/events/auteurship/): BOOK HERE Join us for an interactive performance evening with Gary Stewart as we explore auteurship and how technological innovations... - [Towards a shared history](https://iniva.org/programme/events/towards-a-shared-history/): Join us for an interactive reading group with Orsod Malik as we explore whether a shared history is possible, and... - [Archive Focus Group: The Education Archive](https://iniva.org/programme/events/archive-focus-group-the-education-archive/): BOOK HERE Are you passionate about arts education and preserving history? Come along to our focus group session exploring iniva’s... - [Body as a Testimony](https://iniva.org/programme/events/body-as-a-testimony/): “... The whole apparatus of a history, key figures, and works, tendencies, shifts, breaks, ruptures, slips into place silently. ”... - [RE(SE)A(R)CH](https://iniva.org/programme/events/research/): Join us for an interactive reading group with Meera Shakti Osborne as we explore questions about how we learn in spaces without authority and (re)searching for a common language in relation to youth resistance movements in London. - [Book Launch. Donald Rodney: Autoicon](https://iniva.org/programme/events/book-launch-donald-rodney-autoicon/): Buy Tickets on Eventbrite Book Free Ticket Join us on Monday 9 October 5. 30-7. 30pm for the launch of... - [Revisiting Internationalism](https://iniva.org/programme/events/revisiting-internationalism/): BOOK HERE In April 1994 iniva held its founding symposium titled ‘A New Internationalism’ at the Tate Gallery, which brought... - [Anticolonial Ways of Seeing](https://iniva.org/programme/events/on-our-table-anticolonial-ways-of-seeing/): Short lunchtime tour on resources on the theme of anti-colonial thought from Stuart Hall Library and iniva archive. - [iniva Book Sale 2023](https://iniva.org/programme/events/iniva-book-sale-2023/): iniva is delighted to invite you to our annual book sale – a one week sales event at the Stuart... - [Film Screening by the WANAWAL, MayDay Rooms and iniva](https://iniva.org/programme/events/film-screening-by-the-wanawal-mayday-rooms-and-iniva/): Book tickets The West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library presents a film screening and talk in collaboration with... - [How We (Might) Practice](https://iniva.org/programme/events/how-we-might-practice/): BOOK HERE This workshop offers a space to consider y/our practices as an artist or art worker, as they are... - [NANPUR EXPERIENCE: Village Letters Publication Launch](https://iniva.org/programme/events/nanpur-experience-village-letters-publication-launch/): An event to mark the launching of a publication by Meera Shakti Osborne, resulting from the Village Letters exhibition's public... - [Browsing iniva's history](https://iniva.org/programme/events/browsing-inivas-history/): BOOK HERE Join this introductory show and tell tour of iniva’s governance collection from the archive led by Cataloguing Archivist... - [Financial Literacy Workshop](https://iniva.org/programme/events/financial-literacy-workshop/): In this financial literacy workshop we will focus on basic financial admin skills required for sustaining ourselves as individual practitioners... - [Becoming Invisible and Untranslatability](https://iniva.org/programme/events/becoming-invisible-and-untranslatability-with-lauren-craig/): Book Tickets Join us for an interactive reading group and discussion at Stuart Hall Library with the artist Lauren Craig.... - [Access Rider Workshop](https://iniva.org/programme/events/access-rider-workshop/): BOOK HERE In this workshop led by April Lin 林森, we discuss what an access rider is, and how to... - [Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display](https://iniva.org/programme/events/iniva-x-afterall-bookshop-book-launch-reshaping-the-field-arts-of-the-african-diasporas-on-display/): Book Tickets Join us on Thursday 15 June 5. 30-7. 30pm for the launch of Afterall’s newest Exhibition Histories publication... - [Collecting Conversations : Future Collect](https://iniva.org/programme/events/collecting-conversations/): WATCH LIVE HERE Join Iniva on 12th June 2023 for a day of conversation on transforming the culture of commissioning... - [Works in Process : Artist Crit](https://iniva.org/programme/events/works-in-process/): BOOK HERE As part of Future Commons’ series of public events responding to the needs and wants of art workers... - [Can publications be porous?](https://iniva.org/programme/events/workshop-can-publications-be-porous/): Artist and cultural futurist Lauren Craig delivers a workshop to unpack her conceptual modality S:E:P:A:L:S - [iniva at Offprint 2023](https://iniva.org/programme/events/iniva-at-offprint-2023/): iniva is pleased to announce its participation at Offprint, the annual book fair for independent experimental and socially engaged publishers... - [Between Starshine and Clay](https://iniva.org/programme/events/between-starshine-and-clay/): BOOK HERE Join us for an interactive reading group and discussion at Stuart Hall Library with the author of Fugitive... - [Finding Home](https://iniva.org/programme/events/finding-home/): BOOK HERE This short session, entitled ‘On Our Table: Finding Home’ aims to showcase contemporary art histories around the concept... - [you, me, a letter and an envelope](https://iniva.org/programme/events/you-me-a-letter-and-an-envelope/): In the anatomy of the human body and in the anatomy of the envelope the throat is the locus of... - [desire lines](https://iniva.org/programme/events/desire-lines/): BOOK HERE When Maria Amidu was working on her Future Collect expression of interest, she discovered during a conversation with... - [INDEX Public Programme: Sharing memories over Kurdish cuisine](https://iniva.org/programme/events/index-public-programme-sharing-memories-over-kurdish-cuisine/): Book tickets As part of the INDEX exhibition ‘Untitled: an exhibition of works in progress’ by Maria Amidu’s Public Programme,... - [Soft weapons: finding peers in archives](https://iniva.org/programme/events/soft-weapons-finding-peers-in-archives/): Join June Bellebono and Tamara Hart for a workshop that explores how to find peers in archives through zine-making. In... - [CoLab Barking and Dagenham](https://iniva.org/programme/events/colab-barking-and-dagenham/): From October 2022, artist Holly Graham will deliver eight workshop sessions in Northbury Primary School and Eastbrook Secondary School in... - [CoLab Manchester](https://iniva.org/programme/events/colab-manchester/): How do we use language to create shared spaces for healing? Can an exploration of the past lead us to... - [CoLab Wakefield](https://iniva.org/programme/events/colab-wakefield/): CoLab Wakefield is a project working with artist Simone Yasmin, Creative Producer Boseda Olawoye, and Arts Psychotherapist Will Jones to... - [Youth workshop (16-25) with the Bloom Collective](https://iniva.org/programme/events/youth-workshop-16-25-with-the-bloom-collective/): Following from our successful pilot session with Lola Olufemi, we are back with MayDay Rooms to bring you another archival... - [Introduction to Archives & Archiving workshop with Lola Olufemi](https://iniva.org/programme/events/introduction-to-archives-archiving-workshop-with-lola-olufemi/): We are kicking off our archival collaborations with MayDay Rooms with a pilot session introducing archives & archiving. Getting to... - [Veiling Consent](https://iniva.org/programme/events/veiling-consent/): This event is a show-and-tell event exploring the archive collection of Veil, a touring art exhibition with our Cataloguing Archivist... - [Art Strikes](https://iniva.org/programme/events/art-strikes/): For session two of Iniva x The Laundry Arts reading together society, we will read Martin Herbert’s essay on conceptual... --- # # Detailed Content ## Pages - Published: 2025-07-11 - Modified: 2025-07-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/about/vacancies/freelance-evaluator/ Role Purpose We are seeking a Freelance Evaluator to assess Visualising Contemporary Art Histories - iniva's Moving Image Archive, a public programme supported by the BFI National Lottery Screen Heritage Fund. You will work closely with iniva’s Library and Archive Manager and Project Archivist to evaluate the programme’s impact, accessibility, and audience engagement. Responsibilities include attending three events between September 2025 and March 2026, collecting and analysing feedback, and producing a final report by April 2026. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to an inclusive, archive-led film engagement model, supporting iniva’s commitment to broadening access to screen heritage. Ideal Candidate The ideal candidate is an experienced evaluator with a strong track record of assessing public programmes in the arts, heritage, or screen sectors. They are confident designing inclusive, audience-focused evaluation frameworks and are comfortable working independently to deadlines. They will bring a clear understanding of diasporic and Global Majority cultural contexts, and be skilled in analysing both quantitative and qualitative data to produce accessible and insightful reports. Familiarity with BFI or other public funder reporting frameworks is advantageous, as is experience working with archives or film-based engagement initiatives. An awareness of accessibility standards in public programming is also desirable. This role would suit someone who values inclusive practice, has excellent communication skills, and is committed to contributing to more equitable approaches in cultural heritage evaluation. How to Apply To apply, please submit in PDF format the following to Tavian Hunter, thunter@iniva. org, with the subject line: Freelance Evaluator –... --- - Published: 2024-12-11 - Modified: 2025-05-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/policies/ Introduction Our policies outline the behaviours we expect of each other at iniva. Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) is a registered arts and educational charity (Number 1031721). Iniva is the data controller of your personal information. By phone +44 7561 737 461 or you can email us at info@iniva. org Privacy Policy iniva is committed to protecting your personal information. We also want to maintain the trust and confidence of every one of our audience members and supporters, as well as each visitor who uses the iniva website. Our Privacy Policy gives you detailed information on when and why we collect your personal information, how we use it and how we keep it secure. If you have questions regarding your information or its use, please contact our Finance and Operations Director (Co-Director), Susannah Gorgeous by email: susannah@iniva. org or by phone: +44 7561 737 461 Safeguarding Policy iniva is committed to a practice which protects children, young people and vulnerable adults from harm. This Policy details organisational behaviour and best practice, which is applicable to all iniva staff and volunteers, including those who work with iniva on a freelance basis. Safeguarding involves both attitudes and policies, and iniva is dedicated to fostering an approach that prioritises both supportive interactions and safety for those we serve. We will do all we can to limit risk, whilst maximising the engagement of our staff with everyone we work with. Our safeguarding responsibilities apply to children, young adults and vulnerable persons. Fundraising Policy... --- - Published: 2023-12-07 - Modified: 2023-12-07 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/library-collection/ Stuart Hall Library is a specialist reference library that holds iniva’s collections and research. The library supports the work of iniva by documenting and facilitating its research into the contemporary visual arts within an international and transnational context, as well as providing critical material on issues of cultural identity and offering a specialist collection that is open to the public. The collection is international, with an emphasis on art and artists from Africa, Asia and Latin America, and UK artists of African, Asian and Latin American heritage, and from other cultural backgrounds. Exhibition Catalogues The collection contains over 3000 foreign language and dual language exhibition catalogues by a group of artists. It has holdings for most biennial exhibitions around the world including São Paulo Art Biennial from 1951, Venice Biennale, Whitney Biennial, Berlin Biennale, Sharjah Biennale, Liverpool Biennial, Shanghai Biennale, Dakar Biennale, Biennale of Sydney, Manifesta, and Istanbul Biennial. Other exhibition catalogues international group shows, triennials and more including Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Documenta, and 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair. A selection of the curators of these exhibitions, iniva has worked with and are listed in iniva’s People Directory. Artist Monographs The collection has over 3500 individual artist monographs predominately focusing of British-born or based artists of diverse cultural background and international diasporic artist active from 1950s onwards. A large majority of artists collected for this collection iniva has worked with and are listed in iniva’s People Directory. Theory and Literature We collects contextual critical theory with a political... --- - Published: 2023-12-07 - Modified: 2024-06-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/archive-collection/ Explore iniva's history in art education, exhibition-making, publications, and previous projects centred around Black British art history from 1994 onwards. iniva archive held in Stuart Hall Library documents iniva’s 29-year history (1994-2023) of exhibition, publication and event making and being an agent for change, advocating for social justice through working with artists and their communities in order to diversify the mainstream of art history and education. iniva’s archive consists of 350 artists files containing 4500 slides, 1260 files of artist ephemera and 20 files on Iniva events and projects. It holds iniva’s founding documents including transcripts from iniva’s founding symposium Global Visions: Towards a New Internationalism and board papers 1994-present. We also hold in part papers and correspondence of Professor Stuart Hall as former Chair of iniva, OVA (Organisation of Visual Arts, a franchise of iniva) initiated by photographer Sunil Gupta and donated writings from David A. Bailey, artist Isaac Julien, Hanru Hou’s curatorial and research work at iniva as well as a Li Yun-chia’s research project. iniva was awarded the Business Archive Council Cataloguing Grant in 2018 to allow us to begin cataloguing the archive collection and make its contents accessible for future artists, curators and the general public to research the rich history on contemporary art on artists of African and Asian descent. Our archive catalogue is available online. The archive catalogue contains a small selection of archive a listing of archive for iniva’s Artist Files; Early Constitution and Governance Documents and Programming. A listing of the archive... --- - Published: 2021-07-02 - Modified: 2025-08-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/about/vacancies/call-for-volunteers/ We welcome volunteers from all walks of life and are especially keen to involve people from communities underrepresented in the arts and heritage sector. Whether you’re starting out, changing career, or simply want to give back, you’ll be part of a supportive and creative team at the heart of iniva’s work. The Stuart Hall Library is one of the UK’s most important collections celebrating the work and histories of artists from African, Asian, Caribbean and other diasporic backgrounds. It’s a place for research, learning and community connection – and we’d love you to be part of it. About the Role As a volunteer, you’ll help keep the library running smoothly and ensure visitors have a great experience. You don’t need any previous library or archive experience – we’ll give you all the training you need. An interest in a career in libraries or the heritage sector is welcome, but not essential. What you’ll be doing: • Shelving and organising books, journals and other materials • Greeting visitors and giving short tours • Helping at public events and workshops • Assisting with cataloguing and simple data entry • Creating short blog or social media posts to share our work Skills and Qualities We’re Looking For You don’t need specialist skills, just: • A friendly and welcoming approach, with clear spoken English to greet visitors and answer questions • Ability to read shelf labels, follow instructions and complete simple written tasks • Willingness to learn new things and follow guidance • Attention... --- - Published: 2020-11-03 - Modified: 2020-11-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/learning/contemporary-art-space-project-year-2/ We are very pleased to announce the newly appointed artists for Year 2 of the Contemporary Art Space project: Haseebah Ali Haseebah Ali is an artist and print maker based in Birmingham. Her work centres around cultural themes and occasionally political circumstances. Her artistic aim is to create work that not only educates her but the audience to which it is viewed. Having having obtained a BA in illustration, Haseebah has the background of both digital and traditional mediums. Since graduating Haseebah has embarked on many opportunities including facilitating art workshops, collaborating with other creatives, and more recently exhibiting her work at her very own solo exhibition in Birmingham. Future goals include exhibiting work on an international scale and helping educate and support young people in their creative journey. haseebahprints. com De'Anne Crooks As an artist-educator, much of De’Anne’s practice considers the collaborative and collective experiences of others. Considering their practice as a form of activism rather than a teacher of art, De’Anne’s relationship with pedagogy and contemporary art has cultivated a strong sense of play with political, moral and emotional themes. During her fellowship with the Black Hole Club and within her recent commissions for the Film and Video Umbrella, Vivid Projects and ReFramed network, De’Anne has been testing the praxis of contemporary art adjacent to and in harmony with Blackness. Using video, performative and fine art, De’Anne continues to address cultural pedagogy with a focus on the oracy of marginalised persons. With an unapologetic and deliberate approach to... --- - Published: 2020-10-27 - Modified: 2020-11-05 - URL: https://iniva.org/continuing-reflections-on-identity-exploring-difference/ Identity manifests through personal, interpersonal and social experiences. To explore this dynamic interplay, Iniva Creative Learning is pleased to offer a three week evening course led by artist and art psychotherapist Georgina Obaye Evans. £60 per person; £30 for students and concessions. Group size is limited to 10. Georgina will lead an exploratory series that aims to extend and deepen connections in thinking and experience, offering space for shared learning and individual development. The workshops will ask questions that explore inner worlds and external social frameworks, examine how gender/ race/ sexuality and class intersect in our 'performance of self' and how we are mapped by our environment. The workshops offer space to reflect on the impact that these questions have in shaping our identity as experienced by ourselves and by others. Each weekly session will take a particular focus and approach to explore and identify the connections that we internalise and hold on to: Self: Who do you think you are? What shapes your sense of self and how do you perform who you are to the world? Self and the Other: In what ways do our encounters with others frame our sense of self? How might our gender, race, sexuality and class be framed in relation to people we know, meet or don’t know at all? Social Structures: How do social institutions frame, enable or limit the flow of our lives? Can we negotiate our sense of self and our encounters with others within and through social frameworks to... --- - Published: 2019-10-01 - Modified: 2020-06-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/learning/contemporary-art-space-project/ The Contemporary Art Space Project is a two-year programme of art-making and community engagement. The project reflects the RSA Academies' (Royal Society of the Arts Academies) Commitment to Arts, Culture and Creativity and Iniva's ambition to further develop their learning and education strand nationally. At a point in time in which study of arts and creative subjects are progressively marginalised from curricula, we would like to explore whether this project would prove to be an accessible, sustainable model to increase whole-school engagement in the arts and cultural learning. This project will establish three outdoor contemporary art spaces in three RSA schools in the West Midlands through a collaborative process with pupils and their teachers. The schools involved are: - Abbeywood First School (Reception - Year 4) in Redditch - Arrow Vale RSA Academy (Year 9-13) in Redditch - Holyhead School (Year 7-13) in Handsworth, Birmingham The project is designed to develop young people's sense of identity and explore what it means to be human through co-commissioning new artworks in response to social issues they identify as being important. The artworks will help schools develop and articulate their collective sense of mission and purpose and strengthen schools' links with their communities. We aim to explore how this project might prove to be an accessible, sustainable model that influences the practice of other schools and arts organisations to increase whole school engagement in arts and culture. Project Delivery A steering group of pupils from each school will work with an appointed artist... --- - Published: 2019-03-13 - Modified: 2019-03-22 - URL: https://iniva.org/cookie-policy/ This site uses cookies - small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. 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However, we will not sell, share, or rent personally identifiable information that you have submitted to this site to third parties. Any personal information will be treated in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Returns policy We appreciate your custom and will endeavour to deal with any situations regarding dissatisfaction with our service and products as quickly as possible. To enable us to deal with your query quickly and effectively please keep all acknowledgement emails and quote your reference number in all correspondence. You have the right to cancel your order within seven days of receipt of the goods. Cancelled orders will be refunded in full on return of the goods in their original condition. We will not refund postage and packaging costs or pay for the costs of returning the goods. We will replace any goods damaged in transit. Please return the damaged goods within seven days of receipt with proof of purchase. We will refund the cost of returning... --- - Published: 2017-09-28 - Modified: 2025-08-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/contact/ iniva 16 John Islip St London SW1P 4JU For public enquiries you can contact us at info@iniva. org For library and archives enquiries contact us at library@iniva. org Subscribe to iniva’s newsletter for announcements about our programme of events. iniva Office Office hours Monday to Friday 9. 30am-5. 30pm. +44 7561 737 461 info@iniva. org Stuart Hall Library Tuesday - Friday, 10am - 5pm +44 7561 780 317 library@iniva. org Follow us on Social Media Facebook Instagram Bluesky LinkedIn Youtube How to find us By underground Take the Victoria line to Pimlico Underground Station or Vauxhall underground Station. On foot from Pimlico Station (5 mins)– Walk east on Bessborough Street towards Drummond Gate, crossover Vauxhall Bridge Road and turn right, turn left on to John Islip Street, continue for approximately 100m. On the left hand of the road you will see the sandwich shop Relish and Chelsea College of Arts, UAL campus. iniva is located in Block D of the UAL campus in front of the black railings on John Islip Street. On foot from Vauxhall Underground Station (10 mins)– Walk along the Vauxhall Bridge, crossover Grosvenor Road and turn right on to John Islip Street, continue for approximately 100m. On the left hand of the road you will see the sandwich shop Relish and Chelsea College of Arts, UAL campus. iniva is located in Block E of the UAL campus in front of the black railings. By Bus There are a number of buses which travel close by including... --- - Published: 2017-06-01 - Modified: 2022-03-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/learning/workshops/ Iniva runs workshops throughout the year to support the use of our Emotional Learning Cards. These workshops are held at Iniva, and led by a variety of professionals from the fields of education and art therapy. Our public workshops are offered to all and provide opportunities for accredited CPD. Each workshop includes: - A fully trained workshop facilitator from the field of therapy, education or the arts - Exploration of key emotions and art exercises that can be adapted for use in group or individual sessions with any age group. - Printed resources, including suggestions for practical activities and discussion points to take away. - A discount on purchase of our Emotional Learning Cards at the Stuart Hall Library, John Islip Street. (Group size no bigger than 15) We also can create bespoke workshops for you or your organisation. For more information please contact Beatriz Lobo +44 (0)207 749 1247 beatriz@iniva. org --- - Published: 2017-05-03 - Modified: 2017-05-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/learning/artists/ Our Emotional Learning Cards now feature over 100 contemporary artists. Without their input and generous permission we wouldn't be able to produce the cards. Read more about every one of them below: --- - Published: 2017-03-27 - Modified: 2020-10-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/learning/creative-mapping/ The Iniva Creative Mapping Project considers how and why contemporary artists from across the globe are opening up the concept of mapping in imaginative and unexpected ways. It is an opportunity to explore the potential of new cartographic languages to deepen our understanding of identity, place and power and to reflect on the multiple spaces we inhabit: our selves, our bodies, our communities, our cities, our nations, our earth. At the beginning of the 21st century, geographic information technologies show us extraordinary levels of detail about the physical world we inhabit. However, their objective authority can distract us from their subjective limitations; satellite-based maps mask racial, linguistic or religious concerns, and show us little about the social, emotional and political worlds we inhabit. The Iniva Creative Mapping Project asks how we can begin to map these worlds. Artists work with different groups to create new maps, maps that reflect something of our daily lives. Previous mapping projects have considered 'how can we map our senses? ', 'who makes up my personal cartography? ', while others create ways to tag the world with 'geograffiti'. Each project provides a unique reconsideration of mapping as well as a different world to think about how we look at the world we live in. 'I think that maps are a great thing to use in art. Before they were confusing, but learning about it now I feel I can make a map out of anything. ' Student at City Learning Centre Newham Do you want... --- - Published: 2017-01-05 - Modified: 2025-07-31 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/access-visiting/ Where are we? Iniva 16 John Islip St London SW1P 4JU By Tube Pimlico Underground Station or Vauxhall Underground Station on the Victoria Line. By Bus Bus number 88, C10, 87 and N87. By Ferry The closest pier is Millbank Millennium Pier. By Car Limited parking around the area. The nearest car parks are: Q-park Victoria: 1 Arneway St, Westminster, London, SW1P 2TX. Tel: 0113 238 4200. Q-Park Pimlico: Cumberland St, Pimlico, London, SW1V 4LR. Tel: 0113 238 4200. Accessibility The Stuart Hall aims to provide an accessible environment for all of our library members. We ask that you contact the library ahead of your visit with any questions regarding specific requirements or adjustments that we can make. Accessible toilet There is an accessible toilet on first floor of the building which can be reached using the accessible lift near the entrance. Another accessible toilet is located on ground floor of the adjacent building. Guides and assistance dogs Assistance dogs are welcome in the building. Prams and pushchairs Prams and pushchairs may be stored in the library. Please note all items are left at the owner’s risk. Emergency procedures Library members who consider themselves frail or have difficulty walking should make themselves known to library staff. --- - Published: 2017-01-05 - Modified: 2022-05-24 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/university-partnerships/ Iniva is embarking on a new series of projects working with Higher Education groups in order to actively support the professional development of the next generation of artists. This series of projects will work closely with professional tutors to decide how best to support students they work with, be it a temporary exhibition with crits, or a course designed around a subject that Iniva is exploring. For further information on how your group can be supported please contact Beatriz Lobo Britto. beatriz@iniva. org --- - Published: 2017-01-05 - Modified: 2021-11-25 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/book-donations/ The Stuart Hall Library welcomes donations of artist monographs, zines, exhibition catalogues and theoretical text to our collections, subject to our collection development policy criteria. Contact the Library and Archive Manager at library@iniva. org with the publication details of books you wish to donate. Please do not send items to the library without prior acceptance as we do not have the capacity to return books that do not fit into our collection development policy. You can also send us suggestions for acquisition and/or donate a book through our wishlist on Amazon or from the out-of-print list below. 2021 Wishlist 2019 Wishlist --- - Published: 2017-01-05 - Modified: 2023-10-26 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/library-and-archive-collection/ iniva’s Stuart Hall Library acts as a critical and creative hub for iniva’s work. It houses unique and rare collections that are internationally significant in the field of contemporary visual art. It focuses on art from Indigenous, African, Caribbean, Asian, Latin American and UK artists of diverse cultural backgrounds. The library also collects contextual critical theory with a political and international focus, in particular on diasporic thought and intersectional identity theory as well as critical theory around contemporary art and visual cultures with a non-Western focus. The library is a reference only collection of over 10,000 volumes including over 3500 individual artist monographs; 2500+ contextual, historical and theoretical books on the politics of race, class, gender; 400+ journals titles with many rare items important to the UK Black Arts Movement; a growing collection of 260+ artist and activist zines exploring different aspects of cultural identity and a substantial audio-visual collection of artists’ films and interviews. The collection also contains over 4000 group exhibition catalogues in dual language and foreign languages and most biennial exhibitions around the world going back to the first Sao Paolo Biennial in 1951. Search the library catalogue. Archive Collection iniva archive held in Stuart Hall Library documents iniva’s 27-year history (1994-2021) of exhibition, publication and event making and being an agent for change, advocating for social justice through working with artists and their communities in order to diversify the mainstream of art history and education. iniva’s archive consists of 350 artists files containing 4500 slides, 1260... --- - Published: 2017-01-05 - Modified: 2025-08-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/about/staff-and-trustees/ iniva Team & Board - iniva iniva iniva ✖ Hide Menu About iniva Team & Board Partnerships Funders Programme Projects Events Stuart Hall Library Library Catalogue Reading Lists Visit FAQs iniva Archive Archive Catalogue Shop Artist Editions Publications Emotional Learning Cards Delivery and Returns Policy News People Directory Opportunities & Vacancies Contact Donate Subscribe to our newsletter Leave this field empty if you're human: © Iniva 2025. All rights reserved. Site by Fiasco Design. Welcome to Iniva’s new website. We are in the process of updating content throughout. We welcome your feedback at info@iniva.org All Events News Projects Shop iniva Team & Board Sepake Angiama Artistic Director (Co-Director) Sepake provides the vision and artistic leadership for the organisation as a whole, ensuring that iniva continues to occupy a leading and unique position within international contemporary arts. All proposals and invitations should be sent to info@iniva.org Susannah Gorgeous Finance and Operations Director (Co-Director) Susannah is responsible for the day-to-day strategic, operational and financial management of the organisation. She sets and manages the budgets and ensures efficient and robust financial and operational systems are in place. susannah@iniva.org Leila Alexander Head of Development Leila is responsible for iniva’s fundraising and income generation strategy, and maintains our relationships with key funders. She contributes to iniva’s strategic plan and leads on fundraising, communications, public relations, marketing and other income generating activities. She also ensures the smooth running and growth of iniva through successful and experienced communications and relationship management in dialogue with the Artistic Director and... --- - Published: 2017-01-05 - Modified: 2025-04-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/about/partnerships/ Current and recent partnerships include: Our contribution to Black Artists and Modernism, an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded research project led by Professor Sonia Boyce at University of the Arts, with Middlesex University; (image: Lubaina Himid Study Day at the Stuart Hall Library, 20 June 2016, George Torode) Keith Piper's Unearthing the Bankers' Bones, a co-commission with Arts Council Collection and Bluecoat, Liverpool; Ongoing collaboration with arts therapy organisation A Space on our learning programme, Iniva Creative Learning; Public programming at South London Gallery, as part of The Place is Here; Series of talks at Tate Modern, on The Artistic Strategies of the Eighties; Various placement and student activities with undergraduate and postgraduate courses across the UK. If you are interested in working with us, please contact Finance and Operations Director, Susannah Gorgeous susannah@iniva. org --- - Published: 2017-01-05 - Modified: 2022-06-24 - URL: https://iniva.org/learning/emotional-learning-cards/ Iniva's Emotional Learning Cards occupy a leading position in the growing fields of emotional learning and psychological therapies. Our cards encourage emotional literacy, support and critique ‘meaning-making' as well as challenging often stereotypical ideas about who makes art and what its purpose might be. Each of our seven boxed sets of Emotional Learning Cards highlight specific themes designed to facilitate a better understanding of what makes us who we are and how we make sense of our experiences, bringing together the artwork of international contemporary artists with therapeutic commentary and questions. We move beyond commonly explored subjects by branching into discussion relating to difference, diversity, outsider / insider experiences, and how past histories (both personal and collective) shape the present. Using art as a starting point, the cards help facilitators and educators open up difficult conversations on challenging feelings, and complex family or cultural experiences. By openly exploring less talked about feelings and thoughts engendered by the artworks, we re-frame them as common to the human family, to be shared and thought about rather than labelled as embarrassing or shameful and denied or hidden away. Browse and buy our cards in our shop. For more information contact: Beatriz Lobo beatriz@iniva. org 0207 630 1278 --- - Published: 2017-01-05 - Modified: 2022-05-26 - URL: https://iniva.org/learning/artlab/ ArtLab was an Iniva Creative Learning initiative developed in partnership with the Opossum Federation and formed the basis of Iniva's education output between 2014 - 2018. Since then, Iniva Creative Learning has worked to develop and build on the ideas behind ArtLab's successful integrated art and art therapy programme, continuously looking to challenge, push and explore ideas of inclusive creative learning for all ages, through collaborations with artists, schools, organisations and participants. ArtLab in collaboration with the Opossum Federation 2014 - 2018 Guest artists from Iniva and creative therapists from A Space work with pupils using the classroom as an experimental ‘laboratory’. Workshops designed around contemporary art practices focus on an identified subject related to the curriculum. Exploration is opened up to include psychologically resonant themes, in particular, those featured in the Emotional Learning Cards co-published by Iniva and A Space. In parallel with the classroom input, selected Art Leaders collaborate closely with the artist to co-create inspirational gallery-standard works. Resources for teachers and educators are then produced based on the workshop programme, and are made available to download for free. Iniva Creative Learning (a partnership between A Space arts and therapy service and Iniva) is now working on new education projects which hold the integration of Art and Art Therapy alongside the building of art making and emotional learning skills and the exploration of identity at their core. 2018 - 2021: A three year project, funded by Children in Need at Earlsmead Primary School marks a developed iteration of... --- - Published: 2017-01-05 - Modified: 2017-06-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/learning/learning-resources-2/ This is the learning resources. --- - Published: 2017-01-05 - Modified: 2025-06-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/shop/privacy-and-returns-policy/ Introduction Iniva is committed to protecting your personal information. We also want to maintain the trust and confidence of every one of our audience members and supporters, as well as each visitor who uses the Iniva website. Our Privacy Policy gives you detailed information on when and why we collect your personal information, how we use it and how we keep it secure. Aside from helping us deliver events and run the Stuart Hall Library, the information you share with us means you’ll receive a more personalized and rewarding experience e. g. information about our programme and library, and publications and limited editions that may interest you. Signing up for Iniva’s newsletter has many benefits, not least the opportunity to manage your personal information and receive information about our work. You can register with us at any time here. Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) is a registered arts and educational charity (Number 1031721). Iniva is the data controller of your personal information. 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How We Collect Your... --- - Published: 2017-01-05 - Modified: 2022-04-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/faqs/ Frequently Asked Questions Below --- - Published: 2016-12-21 - Modified: 2025-02-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/about/institute-of-international-visual-arts/ Institute of International Visual Arts (iniva) was founded in 1994 as a not-for-profit organisation to address the new internationalism of the visual arts in the United Kingdom and the broad and multi-cultural artistic communities contributing to the cultural landscape. Radical artistic practices associated with iniva break from the conventions of art by addressing the effects of social-political movements, cultural affinities, anticolonial struggles, entangled geographies and hybrid identities of our globalised world. iniva emerged out of artist-led conversations with Gavin Jantjes, Sarah Wason, David A Bailey, Sonia Boyce, Rasheed Araeen and cultural theorist Stuart Hall asking the question, what could a new model for a cultural institution look like, that speaks to the diverse, hybrid and shared experience of a confluent cultural heritage. iniva is a home for those artists who identified with an ‘out of placeness’ and that wished to find affinity in relation with each other through a shared of common experience of being from ‘here’ but also relating to ‘an elsewhere’. Arts Council England, from the inception of iniva, recognised the importance of supporting a non-Eurocentric led organisation that gave space to articulating a language for future generations of artists interested in continuing the dialogue of the Black Arts Movements and furthering the conversation across the boundaries of difference. The conference, A New Internationalism held at Tate in April 1994 brought together a number of key and influential international artists and scholars to debate the significance of new internationalisms in the arts and to speculate on its relevance... --- - Published: 2016-12-21 - Modified: 2016-12-21 - URL: https://iniva.org/support/supporting-iniva/ Supporting Iniva - iniva iniva iniva ✖ Hide Menu About iniva Team & Board Partnerships Funders Programme Projects Events Stuart Hall Library Library Catalogue Reading Lists Visit FAQs iniva Archive Archive Catalogue Shop Artist Editions Publications Emotional Learning Cards Delivery and Returns Policy News People Directory Opportunities & Vacancies Contact Donate Subscribe to our newsletter Leave this field empty if you're human: © Iniva 2025. All rights reserved. Site by Fiasco Design. Welcome to Iniva’s new website. We are in the process of updating content throughout. 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Please be aware when placing orders that we are a small team and items will be dispatched 7-14 days from being placed. --- - Published: 2016-12-20 - Modified: 2025-07-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/about/funders/ Funders - iniva iniva iniva ✖ Hide Menu About iniva Team & Board Partnerships Funders Programme Projects Events Stuart Hall Library Library Catalogue Reading Lists Visit FAQs iniva Archive Archive Catalogue Shop Artist Editions Publications Emotional Learning Cards Delivery and Returns Policy News People Directory Opportunities & Vacancies Contact Donate Subscribe to our newsletter Leave this field empty if you're human: © Iniva 2025. All rights reserved. Site by Fiasco Design. Welcome to Iniva’s new website. We are in the process of updating content throughout. We welcome your feedback at info@iniva.org All Events News Projects Shop Funders We would like to thank our supporters for enabling us to fulfill our mission Arts Council England Long term supporter Hauser & Wirth Institute Project Supporter - iniva Archive British Council Project Funder - KLA ART 24 Festival Residency The National Lottery Heritage Fund Project Funder - Living Legacies: Collaboration, Community and Radicality Privacy Policy Policies Funders Opportunities Designed and crafted by --- - Published: 2016-12-20 - Modified: 2025-08-29 - URL: https://iniva.org/about/vacancies/ Volunteer at Stuart Hall Library Help care for one of the UK’s most important collections celebrating diverse art and culture. As a volunteer, you’ll support shelving, cataloguing, events, tours and digital content. No experience needed – training provided. Flexible one-day-a-week commitment, travel/lunch expenses reimbursed. We particularly welcome applications from Black and Global Majority people and those interested in careers in libraries, archives or heritage. Deadline: Friday 29 August 2025, 5pm MORE INFO --- - Published: 2016-12-20 - Modified: 2025-07-31 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/ 16 John Islip Street, London, SW1P 4JU Stuart Hall Library is a specialist library that centres art and theory publications from the Global Majority, African, Asian, Caribbean, Polynesian, Latinx, and Diaspora perspectives. The library serves as the intellectual and social hub of iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), its home. Named in honour of iniva's first chairman and cultural theorist Professor Stuart Hall, the library holds a non-borrowing collection of over 10,000 publications, such as artist books, monographs, exhibition catalogues, journals and zines as well as an archive of iniva's history promoting the work of Black and Asian artists such as those from the UK Black Arts Movement. Search the Library Catalogue Explore our collections of artist books, monographs, exhibition catalogues, zines, literature and audio-visual material. You can search by author, title, keyword, curator, artist or individual contributor. Join The Library Library membership is free and everyone is welcome! Join today by registering online to use our resources and pick up your limited edition membership card on your first visit. --- - Published: 2016-12-20 - Modified: 2021-12-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/learning/ View our current projects and resources below. Iniva Creative Learning (ICL) reflects the belief that contemporary art can stimulate and challenge our understanding of the world around and within us. We deliver learning projects and integrated art and art therapy workshops with schools and communities. We produce art focused learning resources to support teachers, counsellors, therapists, art educators, students and parents who are interested in new ways of fostering emotional intelligence and developing creative thinking by exploring what makes us who we are and shapes where we are going. ICL evolved out of a long standing partnership between Iniva and A Space, an arts & therapies service. Our experience comes from over 10 years of jointly delivering art education and therapy services for schools, community groups and the wider public. For more information please email your inquiry to info@iniva. org --- - Published: 2016-12-20 - Modified: 2017-07-20 - URL: https://iniva.org/about/ Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) Iniva is an evolving, radical visual arts organisation dedicated to developing an artistic programme that reflects on the social and political impact of globalisation. With the Stuart Hall Library acting as a critical and creative hub for our work, we offer residencies, commission new work and promote existing practices enabling artistic ambition and development. --- - Published: 2016-12-20 - Modified: 2025-04-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/support/ Iniva event at Guest Projects, October 2018. Photo by Christian Cassel. Become a Friend of iniva iniva is a registered charity and we depend on donations from trusts, foundations and individuals like you to keep our programme innovative and free. Give today and help us achieve our mission to nurture, support and develop anti-racist and equitable spaces for artistic research, wellbeing, play, experimentation and enjoyment with creatives and communities. You can make a one-off donation of any amount or become a Friend of iniva by giving regularly at any level. Giving is easy, just click on the donate button below to give via our secure CAF Donate portal. var caf_BeneficiaryCampaignId=6822; document. write(unescape('%3Cscript src="https://cafdonate. cafonline. org/js/CAF. DonateButtonLoader_script. js" type="text/javascript"%3E%3C/script%3E')); All donations support: The Stuart Hall Library, a nationally important and unique collection. Open to the public for free, and supported online via the People’s Directory. Nurturing the talent of young and emerging artists, curators, writers and creative producers through the commissioning of new work, paid internships and placements and residencies. Our extensive education programmes, including research networks, reading groups, study days, and innovative schools projects where artists collaborate with arts-therapists to improve and support the well-being of young people through visual arts practice. Ongoing advocacy and sector support, challenging the culture of representation through the visual arts in UK for wider and more inclusive audiences. iniva Friends (giving regularly) receive the same benefits: Advance invitations, previews & discounts on exhibitions and events Exclusive pre-event access to artists, curators and writers, including... --- --- ## Posts - Published: 2025-08-27 - Modified: 2025-08-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/new-stuart-hall-library-membership-card-commission/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Announcements ©Chila Kumari Singh Burman MBE, Tiger Jamu on Pyar hi pyar (2021). Courtesy of the Artist. We're pleased to invite the public to join the Stuart Hall Library, one of the UK’s most important collections on global contemporary art and culture, with the launch of a striking new, limited-edition library membership card. Artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman MBE was invited to create the design of our third edition of the library card, following the commissions of Larry Achiampong and Jade de Montserrat. The card features a neon tiger set against a kaleidoscopic patchwork of bright patterns titled ‘Tiger Jamu on Pyar Hi Pyar’ (2021) The tiger, a recurring motif in Chila’s work, is both a national symbol of India and an emblem of urgent ecological concern, with the species now highly endangered. India is home to nearly 70% of the world’s wild tiger population, making its survival deeply tied to the country’s identity and responsibility. By invoking the tiger, Chila draws on its associations with courage and strength while simultaneously underscoring the critical importance of conservation today. Its repetition across her practice transforms the image into a call to action. Another motif central to Chila’s visual language is the grid. In the image on card, patterns are arranged within a grid-like structure, recalling both the organisational logic of comics and graphic novels and the rational clarity of Western modernism. Yet, within this framework, Chila’s vibrant forms strain against containment. The grid flattens and orders, but the luminous tiger breaks through—an... --- - Published: 2025-06-18 - Modified: 2025-06-26 - URL: https://iniva.org/living-legacies-pilot-connecting-archives-artists-and-communities/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Writing Photo of young people from Avenue Youth Project as part of Living Legacies pilot workshop in Stuart Hall Library on 15 May 2025 Living Legacies Project Manager Tavian Hunter reflects on the pilot programme connecting and engaging iniva's archive in creative ways as part of our project supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Over spring 2025, iniva launched a series of pilot events as part of Living Legacies: Collaboration, Community and Radicality, an initiative supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The pilot programme set out to test ideas, build relationships and experiment with creative ways of making iniva’s archive, particularly our Exhibition Collections and the Organisation for Visual Arts (OVA) Collection, more visible and relevant to today’s communities. The result? A powerful range of intergenerational, artist-led activities that brought people together through shared memory, creativity and cultural heritage. These pilots confirmed that archives don’t belong behind glass but to communities. Exploring Archives Through Art and Memory At the heart of the pilot programme was the belief that archives can be more than static collections, but ‘a living archive’ as Stuart Hall states, that exudes sources of creative inspiration and collective reflection. In May, iniva welcomed young people from The Avenues Youth Project to Stuart Hall Library for a hands-on workshop led by Cassia Clarke and Tavian Hunter. Participants were invited to explore the OVA archive, create collages and take polaroids that reflected their identities, before learning how to preserve their photographs using starter archiving kits. The session sparked... --- - Published: 2025-06-10 - Modified: 2025-06-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/visualising-contemporary-art-histories-inivas-moving-image-collections/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Announcements iniva is thrilled to announce our new project, Visualising Contemporary Art Histories — iniva’s Moving Image Collections which is supported by the BFI Screen Heritage Fund, awarding funds from the National Lottery. This project celebrates iniva’s moving image archive, focusing on underrepresented voices and stories from the Global Majority, in particular, the Global South. The unique collection includes 350 catalogued DVDs and VHS tapes, alongside approximately 2,000 uncatalogued items of different media. These materials, largely inaccessible to the public, document iniva’s rich programming history, addressing enduring themes such as Black diaspora, migration, cultural memory, race relations in Britain, desire, and personal migrant experiences. The collection features influential works by artists such as John Akomfrah and Horace Ové, whose films provide critical reflections on the Black British experience, post-colonial identity, and community resilience; Anand Patwardhan’s documentaries that tackle India’s socio-political issues, including caste discrimination and religious intolerance; and Zarina Bhimji’s poetic films that explore displacement and the lingering impacts of colonial histories. The global perspectives are further represented through the works of Park Chan-wook and Park Chan-Kyong, who blend Korean history with contemporary narratives; Bouchra Khalili’s films highlight migration and belonging and Majida Khattari and Cecilia Vicuña works engage with themes of gender, tradition, and environmental activism, offering powerful and innovative perspectives. By cataloguing and sharing these moving image works iniva’s project ensures that these critical cultural narratives are preserved, accessible, and celebrated. It highlights the ongoing relevance of these themes, fostering dialogue with contemporary filmmakers and increasing knowledge for future... --- - Published: 2025-05-02 - Modified: 2025-05-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/a-black-feminist-manifesto-for-radical-rest/ - Categories: Writing - Tags: Collective poetry, radical rest, Poetry Photograph by Francis Augusto This collective poem, created by participants of The Gathering 2024 and curated by Evie Muir, serves as a manifesto for Radical Rest, an invocation to centre rest as an intentional practice. Drawing inspiration from Evie's debut book Radical Rest: Notes on Burnout, Healing and Hopeful Futures, the participants engaged with nature writing prompts and took part in a walkshop, an experimental and experiential space where they move through personal and collective relationships with rest. Through the process, the participants have co-created a manifesto rooted in Black Feminist, abolitionist and nature-allied principles, reclaiming rest as a radical, restorative act. Photograph by Francis Augusto A Black Feminist Manifesto for Radical Rest A collective poem created at The Gathering and curated by Evie Muir In a leafy enclave along the banks of the River Thames, Evie Muir held The Gathering community in an embodied nature writing walkshop. Through writing prompts and embodied invocations inspired by Evie’s debut book ‘Radical Rest: Notes on Burnout, Healing and Hopeful Futures’, together they built a Manifesto for Radical Rest. Rooted in Black Feminist, abolitionist and nature-allied principles we hope this manifesto serves as a collective tool which will support us to ground our artistic and activist practices in intentional rest. Photo by Francis Augusto In this moment we are the... Interconnected, interwoven, still weaving Waves. Held by our ancestors. Photograph by Francis Augusto We are the stillness, the change, the branches that claw at the new day, The running minds in unrested bodies,... --- - Published: 2025-05-02 - Modified: 2025-05-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/on-repetitiveness-of-archival-labour-by-billy-tong/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Writing - Tags: Billy Tong, archive, volunteer In February 2024, during the third year of my PhD study at UCL, I began volunteering at iniva. My first task involves organising artists’ files: I have to review each one, take notes on what was inside, and then repackage them into new, sturdier folders designed to withstand ageing. With extra caution, I remove the thin metal staples binding certain paper materials to prevent any potential rust from contaminating them. Fortunately, many of these materials are still relatively young, having been born in the 1990s and 2000s, reducing the immediate likelihood of degradation. Usually, I found myself performing repetitive tasks on most of my volunteer days, and time has flown by—it's been almost three months already. It serves as a reminder of the tedious nature of archival labour, a point of contention for many individuals. However, amidst precarity, I increasingly value its simplicity, which provides a sense of calm and order. This volunteer experience is not my initial encounter with archives. I identify archival practices as both my professional and social endeavours. This occurred during my employment at a university library, as well as my participation in and my writing about the Umbrella Movement Visual Archives. Three years ago, I completed a Master’s degree in Archives and Records Management at UCL. It was during this program that I became aware of iniva, an organisation that later provided a platform for me to reconnect with my MA classmates, Kaitlene. From the courses, I learned to approach archives with a critical eye.... --- - Published: 2025-03-31 - Modified: 2025-03-31 - URL: https://iniva.org/stuart-hall-librarys-new-vinyl-collection/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: vinyl, library, Library collections, stuart hall library Bruno Verner with Tetine's vinyl Music for Breathing iniva is pleased to announce it is launching an exciting new vinyl collection at the Stuart Hall Library that explores experimental sound, cultural narratives, and artistic innovation through sonic art expressions. This collection is a testament to the power of sound as both an artistic medium and a historical record. The idea to begin a vinyl collection at Stuart Hall Library came to Library and Archive Manager Tavian Hunter through the introduction and subsequent donation from composer, artist, and musician Bruno Verner. Best known for his work with the tropical mutant punk-funk duo Tetine, Verner gifted four 12” vinyl records, each carrying the sonic DNA of São Paulo’s avant-garde music scene. The Tetine Collection: A Sonic Revolution Slum Dunk Presents Funk Carioca Mixed By Tetine This groundbreaking compilation was Tetine's first European vinyl dedicated entirely to Funk Carioca, also known as Baile Funk. Featuring 18 tracks from classic funk MCs and producers from the early 2000s such as Tati Quebra Barraco and Bonde do Tigrão, this album serves as a vibrant snapshot of Brazilian street sounds and club culture. Many of the tracks we played on Slum Dunk, a weekly radio programme that aired in London covered all aspects of Brazilian music. Cover of Here We Come vinyl by Shepherd Manyika and ETAT L. I. C. K MY FAVELA Released in 2005, this record is a visceral, performative “grito de guerra” (battle cry). Fusing funk carioca, hip-hop, and post-punk, it is both... --- - Published: 2025-03-19 - Modified: 2025-08-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/interludes-sound-ritual-workshop-recording/ - Categories: Announcements - Tags: The Gathering 2024, Sound Art, workshop A sonic memory of the meditative workshop facilitated by Axel Kacoutié & Lou Mensah to encourage reflection and healing through sound. What does healing sound like? Get immersed in a sound recording of the workshop Interludes: Sound Ritual, facilitated by Axel Kacoutié and Lou Mensah as part of The Gathering 2024. The workshop explored the healing potential of sound and meditative practices through rich auditory responses to the artists’ prompts. Participants were invited to “chime in” throughout the session when the audio revealed something that resonated with their practice. This recording acts as a sonic memory of the workshop, supporting personal practice and reflection at home. Interludes: Sound Ritual was part of The Gathering 2024, a two-day event that offered a unique space for UK-based Global Majority artists and cultural workers to convene in exploration of restorative practices and to build frameworks for stronger relationships and more sustainable arts ecologies. --- - Published: 2025-03-07 - Modified: 2025-08-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/salvage-repair-repeat-archival-research-trip-ghana-part-2/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Writing Last Summer Archivist and Engagement Producer Kaitlene Koranteng travelled to Accra and Tamale in Ghana, to archiving and collecting practice. Learn more about her time in Tamale below: An important part of my research trip was going to Tamale, Ghana. Tamale is third largest city in Ghana and the capital of the Northern Region. Prior to travelling to Tamale, I had attended a screening of Certain Winds From the South, a short adaptation of the acclaimed Ghanian writer Prof. Ama Ata Aidoo by photographer and film maker Eric Gyamfi. The story of Certain Winds From the South, highlights an ongoing inequality in Ghana, punctuated by a migration pattern from the North to South, Tamale to Accra, that remains ongoing. This inequality is also present in the representation of Ghanian culture in wider society, which is one reason why I thought it was important to go to Tamale and learn about initiatives taking place. Upon my arrival Tamale, there is a clear cultural difference from its Southern counterpoint. Tamale provides a soothing energy compared to Accra’s bustling energy. The languages and food also differ, due to the tribal ethnic groups present in the region. The popular method of transport is motorbike opposed to a car or a yellow-yellow (a three-wheeled rickshaw taxi), which was a change from trying to navigate and avoid the grid-locked traffic of Accra. The temperature was far warmer, due to its proximity to the equator and resulting in the surrounding savannah landscape that Tamale is know for.... --- - Published: 2025-03-06 - Modified: 2025-03-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/the-visiting-arts-archive-a-legacy-of-cultural-connection/ - Categories: Library and Archive Dean Reed holding ‘Open Space: UK opportunities for visual artists from overseas’ from the Visiting Arts Archive at the Stuart Hall Library At iniva, we are thrilled to announce the accessioning and scoping of the Visiting Arts Archive—a collection of material chronicling 45 years of international arts facilitation. Last Spring, with the help of our UCL placement student, Dean Reed, we reviewed the material in this collection to be able to provide further insights into what this collection contains. We hope to fully catalogue this collection in the not-too-distant future. The Visiting Arts Archive now finds its home within iniva’s Stuart Hall Library, ensuring that researchers, artists, and cultural practitioners have access to the rich history of an organisation that played a pivotal role in fostering cross-cultural artistic exchange. This archive tells the story of a organisation that acted as a bridge between cultures, giving underrepresented artists a voice and bringing global creative practices to UK audiences. The History of Visiting Arts Founded in 1977, Visiting Arts emerged at a time when international artistic exchange was constrained by geopolitical tensions and limited institutional support. Initially known as the Visiting Arts Unit, it was backed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the British Council, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Each of these institutions had its own motivations—ranging from fostering international artistic presence in the UK to promoting cultural diplomacy—but together, they enabled Visiting Arts to become a critical facilitator of global artistic engagement. Over the... --- - Published: 2025-02-07 - Modified: 2025-02-07 - URL: https://iniva.org/meet-our-living-legacies-project-consultants/ - Categories: Announcements, Library and Archive From left to right, Susan Dymond (Interpretation Planner), Ananda Rutherford (Copyright & Archive Consultant), Rinku Mitra (Activity Planner), Neena Sohal (Activity Planner), and Amanda Cusimano (Evaluation Planner). iniva (The Institute of International Visual Arts) is delighted to introduce our project team to support the initial phase of its groundbreaking project, Living Legacies: Collaboration, Community and Radicality supported by a recently awarded development grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. We’re excited to share some fantastic news! In 2024, iniva was awarded a development grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to launch the initial phase of our innovative project, Living Legacies: Collaboration, Community and Radicality. This initiative is all about transforming access to our archives and celebrating the vital contributions of diasporic artists who have shaped Black art and Internationalism. Running from June 2024 to October 2025, this development phase will set the groundwork for widening our community engagement, ensuring that iniva’s archive reaches new audiences while also creating opportunities for underrepresented individuals in the archive sector. Meet the Team To make this vision a reality, we’ve brought together an incredible team of expert consultants who will be working alongside our Living Legacies Project Manager, Tavian Hunter and Artistic Director, Sepake Angiama: Neena Sohal & Rinku Mitra (Activity Planners) – Exploring how we can connect with new audiences and create important community-led activities. Susan Dymond (Interpretation Planner) – Helping us shape engaging narratives that bring the archive to life through storytelling. Ananda Rutherford (Copyright & Archive Consultant) – Ensuring that... --- - Published: 2025-02-04 - Modified: 2025-08-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/salvage-repair-repeat-archival-research-trip-accra-and-tamale/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Writing Kaitlene Koranteng in front of backdrop at Jamestown Jamestown Café. Photo taken by Agbongua Kwadwo Buenortey Okor Last Summer Archivist and Engagement Producer Kaitlene Koranteng travelled to Accra and Tamale in Ghana, to archiving and collecting practice. Here is a diary of her trip: The concept of Black Archival Practice seeks to testify to the complexity of how Black life is lived, documented, and remembered. In June 2024, I undertook a research trip to Ghana, funded by the Jonathon Ruffer Grant, with the intention of exploring Black archival practice in a West African context and investigating my own position as a Black archivist stewarding the iniva archive. There were several considerations. Iniva's existence is situated within the canon of the British Black Arts Movement, which was defined by the work of artists of African, Caribbean, and Asian ancestry and explored race, gender, and the politics of representation within Britain. I felt it was vital to examine a perspective on archival practice that exists outside Western archival and curatorial traditions. This research diary documents some of the places, people and things I learned during this research trip – a second part detailing my time Tamale will be uploaded at a later date. Before I arrived in Ghana, my trip coincided with the 95th birthday of James Barnor, arguably Ghana’s most celebrated photographer. His career, spanning six decades, captured Ghanaian society amid its transition to independence from Britain. He was Ghana’s first full-time newspaper photographer in the 1950s and introduced colour processing... --- - Published: 2025-01-10 - Modified: 2025-01-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/a-note-on-rest/ - Categories: Writing, Announcements It’s that time of year when you start to reflect, look back, and look at the plans for the coming year. I am looking back at the last 5 years since I began as Artistic Director. Joining the organisation in 2020 with an ambitious vision to radically transform the cultural landscape. This work first had to begin with iniva itself. As an organisation that was finding its feet in a new location at the UAL Chelsea campus in Pimlico, we soon had to adjust to work remotely and over time have recruited new team members. While this forced sejour from the library and archive collection was a testing time, it made us realise that without being physically onsite at the Stuart Hall Library you could not get access to our collections. When we returned to the office greedy to feast our eyes on what we had been missing we found that Research Network reading groups and our Artist Kitchen Salons were a way to resocialise our bodies. Hours on Zoom couldn’t replace the experience of being in the presence of other bodies, speaking, laughing, listening and eating together. In different parts of the country, we worked on Future Collect with artists and curators to commission new works to be acquired into collections while plotting exhibitions. Supported by Arts Council England, Art Fund and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, artists Jade de Montserrat, Emii Alrai and Maria Amidu have made three sensitive and yet audacious works challenging their practice. All works are now... --- - Published: 2024-10-11 - Modified: 2025-08-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/green-libraries-week-connecting-with-the-land/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Writing For Green Libraries Week 2024 (7-13 October 2024), we're highlighting some of the books and zines that were featured in On Our Table: Connecting with the Land, a lunchtime sharing session held on 12 September 2024. Let’s Become Fungal! by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez Looking at a range of Indigenous practices from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia, the book presents 12 teachings in how fungi can inspire new ways of thinking, new systems, and behaviours. The 12 teachings focus on how we organise and collaborate, relationships of solidarity, how to escape categorization, communication, and insecurity. Unearthed: On Race and Roots, and How the Soil Taught Me I Belong By Claire Ratinon A memoir by Claire Ratinon who found belonging through falling in love with growing plants and reconnecting with nature. The book recounts her first year living in the English countryside and her farming practice, and how she strengthens her connection to Mauritius through growing food from the island, exploring its histories and recording her parents’ stories. John Akomfrah By James Harvey The book by James Harvey is the first comprehensive analytic investigation of John Akomfrah’s films, offering sustained close engagement with the artist’s core thematic preoccupations and aesthetic tendencies. Chapter 6, in particular, investigates his works which engage with themes of climate change and ecology. On the topic of John Akomfrah, iniva has also recently launched Unseen Guests: A Post-National Digital Pavilion, which features eight artistic commissions and investigations alongside Pan-African cultural archives across the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA),... --- - Published: 2024-10-01 - Modified: 2025-03-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/global-resiliencies-activist-zines-from-2010-to-2022-reading-list/ - Categories: Exhibition, Library and Archive Global Resiliencies is a project centred on activist zines produced between 2010 and 2022. It asks how grassroots publications can reflect and shape political movements and collective action across different geopolitical contexts around the globe. At its core, this project seeks to explore how zines—those self-published, often ephemeral documents of resistance—offer unique insights into how people organise, build communities, and foster solidarity across borders. Rather than a conventional, static exhibition, Global Resiliencies unfolds at the Stuart Hall Library as a living, evolving showcase. Through rotating the zines and making space for new contributions as they arrive, this approach emphasises a continuous process of gathering, sharing and reflecting on activist voices and materials. This participatory format invites viewers to return, engage with the new additions, and reflect on how political and social movements evolve. Global Resiliencies proposes a double exercise of looking back, and looking forward into the future—creating strategies to ensure that these materials can continue to inspire new forms of resistance, new solidarities, and new ways of understanding our worlds. The Stuart Hall Library reaffirms the potential of self-publishing as a tool for social transformation and building collective memory, proposing an evolving archive of resilience; one that lives and expands alongside the movements it documents. The following resources is an evolving list of activist and protest zines that will grow alongside the exhibition. Artistic organising The zines included on this wall focus on the various forms of artistic organising, making use of exhibitions, film, video games, and the zine... --- - Published: 2024-08-09 - Modified: 2024-08-22 - URL: https://iniva.org/notes-on-home-resources/ - Categories: Writing " Where do we find the words and actions to continually fight racism, Islamophobia and fascism? How can we collectively make spaces of belonging through culture? " - Notes on Home, iniva. The following is a small but growing list of resources the iniva team has compiled in response to the recent violent riots across the UK. Stuart Hall Library At Home and Not At Home: Stuart Hall and Les Back in conversation The article is also available physically in the Stuart Hall Library. 'So, Where Are You Really From? ': Championing Creatives of Colour in the North of England by Pennycress People talk a lot about where you come from. When you’re black, mixed race or of another ethnic minority, you’ll likely be asked it, several times a year, in tones ranging from camaraderie and general interest to suspicion, derision and even shock. But where someone is from means a lot more than DNA or parentage- it’s about the circumstances one has to grow through, the emotions that drive our decisions, all the little experiences that add up to world perspective we call our own. It also relates to the city we call home - Leeds. For Pennycress’s inaugural issue, 32 creatives share art, writing, photography and more to interpret where they’re REALLY from; reflections on their heritage, the place they live, and the passions that say far more about themselves than their skintone. The zine was featured at the lunchtime talk On Our Table: Finding Home. 'What Would... --- - Published: 2024-08-08 - Modified: 2025-08-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/notes-on-home/ - Categories: Writing They say, home is where the heart is or home is where you lay your head or your hat. It's the place where you feel at ease, where you are most comfortable or where you can be yourself. But sadly, in the face of so much violence and misinformation, how do we find the words that can instil hope and eradicate the fear of calling the UK our home? They told our grandparents that they were British subjects to serve Queen and country. ‘Why did they come? ’ one friend asked me this weekend. They came because they were invited and to serve a country that was on its knees, I responded. The prospect of opportunities, a place to also call home and even to raise a family. But when they arrived they were told to ‘go home’. They were told that this fair isle was a place of justice, a harbour for refuge for those who came to seek asylum, a place of safety. It does not matter in fact how we arrive here, whether we are born here, born elsewhere, or part of the colonial and imperial histories of Britain. This is the place that we chose to call our home. The fact that it was a common saying to recite that, 'the sun never sets on the British Empire' should tell us all something about the places where the British have been. But when does the 'them' and the 'us' become 'we'? What difficult conversations do we... --- - Published: 2024-07-04 - Modified: 2024-07-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/review-of-the-rock-throwers-by-chloe-tayali/ - Categories: Library and Archive Iamge of the The Rock Throwers tape in Stuart Hall Library. The following post is a review of our recently catalogued tape The Rock Throwers by our previous volunteer Chloe Tayali. Centring migrant oral traditions, generational offerings and conversations, curator Amina Jama presents The Rock Throwers; a limited edition cassette tape which integrates research on orality within archival practices, and positions the archive as a living, breathing resource. Drawing from their own personal family archives of cassette tapes from the 1980-90s, Jama recruits time stamping, generational exchange, and ancestral thinking in a deeply personal attempt to reclaim space, tackle erasure, and encourage listeners to abandon comfort and turn towards unfamiliar ground. Amina Jama, The Rock Throwers: Introduction (2023) Launched on Thursday 26 January 2023 at Chisenhale Gallery, Amina Jama introduces The Rock Throwers with the Somali phrase (meaning ‘to protest’) that it is translated from and the context of ethnic and governmental suppression to which the phrase applies. She invokes the Mary Douglas quote ”institutions remember and forget”, to remind us that they decide for a society what to remember and what to avoid. But she also tells us that institutions such as the Stuart Hall Library and Chippendale Gallery Archive hold the same value as family archives. These family archives allow families to record their histories outside of colonial infrastructure, without the comfort museums inject around difficult topics. We can all share our voices in this way. The Rock Throwers project is based on this expansion of the meaning... --- - Published: 2024-07-01 - Modified: 2024-07-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/reflecting-on-michael-mcmillans-practice-by-cassia-clarke/ - Categories: Library and Archive Michael McMillan in Stuart Hall Library, June 2024 Our recent archive volunteer Cassia Clarke reflects on the practice of Michael McMillan and the connection with her Caribbean heritage. Michael McMillan is a British-born playwright, author, artist, curator and educator of St Vincent and the Grenadines heritage. Since the early 2000’s, McMillan has become a prolific installation artist depicting the West Indies domestic interior of working-class respectability. These simulated spaces include, but are not exclusive to – The West Indian Front Room (2003), Zion Arts Centre/BAA, Manchester. The West Indian Front Room: Memories and Impressions of Black British Homes (2005-06), Geffrye Museum, London (renamed the Museum of the Home in 2019). The Living Room of Migrants in the Netherlands (2007), Imagine IC, Amsterdam. A Living Room Surrounded by Salt Installation (2008), Buena Vista, Curacao The Front Room ‘Inna JoBurg’ & The Arrivants (2016), FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg. Joyce’s Front Room, 1970 (2021), Tate Britain, London – a part of a group show, Life Between Islands, Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now. A Front Room in 1976 (2021), Museum of the Home (formerly the Geffrye Museum). The Front Room: Inna Toronto/6ix (2023) Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto – a part of a group show, Life Between Islands, Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now. I was introduced to Michael McMillan and his installation work through Tate Britain’s group show, Life Between Islands (December 2021 – April 2022), titled Joyce’s Front Room 1970. The exhibit was split into five sub-themes: Arrivals, Pressure, Ghost of History,... --- - Published: 2024-06-25 - Modified: 2024-06-25 - URL: https://iniva.org/current-journal-subscriptions/ - Categories: Library and Archive Collection of current journal issues, taken at Stuart Hall Library. Photo by Charlotte Mui Stuart Hall Library journals collection contains over 400 titles including many rare items important to the UK Black Arts Movement, British and International contemporary visual arts and culture. Though many of these titles have ceased publication, Stuart Hall Library currently subscribes to 40 journals, magazines, and newspapers, focusing on independently published, artist-led, and interdisciplinary journals that continue to inform and expand our library collection. Afterall Launched in 1999, Afterall is a London-based journal of art, context, and enquiry that is published twice a year. It offers in-depth analysis of artists’ work, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Al Hayya Al Hayya is a Philadelphia-based bilingual magazine that publishes literary and visual content in English and Arabic on the works, interests, and strife of women in the context of South West Asia and North Africa. The issues feature interviews, opinion pieces, and visual essays ranging from sex education to protesting to the destruction of Beirut. Art AsiaPacific Established in 1993, Art AsiaPacific is a bimonthly English periodical featuring profiles, essays, and exhibition reviews covering contemporary art and culture from Asia and the Pacific. The Hong Kong-based magazine also publishes an annual Almanac that surveys the past year in the 53 countries and territories covered. Art India Established in 1996, Art India is a quarterly magazine specialising in Indian modern and contemporary art, and promotes critical discourse and debate regarding painting, sculpture,... --- - Published: 2024-06-24 - Modified: 2024-07-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/creative-mapping-design-and-architecture-lab-by-charlene-prempeh/ - Categories: Exhibition, Writing Charlene Prempeh at Creative Mapping: Design and Architecture Lab. Photo credit: Jemima Yong Introduction When we gathered in early March, it was ostensibly a moment to explore the resource needs of a community of design and cultural practitioners. We were to commune in a library and though it was purposefully unclear where things would end, there was a sense that the main take out would be a professional one. What transpired that day felt more spiritual and elemental-we were reminded of the role that design plays in helping us to understand ourselves, our values and our community. It was a moment of respite from what many described as a treadmill of doing. Instead, we all luxuriated in the swell of ideas that can arise when there is no goal other than to connect. An Exercise in Values One of the first things that can be lost in the relentless wheel of doing is the ‘why’, so the workshop ran by Nate Agbetu on values felt incredibly grounding for the group. Some of the thoughts that arose are below. Overwhelmingly, what people valued was character and community and it set the tone for a day where attendees thought about design not in relation to their individual discipline or experience, but in relation to who they were as people: I’m concerned with people and the way they think, create, and communicate. I’m driven by my belief that integrioty drives empathy and human connection needs this to evolve... Human connection is power. I... --- - Published: 2024-06-07 - Modified: 2024-06-07 - URL: https://iniva.org/announcing-drift-stuart-papers-publication/ - Categories: Announcements Cover of Drift Stuart Papers. Designed by Rose Nordin. Published by iniva, 2024. Originally printed in 2022, iniva is excited to announce the reprint of our publication, DRIFT – Stuart Papers. This special issue of STUART Papers designed by Rose Nordin and edited by Tavian Hunter and Sepake Angiama was published for iniva’s DRIFT - A Post-national Digitial Pavilion Project in 2022. Reflecting on thinking through fluidity of notions of nationhood, it contains written contributions Cairo Clarke, Lola Olufemi, Rahila Haque and Adjoa Armah from iniva's Research Network Programme: Archipelagos in Reverse (2022) as well as Kaitlene Koranteng and Rohan Ayinde who have been involved in iniva’s DRIFT pavilion project. For their DRIFT Pavilion, iniva proposed a series of radical re-imaginings of Europeanness that reflect on the entanglement between land and water, movement and m/otherlands, in the forging of new identities and subjectivities. DRIFT considered Europe from three vantage points: The River at Stuart Hall Library in London; The Island in Venice; and The Coastline in Margate. At these sites, they will consider how water connects land, people and communities. This publication weaves together questions of migration and movement in relation to sound and water – thinking about sound as movement and how water connects to departures and arrivals. It questions what it means to belong to a diaspora? How can you create space for yourself in spaces where you are othered? And what does it mean to have the archipelagic as a part of your practice? It also proposes... --- - Published: 2024-06-05 - Modified: 2024-06-07 - URL: https://iniva.org/stories-told-and-untold-by-lyn-french/ - Categories: Writing Return to BreathPhotograph: Jade de MontserratImage Layout: Sonja Frick Introducing two new resources: A Return to Breath featuring a watercolour series by Jade de Montserrat and Making that remembers... . a correspondence between emotion and materials based on artworks and works in progress by Maria Amidu. Understanding ourselves and making better sense of our similarities and differences is dependent on the capacity to be freely and openly curious. Wondering about and puzzling over who we are, how we are seen, and what it means to belong - or the opposite - is commonly associated with the often-tumultuous adolescent years. However, throughout life, thoughts about who we’ve been and who we are in the process of becoming continue to ebb and flow in and out of consciousness, washing up impressions, memories, and fragments of history both personal and collective, each influencing the other ‘in the perpetual back and forth’ to borrow the title of Maria Amidu’s 2024 Towner Eastbourne exhibition. In the academic arena, themes relating to individual, group, social, cultural, and global identities feed into multiple streams of thought running through and between the arts, philosophy, psychotherapy, cultural studies, critical theory, post-colonial studies and so on. Curiosity of this kind is vital for us all to cultivate yet finding the language to put our lived experience into words can prove challenging. Making the remembers... Photograph: Maria AmiduImage Layout: Sonja Frick The emotional learning cards co-published by iniva and A Space are designed to bridge this gap by providing a starting... --- - Published: 2024-05-01 - Modified: 2024-06-07 - URL: https://iniva.org/our-newest-publication-contested-sites/ - Categories: Announcements Cover of Contested Sites publication. Courtesy of Rose Nordin, 2024. iniva is excited to announce our newest publication Contested Sites is now available at Stuart Hall Library. This publication documents reflections, research, thoughts and engagement from our recent Research Network programme. Continuing Stuart Hall’s ideas around re-affirming existence, this publication reflects on multiple ways in which histories hold multiple contested narratives within archives, bodies, institutions and geographies, whether material or digital, as sites for future histories. Designed by Rose Nordin and edited by Priya Jay, Contested Sites includes contributions from research associates Orsod Malik, Meera Shakti Osborne, Lamya Sadiq, Gary Stewart, Dharma Taylor and artist Fawziyah Rahman. Drop by the library to pick up a copy on a first come, first serve basis during opening hours. This publication was made possible through funds from Freelands Foundation. --- - Published: 2024-04-04 - Modified: 2024-04-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/future-collect-film/ - Categories: Announcements As the third and final Future Collect commission prepares for opening at Towner Eastbourne, we are delighted to share this film about iniva’s groundbreaking national partnership programme. Featuring the project artists, partner gallery curators and curatorial trainees discussing their work, the film explores the public they engage and examines the importance of challenging and changing the nature of curating in regional and national collections. Future Collect is a three-year funded programme, transforming the culture of commissioning and collecting within museums across England to better reflect the diversity of our heritage and to engage a broad contemporary audience. Beginning in Manchester Art Gallery at the start of the pandemic in 2020, with Northeast-based artist Jade de Montserrat, the project then moved to Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire, showcasing work by Emii Alrai. Finally, the project moves to the South coast in Eastbourne where Maria Amidu’s exhibition in the perpetual back and forth will open at Towner on 4 May as part of our #iniva30 programme. Supported by The Art Fund, Arts Council England and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation --- - Published: 2024-03-06 - Modified: 2024-03-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/notes-on-ageing/ - Categories: Announcements Uncovering the Archive, July 2023. How do we mark the passing of time? Ageing or getting older is a privilege as it gives us the opportunity to take stock of what has been achieved, to bring people together to acknowledge the here and now and also to make plans for the future. In the artworld, turning 30 is still considered to be young and possibly even just emerging, so as we look back, we must also look forward. There can be no doubt that the 'black phoenix' of INIVA has risen out of the ashes of the disastrous Roundhouse Project, that it has drawn from the vision and struggle of many who have been forced to remain outside the art system: yet is it also just coincidence that INIVA is coming up when that tainted and ossified Commonwealth Institute is coming down? INIVA is another chance to start again! - Nikos Papastergiadis (1993) Disputes at the boundaries of ‘new internationalism’, Third Text, 7:25, 95-101. iniva’s first board meeting took place in February 1994 and shortly thereafter, A New Internationalism, the inaugural conference took place at Tate Gallery on Millbank (now Tate Britain). Prior to these events many people had been involved in imagining the potential of an institution that addressed Internationalism as a position that went beyond the rhetoric of multiculturalism. In 1985 The Roundhouse Project was set up by the Greater London Council to establish a 'black', international and multidisciplinary arts centre. The Project collapsed for lack of funds... --- - Published: 2024-02-28 - Modified: 2024-10-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/artists-writers-and-activists-on-palestine/ - Categories: Library and Archive Your Silence Will Not Protect You “What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? Perhaps for some of you here today, I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am woman, because I am Black, because I am lesbian, because I am myself - a Black woman warrior poet doing my work - come to ask you, are you doing yours? ” - Audre Lorde, The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action. The following resources in Stuart Hall Library is a small but growing list of materials that speak to Palestinian thinkers, activists and artists. This includes stories of Palestinian life, the struggle of colonised people, voices of solidarity, love, liberation, queerness, survival, women voices, the media, joy and the future. Staff Highlights From Tavian Hunter, Library Manager: Funambulist, no. 50 Nakba, sumud, intifada : a personal lexicon of Palestinian loss and resistance by Rana Issa (The Funambulist; no. 50, pages 34-39) In this article featured in the Funambulist magazine, Rana Issa interrogates the vocabulary used to articulate the loss and conditions of Palestine through the lens of a personal narrative around three significant words used by Palestinians: nakba, sumud, intifada. The article also reminds us that the sacralisation of political concepts is full of traps and that it is necessary for them... --- - Published: 2023-11-27 - Modified: 2023-11-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/notes-on-silence/ - Categories: Announcements Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde. Published by Silver Press 4'33 In commemoration of the dead. Audre Lorde tells us, “your silence will not protect you”. iniva will no longer remain silent. In this moment, looking towards Gaza we take a collective breath to consider how to act as a cultural organisation that believes in art, social justice and dialogue, questioning global legacies of imperialism and colonialism. We are in grief, witnessing so much loss.   But beyond statements and petitions, how do we act? What is our way of being? “Art is where and how we speak to each other in tongues audible when official language fails. It is not where we escape worlds ills but rather one place we come to - to make sense of them. ” Elizabeth Alexander, The Black Interior iniva supports art that builds on the work of so many who have been critical in developing emancipatory practices. We need to stand in solidarity with you, the artists, cultural workers and communities who are looking to iniva to break the cultural silence. We join our voices to those calling for an unconditional and permanent ceasefire for Gaza, for the right to freedoms, self-determination and life. We are witnessing the deaths of so many people and we must 'mark our resistance' - we cannot remain silent. We offer the Stuart Hall Library and our resources to everyone who wants to come together with others in dialogue, to develop pedagogies, for read-ins and teach-ins, in... --- - Published: 2023-11-24 - Modified: 2023-11-24 - URL: https://iniva.org/the-sound-i-sea-shenece-oretha/ - Categories: Announcements Shenece Oretha with Despacito Art School children. Photo by Open School East iniva is pleased to share the recent soundscape 'The Sound I Sea' by artist Shenece Oretha in collaboration with Open School East’s Despacito Art School children and Iniva's Drift Pavilion, a series of radical re-imaginings of Europeanness which reflect on the entanglement between land and water, movement and m/otherlands, in the forging of new identities and subjectivities. Together they explored the sound of waves and movement and how they relate to the movement, migration and relation of people. Through various ways of composing they created a fun sculptural sound piece that reflects movement of sound, sea and people. Listen to 'The Sound I Sea' document. createElement('audio'); https://iniva. org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/The-Sound-I-Sea-Shenece-Oretha. mp3 About the Artist Shenece Oretha (b. Montserrat) is a London based multidisciplinary artist sounding out the voice and sound’s mobilising potential. Through installation, performance, print, sculpture, sound, workshops and text she amplifies and celebrates listening and sound as an embodied and collective practice. --- - Published: 2023-11-24 - Modified: 2023-11-24 - URL: https://iniva.org/the-drift-podcast/ - Categories: Announcements The DRIFT podcast is part of iniva’s postnational digital pavilion reflecting on the entanglement between land, water, movement and m/otherlands. Episode 1: Imagination and Borderlessness Iniva · DRIFT : Imagination and Borderlessness This first episode explores imagination and borderlessness, with questions like how do you unbuild a nation, who gets to imagine borderlessness and how multiple imaginaries of nations can coexist? We’ll be weaving these questions alongside conversations and interviews from curators, artists, and creative practitioners invited by iniva, in order to explore, What is Nation? This episode features contributions from (in order as they appear): Sonia Boyce Yuki Kihara Catherine Chiang (Hyun Seo) Kirsty Flockhart Tsherin Sherpa Stan Douglas Zineb Sedira Hosted by: Tobi Alexandra Falade (Curatorial Trainee) Kaitlene Koranteng (Archivist and Engagement Producer) Beatriz Lobo (Curator) Edited and mixed by: Lucia Scazzocchio Available to listen on SoundCloud, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Episode 2: M/otherlands Iniva · DRIFT: M/otherlands This second episode explores M/otherlands, and considers: what does it mean to belong to a diaspora? How can you create space for yourself in spaces where you are othered? and what does it mean to have the archipelagic as a part of your practice? We’ll be weaving these questions alongside conversations and interviews from curators, artists, and creative practitioners invited by iniva, in order to explore, What is Nation? This episode features contributions from (in order as they first appear): Stan Douglas Zineb Sedira Andrius Arutiunian Sepake Angiama Yuki Kihara Lola Olufemi Rahila Haque Yang Li Sonia Boyce Produced by:... --- - Published: 2023-10-30 - Modified: 2025-01-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/iniva-launches-online-archive-catalogue/ - Categories: Announcements iniva is delighted to announce a significant milestone in its journey as it approaches its 30-year anniversary. In alignment with its mission to foster and showcase radical and emerging contemporary artistic practice, with a specific emphasis on Global Majority, African, Asian, and Caribbean diaspora perspectives, iniva has been the proud recipient of an Archives Revealed grant. Thanks to this grant, iniva has successfully catalogued four pivotal collections from its institutional archives. This accomplishment was made possible through the dedicated efforts of iniva's team and volunteers. These four collections, including the Veil touring exhibition, iniva's Governance and Early Constitution files, iniva's Founding Symposium 'A New Internationalism,' and X-Space, will soon be accessible to the public through iniva’s new online archive catalogue. Niamh Glanville-Frayne in Stuart Hall Library with Third Text Journal, 2022 Cataloguing the Collections Niamh Glanville-Frayne, Cataloguing Archivist at iniva, played a central role in this achievement. Over the past year, she organised and catalogued these collections, enabling iniva to take control of how it represents its collections and the people associated with them. Niamh also conducted informal interviews with key figures such as curators David A. Bailey, Jananne Al-Ani and Zineb Sedira for the Veil exhibition collection; photographer Sunil Gupta and Gary Stewart for the Governance and Early Constitution collection and X-Space collection respectively. These interviews have added invaluable context to the archive, enriching the catalogue entries and offering diverse perspectives on the collections and their narratives. To introduce these newly catalogued collections to the public, Niamh hosted a... --- - Published: 2023-07-26 - Modified: 2023-07-26 - URL: https://iniva.org/chinese-artists-beyond-china-1989-2008-a-journey-through-the-spotlight-and-shadow-of-archive-collections-by-yang-li/ - Categories: Library and Archive Yang Li with the publication Cites on the Move in Stuart Hall Library, 2023 Our archive volunteer Yang Li reflects on her research into Chinese artists beyond China through her volunteering work in iniva's archives. My research on Chinese Artists Beyond China began when I worked as a Research Assistant at Asia Art Archive during the summer of 2021. Over three months, I was responsible for organizing the archive collection for the 'Cities on the Move' exhibition. Given the large number of participating artists that changed during the touring of the exhibition, I started my research by creating spreadsheets to analyze the artists based on their place of birth and current living location. This sparked my interest in the exhibition which includes Contemporary Chinese Art Beyond China, and how these Chinese artists connect themselves with the Western art world. After moving to London, I sought to continue my research - through volunteering in iniva’s archives. The term ‘Sinophone’ refers to a connection to Chinese language and culture, either through ancestry, ethnicity, or personal identification. Whereas, the term ‘Chinese artists’ can be narrowed down to a group of artists who live and work in China. Through the process of repackaging artist files at iniva, I have been able to explore the diversity and complexity of the term 'Chineseness' in the British cultural context back to the 90s and early 2000s which goes beyond discourse around 'Chinese artists' who were born and live in China. The exhibitions I explored that took place... --- - Published: 2023-07-20 - Modified: 2023-07-20 - URL: https://iniva.org/a-review-of-index-exhibition-workshop-sharing-memories-over-kurdish-cuisine-by-yasmine-mattoussi/ - Categories: Writing - Tags: Yasmine Mattoussi, Kurdish artists, memory, Volunteering Our recent library volunteer Yasmine Mattoussi reviews INDEX Exhibition Workshop ‘Sharing memories over Kurdish cuisine’ as part of exhibition “Untitled, an exhibition of works in progress by Maria Amidu. ” Image from Off screen : four young artists in the Middle East : Al Braithwaite, Henry Hemming, Stephen Stapleton, Georgie Weedon. A table of guests sat around an abundant spread of Kurdish dishes provided in part by Nandine, a Kurdish restaurant in Camberwell and carefully laid out by artist and facilitator Êvar Hussayni. The evening was going to be centred around the connections between food and memory, and guests were given small notepads to write down their feelings and thoughts at intervals throughout the shared meal. What unfolded over the next few hours was a beautiful exchange of anecdotes, nostalgia, and laughter, as people resonated with each other’s stories and exchanged family lore. A familial feeling encapsulated the event, making a room full of strangers feel like they had known each other for years. For Êvar, the event was a refreshing change of narrative, as she said, “From a facilitator’s perspective, it can be nerve-wracking to organise—events like this are always a bit political. ” The food was a carefully-chosen centrepiece for its communal aspects, and it successfully united participants from an array of backgrounds. Over glasses of pomegranate juice and plates of borek and kibbeh (savoury pastries), they laughed about their parents' airport security woes and Sunday market bargaining tactics. Part of being an artist is having to revisit... --- - Published: 2023-06-21 - Modified: 2023-06-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/a-living-archive-research-progress-by-dharma-taylor/ - Categories: Writing - Tags: Dharma Taylor Dharma Taylor in studio . Image courtesy of Dudley Waltzer, 2023. 'Part of The Furniture’ Stuart Hall Artist Residency Pausing half-way through her artist residency at Stuart Hall Library, Dharma Taylor shares with us a collection of her notes, which she describes as being ‘all over the place, but honest insights into the way this research has organically developed’. Through her writing, she is finding connections between text as a starting point, inspiration directly from the design world and then ultimately, the physical realisation of her work. Dharma Taylor – Lightbeam (Photo by Dan Weill). “Just relax into it and let one publication lead to another. ” The above quote came as reassurance from artist and designer Mac Collins after speaking to him on the phone from what sounded like his studio in Nottingham just before he showcased a new large-scale body of work at the British Pavilion for Venice Biennale 2023 titled ‘Dancing Before The Moon’ and just after he presented a new chair in Ronan Mckenzie’s group show ‘To Be Held’ in Margate. I reached out to Mac as part of my research as the sixth artist in residence at the Stuart Hall Library. Mac and I have supported each other’s furniture narratives for the past few seasons, and I’ve always respected and related to him as a designer who works with wood as a material. First on my reading list, I was drawn to a lovely little publication by Pricegore and Yinka Illori called Dulwich Pavilion. Reading... --- - Published: 2023-06-14 - Modified: 2023-06-16 - URL: https://iniva.org/reflections-on-prafulla-mohanti-indian-village-tales/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: reflective writing, Prafulla Mohanti, sondliwe pamisa Sondliwe Pamisa with the publication "Prafulla Mohanti: Indian Village Tales" in Stuart Hall Library, 2023 Our recent archive volunteer Sondliwe Pamisa offers reflections on the publication, Prafulla Mohanti: Indian Village Tales. It’s funny how the stories we are told as children shape who and how we are going to be. Not to mention the why but, the irony continues as we grow in this world and begin to discover the world outside of the ones we have become accustomed to. A world full of so many, it is only when we spend the time necessary in order to understand our present dispositions that we begin to learn and understand that our worlds are not quite as special as we thought. Now, herein lies the test of our character. Upon the discovery of that which is unfamiliar at first, but afterwards is realised to be a lesson you have long held, learnt many moons ago, you are faced with a choice; either accept and harness the power of a collective identity or deny and fight the tide that guides you. If you are anything like me, a faithful nihilist, you may find yourself in favour of the former; in the embrace of a collective identity bound with the seams of human need; but as we seem to be in a never ending battle of needs vs wants, the notion of balance within such a predicament may appear to be an ever-impossible reconciliation... No need to fear, for I am here today... --- - Published: 2023-05-15 - Modified: 2023-05-16 - URL: https://iniva.org/behind-the-display-fashion-within-the-fabric-of-identity/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: library placement Tanya Srivarodom with book 'Thai Art: Currencies of the Contemporary' within Stuart Hall Library, 2023 Our recent placement student Tanya Srivarodom reflects on her research project focused on fashion resources at Stuart Hall Library. Growing up, I have always loved clothes. My mom would take me to the mall every weekend – granted, that was all anyone could really do in my small suburban town at the time. We would browse through the hundreds of clothing racks in the department stores, try to find something reasonably priced, and either go home with a new wardrobe or nothing at all. It wasn’t until I got older that I started taking a closer look at my clothes: their material, the silhouette, and how they made me feel. When I moved to New York, I was even more shocked at the level of detail those walking the streets of Soho or 5th Avenue had for their complete outfit. The university that I attended was known for their arts and design program and the students in those courses didn’t disappoint when it came to making life their runway. My university became hell and a source of inspiration when New York Fashion Week occurred each year. After that I became interested in understanding how the fashion industry functions and its origins. I’d ask my friends who were in the design courses what they were learning in class and how it impacted their own work process. For many of them, they were focused on the design... --- - Published: 2023-05-02 - Modified: 2023-06-29 - URL: https://iniva.org/future-commons-publication/ - Categories: Announcements Priya Jay with Future Commons Publication iniva is proud to share a new publication by Future Commons. Future Commons is a peer-led network that has been running alongside the Future Collect project. Developed and coordinated by Priya Jay, Barbican-iniva curatorial trainee 2018-19, the group responded to the needs expressed for a space that nurtures creative belief, radical practice and open peer-level exchange outside formal work structures. Ten curatorial trainees and early career creative practitioners in iniva’s orbit have been meeting since the summer of 2021. Future Commons includes Chloe Austin, Tammi Bello, Tobi Alexandra Falade, Nikita Gill, Anahi Saravia Herrera, Amina Jama, Priya Jay, Amber Li, Jessica Lowe-Mbirimi and Kinnari Saraiya. In this publication, they share some of the quiet work and internal conversations they’ve been having. Part of an edition of 250, it will be distributed in pairs to a list of 100 individuals and institutions who are invited to keep one and pass one on. A further 50 will be kept in the Stuart Hall Library - one reference copy and the rest available to take away from next week onwards. A PDF version of the publication is available to read online here. --- - Published: 2023-04-17 - Modified: 2024-06-07 - URL: https://iniva.org/artist-kitchen-salon-zine-publication-launch/ - Categories: Announcements Artist Kitchen Salon Zine. Published by the Institute of International Visual Arts in association with Studio Voltaire, March 2023. iniva is excited to launch a new publication, The Artist Kitchen Salon Zine. The Artist Kitchen Salon Zine documents a series of Artist Kitchen Salons which were part of iniva’s recent Research Network programme ‘If Sea is History? - What is Nation? ’ This programme reflected on the sea as an archive that connects the body and memory and this publication reflects on the ongoing research of Research Associates' Safiya Robinson, Holly Graham, Shenece Oretha and Beatrix Pang. It seeks to answer: What is conjured in our memory through food, in gathering together over an evening meal?   This A5 bound zine functions as part cookbook (to be used in your kitchen) and part memoir of notes and reflections to be used as a source of inspiration on nationhood and identity. Alongside contributions from the Research Associates, it also includes a written foreword by Tavian Hunter and Maggie Matić, quotes, archival material, reading lists and recipes from each Artist Kitchen Salon that took place at Studio Voltaire from September 2022 until March 2023.   We have a limited number of printed copies to give away for free on a first come first served basis, but we welcome a donation to support the activities of Stuart Hall Library and iniva’s wider artistic programme. Copies can be collected in person from Stuart Hall Library or ordered via our shop for a donation of £6 which also covers postage & packaging to your... --- - Published: 2023-03-31 - Modified: 2023-04-12 - URL: https://iniva.org/reflections-at-stuart-hall-library-by-stefano-cacaveri/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: librarianship, Volunteering Stefano Cacaveri with publication 'The Other Story'. Stefano Cacaveri reflects on his time volunteering at Stuart Hall Library to retrain as a librarian and learn about librarianship. I joined Stuart Hall Library (SHL) as a volunteer with the hopes to gain experience to enter a different professional career in librarianship. The volunteering opportunity offered at iniva seemed an exciting starting place for those who are willing to undertake a similar path. My desire to pursue a career as a librarian came from my personal interest in the arts and humanities and working at the junction between intellectual production and public accessibility. As a volunteer, my first task consisted of documenting artists present in group exhibitions by listing the artist’s name to create catalogue records or update bibliographic records. ‘The Other Story’ is one of the first exhibition catalogues I worked on. Curated by Rasheed Araeen at the Hayward Gallery in 1989, it features many artists of African, Caribbean and Asian descent active during the British Black Arts Movement. The exhibition revealed the discrimination, marginalisation and inequality inherent in British society and cultural life in the late period of Thatcherism. This activity, for example, gave me an insight on the work of a librarian who has the aim to create a catalogue record that is easily accessible for its users. Another activity I was engaged with was the listing of the audio-visual collection of the library held in the archive. Among the material catalogued was the film ‘Whoever Heard of a... --- - Published: 2023-02-16 - Modified: 2023-03-31 - URL: https://iniva.org/review-of-zine-mine-by-meredith-stern/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: stuart hall library, Volunteering, zines Volunteer Hannah Dunsmore in Stuart Hall Library with zine Mine: An Anthology of Women’s Choices by Meredith Stern, 2023 Our recent volunteer Hannah Dunsmore reflects on the zine Mine: An Anthology of Women’s Choices by Meredith Stern, found in the Stuart Hall Library collection. TW: The zine highlights the topic of abortion rights that may trigger uncomfortable feelings or traumatic experiences For me, last year, the word choice became synonymous with an ideological shift in the United States which culminated in the removal of a person’s rights over their own womb. The year 2023 marks fifty years since Roe v. Wade, the court case that legalised abortion in the United States, and six months since that constitutional right was revoked. During my time at Stuart Hall Library, I have been stock-checking the library’s collection of zines from A to Z. Nestled within the box marked M, I discovered the zine Mine: An Anthology of Women’s Choices by Meredith Stern. Published in 2002, Mine is a collection of stories, collected via an open call, by women sharing their personal experiences with abortion procedures (medical and surgical, menstrual extraction, herbal remedies, etc. ). The voices vary from women who are stoically pro-choice and those who share more mixed feelings. Some choose to share their name, and some choose to remain anonymous. The DIY nature of zines and the collective ethos behind the creation and distribution of this type of publication fosters a unique relationship between the writer and their readers. As a... --- - Published: 2023-02-09 - Modified: 2023-04-12 - URL: https://iniva.org/final-future-collect-artist-commission-announced/ - Categories: Announcements Studio visit 2023, Maria Amidu and Hollie Douglas. Photo by Beatriz Lobo We are delighted to announce that the third and final Future Collect commission has been awarded to artist Maria Amidu. The final Future Collect commission supports the creation of a major new work of art by a British based artist of African and/or Asian descent, for exhibition and acquisition at Towner Eastbourne in 2024. The exhibition will be supported with an education and engagement programme, plus new research into Towner’s growing art collection. The project also supports significant curatorial development in the form of a year-long curatorial traineeship. Previous Future Collect artists are Jade Montserrat with curator Nikita Gill at Manchester Art Gallery; and Emii Alrai with curator Amber Li at The Hepworth Wakefield. Maria Amidu’s artistic concerns are influenced by the complexities of the relational – between people, and between people and place. Through writing, printmaking, artist’s books, audio visual works and sometimes glassmaking she tries to substantiate what might be going on in collective situations, paying specific attention to what is hidden, obscured or unspoken. Studio visit 2023, Maria Amidu and Hollie Douglas. Photo by Beatriz Lobo The selection panel, composed of curatorial teams from iniva and Towner, chose the artist because of her open and generous exploration of place both personally and as an invitation to others, her questioning approach to processes of archiving and collecting, and her sensitive considerations of care, temporality and memory. Maria Amidu, who is based in East Sussex, says, "To... --- - Published: 2023-01-13 - Modified: 2024-01-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/cvan-iniva-report-on-anti-racism-and-equity-in-the-visual-arts/ - Categories: Announcements CVAN x INIVA Report on Anti-Racism and Equity in the Visual Arts A report published today, sets out a new approach to tackling racism and inequity in the visual arts sector, and makes recommendations for a long-term, anti-racist development scheme to be adopted by arts institutions. Written by artist Dr Jack Ky Tan, the report is the culmination of a knowledge exchange project initiated by CVAN London (Contemporary Visual Arts Network) in collaboration with iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), exploring how arts organisations may establish and support anti-racist and equitable working practices. The project was started following increasing reports of racist incidents experienced by artists and cultural workers in the sector, and the desire expressed by CVAN’s members to create a meaningful, proactive response to bring about change. The research was carried out in two parts: the convening of two knowledge exchange roundtables with a cross-section of arts organisations in the CVAN London network led by Jack Ky Tan, and meetings with a group of artists hosted by artist Larry Achiampong. The artist’s meetings were convened as a safe space to enable open conversations about artists’ experiences and to offer mutual support. They served to bear witness and to evidence the racism suffered by people working in the visual arts sector. The two roundtable knowledge exchange workshops were held for the institutional members of CVAN London to explore their needs and experiences around tackling and experiencing racism and inequality. Led by artist Jack Ky Tan, the workshops took the... --- - Published: 2023-01-11 - Modified: 2023-01-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/prafulla-mohanti-village-letters-a-reflective-review-by-shalmali-shetty/ - Categories: Writing 'Kalika' by Prafulla Mohanti Independent Writer and Curator Shalmali Shetty reviews Prafulla Mohanti’s artistic practice, influenced by his lived experiences between India and the UK, in context to iniva’s current exhibition titled Village Letters showcased at the Stuart Hall Library An egg, its yolk; an eye, its pupil; a yoni (womb), its seed; a bindu (dot), a shunya (zero), a mandala (circle), a globe in a fathomless Brahmanda (universe); the purusha and prakriti (union of masculine and feminine to create a non-binary energy) with no beginning or end: ananta (infinite); paripurna (complete) - each painting emanated a strong energy, while the simultaneous experience of everything and nothing pulsated across the room. Our exchange of stories and conversations began making visual sense. Time Prafulla Mohanti’s studio in London is an archive of his long-drawn practice. He remains to be one of the last living artists from the neo-Tantric movement of the early 60s to late 80s, that spread within both the Indian and Western modern art contexts. The studio was otherwise occupied by dusty wooden furniture strewn with piles of books and posters, rolls of paper and flattened cartons leaning against the pink walls; intricately designed moth-eaten rugs warming the wooden floors, lengths of printed fabric covering surfaces; canvasses, easels and paint; framed pictures, bronze sculptures and idols of deities, interspersed with lopsided lamps and vases of fresh flowers... each item carried with it the damp scent of memories and lived experiences from across geographies and cultures. Slowly ambling our way... --- - Published: 2022-12-30 - Modified: 2023-01-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/game-of-two-halves-by-devaan-feese/ - Categories: Library and Archive Devaan Deese with Offside Exhibition Poster in Stuart Hall Library Devaan Feese explores questions of nationhood and representation through researching Offside! Contemporary Artists & Football exhibition in iniva's archive and utilising Stuart Hall Library collections. There are many ways in which various forms of material can represent a nation’s ideals and aspirations. Colours, patterns, symbols and emblems transform pieces of cloth into tangible identity. We see this abundantly in international football tournaments; the team shirts, badges, flags. As we see the faces of nation changing rapidly through the representation of national teams, to what extent does this symbolism reflect this? Sporting events can bring a nation together. Who can deny the national morale boost England progressing through an international football tournament brings? The hopes of a nation are realised or destroyed, depending on which net the ball hits the back of. As explored in Offside! Contemporary Artists and Football, a stadium becomes the stage upon which national aspirations are projected, and the players become heroes and fantastical. But it can also reveal national angst. The national stadium at Wembley hosted the Euro 2020 final: England v Italy. With a crowd 67,000 strong and a global audience of 328 million, Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho, and Bukayo Saka, all sporting the England flag on their shirts, failed to score during the penalty shoot-out. Immediately, social media was inundated with racist posts. In response, Rashford apologised for the missed goal but refused to apologise for who he was and where he came from.... --- - Published: 2022-12-19 - Modified: 2022-12-19 - URL: https://iniva.org/short-reflections-from-loophole-of-retreat/ - Categories: Writing - Tags: Research Network, venice biennale Within the etymology of the word retreat is the idea of drawing back, withdrawing or calling back. What does it mean for us to retreat collectively? To come together with others that are also retreating away from our busy lives. - Sepake Angiama, iniva's Artistic Director iniva's Library and Archive Manager, Tavian Hunter briefly reflects on a recent trip to Loophole of Retreat at Venice Biennale with Associates from our Research Network: Archipalegos in Reverse programme. Earlier this year, iniva discussed the idea of "retreating" as part of our Research Network: Archipelagos of Reverse programme. Taking the time to be a sponge within the micro-climate of Venice and through the support of the European Cultural Foundation, we attended the Loophole of Retreat on 7-9 October. From left to right: Rahila Haque, Cairo Clarke, Lola Olufemi, Tavian Hunter, Sepake Angiama, Adjoa Armah, Daniella Rose King and Rose Nordin at Loophole of Retreat on 9 October 2022 The Loophole of Retreat, a symposium centred on Black women’s intellectual and creative labour features a programme of many incredible talks, performances and films in an atmosphere full of latent potential. With our Research Associates (Adjoa Armah, Cairo Clarke, Rahila Haque, Daniella Rose King, Lola Olufemi and Rose Nordin), iniva convened in Venice not only to listen to the esteemed speakers and engage with their practices but also to listen to our bodies. To gather ourselves and to gather our thoughts. On Day 1, Rashida Bumbray welcomed us to the Loophole of Retreat by evoking... --- - Published: 2022-12-14 - Modified: 2022-12-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/youth-rising-creative-mapping-research-survey/ - Categories: Pedagogies Youth Rising Creative Mapping We are excited to announce that this month, iniva and Nowadays On Earth have partnered together to launch our Youth Rising Creative Mapping Research Survey. This survey will help us to research ways we can support young people in Westminster to engage in intersectional climate action and make the climate movement more accessible through knowledge and capacity building. Youth Rising will help us develop an emerging interdisciplinary strategy led by young people for local communities to tackle the crises of our generation. You can learn more about our creative mapping programme here. As a leader in this space, we would love your support in sharing this opportunity with your community of young people (ages 8-24) to take part in this research phase. All you need to do complete the survey below or share the link(s) to someone who might be interested. Complete the survey For 8-11 years olds For 12-24 years olds Deadline for filling out the form is 13th February 2023 at 9 am. Thank you so much for your continuous support and the work you’re doing for our community. --- - Published: 2022-12-02 - Modified: 2022-12-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/a-writer-encountering-an-archive-by-indra-tincoca/ - Categories: Library and Archive Indra Tincoca with publications by F. R. David in Stuart Hall Library Indra Tincoca reflects on her placement in Stuart Hall Library as part of the Writer in Residence Project for her BA(Hons) Writing for Performance course at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. The beauty of being surrounded by and researching such rich material is that occasionally, you find something that exceeds that material and research interest. By this, I mean something that speaks to a deeper part of you. It is hard to make such a distinction when you are surrounded by iniva’s resources, but the distinction lies in the ‘epiphany value’ that the intense, personal moment of discovery contains. Perched on the third shelf of the Essay and Theory section (towards the end), you will find several volumes of the F. R David Journal (with the spines spelling out the name via its individual letters). At the bottom of the spine lies a small apple. A treat. What I enjoy most about publications such as F. R David is their capacity to be entirely themselves. It seems too easy to encounter a dominant vein of thought, and experience very little beyond it. We are using the same words, utterances, and grammar. Why is it that I have never noticed the way you have seen this (issue, topic, artwork)? Why have I never seen this? These are questions I ask myself when I converse with F. R David. The more I learn from him, the less... --- - Published: 2022-10-28 - Modified: 2022-10-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/into-the-archive-a-powerful-repository-of-knowledge/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: Archives, archiving, volunteer, Volunteering Teloni Thandiwe with publication Mirror Reflecting Darkly: The Rita Keegan Archive' in Stuart Hall Library, 2022 Our recent archive volunteer Teloni Thandiwe reflects on her time volunteering in iniva's archives and the development of her approach to archiving. My encounter with archives throughout my time at university revealed the scarcity of historical records that reflected the experiences that intrigued me. In my study of women’s resistance movements throughout colonial Africa, the lack of women’s perspectives in the records I came across and biased colonial archives revealed the deliberate constructions of incorrect and incomplete histories. Due to this, I sought to collaborate with institutions that were motivated to create, regenerate, record and highlight marginalised histories and how their histories would be preserved. Volunteering in iniva’s archives has been invigorating and has taught me valuable skills, intensified my desire for new knowledge, and enabled me to be a part of defining an archival practice which focuses on reflecting internationalism and preserving the memories of visual artists of African and Asian descent. I undertook a variety of tasks, starting with repackaging material from artist files to update the archives and the upcoming digitisation project for TaNC (Transforming a National Collection) project with the Institute of Decolonising Art. I explored the background of the artists that I was working with and had to carefully consider what kind of information should be preserved within these files. It also gave me the opportunity to discover artists and unearth more intriguing facts about their practices. I believe... --- - Published: 2022-10-20 - Modified: 2022-10-20 - URL: https://iniva.org/shifting-hegemonies-the-politics-of-nationalism-at-the-venice-biennale/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: nationhood, nations, venice biennale, volunteer, Volunteering Kirsty Flockhart with publication Floating Margins in Stuart Hall Library, 2022. Based on her recent master’s thesis, Stuart Hall Library volunteer Kirsty Flockhart reviews the politics of nationalism in the current organisation of the Venice Biennale. The global art scene is always dominated by the powerful countries; the same geopolitics that governs the world governs the art scene -artist Hit Man Gurung from Kathmandu, Nepal The Venice Biennale features exhibitions through a format of ‘national pavilions’, where the space dedicated to each participating country is dependent on various economic and political factors. The major permanent pavilions are situated within the gated-grounds of the Giardini, many of which have historic links to colonialism and now feature exceptional economic prowess. The rest are forced into renting temporary spaces within the Arsenale. Beyond this, there are many other non-biennale-sanctioned countries whose exhibitions are scattered across the city. This is one of the largest problems; the implication of equal representation at the ‘Olympics of the Art World’, and the reality that each pavilion heavily relies on access to funding to determine its place. The format of national pavilions seems an impossible task: to represent a nation with just one or a few individuals. Biennales claim to represent national contemporary culture, which is particularly complex, as culture is experienced and interpreted differently between each region, community or individual. With ever increasing international movement, we should expect ideas of national identity to become ever more complicated. By maintaining the system of national pavilions, there is also... --- - Published: 2022-10-18 - Modified: 2022-10-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/interview-with-rohan-ayinde/ - Categories: Writing Dancing In The Ellipsis // A Cartographer’s Black Hole, Poem on glass exterior of library, Rohan Ayinde, 2022 Photo credit: Fikayo Adebajo As part of the Stuart Hall Library Artist-in-Residence 2021, Curatorial Trainee Tobi Alexandra Falade conducted a short interview with Rohan Ayinde to discuss his exhibition, Dancing In The Ellipsis // A Cartographer's Black Hole. TAF: During your residency in 2021 how did you use the resources of the Stuart Hall Library to shape your research? RA: I started by searching the Stuart Hall Library catalogue online using key words to find texts that were related to my research. There were a few points that I was starting from such as abstraction, and I was also looking at Frank Bowling and Aubrey Williams as artists related to abstraction. These were my three starting points alongside reading Stuart Hall's essay on diaspora identity. I pored through the books I found, sat with them reading sections and making copious notes that were both related to the books, and to the research I had already developed, thinking about where that led me as a portal for new ideas that weren't specifically about abstraction. TAF: How does your exhibition explore Stuart Hall’s description of “diaspora identity”? RA: My understanding of Stuart Hall’s description of diaspora identity is this idea that people from diaspora are in a constant state of becoming. There is no stable marker of identity other than in the idea of movement, and the process of translation from one thing to... --- - Published: 2022-09-29 - Modified: 2022-10-05 - URL: https://iniva.org/lift-these-ashes-into-your-mouth-by-sophie-j-williamson/ - Categories: Writing - Tags: Future Collect, Study Day On 14th July 2022 we organised Approaching the Scar, a study day which took the form of an excursion to Gordale Scar, a hidden gorge in the Yorkshire Dales and a key research site in artist Emii Alrai’s work towards her Future Collect commission. As we traversed the landscape together, we shared and exchanged experiences, ideas, research and practice inspired by the themes Emii is exploring in her work around the links between our bodies and the land, and the layers of history and memory written into different terrains. Guided by invited artists, curators and writers, we also joined each other in a meditation grounding us in our own physicality, broke bread together baked with locally grown wheat, delighted in observing local fauna, and drank water from the waterfall at the magical Janet’s Foss. By engaging in conversations with the landscape, we explored the links and parallels between land/body and human/body, exploring their shared histories, ruptures and shifting narratives. To create a record of the day we asked curator Sophie Williamson, one of our invited participants, to produce a written response. For the study day Sophie collaborated with writer Daisy Hildyard to select a number of texts which they read to the group at different points along our walk. We are delighted to share her thoughtful and evocative response below, weaving multiple voices through excerpts from these texts with her own reflections on the day. -- //Fields Our walk through deep-time starts in fields; fields that were once forests, roamed... --- - Published: 2022-08-05 - Modified: 2025-01-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/iniva-announce-their-archives-revealed-cataloguing-grant/ - Categories: Announcements - Tags: archive, archiving, Iniva archive iniva's new Cataloguing Archivist, Niamh Glanville-Frayne in Stuart Hall Library with Third Text Journal, 2022 iniva is excited to announce that we have received an Archives Revealed Cataloguing Grant. Archives Revealed is a partnership programme between The National Archives, The Pilgrim Trust and The Wolfson Foundation, dedicated to cataloguing and unlocking archives. Through Archives Revealed funding, we have been able employ an Cataloguing Archivist to catalogue key sections of the archive that are most in demand by our users, including our founding conference and early constitutional documents which feature speeches, writings, and practice by now internationally recognised academics and thinkers including Stuart Hall, Rasheed Araeen, Geeta Kapur, Gilane Tawadros and Eddie Chambers. We will also catalogue ground-breaking exhibition and programming material including Veil and X-Space, together representing a microcosm of INIVA’s institutional archive as a whole. These archives will be brought alive via a dynamic open-source software called ‘Collective Access+’ for managing and publishing museum and archival collections, accessible worldwide. This new catalogue will contribute to wide-ranging research and academic knowledge by exposing hidden art histories, as well as promoting well-being and creative expression through interaction with archival extracts that are representative of their local communities in Westminster and beyond. “iniva is delighted to receive this grant to fund an archivist to catalogue key parts of our visual arts archive pertaining to our organisational set-up and two ground-breaking exhibitions. This fund will enable us maximise the digital reach of our collections to our global audiences, such as researchers and scholars,... --- - Published: 2022-08-03 - Modified: 2022-08-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/pear-nuallak-reflections-on-contained-terrain/ - Categories: Writing - Tags: Future Collect, Study Day On 16th May 2022 we organised the study day Contained Terrain: conversations about collecting natural histories, at the Stuart Hall Library. In this generative, open and nourishing space we came together to share and exchange experiences, ideas, research and practice inspired by the themes artist Emii Alrai is exploring in her work around natural histories and landscapes as well as time and memory. We asked what happens to natural artefacts when they are placed in collections, and considered the meaning of containment in relation to entities that were once subject to change, decay and life processes, becoming frozen into something static. With the act of containment also suggesting colonial implications of ownership and capture, we explored what it might mean to decolonise natural collections and reflected on new models for the form a container or collection could take. To create a record of the day we invited artist and writer Pear Nuallak, a participant at the study day, to produce a written and visual response. We are delighted to share their poetic and evocative reflections below. To see further information on the study day including the bios for all of the collaborators who joined us in a process of thinking together, see the study day info pack here. *** Digital collage in response to the Future Collect study day in May, with digital mark-making, mosses and lichens from Croydon, and a tiny plastic hand bearing frankincense. 1. On the archive Let us consider the archive as a container. Before we... --- - Published: 2022-08-02 - Modified: 2022-08-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/volunteer-reflections-by-esther-cawte/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: librarianship, volunteer, Volunteering Esther Cawte with publication on Sonia Gomes titled 'I Rise' in Stuart Hall Library, 2022 Our recent volunteer Esther Cawte reflects on her time volunteering in the Stuart Hall Library to learn more about art librarianship I started volunteering at iniva as I was looking to gain pre-library school experience, and the opportunity at Stuart Hall Library looked to provide this within a specialist art library. Furthermore, with Stuart Hall Library’s unique, rare and international collection, I knew I would be challenged to think beyond my own perspective. Now that I have come to the end of my time here, I can say that the opportunity has not only given me the insight and hands-on experience of the library skills I had been seeking, but also the confidence to move forward in this sector. Initially, a significant amount of my time was dedicated to abstracting articles from Art Review, which would then be added to the online catalogue. This was a chance to read about a broad range of artists, practices and ideas, and encapsulate them into summaries. I learnt that abstracting articles in this way is rather unique to Stuart Hall Library, who create their own abstracts for articles which fall within its users’ interests, broadly race, gender and class. So while writing each abstract, it’s a matter of illuminating themes and ideas which are most useful to the library’s users. This process takes time and resists any automated approach, but shows the care with which iniva approaches its... --- - Published: 2022-07-22 - Modified: 2022-07-22 - URL: https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-creole-atlantic-in-the-rubble-of-what-is-still-falling-apart/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: stuart hall library, volunteer, Volunteering Volunteer ines silva holding book "Atlantica: Contemporary Art from Angola and its Diaspora" in Stuart Hall Library, July 2022 Stuart Hall Library volunteer ines silva reflects on Angolan artist Délio Jasse’s careful reframing of family photographs from Portugal’s colonial occupation of Mozambique. I had never heard of Atlantica: Contemporary Art from Angola and its Diaspora (Dantas, 2020) until I found the book in the Stuart Hall Library. This wouldn’t have been so strange had I not lived in Lisbon for 21 years, just 5 kilometres away from HANGAR, the research centre that published it. Inside this book I met Délio Jasse’s work for the first time, his series The Lost Chapter Nampula – 1963 that has still been etched into my mind. The “Black Atlantic”, understood in the stead of Paul Gilroy (1993), is a counterculture of modernity imagined and practiced as a refusal and denunciation of whiteness, imperial colonialism, and the centres as the sole agents of History. In this blog post, I consider the work of Délio Jasse through the notion of a Creole Atlantic – a metonymic framework that avoids centring the coloniser’s narratives. I also grapple with the question of temporality. How are contemporary artists engaging with the ongoing disaster of transatlantic slavery, colonialism, and coloniality? If we take Trouillot’s challenge to face pastness as a position (2015), how are these artists refusing the Portuguese state’s official aphasiac chronology, which disavows colonialism and racism as psychological, a-historical problems of individual moral deficit? I focus on artistic... --- - Published: 2022-06-15 - Modified: 2022-06-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-reading-to-encounter/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: library, reflections, volunteer, Volunteering Loulwah Kutbi with publication Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers Stuart Hall library volunteer Loulwah Kutbi reflects on her experience of migration, sharing her thoughts about the library space and constructions of identity as read in iniva’s 2008 publication Exiles, Diasporas and Strangers. I often find myself identifying with Edward Said’s interpretation of György Lukács's meditation on the modern novel as the literary site of “transcendental homelessness”; as a representation of displacement that actively engages with creative expression or passionate research because “the exile’s life is taken up with compensating for disorienting loss by creating a new world” (Said, 2013: p. 181). Standing at the threshold of various national constructions – ethnically Turkic, culturally Arab – I have always found articulating identity around national frameworks to be compromising. I came to the UK in 2019 to pursue my undergraduate degree in French and Politics; at the dawn of Brexit and not too long after, the pandemic. Moving to London made me feel a sense of disillusionment that heightened my sense of foreignness. Although migrating was a conscious choice that I chased for the longest time, I noticed how the political and social dynamics framing the discourse around migration did not acknowledge the different gradations of migration and its fundamentally violent urge to occult subjects. Despite the best of intentions to support those not integrated into the system, something felt amiss to me within social and cultural spaces. The library space was somewhat of an abstract concept for me growing up, being used... --- - Published: 2022-06-06 - Modified: 2022-06-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/iniva-announce-towner-eastbourne-as-partner-for-year-3-of-future-collect/ - Categories: Exhibition, Announcements iniva is pleased to announce that it has selected Towner Eastbourne as its partner for the third year of Future Collect. Future Collect is iniva’s national partnership programme designed to diversify who is collected by, who works at, and who goes to national museums and galleries, with the aim of better reflecting the breadth of contemporary British society. The partnership will commission a major new work of art by an artist of African and/or Asian descent, born or based in Britain, for exhibition and acquisition at Towner Eastbourne in 2024, following an artist open call later this year. The project also supports significant curatorial development in the form of a curatorial traineeship. The exhibition will be supported with an education and engagement programme, and new research into Towner’s growing art collection. Previous Future Collect artists have included Jade Montserrat with curator Nikita Gill at Manchester Art Gallery; and Emii Alrai with curator Amber Li at The Hepworth Wakefield. There will be a sector conference in 2023 that reflects on the learning gained from all three years of the Future Collect programme. The Curatorial Trainee, jointly appointed by iniva and Towner Eastbourne, will be predominantly based in Eastbourne where they will be given an outstanding opportunity to develop a range of skills needed for the curatorial workforce today. This includes assisting with selection of the commissioned artist; working alongside them to develop the new work and subsequent exhibition at the gallery; collection research, care and display; and audience engagement. The partnership... --- - Published: 2022-05-06 - Modified: 2022-05-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/behind-the-display-punk-zines/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: library placement, zines This essay is a transcript of a presentation given by Naomi Hart highlighting a selection of punk zines in Stuart Hall Library Zine Collection given on 6 May 2022 Stuart Hall Library’s contemporary collection features around 400 artist and activist zines which address the subject areas of cultural identity and diversity, visual culture, and platforming underrepresented voices. Zines are DIY self-published magazines, typically with a small circulation, and are affordable or free. Zines are rooted in social histories of protest movements, radical subcultures, and projecting the voices of marginalised communities, and fit well within the library’s collection development policy. While browsing through the zines, which are kept on an open shelf by the entrance to the library, it caught my attention that many of them were about punk music and culture, and the intersections of punk with other themes, such as race and identity, feminism, female readerships, and queer culture. Punk is a counter-cultural movement that centres on punk music and other forms of creative expression, with an anti-establishment ethos that promotes rebellion, non-conformity and individual freedom. According to the writer Chloe Arnold, “In the ‘70s and ‘80s, the main hub of zine culture became the punk scene in London, LA and New York. ” And in the 1990s, the feminist riot grrrl movement emerged as “an alternative to the male-driven punk world of the past”, encouraging women and girls to start bands and make zines themselves (Arnold, 2016). An example of this is Electra, a zine by Jane Collins... --- - Published: 2022-03-22 - Modified: 2022-06-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-emotional-dimension-of-stuart-hall-library-by-leda-yang/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: identity, library placement, migration Leda Yang with publication Shades of Black in Stuart Hall Library, 2022 Leda Yang is a current MA in Migration and Diaspora studies Student at SOAS who has completed her placement at iniva. This blog post summarises her reflections on her time in Stuart Hall Library and her personal questions on the emotive construction of spaces for migrated individuals. During my time at Stuart Hall Library at iniva, I learnt about things somewhat outside of my expectations. I initially thought I would make sense of my fine art education through intersecting with my current anthropology and sociology studies in migration and diaspora. However, what I gained from my placement experience here went beyond that with the focus shifting into deeper understanding of the construction of spaces, specifically the emotional, affective dimension of spaces. My entering into academic life was somewhat delayed. As a first generation Italian born Chinese woman at the dawn of Chinese economic migration to Italy during the 90s, I didn’t feel entitled to the production of narratives surrounding my identity. Whilst here as a part of my placement for my masters programme at SOAS, I was able to bring together my theoretical understanding of migration and diaspora with practice, being in a space where the conversations around migrant and diasporic states of being is actively generated through the curation of text, art and documentation. Both my degree and placement at Stuart Hall Library has been a gradual exercise in possessing my own entitlement to cultural creation, inside... --- - Published: 2022-02-24 - Modified: 2024-02-19 - URL: https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-artistic-representations-of-stuart-halls-notion-of-the-familiar-stranger/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: Caribbean, Library collections, stuart hall, Volunteering Agnes Perotto-Wills with John Berger's Ways of Seeing publication Agnes Perotto-Wills, a Stuart Hall Library volunteer, explores Stuart Hall’s term ‘familiar stranger’ in relation to the migration of Caribbean individuals and the experiences of artists of Caribbean heritage. Cultural theorist Stuart Hall, in the 2017 edition of his autobiography Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands, used the term ‘familiar strangers’ to refer to the unique experience of Caribbean migrants who came to Britain in the ‘Windrush generation’ of post-war migration. The term refers to the familiarity of symbols of Britishness, such as the royal family and works of classic British literature as a result of colonial education which engendered a sense of loyalty to Britain, with many West Indians referring to it as the ‘Mother Country’. However, the ‘stranger’ referred to by Hall was visible in the reality that met migrants upon arrival, one vastly different from the utopian England many had been taught to imagine. Caribbean migrants were treated with ignorance and discrimination and quickly realised their ‘familiarity’ with their host culture was very much one-sided, with accounts of British people asking migrants if they ‘spoke English’, or telling them to ‘get back to the jungle’. Further, Caribbean migrants were utilised in ‘race-relations’ sociological discourse, which dichotomised society into an ‘us’ versus ‘them’ narrative, with migrants portrayed as ‘strangers par excellence’. Iterations of the idea of the ‘familiar stranger’ are visible in migrant memoirs, in fiction, in music and in art. This blog post will explore the latter... --- - Published: 2022-02-18 - Modified: 2022-06-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-my-time-at-stuart-hall-library/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: librarianship, stuart hall library, Volunteering, volunteers Yasmin Smith with Working Class Queers in Stuart Hall Library, 2022 Yasmin Smith reflects on her time volunteering at the Stuart Hall Library and how this has developed her confidence to pursue a career in librarianship. I have come to the end of volunteering at Stuart Hall Library and it brings me great sadness to leave a place that is so astounding in its reception of typically ignored voices. I came to the library during a time of flux in my life and it was only when entering the library that I was given a sense of accomplishment. This library has done more than just give me the confidence to pursue a career in librarianship that is often dominated by middle-class attitudes and policies, but it has educated me on ways I can commit to equality in my everyday life. I began my library experience by writing abstracts for journal articles to be indexed and re-shelving items both of which gave me insight into the collection. I expanded my knowledge on artists such as Jade Monserrat and fell in love with her recent publication ‘A Reimagining of Relations’. This then led me to more challenging tasks such as coming up with my own topic for a blog post related to the collection. This experience of successfully finding a publication and/or exhibition that relates to me gave me the assurance that the Stuart Hall Library enforces representation in all its forms. Although I could have learned these skills in other libraries,... --- - Published: 2022-02-16 - Modified: 2022-06-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/guest-post-searching-for-the-queer-caribbean/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: Caribbean, queer, Zach Myers Zach Myers in Stuart Hall Library with the publication Art in the Caribbean Zachary Myers, Stuart Hall Library volunteer, reflects personally on the resources in the library’s collections on the ‘Queer Caribbean’ Content warning: homophobic slur I don’t remember the moment when I knew my aunt was a lesbian. When we would visit Trinidad to see my family it wasn’t something that we really spoke about – it never seemed important. What I remember is her laugh pealing above the low growl of her voice. I remember how big she was, how strong her hands seemed even as they glid across the guitar when she tried in vain to teach me how to play. I remember everyone saying that we looked alike; for a time when I looked at her, I would see myself, feeling that deep down in some unspoken and grasping way, we were the same. I remember the air reverberating with a half-beat of silence after someone would say she was ‘zamian’. This word, I would learn, comes from zami, a Caribbean word for women who work together as friends and lovers. I’d known that it was the title of Audre Lorde’s ‘Biomythography’, but it wasn’t until I found it again in the Stuart Hall Library that I thought of my Aunt Leslie, whispering the word to myself, pulling each syllable softly from my mouth like the beads of a pearl necklace. Audre Lorde, the child of West Indian immigrants in Harlem, isn’t someone that I’ve seen... --- - Published: 2022-02-11 - Modified: 2022-06-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-disengagement-with-my-own-heritage/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: Emii Alrai, Library collections, volunteer Yasmin Smith with publication Veil in Stuart Hall Library, 2022 Yasmin Smith reflects on the impact of classification, disengagement with heritage and what it means to be at the forefront of decolonising information with reference to Emii Alrai’s ‘Showcase- A Perpetual Remaking’. ‘Classification, although necessary in systems of language, contributes to hierarchies of power: the power to define information and the power to grant or limit access to that information. ’ (Crystal Vaughn 2018). My mother, an Israeli immigrant who moved to the UK twenty years ago, never taught me Hebrew as a child. I have always punished her for this choice by neglecting to participate in Sabbath or preferring Christmas over Hanukkah. I did this because I believed being bilingual was the only entry into the culture of my mother. But it is only now, as I am tasked with gathering information for a reading list on Middle Eastern female artists, that I realise the bigger punishment was felt on my behalf. I felt I had punished myself by feeling locked out of my own cultural heritage because I was locked out of a language. My mother's ease into rituals and celebrations that were based in Hebrew meant that I correlated language with culture and so lost out on both. This realisation, alongside volunteering at the Stuart Hall Library, began a journey into how libraries, with the use of language, can create their own visions of society. iniva’s Future Collect artist Emii Alrai’s ‘Showcase- A Perpetual Remaking’ touches on... --- - Published: 2022-01-26 - Modified: 2022-02-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/news-from-the-north-by-emii-alrai/ - Categories: Writing Future Collect artist Emii Alrai has been researching for her new commission across the UK. Here she tells us of her journey to Scotland with curator-in-training Amber Li as well as drawing inspiration from Yorkshire and St Ives, both places known for Barbara Hepworth's' engagement with the landscape. "Me and Amber Li traveled to Lybster, in the East Coast of Scotland, 40 mins away from John O' Groats to visit North Lands Creative, who are an incredible team of glassblowers pushing glass outside of its limits. Our plan was to visit North Lands and then travel to John O' Groats to reach the most Northern part of the UK. Unfortunately (or in many ways, fortunately) found ourselves in the middle of Storm Arwen, and spent a very dreamlike few days trapped in Lybster with two other artists, Fionn Duffy, whose research practice is dealing with origins of glass making and kelp collecting to make ancient glass, and Laura Quinn, who is an incredible glass artist. Having those days in a lodge in Lybster, shared with wonderful people and beating snowstorms I feel added depth to the conversations around glass, foraging, landscape. We couldn't make it to John O' Groats due to the likelihood of being blown over the cliff edge, but hope to visit when producing glass work for the commission in February. Here is a pic of us on the day we were able to travel back to the lowlands and a pic of some plants growing in the... --- - Published: 2021-11-03 - Modified: 2023-02-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/future-collect-artist-year-2-emii-alrai/ - Categories: Announcements - Tags: Emii Alrai, Future Collect Emii Alrai, Passing of the Lilies, Jerwood Arts. 2021. Photographs by Anna Arca iniva and The Hepworth Wakefield announce the second artist to be commissioned for Future Collect – a programme of contemporary art commissions – transforming the national conversation around contemporary art collecting. iniva and The Hepworth Wakefield have selected artist Emii Alrai for the second Future Collect commission. Alrai’s work explores relationships and tensions within Western museum practice, and previous projects have investigated processes of displaying and valuing artefacts from the Middle East. Her practice has emerged from making objects mimicking these artefacts, transforming humble materials to question museological traditions and systems of display. The selection panel, composed of curatorial teams from iniva and The Hepworth Wakefield, chose the artist because of her sensitivity in navigating complex diasporic narratives combined with her evocative exploration of materials. The partnership between iniva and The Hepworth Wakefield to commission a major new work by an artist of African, Caribbean, Middle Eastern or Asian heritage living and working in the UK follows the commission of Jade Montserrat with Manchester Art Gallery. Alrai’s work will be accessioned into the The Hepworth Wakefield’s collection, which holds international modern and contemporary art as well as a substantial body of work by Barbara Hepworth, who was born in Wakefield. Alrai, who is based in Leeds and currently has her studio in Wakefield, spoke about the importance of accessing The Hepworth Wakefield’s collection: “The opportunity to engage with The Hepworth Wakefield’s collection would be extremely beneficial to... --- - Published: 2021-10-20 - Modified: 2021-12-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/iniva-seeks-charity-trustees-non-executive-directors/ - Categories: Announcements iniva seeks charity trustees/non-executive directors As we emerge from an extraordinary year, Iniva is seeking new trustees to join our Board to support the organisation’s growth, and help realise our ambitious vision to transform the cultural landscape with artists and creative communities. With the unique Stuart Hall Library and Archive at its heart, for more than 25 years, Iniva has been at the vanguard of cultural practice, promoting the work of artists, writers and curators who have been pivotal in exploring anti-colonial narratives and foregrounding diverse, hybrid cultural perspectives. We are now embarking on a series of exciting projects, with new staff and funding, informed by research and conversations between creative practitioners and the intergenerational and international communities we serve. As part of this programme, we are seeking new board members who will help strengthen and sustain the organisation. Do you have a passionate belief in the essential role of art to address social justice and inequity and create lasting change - through practice, research, education and collaboration? Do you bring expertise in any of the following areas: income generation and knowledge from the commercial sector; digital communications across platforms; libraries & archives; engaging and working with young people? If you bring experience and a commitment to work with us to achieve our goals for current and future generations, we would like to hear from you. About the roles As part of the role Trustees are expected to: · Engage in and support the artistic endeavours of the organisation · Advocate for Iniva’s vision and programme · Oversee the charity’s organisational development, financial operations, future strategy, and delivery of objectives.... --- - Published: 2021-10-08 - Modified: 2021-12-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/the-caribbean-archipelago-display/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: Caribbean, Display, libraries week Zach Myers in front of the Caribbean Archipelago display in Stuart Hall Library In celebration of Libraries Week (4-10 October 2021), our volunteer Zach Myers has curated a display in the Stuart Hall Library entitled 'The Caribbean Archipelago'. Our second episode of 'Behind the Display' explores Zach's selection of exhibition catalogues on Caribbean art and history and essays and memoirs by prominent Caribbean intellectuals in relation to his research and heritage. Drop-in the library to see the display Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm or watch the presentation below. Watch the presentation Zach Myers is currently a postgraduate student at University College London, starting an MA in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre. --- - Published: 2021-09-16 - Modified: 2022-06-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-reflections-on-library-placement/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: librarianship, library career, library placement Tessa in the Stuart Hall Library, 2021. Tessa Roynon reflects on her short placement in the Stuart Hall Library as part of her MA in Library and Information Studies course at University College London and its impact on her current endeavour to create a diverse school library collection. I was keen to complete a placement at the Stuart Hall Library at iniva for several reasons. First, I have long been a devotee of Stuart Hall’s thought on identity, culture and politics. Second, one of my aims in starting a new library from scratch at The Swan School, where around 46% of students are not white British, is to create a facility that is always and already decolonial, and/or that is anti-racist from its inception. My MA dissertation will focus on whether or not such an ambition can be realised. The Stuart Hall Library and its manager, Tavian Hunter, are currently in the vanguard of anti-racist work in UK Libraries, and although both their collection and their users are in many ways different from that of a secondary school, I hoped to learn from their best practice. I was not disappointed! I was amazed by how many activities and processes I could participate in or shadow over the 2. 5 days of my placement: reshelving; book cataloguing; posting about my visit on iniva’s social media; researching for my dissertation from books in the Library’s collection, searching for missing resources, and abstracting individual articles for the online catalogue. My primary interest was... --- - Published: 2021-09-10 - Modified: 2022-02-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/stuart-hall-library-artist-in-residence-2021-rohan-ayinde/ - Categories: Writing Rohan Ayinde portrait. iniva and Stuart Hall Foundation are thrilled to announce that artist and poet Rohan Ayinde has been selected for the fifth Stuart Hall Library Artist’s Residency – a funded opportunity with support from Arts Council England that builds on Professor Stuart Hall’s unique contribution to intellectual and cultural life. Building on the distinct connections between iniva and Stuart Hall Foundation, the residency allows a visual artist the space to think about some of the key themes related to the work of Iniva and the Foundation, including the language of the diaspora, culture, identity and archiving. This year marks the 70th anniversary of Professor Stuart Hall’s arrival in Britain from Jamaica in 1951 and in commemoration, the residency invited an artist to respond to the concept of ‘arrival’ and its capacity to transform and trouble notions of fixed cultural identities. Selected through a richly competitive open call, Rohan Ayinde will be resident for three months at the Stuart Hall Library in London, UK, from October to December 2021. The panel selected Ayinde for his dynamic and imaginative proposal that brings a multidisciplinary and nuanced critical approach to grappling with the shifting landscape of race and black radical politics. Ayinde’s work oscillates between abstract drawings, audio-visual poetry, performance and sculpture, and is interested in the ways that abstraction can function as a method for thinking about black radical thought as a form, or a poetics. His research during the residency will take Stuart Hall’s description of “diaspora identity” with... --- - Published: 2021-06-03 - Modified: 2024-01-29 - URL: https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-black-feminist-artists-writers-and-collectives/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: black feminist, collectives, feminism, stuart hall library, writers Tammi Bello, a placement student from Birkbeck College exploring black feminist artists, writers and collectives in Stuart Hall Library with a display of publications from the collection. Books, Journals and Zines in Stuart Hall Library on Black Feminist Artists, Writers and Collectives, May 2021. Black women have a long history of organising and building groups in which they share stories and experiences, then drawing on the parallels between them to make work and create discourse. This is why collectives are so important to the wider movement, they created and exhibited together. Without them the artists that we see now making waves in the mainstream wouldn’t have had the platform to do so. Lubaina Himid, Claudette Johnson, Bell Hooks, or Beverly Bryan could not have gotten to the place they’re at now without that early collective backing. This nature is still seen in black feminist workings today, they are all part of something bigger. The UK Black Arts Movement for example did not have a strong feminist discourse before Claudette Johnson brought the issues to the forefront at the first National Black Arts Conference in 1982 which led to a deeper discussion in the Women’s’ workshop and was a pivotal moment in the UK’s black feminist art movement. This can be seen as the beginning of the collective identity for these women, and what sets them apart from the wider feminist movement. Casting your eyes across the display the words that stick out are: Girl-hood, Womanhood, Sisters, liberation, making the movement... --- - Published: 2021-04-16 - Modified: 2023-02-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/iniva-announce-gallery-partner-for-year-2-of-future-collect/ - Categories: Writing - Tags: Future Collect, Hepworth Wakefield The Hepworth Wakefield Garden - Tulips (16th April 2020). Photography by Jason Ingram. Iniva is pleased to announce that it has selected The Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire as its partner for the second year of Future Collect. Future Collect was established in 2020 with generous support from Art Fund, Arts Council England and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. Future Collect is a three-year initiative to reimagine the future of public collections at major art galleries and museums throughout the UK and provide paid curatorial trainee opportunities. The partnership will commission a major new work of art by an artist of African and/or Asian descent born or based in Britain for display at The Hepworth Wakefield in 2022. It will be supported with a wide public engagement programme and new research into Wakefield’s growing art collection. A paid, year-long Curatorial Trainee, jointly appointed by Iniva and The Hepworth Wakefield will be predominantly based in Wakefield, where they will be given an outstanding opportunity to develop a range of essential skills needed for the curatorial workforce today, including working with the commissioned artist, collection research, care and display, and audience engagement. The partnership also offers an opportunity for The Hepworth Wakefield’s Assistant Curator to spend time on secondment at Iniva, utilising the unique resource of the Stuart Hall Library as a space for critical enquiry and creative exchange. Sepake Angiama, Artistic Director of Iniva, said: “We are delighted with our new collaboration with The Hepworth Wakefield to radically rethink new models for commissioning... --- - Published: 2021-04-01 - Modified: 2021-04-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/ice-cream-over-bronze/ - Categories: Writing Image courtesy of Harun Morrison By Harun Morrison Part 1 from your fleshy animate body consider static, polished ones consider your skin in relation to metal your bones in relation to stone your breath in relation to wifi your veins in relation to the fibre optic cables beneath you listen, the city speaks, it is a dissonant choir, speaking differently in different places simultaneously each intervention in public space is speech meeting other speech imaginations of today encountering imaginations ten, fifty a hundred years prior imaginations of the future wrestling with imaginations of today memorials should be flatpack, all the quicker for their inheritors to disassemble, to shelve, to relocate or send down a river as they deem necessary Part 2 When a large statue is stolen at night, sawn to pieces, then sold to a yard; it's rightly considered an act of vandalism. Newspapers take grim glee in reporting something worth only a few thousand pounds as scrap-metal being worth millions as sculpture. Typically such sculptures are monumental, weighty and commanding of the space around them. Cranes, reinforced ground, multiple crews of workers are all needed to install them, and they are similarly demanding feats to remove. However, what if in this case such a sculpture is not stolen by thieves for profit? Instead it is stolen by the artist themself, who proposes through this clandestine act to reimagine their work in public space. Nor is it stolen alone, but in consort with others, for whom it is local,... --- - Published: 2021-02-04 - Modified: 2021-12-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/uncover-discover-create/ - Categories: Pedagogies - Tags: creative learning, emotional learning In the first of a new series of blog posts that coincide with our new monthly workshop series Ways of Being, A Space Director Lyn French explores the history, approach and importance of our emotional learning workshops. Reflections on the Iniva Creative Learning Workshop Programme from early 2000s-present day By A Space Director Lyn French Exploring identity, difference and diversity is always relevant, compelling and emotionally resonant regardless of the times we live in. These subjects touch us all. Each of us must work out who we really are which usually includes challenging some of our skewed self-perceptions as well as re-thinking our place in the world and how we imagine others see us. In tandem, defining and refining who we want to become is a lifelong task. This is supported by increasing our understanding of the rich and complex interplay between messages we pick up from the world around us and our internal thoughts, each influencing the other in ways which may be outside of our conscious awareness. Uncovering our limiting self-beliefs, discovering our agency and creating possibilities for ourselves is a dynamic process. It is never carried out in isolation but within a context shaped by our gender, race, class and culture, all of which are social constructs which also shift and change. Our current workshop programme, which is now delivered on Zoom either in short blocks or as one-off sessions, has its roots in the history of the Iniva /A Space partnership dating back to the early... --- - Published: 2021-02-04 - Modified: 2021-02-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/queen-britannia-is-a-mess-and-kali-reigns-supreme-at-tate-britain/ - Categories: Writing Photography: (c) Tate (John Humphreys). By Hassan Vawda and Khaled Sofian Queen Britannia is 'a mess' and Kali reigns supreme! The 123 year-old facade of Tate Britain, with its towering steps, white textures and heroic pillars, a museum claiming to contain 'the heart of British art', has been mashed up with infinite colours and lights by the Punjabi Liverpudlian artist, Chila Kumari Singh Burman. Beneath the colours and lights is a network of images that make up Burman’s vision: the power of women tearing up patriarchy, deep memories of her childhood and experiences of 'beyond two cultures'. Her family’s ice-cream van is stationed on the regal museum steps reading, 'we are here coz you were there', with freedom fighter Lakshmibai glowing nearby and the Rani of Jhansi standing strong. Even at 10pm on a rainy day during lockdown, pilgrims and passersby can be seen hypnotised by the warm, nourishing, dazzling glows of 'Remembering a Brave New World'. Burman’s playfulness pumps liberation into the Art monument on the Thames. Her legacy stakes a claim at social action. For the first time, this 'Christmas-is-coming' signifier, the Winter Commission, opened on Diwali. Expressing worlds, histories and identities that speak across generations. To be your whole self, as an artist, but also speaking to the post-colonial diasporas who find themselves in the crushing narratives of 'Westernese', pushed to the margins, forced to compromise, change, and assimilate. Your whole self, just as her great father did by placing a fierce tiger on top of his... --- - Published: 2020-12-01 - Modified: 2021-12-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/interview-with-xiaoyi-nie-and-bo-choy/ - Categories: Writing - Tags: Research Network War of Perception, 2020. Film still. ©Bo Choy As part of Research Network programme: Global Re-visions, Curatorial Trainee Chloe Austin conducted a short interview with Xiaoyi Nie and Bo Choy to discuss their research in advance of their talk 'Vicissitudes of Crossing Borders'. CA: How does your project explore the themes of globalisation and internationalism as presented in the Global Re-Visions call out? XN/BC: Having grown up in Hong Kong and mainland China respectively, we came to know each other in London in the field of contemporary art. Xiaoyi’s research tells the story of art project ‘Long March: A Walking Visual Display’ (2002). It was curated by Lu Jie and Qiu Zhijie in the early stage of globalisation of the art world and a trial to encourage Chinese artists to reflect on ‘the obsession with China’, the anxiety towards the West and the phenomenon ‘Chinese contemporary art’ propelled by the international market and by the multiculturalism policy in Europe. Hong Kong, a transfer station for ‘Chinese contemporary art’, was considered as the centre of Asia and heralded as an international and multicultural hub during the 1990s. Bo will ponder on the several ‘End Time’ (1997, 2047 and 2020) that Hong Kong has gone through politically and socioeconomically, with her own living and migrating experience in Hong Kong and UK as a clue. These social transformations also brought the diversion of identities such as ‘Hong Kongese’, ‘Chinese’... From the 1990s to 2021, from the emergence of multiculturalism to the recession of... --- - Published: 2020-11-05 - Modified: 2020-12-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/interview-with-deniz-sozen/ - Categories: Writing - Tags: Research Network Image credit: ©Deniz Sözen. Surya Namaz, HD video, 2018, video still. As part of Research Network programme: Global Re-visions, Curatorial Trainee Chloe Austin conducted a short interview with Deniz Sözen to discuss her research ‘The Art of Un-belonging’ in advance of her talk. CA: How does your project explore the themes of globalisation and internationalism as presented in the Global Re-Visions call out? DS: Resonating with the themes of the Global Re-Visions call out, my practice-based research – The Art of Un-belonging – sets out to investigate and develop artistic strategies that challenge conventional notions of belonging and difference in the context of globalisation and diasporic art. Despite the advancements within the theoretical discourse since Iniva’s first symposium ‘A New Internationalism’ (1994), in practice artists still tend to be categorised according to their geographical, national and/or ethnic belonging(s) by the art world/market. Taking my own practice and position as diasporic artist as point of departure The Art of Un-belonging seeks to formulate a critical response to this tendency. The practice element of my research consists of three discrete yet interrelated artworks that challenge an ethnocentric and anthropocentric conception of belonging. The multilingual video-performance Surya Namaz (2018) is a personal investigation of yoga and namaz, the Muslim prayer ritual, exploring the potential of transcultural performance, opacity and multilingualism to undo fixed notions of belonging. Kahvehane Kongresspark (2016), a temporary café, ceramic cups/saucers and a site-specific performance in public space and Trans Plantations (2018), an installation of cups/saucers and coffee beans cast... --- - Published: 2020-11-05 - Modified: 2021-12-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/listing-inivas-archives/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: Archives Boxes of Iniva's Archives relocated to John Islip Street arranged in the Stuart Hall Library Archives Room Iniva is excited to announce the creation of a new up-to-date listing of the Iniva Archive collection. In 2018, Iniva was awarded a £4,000 British Archives Council Cataloguing Grant. The grant allowed us to begin cataloguing Iniva’s Archives based in the Stuart Hall Library. The archival collection documents Iniva’s 26-year history as a pioneering organisation set up to diversity the mainstream of contemporary art. It comprises the organisation’s foundational documents, including key mission, strategy and policy; correspondence with key stakeholders, funders and artists, as well as exhibition and publication files demonstrating years of campaigning for better representation of Black and Asian artists in British art institutions. Artist file of ephemeral material related to Frank Bowling's exhibition history preserved in melinax sleeves The grant was awarded to make the contents of the archives accessible for future artists, curators and the general public to research the rich history on contemporary art on artists of African and Asian descent. Between 2019 and 2020 our Project Archivist worked closely with our Library Manager to review, sort, catalogue and repackage the collections into our new dedicated archive space where a listing of the archival collections is now available here. Images from Veil exhibition (2003) archive collection As we revisit Iniva’s founding ideas through this year’s Research Network Programme: Global Re-visions, it is the perfect time for artists, curators and the public to research our past projects and exhibition... --- - Published: 2020-11-02 - Modified: 2020-11-19 - URL: https://iniva.org/the-contemporary-art-space-project-year-2/ - Categories: Pedagogies We are very excited to announce the newly appointed artists for Year 2 of the Contemporary Art Space project 2020 - 2021, a partnership with RSA Academies. Each artist will work closely with a collective of students in three schools in the West Midlands. Haseebah Ali Haseebah Ali is an artist and print maker based in Birmingham. Her work centres around cultural themes and occasionally political circumstances. Her artistic aim is to create work that educates: both herself and the audience that views and/or engages with it. Having having obtained a BA in illustration, Haseebah has the background of both digital and traditional mediums. Since graduating Haseebah has embarked on many opportunities including facilitating art workshops, collaborating with other creatives, and more recently exhibiting her work in a solo exhibition in Birmingham. Future goals include exhibiting work on an international scale and helping educate and support young people in their creative journey. haseebahprints. com De'Anne Crooks As an artist-educator, much of De’Anne’s practice considers the collaborative and collective experiences of others. Considering their practice as a form of activism rather than a teacher of art, De’Anne’s relationship with pedagogy and contemporary art has cultivated a strong sense of play with political, moral and emotional themes. During her fellowship with the Black Hole Club and within her recent commissions for the Film and Video Umbrella, Vivid Projects and ReFramed network, De’Anne has been testing the praxis of contemporary art adjacent to and in harmony with Blackness. Using video, performative and fine... --- - Published: 2020-07-02 - Modified: 2020-07-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/notes-on-standing/ - Categories: Writing Statue of Edward Colston in the river Avon. There are many ways to stand. You can stand up, stand down, stand together, stand with, stand for and stand against. This is of course not an exhaustive list but standing alone is not neutral. Over the last month we have seen what it means when various publics ‘make a stand’ for what they believe in and how this intentional position might result in action. Amidst the Black Lives Matter protests that swept across the world in the wake of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police Officers at the end of May, we see the very much-needed introspection of our cultural institutions. Witnessing the brutality of George Floyd’s death shook the world in a moment while we are still dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic. The call for justice resonated across the world and has made us all, individually and collectively, reflect on our responsibility of being witnesses to such a tragic death. The voices and chants of grass roots movements have been articulated as audible demands. Who do you stand with? What do you stand for? What do you stand against? How do our institutions reflect what we say we stand for? How can institutions change their statements into actions? What stands in our public spaces and can we uphold public statues as standing for all? The campaign to remove Edward Colston because of his direct involvement as a merchant and slave trader and the fact that... --- - Published: 2020-06-03 - Modified: 2020-06-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/a-note-on-voicing/ - Categories: Writing What should be the response from cultural institutions or institutions of any kind to the racial violence that we are seeing today? How do we respond? Firstly, we need to acknowledge the hurt, pain and ongoing racial violence that occurs not only on our streets and within our communities but also within our institutions. The work can begin by addressing what it means to be an anti-racist institution that reflects this, not only in statements but also in our employment, in our governance, in our programming, in our practice working with artists and the public. We need to reflect upon our work and recognise that systemic racism and issues of racism cannot be seen in isolation. How do we, as institutions through our policies and our practice, act to show solidarity and shape our society? How can we be spaces that voice-up and support our communities’ artistic voices or otherwise when they are in pain? How do we make spaces for our publics to breathe or pause and reflect? Can we act as platforms to bring people together? As cultural institutions, do we recognise that we have a voice that can speak to injustice? In the case of Iniva we believe our role is to create spaces where we can have conversations that articulate the language of difference through the visual arts. Stuart Hall, the first chair of Iniva, set our mandate of making space for the emerging generation of artists that are to come – making new forms of... --- - Published: 2020-05-01 - Modified: 2021-12-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/review-autoicon-the-digital-body-a-work-by-donald-rodney/ - Categories: Writing - Tags: autoicon, Donald Rodney Images of Donald Rodney's AUTOICON CD-ROM Stephen Weller, Stuart Hall Library volunteer reviews the recent lunchtime talk: AUTOICON : The digital body Prompted by the unique audio-visual collections available in the Stuart Hall Library and Iniva’s involvement in the intersection of art, technology, and the internet at the end of the 20th Century, I developed an interactive talk focused on Donald Rodney’s AUTOICON. An interactive CD-ROM based media work, produced in part by Iniva in 2000 but conceived by Rodney and completed by a close group of friends and collaborators following his death from sickle cell anaemia in March of 1998. Whilst familiar with Rodney’s practice, I first learned about AUTOICON when researching for a blog post on subjectivity and the body in internet art. AUTOICON consists of a Java-based AI and neural network allowing users to interact, converse, and collaborate with it through a simulated, systematic dialogue. The responses can be in the form of text, audio clips, videos, and images; these are drawn from documentation on Rodney including interviews, his body of work, his medical data, and popular media. A generative montage machine serves to collect and collage the produced material according to a rule-based system drawn from Rodney’s own creative process. AUTOICON was conceived as a digital body - a living, evolving presence that would stand in the organic Rodney’s absence. What I was hoping to glean from a reading of AUTOICON was how it can illuminate the process of digitalisation and the consequences it has had... --- - Published: 2020-05-01 - Modified: 2020-06-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/a-brief-note-on-care/ - Categories: Writing May Day is known as an international celebration of the worker that arose as a marker of the Haymarket riots in Chicago triggered by their poor working conditions and demands for an 8 hour work day. “Mayday mayday” is a distress call coming from the French “m’aider” meaning help me – a call to come to ones rescue. A painting of three black nurses in crisp white uniforms titled Portrait of Daphne Steel, 2018 hangs on the wall of St George’s University. They commissioned artist Sola Olulode who made a painting of Daphne Steel the first black matron in Britain. The painting was not only a celebration of 70 years of the Windrush generation in Britain but also a connection to 70 years of the NHS. The two commemorations are deeply entangled. The word care has Germanic and Norse roots and its etymology relates directly to "sorrow, anxiety, grief," also "burdens of mind; serious mental attention". Care can also be painful. In Old Norse it apparently relates to the word for 'sick bed'. To really care for, to sit with someone else's pain. We are learning this lesson right now. Commissioned artist for Future Collect Jade Montserrat challenges us to think through a series of questions this month relating to how language translates to practices of collecting and how the power of language impacts on the practice of artists. Jade also proposes that we look beyond the care of the art work to think about the care of artists and... --- - Published: 2020-04-09 - Modified: 2020-04-17 - URL: https://iniva.org/a-brief-conversation-with-artist-jade-montserrat/ - Categories: Exhibition, Writing Image: Jade Montserrat, Born to Suffer the Weight of Men, installation view, 2020. Photograph by George Torode. In December 2019 Jade Montserrat’s exhibition at the Stuart Hall Library addressed the multitude of voices and conversations nurturing the artist's work and the generative relationship between image and text. Iniva’s Simina Neagu sat with the artist to discuss her multi-faceted practice. Jade’s work is informed by the interplay of art and activism and the literary traditions of the Black Atlantic. Combining quotations with her own writing, Jade refers to her watercolours and drawings as dissemination tools. An underlying common theme in the artist’s practice is an ongoing exploration of building spaces of belonging and care. The figure plays a significant role in the work that is shown at the library. In particular, a series of works, Ecclesiastes, installed in the library's individual study spaces features silhouettes strewn with minuscule text and dots. Could you consider this body of work having a bodily function? I think we could probably liken these works to skin. Mostly because it's something that can take on different reflecting qualities. Skin cells wrap our bodies, while showing us what we're about. It's the first thing that you see and distinguishes us from one another. The watercolours would point to different dynamics of skin, different times, different ages, different sicknesses. They're also adorned skins. They are also entry points, right? Yes, absolutely. I'm also in Anne Anlin Cheng territory at the moment, reading "Second Skin: Josephine Baker & the... --- - Published: 2020-04-09 - Modified: 2020-06-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/a-note-from-the-director/ - Categories: Writing This month we find our ourselves ‘working from home’, a commonly used phrase when in need of concentration, away from the distractions of busy office life. Obviously, this disposition comes from the dramatic effect that the coronavirus Covid – 19 is having on all our lives. Like most other visual arts organisations, after realising that the virus had passed through British borders unchecked and indiscriminate to whom it claimed as host despite our heightened hygiene practices, we postponed our public meetings, our study and reading groups and soon after, sadly closed the Stuart Hall Library doors to the public. A place in which many people take solace in our book collection and where we gather for collective study, intimate talks, and reading. Then the team themselves needed to retreat to work remotely. Meanwhile, the government realised the magnitude of the public health risk and have encouraged ‘social distancing’, only bare minimum and essential travel as well as the closure of all non-essential gatherings, as well as commercial, social and religious spaces. Schools and universities also closing their doors means that work life and family life are now colluding in the same time and space. And due to the high proportion of elderly and people with underlying health issues being at greater risk, it makes attending to parents, grandparents and loved ones extremely difficult. This was truly an event of a global scale that continues to have a direct impact on our daily lives. The fear of the virus quickly gave... --- - Published: 2020-04-05 - Modified: 2020-04-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/the-contemporary-art-space-project-the-depths-of-our-history-by-rudy-loewe/ - Categories: Pedagogies In this blog post for our Contemporary Art Space Project based in the West Midlands, we hear from the CAS project curator Josephine Reichert about the impact of the in-school launch of Rudy Loewe’s “The Depths of Our History” held on 4th March 2020... In summer 2019 I was appointed the curator for the Contemporary Art Space Project, a collaborative project by Iniva and RSA Academies. I was excited by what the project was trying to do. At a time when the curriculum had been moving away from art and music teaching, this project didn’t just try and bring great contemporary art into schools, it was also trying to redefine how art is included in the teaching of all subjects. The project saw us working directly with students and teachers to support their engagement with artwork created by emerging talent from Birmingham and London. The artists selected make work that asks difficult questions around belonging, community, identity and emotions. It also brought contemporary art to many students who might not have experienced it otherwise. On the 4th March 2020 we held a day-long launch of Rudy Loewe’s piece entitled “The Depth of our History” at Holyhead School in Handsworth, North Birmingham. The work was created following three workshops with Year 8 children and an art therapist, Prabhjot Kaur and looks at Handsworth’s history of protest and resistance, its strong community spirit and also its issues. Over the school day we met 4 classes from year groups 7 to 10 and... --- - Published: 2020-03-17 - Modified: 2020-03-17 - URL: https://iniva.org/covid-19-update/ - Categories: Announcements Dear friends and visitors, The Stuart Hall Library is temporarily closed to the public from Tuesday 17 March until further notice to help combat the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID -19). Based on government advice and as a duty of care to our team, contributors, supporters and visiting public we have taken the difficult decision to postpone any upcoming public or education events to help prevent the continuous spread of the virus. We will keep you up to date through our social media channels and our website as we continue our work through digital channels. @iniva_arts www. iniva. org For public enquiries you can contact us at info@iniva. org Thank you for your ongoing interest and support. --- - Published: 2019-12-03 - Modified: 2024-01-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/donate-a-book/ - Categories: Library and Archive Recent donations to the Stuart Hall Library collection. We are grateful for the amazing new resources we have acquired this year for the Stuart Hall Library. For our popular Research Network reading groups as part of the More-than-Human Care series, we have expanded our critical theory section to include books that address issues of global art activism and ecology in the face of climate crisis through the lenses of race, class and gender. We have also received some generous donations which you will see filling our shelves in the New Year, from Brazilian and South American exhibition catalogues, Middle Eastern artist monographs and a large donation of critical theory on international relations, protest and political resistance narratives in UK from the 1980s and 1990s. This will be available alongside new purchases that will expand on radical writers and thinkers in the collection, fill gaps in the Eastern European art collections and demonstrate our continued links with international publishers. Bookplate for donations to Stuart Hall Library However, in order to for us to continue our work fostering a culture of learning and researching within the visual arts, we ask you to support us in developing up-to-date collections by gifting a new book to Stuart Hall Library. Any book you purchase will be given a personalised book plate to acknowledge your donation. We've made it really easy to donate a book and have carefully selected the books and resources which we know will greatly benefit our library users from academic researchers to... --- - Published: 2019-11-28 - Modified: 2019-11-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/a-view-from-elsewhere-ten-chinese-contemporary-artists-by-i-ying-liu/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Writing I-Ying Liu, Stuart Hall Library volunteer explores the theme of identity in Chinese contemporary art. Chinese Art at the Crossroads: Between Past and Future, Between East and West edited by Wu Hang. Available for purchase in shop When asked to write about ten Chinese contemporary artists, the first thing that popped into my mind was a question: What is Chinese contemporary art? How is it defined? As someone who doesn’t regard herself as but is and ‘looks’ Chinese in some way, this task seems particularly tricky, but intriguing at the same time. Previous artist-in-residence at Stuart Hall Library, Ting-Ting Cheng (鄭亭亭) continued her exploration of identity politics from her time at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CCFCA) in Manchester. The resultant work is a performance that restages ‘A New Vocabulary for Chinese Art? ’, a seminar the institution organised in 1998. Setting out to rethink the term ‘Chinese’ in various cultural contexts, the seminar has raised questions of why people need this label and who it is for. ‘Is it for artists to identify themselves or for others to define them? ’, asks Cheng. What does this self-identification suggest? Is it a mere compliance with the norm, an indication of cultural origin, a declaration of political stance or a manifestation of loyalty? And who are the ‘others’? Are they the audience looking to get a sense of certain artistic practices, governmental bodies to strengthen their diplomatic soft power, institutions to tick diversity boxes or markets to cater for collectors’... --- - Published: 2019-11-25 - Modified: 2019-11-25 - URL: https://iniva.org/interview-with-matthew-krishanu/ - Categories: Exhibition, Writing Matthew Krishanu, Corvus, 2019. Installation view. Photograph by George Torode. In advance of his talk at the Stuart Hall Library, Iniva Programme & Operations Coordinator Simina Neagu caught up with artist Matthew Krishanu to discuss the series of paintings currently displayed in our new space in John Islip Street. The small-scale works, depicting crows, rooks, jackdaws and ravens emerge between shelves and bask alongside books, populating the collection with their delicate, comical and eerie presence. Your practice includes several cycles of works, such as Another Country (2012-2019), inspired by your childhood in Dhaka or Expatriates (2016-2019), a series of portraits of English expatriates in India and Bangladesh. How do the Crows sit within your wider practice? You mentioned before that although its subjects were found mostly in London, they somehow exist outside of time and place. Could you elaborate on that? The crows are mainly London crows (although some are from other parts of England as well). Having just returned from a visit to Mumbai, India, where I observed and photographed crows there, I may well be painting some Mumbai crows soon. The crows are partly a signifier for me of my childhood growing up in Bangladesh and India, where the sound of their cawing was ever present. The sound of them anywhere in the world takes me back to my memories of crows. Memory forms the basis of my other series of works – which include paintings of my brother and myself as boys (Another Country), and series that... --- - Published: 2019-11-15 - Modified: 2021-05-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/rock-riots-and-racism-exploring-the-parallels-between-1976-and-present-day-britain-by-cheraine-donalea-scott/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Writing Cheraine Donalea Scott, Stuart Hall Library volunteer, explores her interest in contemporary Britain through grime music using Stuart Hall Library collections. Image of Isaac Julien's Riot, White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race, Syd Shelton : rock against racism Despite what may seem like a politically unprecedented and polarizing contemporary moment, there are many political and cultural parallels to be made with 1970’s Britain. Both blighted by analogous episodes of economic recession, problematic immigration policies, heightened racism and the rise of far-right populist movements. These moments of political crises have also induced counter-cultural responses, evident in the 1970’s punk movement and grime music today. This phenomena where counterculture, media, and politics combine to challenge the dominate national narrative in a dynamic way is often sidelined from the main political analysis and its ideological potency underestimated. This aligns with the research I am currently working on, which explores the potentially of grime music as a transformative politics that challenges notions of national identity, through its interracial class relations. The punk scene of the 1970’s can also be read as conveying a similar cultural politics. While it was not my immediate intention to explore the historical parallels between the two British music cultures, navigating the library, in my role as volunteer, allowed me to be more open to the material I encountered and lead me the oversized book Syd Shelton: Rock Against Racism, which became integral to the way I approached my research in the library. Amending search keywords to... --- - Published: 2019-11-08 - Modified: 2019-11-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/iniva-announces-new-artistic-director-sepake-angiama/ - Categories: Announcements, Writing Sepake Angiama, Artistic Director Iniva. Iniva is pleased to announce the appointment of their new Artistic Director, Sepake Angiama. Sepake will officially start in the role at the beginning of January 2020. Having previously held positions at Hayward Gallery, Turner Contemporary, International Foundation Manifesta, documenta 14, and most recently as Curator of Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019, Sepake brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the organisation. Sepake joins Iniva during its 25th year, celebrated with a ground-breaking new project, Commission to Collect, which aims to transform curatorial practice around commissioning within major British art galleries and museums, and will see the commission of new artworks by British based artists of African and/or Asian descent, accessioned into major public art collections over three years. The new Artistic Director will also focus on developing the opportunities arising from the recent move of Iniva and the Stuart Hall Library to its new home on John Islip Street, London. With plans to digitise its collection, and extend its educational and outreach work, this makes for an exciting period of progression and growth for the organisation. Sepake Angiama, Iniva’s Artistic Director said “I’m really pleased to be accepting the position of director of Iniva on its 25th anniversary. This institution has provided an important space for vital research and made a significant contribution to the enriching of the discursive field of artistic and curatorial practice. With the support of the team at Iniva I look forward to stewarding this organisation as it continues the... --- - Published: 2019-11-01 - Modified: 2019-11-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/making-history-and-oyster-card-holders-free-saturday-sewing-workshop-with-meera-shakti/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Announcements Making History and Oyster Card Holders Project, funded by Culture Seeds. Photo courtesy of Meera Shakti Osborne Focusing on the theme of identity, community and celebrating diasporic histories, Iniva will host a 3-day sewing workshop with facilitator Meera Shakti. Through collective making, re-centring ourselves and our experiences, this course is focused on sharing stories, exploration of ideas and learning skills in basic hand stitching techniques over three weeks. The aim of the project is for each participant to design a panel of fabric which will become part of a shared tapestry reflecting on our chosen stories, historicizing yourself and sense of belonging in a welcoming environment. This collective tapestry will become part of a touring exhibition in different community spaces in Spring 2020. Giving to yourself, the second half of each day will be dedicated to you, mending clothes or fabric, creating oyster card holders or even phone and glasses cases. All ideas of what you want to make during this time are welcome and all materials and training will be provided. If you would like to participate, email Meera Shakti Osborne (meera. osborne@gmail. com) with your interest and to reserve a space on the course. Places are offered on a first come, first serve basis and open to all. This workshop is part of the project “Making History and Oyster Card Holders” happening across London and funded by Culture Seeds. A number of selected materials from the Stuart Hall Library collection will be displayed during the workshop and participants... --- - Published: 2019-11-01 - Modified: 2019-11-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/focal-point-2019-art-book-fair/ - Categories: Announcements FOCAL POINT 2018. From Thursday 14th - Saturday 16th November 2019, Iniva will be taking part in the second edition of FOCAL POINT, an art book fair held at the Bait Obaid Al Shamsi building in the Sharjah Arts Area, UAE. We will be presenting a selection of publications from the Iniva catalogue, with a particular focus on texts offering critical perspectives into globalisation, cultural histories, geographical boundaries and migration. FOCAL POINT, the Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual art book fair, caters to the interdisciplinary nature of art publishing and aims to present a focus on independent and alternative publishing practices presented alongside a select number of larger, more established publishing houses. The three-day fair will feature regional and international artists and publishers who will present their content individually or within curated sections. As part of the broader presentation, this year’s content will include a special focus on zines and comics. Sections and Participants INDEPENDENT - Independent publishers and distributors representing printed matter from across the world 1. Afterall 2. Blaft Publications 3. Book Works 4. Darat Al Funun 5. Farside Collective 6. IKREK 7. Iniva 8. Islam Aly 9. Kaph Books 10. Kawkab ElRasameen 11. Kulte Editions 12. Lars Müller Publishers 13. Lendroit éditions 14. Maamoul Press 15. OOMK 16. Perimeter Books 17. Raking Leaves 18. Sharjah Architecture Triennial 19. Tara Books 20. The Book Society/mediabus 21. The Funambulist 22. The Palestinian Museum 23. TokTok Magazine 24. Tosh Fesh 25. Ugly Duckling Presse 26. Valiz Books EDIT - Curated presentations... --- - Published: 2019-10-11 - Modified: 2019-10-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/reflections-on-research-network-reading-group-surviving-on-a-damaged-planet/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Writing Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet and Decolonising Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology A reflective blog by Chloe Austin, Curatorial Trainee. On September 24th we held a reading group entitled Surviving on a Damaged Planet, where we responded to the ideas of Ayesha Tan Jones’ research network event Optimystic Dystopia. The reading group space was intimate and generative, with the group working together to unpack complex and, at times depressing, realities. This blogpost hopes to relay some of the conversations sparked by the text we read, Deborah Bird Rose’s, “Shimmer: When All You love Is Being Trashed,” from Anna Tsing et al. Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet and T. J. Demos’ “Ways Forward,” from Decolonising Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology. Before we began reading, we started by sharing our feelings towards the climate crisis. There was a mix of emotions; from sadness to fear and anger with some saying they felt furious and outraged. Others felt confused, lost and even useless. However, it was not all negative, one group member shared that despite feeling scared for the future she also felt hopeful that things will change. Another group member said they felt grateful for the effort being made by some scientists and activists to seek solutions and push for change. Our first text, by Bird Rose, focused on the work done by flying foxes carers, people who dedicate their time to looking after flying foxes, who are key pollinators in Australia.... --- - Published: 2019-10-08 - Modified: 2019-10-17 - URL: https://iniva.org/volunteer-interview-william-gore/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Writing William Gore speaks with Chloe Austin, Curatorial Trainee about his experience volunteering at Stuart Hall Library. He shares his top picks from the library and his plans to use the library in future projects. Dream Babes: Issue 1, front page. Edited by Victoria Sin, design by Rowan Powell. Chloe Austin: Can you tell me about the work you have been doing in the Stuart Hall Library? William Gore: I’ve been updating the library’s bibliography of Stuart Hall’s work, making it more comprehensive by reference to the Stuart Hall Foundation’s extensive list. I’ve also helped with some relabelling of periodicals. CA: Does this link to research you have undertaken outside of the library? WG: During my course, I became increasingly interested in cultural studies, particularly relating to music and youth culture. Working on the Stuart Hall bibliography has exposed me to a lot of writing on these topics - including his writing on calypso and auditory culture. Just being in the library every week has also exposed me to so much amazing work! Victoria Sin and Evan Ifekoya in Dream Babes: Issue 1, page 3 CA: To prep for this interview I asked you to bring something from the library collection to highlight, what have you brought and could you share some excerpts? “On her back with her feet up she’d stomp on the ceiling so much that the bar manager had to repaint it almost every week In those moments she could barely remember She knows she felt euphoria Upside... --- - Published: 2019-10-07 - Modified: 2019-11-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/acknowledging-the-body-in-online-art/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Writing Stephen Weller, Stuart Hall Library volunteer explores his interest in New Media and Net Art (Internet Art) and artists in the Stuart Hall Library collection. Early conceptions of the Internet hinged upon utopian ideals of shedding the confines and complications of race and gender - going online would mean leaving the body, and the social categories attached to it, behind. However, as Beth Kolko, Lisa Nakamura, and Gilbert Rodman assert in Race and Cyberspace (2000), ‘neither the invisibility nor the mutability of online identity make it possible for you to escape your "real world" identity completely. ’ I wanted to use my time at Stuart Hall Library to better understand art produced at the turn of the century from artists of colour in the emerging fields of new media and net art and how it dealt with the uncertainty of online space. Many of these artists were interested in the potential of new technologies, but also recognised their replication and reintegration of the hegemonies of race and gender. Despite the ways in which the Internet has evolved over the past 20 years, how its spaces have become more surveilled and policed, more narrow and yet simultaneously more networked and far-reaching, artists continue to explore these ambiguous opportunities. Race in Digital Space In looking for these connections in Stuart Hall Library, I came across the exhibition guide for Race in Digital Space, published alongside the exhibition’s showing at The Studio Museum in Harlem in 2002. In curator Erika Dalya Muhammad’s own... --- - Published: 2019-09-23 - Modified: 2020-02-20 - URL: https://iniva.org/call-for-proposals-research-network-2020-global-re-visions/ - Categories: Announcements Books from the Stuart Hall Library collection. Global Visions: Towards a New Internationalism in the Visual Arts Coinciding with our 25th Anniversary Year, the Research Network theme Global Re-visions looks to expand on our founding ideas which were articulated in our first symposium ‘A New Internationalism’ held at Tate Britain in 1994 which announced Iniva’s arrival. A constellation of voices unpack what might be new or fresh in the conversation around globalisation and can be found in the essays published in the accompanying publication, Global Visions: Towards a New Internationalism in the Visual Arts. ‘The only certainty which emerged at the close of two days of intense and provocative discussion was that this was the beginning of the debate and not its conclusion’ - Gilane Tawadros, Global Visions: Towards a New Internationalism in the Visual Arts. To reignite debate, we invite applicants to reflect on the concept of New Internationalism and build upon ideas presented at the symposium, considering their relevance and impact. Applicants are encouraged to engage with some of Iniva’s core concerns and consider how the discourse around these ideas has developed over the years. Proposals could address, but are not limited to: Internationalism in the arts Nationalism in global politics Transnational social movements Translocalism Cultural exchange and diplomacy Critical museology Disrupting eurocentrism Translation, language and text Hybridity and post-colonialism Migration and exile Diaspora and displacement Citizenship and statelessness Decolonisation and its impact The cosmopolitan and the avant-garde We have created a reading list of resources to support... --- - Published: 2019-08-21 - Modified: 2019-08-21 - URL: https://iniva.org/review-representation-of-identities-in-south-african-photography/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Writing Iniva’s Engagement Assistant, Luca Campione reviews his interactive talk: Representation of Identities in South African Photography held at Iniva in July 2019. Drawing on the expertise of staff at the Iniva and the wealth of resources available in the Stuart Hall Library, I developed an interactive talk focused on South African photography practices with specific analysis of the works of David Goldblatt and Santu Mofokeng. I first learnt about these two prominent South African photographers from different generations during the module Curating Difficult Histories: Museums, Exhibitions, Art Activism, taught by the Professor Annie E. Coombes at the Birkbeck University. Goldblatt’s Some Afrikaners Photographed and Mofokeng’s Black Photo Album/Look at me, 1890-1950. REPRESENTATIONS OF IDENTITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA PHOTOGRAPHY The research and aim of my interactive talk was to analyse “to what extent the practices of Goldblatt and Mofokeng challenged the notions of identity perpetuated by the South African government during the apartheid regime? ”. In order to do so, I chose to explore two photographic albums, Goldblatt’s Some Afrikaners Photographed and Mofokeng’s Black Photo Album/Look at me, 1890-1950. Both Goldblatt and Mofokeng, influenced by different reasons, created a corpus of photographs that sharply contrast the (mis)representations of identities perpetuated by the South African government during the apartheid regime. The South African government preserved a narrative based on the dichotomy between modernity and tradition, associating one with urban spaces and whiteness and the other with rural spaces and blackness. Such a narrative was central to the enactment of restrictive laws that... --- - Published: 2019-08-21 - Modified: 2019-08-21 - URL: https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-luca-campione-engagement-assistant-placement/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Writing Luca Campione, a student at the Birkbeck University on MA History of Art course, reviews his work placement at Iniva as an Engagement Assistant. As part of my studies at Birkbeck University, I undertook a placement at Iniva for ten weeks. The main aim of my placement was to create a welcoming and rewarding learning experience to visitors through guided tours of the Stuart Hall Library and archive collections. It was an intense and very valuable experience which gave me the opportunity to learn about the many activities of the institution from researching specialist collections, creating and conduct an interactive tour and learning how best to support a programme of events through interaction. Drawing on the expertise of the Library and Archive Manager, Tavian Hunter, I have gained a close understanding of library and events management. Among the programme of events held by Iniva, I assisted the running of the performance-lecture “The Weeds Became Long Graceful Grasses”, with artist and researcher Dr. Luiza Prado and writer and Sexual and Reproductive Health Doctor, Dr Annabel Sowemimo as respondent. This event gave me the first valuable suggestions for my final assessment, in particular regarding the development of a coherent argument and the engagement of the audience. Among my many tasks, I visited and studied the curatorial assemblages of various exhibitions, such as the N. S. Harsha’s solo show and Isaac Julien’s video installation, both held at Victoria Mirò, as well as the Frank Bowling retrospective at the Tate Britain. Iniva has worked... --- - Published: 2019-07-02 - Modified: 2019-07-19 - URL: https://iniva.org/iniva-on-bbc-news/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Announcements, Writing Watch this short documentary produced by Fatma Wardy for BBC News about the re-opening of the Stuart Hall Library. On the heels of the black arts movement of the 1980s, Iniva was founded to create a space for black artists ignored by the mainstream art world. The core of Iniva as an arts organisation is the Stuart Hall Library. Named after the renowned British-Jamaican cultural theorist, the Stuart Hall Library is a specialist collection of more than 10,000 volumes relating to art by people of African, Asian, Caribbean and Latin American descent. The documentary follows the move to the new location in Pimlico and celebrates Iniva's 25th anniversary. Hear Director Melanie Keen explain the origins of Iniva and how it continues to support artists of African, Asian and Latin American descent. --- - Published: 2019-07-01 - Modified: 2021-05-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/the-invisible-other/ - Categories: Writing There There, "Trigger Warning", 2017. Image credit: Maria Tanjala Iniva Programme and Operations Coordinator Simina Neagu transcribed and edited a conversation between performance company There There (Dana Olărescu and Bojana Janković) and curator and academic Dr Lina Džuverović, as part of the 'Duties of Self-Care' Research Network programme. The event gravitated around strategies for representation and building solidarity through diasporic and immigrant art practices, particularly from an Eastern European perspective. This text has been published in Kajet Journal, Issue 3, "On Struggle". There There’s work, informed by personal experience, addresses discrimination faced by immigrant communities, or what Ambalavaner Sivanandan refers to as xeno-racism,1 "a xenophobia that bears all the marks of the old racism", especially in the wake of the EU referendum. 2 However, as There There point out, Eastern Europeans are considered to be a “half-recognised demographic. ” Classified as “other” or "white other" on equal opportunity forms in the UK, they don’t fit within the traditional segmentation of racial and ethnic diversity and sit uncomfortably in other tick boxes. This is amplified by a paradox that writers such as Catherine Baker examine in detail: the reliance of south-east European cultural critique on postcolonial thought to explain the region's past and present marginalisation and its simultaneous difficulty in articulating the region's relationship to whiteness (and implicit identification with modernity and empire). 3 So with a theoretical framework that is still working through its inconsistencies, how can artists attempt to both explore and advocate for their identity? Dr Lina Džuverović... --- - Published: 2019-06-28 - Modified: 2019-07-19 - URL: https://iniva.org/news-from-inivas-chair-of-trustees/ - Categories: Announcements, Writing Stuart Hall Library collection. Image: Carlos Jiménez, 2018. Iniva’s Director and Chief Curator Melanie Keen will leave Iniva at the end of September 2019 to join the Wellcome Collection as its new director. While we shall certainly miss her, Iniva’s board and team congratulates her on the appointment and wishes her well. Melanie joined Iniva in 2015 during challenging times, working closely with the Iniva team to stabilise the organisation; securing ACE NPO funding for four years 2018-2022, establishing a new patrons scheme and revitalising Iniva’s mission and vision which has made the Stuart Hall Library the critical and creative hub of our work. Over the last four years, Melanie has developed new partnerships with collaborators including Barbican Art Gallery, Bluecoat, Manchester Art Gallery, Art Fund, Art on The Underground, Art Night, Wysing Arts Centre and University of the Arts London. These partnerships have been central to developing an exciting artistic programme and are helping to create new opportunities that continue to develop artists and curators who better reflect the breadth of contemporary society. In the last two years, Melanie’s vision has been fundamental to Iniva’s relocation to John Islip Street and the refurbishment to create a new architect-designed space for the Stuart Hall Library. With the re-opening of the Library, we are closer to achieving our ambition to create a world-class centre for research into contemporary art and culture that gives space to visual art which examines life through the complex lens of race, class and gender. We are... --- --- ## Products - Published: 2025-06-25 - Modified: 2025-06-25 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/chinese-art-and-memorabilia-2011-upper-and-lower-volumes-%e4%b8%ad%e5%9b%bd%e7%be%8e%e6%9c%af%e5%a4%a7%e4%ba%8b%e8%ae%b0-hardcover/ - Price: 200.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications A compilation of documentation on contemporary Chinese art, providing a record of major art events that took place in China in the year 2011. Volume one provides a chronological listing of the events and volume two includes plates of representative works of the featured artists produced in 2011. Organisation and name index are provided. 本书记录了2011年1月1日至12月31日间中国美术界发生的大事件，包括：展览·活动、交流·研讨、观点·著述、机构·人事、纪念·回顾、交易·收藏、记录当代艺术家代表作品等栏目。 --- - Published: 2025-06-18 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/contemporary-perspectives-on-art-and-international-development-hardcover/ - Price: 65.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications Synopsis: Visual artists, craftspeople, musicians, and performers have been supported by the development community for at least twenty years, yet there has been little grounded and critical research into the practices and politics of that support. This new Routledge book remedies that omission and brings together varied perspectives from artists, policy-makers, and researchers working in the Pacific, Africa, Latin America, and Europe to explore the challenges and opportunities of supporting the arts in the development context. The book offers a series of grounded analyses which cover: strategies for the sustainability of arts enterprises; innovative evaluation methods; theoretical engagements with questions of art, agency, and social change; artists’ entanglements with legal and structural frameworks; processes of cultural mapping; and the artist/donor interface. The creative economy is increasingly recognized as a driver of development and this book also investigates the contribution made by the arts to the processes of international development, and considers how those processes can best be supported by development agencies. Contemporary Perspectives on Art and International Development gives scholars of Development Studies, Social and Cultural Geography, Anthropology, Cultural Policy, Cultural Studies, and Global Studies a contextually and thematically diverse range of insights into this emerging research field. About the Author: Polly Stupples is a Lecturer in Geography and Development Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Katerina Teaiwa is Associate Professor in interdisciplinary Pacific Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology and Environment, in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. --- - Published: 2025-06-18 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/negotiating-home-history-and-nation-two-decades-of-contemporary-art-in-southeast-asia-1991-2011-softcover/ - Price: 36.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications Assembling over 70 works from Indonesia, Malaysia, Phillipines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, this exhibition showcases the visual brilliance and conceptual purpose of recent Southeast Asian practice. Providing regional comparisons, it illuminates the common themes, aesthetic approaches, and conceptual tendencies that have surfaced since the early 1990s. Commonalities coming to he fore include story-telling, the meshing of idea and visual seduction, and a belief in art-as-social-voice. Arguing for a view of the region's visual production on the region's terms, the curatorial reference used to contextualise the pieces are mined in Southeast Asian history, geography, and culture. The exhibition proposes the confluence of recent political history, profound social shifts, and artists' confidence vis a vis their deep-rooted cultural baggage as significant to the creation of the visually potent and conceptually original art of the last two decades. Essays by Tash Aw, Khairuddin Hori, Agung Hujatnikajennong, Iola Lenzi, Susie Lingham, Apinan Poshyananda, Eileen-Legaspi-Ramirez, Nora Taylor, and Tan Boon Hui. --- - Published: 2025-06-18 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/thinking-through-fashion-a-guide-to-key-theorists-hardcover/ - Price: 41.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications Learning how to think through fashion is both exciting and challenging, being dependent on one s ability to critically engage with an array of theories and concepts. This is the first book designed to accompany readers through the process of thinking through fashion. It aims to help them grasp both the relevance of social and cultural theory to fashion, dress, and material culture and, conversely, the relevance of those fields to social and cultural theory. It does so by offering a guide through the work of selected major thinkers, introducing their concepts and ideas. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and is devoted to a key thinker, capturing the significance of their thought to the understanding of the field of fashion, while also assessing the importance of this field for a critical engagement with these thinkers ideas. This is a guide and reference for students and scholars in the fields of fashion, dress and material culture, the creative industries, sociology, cultural history, design and cultural studies. --- - Published: 2025-06-18 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/self-evident-softcover/ - Price: 30.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications This publication accompanied the August 12 - September 16 1995 Group Exhibition at Ikon Gallery: Self Evident Exhibition organized by Ikon Gallery in collaboration with Autograph, the association of black photographers. Kobena Mercer Seydou Keita Mama Casset Ingrid Pollard Maxine Walker Oladele Ajiboye Bamgboye --- - Published: 2025-06-18 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/hogarths-blacks-images-of-blacks-in-eighteenth-century-english-art-hardcover/ - Price: 40.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications Of eighteenth-century English artists, Hogarth was the most prolific painter and engraver of black figures. The black occurs in each of his major satirical series, from A Harlot's Progress of 1732 to The Election pictures of the 1750s. Countless critics have repeatedly marvelled at the elaborate narrative structure of the artist's work, at the fact that each detail within a particular work is purposefully placed to yield a specific meaning or to create a specific effect, no detail being gratuitous or accidental. Even so, no attempt has been made by Hogarth scholars to place blacks in the narrative contexts in which they occur. Nor have scholars taken up the important references to blacks in Hogarth's book The Analysis of Beauty. Dabydeen analyses the role of blacks in Hogarth's exposure of the sexual, cultural, and economic sordidness of English aristocratic life. He argues that Hogarth employs current myths and stereotypes about blacks, relating to their sexuality, paganism and simian ancestry, so as to comment on white deficiency: the black is used as a yardstick as well as a stick with which to beat the whites. Apart from the use of blacks as satirical devices, Hogarth also reveals compassion for their abuse and enslavement. The pregnant black woman beating hemp in the prison scene of A Harlot's Progress accounts to the earliest instance of anti-slavery sentiment in English painting. In this work, Hogarth gropes towards an understanding of the connections between race, class and gender, he senses the solidarity of suffering between... --- - Published: 2025-06-13 - Modified: 2025-06-13 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/rethinking-nordic-colonialism-a-postcolonial-exhibition-project-in-five-acts-softcover/ - Price: 37.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts --- - Published: 2025-06-13 - Modified: 2025-06-13 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/the-appearance-of-black-lives-matter/ - Price: 55.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications The Appearance of Black Lives Matter Nicholas Mirzoeff "The bad air smelled of roses" A thread of referential texts written or selected by Carl Pope --- - Published: 2025-06-13 - Modified: 2025-06-13 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/feminisms-and-museums-interventions-disruptions-and-change-volume-one-softcover/ - Price: 37.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications In two volumes (1,344 pages), Feminism and Museums explores how museums are responding to these wider socio-political challenges, in which they too play a part. In an unprecedented range, depth and variety of case studies and analyses these volumes present feminist actions, interventions and disruptions which are impacting the processes of collecting, learning, interpretation and engagement in today's museums, galleries and heritage organisations. In 57 chapters, creative resistance by both high-profile galleries and grassroots activist collectives is presented, and issues of colour, disability, domestic abuse, indigenous rights, labour, land use, migration, pornography, rape, refugees, sexuality, sex-work, technology and work examined. Feminism and Museums creates a space of creativity, conversation and confidence, of dialogue and new knowledge, building on the ambitious practice and perseverance of museum workers worldwide, and bringing together new voices, contexts and methodologies to both inform and inspire. --- - Published: 2025-06-13 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/qiu-zhijie-breaking-the-ice-a-history/ - Price: 135.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications Qiu Zhijie | Breaking the Ice: A History is a bilingual catalogue comprehensively charting the artist’s development over two decades. Published in conjunction with Qiu Zhijie’s 2009 solo exhibition at UCCA, “Breaking Through the Ice,” the book records the exhibited artworks through artist’s notes, additional texts, and drawings mapping out the exhibition’s narrative structure. The catalogue also features interviews with the artist, as well as essays by Guo Xiaoyan, Gao Shiming, Zhao Tingyang, Fan Di’an, and Chang Tsong-zung (Johnson Chang), complemented by the artist’s biography and plates of artworks. --- - Published: 2025-06-13 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/the-persistence-of-taste-art-museums-and-everyday-life-after-bourdieu-hardcover/ - Price: 56.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the social practice of taste in the wake of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of taste. For the first time, this book unites sociologists and other social scientists with artists and curators, art theorists and art educators, and art, design and cultural historians who engage with the practice of taste as it relates to encounters with art, cultural institutions and the practices of everyday life, in national and transnational contexts. The volume is divided into four sections. The first section on ‘Taste and art’, shows how art practice was drawn into the sphere of ‘good taste’, contrasting this with a post-conceptualist critique that offers a challenge to the social functions of good taste through an encounter with art. The next section on ‘Taste making and the museum’ examines the challenges and changing social, political and organisational dynamics propelling museums beyond the terms of a supposedly universal institution and language of taste. The third section of the book, ‘Taste after Bourdieu in Japan’ offers a case study of the challenges to the cross-cultural transmission and local reproduction of ‘good taste’, exemplified by the complex cultural context of Japan. The final section on ‘Taste, the home and everyday life’ juxtaposes the analysis of the reproduction of inequality and alienation through taste, with arguments on how the legacy of ideas of ‘good taste’ have extended the possibilities of experience and sharpened our consciousness of identity. As the first book to bring together arts practitioners and theorists with sociologists... --- - Published: 2025-06-04 - Modified: 2025-06-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/drawing-the-line-art-and-cultural-identity-in-contemporary-latin-america-hardcover/ - Price: 40.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications Recent international interest in the painters of the Mexican mural movement, such as Rivera and Orozco, has brought Latin American art to a wider audience than ever before but has often failed to confront its continuing marginalization within art criticism. Drawing the Line is an exploration of the areas occupied by Latin American art and culture between the ongoing traditions of its indigenous inhabitants, its colonial heritage and its contemporary relationship to the cultural politics of North America and Europe. It looks at the way cultural identity has been constructed by artists from the 1940s to the present day and challenges the way art criticism has hitherto dealt with Latin American art. Established stereotypes of Latin American culture are discussed in terms of their relevance to contemporary artists. The book looks at the frequent subversion of dominant images and conventions of European art-such as the political significance of landscape painted as an attempt to define a specifically Latin American reality, or the constant reworking of familiar icons of European art-and explores the importance of Latin America to the European surrealist movement. The authors examine the significance of popular art-such as the Chilean arpilleras which commemorate the "disappeared" of Pinochet's regime-and relate it to the traditional "high art/low art" dichotomy. Including new perspectives on race and gender, Drawing the Line is the most comprehensive account of contemporary Latin American art ever to appear in English. --- - Published: 2025-06-04 - Modified: 2025-06-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/softcover/ - Price: 50.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications Lee Bul is a contemporary artist from South Korea, whose artistic practice spans the mediums of sculpture, painting and performance, video and installation. Considered as one of the foremost Asian artists to emerge from the international art scene in the 1990s, she represented South Korea in the 1999 Venice Biennale. Her work has been exhibited at museums throughout the world including the Vancouver Art Gallery; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Fondation Cartier, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; The Power Plant, Toronto; New Museum, New York; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Drawing upon her early experiences of living under a military dictatorship, her work reflects images of totalitarianism, alongside contrasting aspirational visions of utopian architectural designs. Exploring issues that range from societal gender roles and the perceived failure of idealism to the relationship between humans and technology, she produces genre-crossing works rooted in critical theory, art history and themes explored in science fiction. This is a comprehensive monograph presenting her most iconic works over the last 30 years, from documentation of early performances and colourful works on paper to staggering recent installations. Taking visual cues from the pop-cultural forms of anime and manga, her art is both striking and accessible. This survey will include an illustrated interview investigating her life, aims and influences with essay contributions from Yeon Shim Chung, Michael Amy and Laura Colombino. --- - Published: 2025-06-04 - Modified: 2025-06-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/ellen-gallagher-softcover/ - Price: 80.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications Ellen Gallagher has emerged as one of the most acclaimed young painters in North America. Opportunities to see her work are rare, however. This is not only the first opportunity to see painting in the first floor galleries of the new Ikon, but also the first solo exhibition of Gallagher's work in a public gallery. Gallagher's process of art making is private. Paintings and drawings are created over intense periods of time, each piece reflecting a concentration of thought and labour. These works reflect the individuality of Gallagher, evident in her statements to Thyrza Nichols Goodeve in this publication, but the works also extend outwards, exploring the microcosms and macrocosms of our worlds. Presented within the context of Birmingham, a city of diverse cultural populations, regeneration and regrowth, the works resonate beyond the gallery to embrace the diversity of viewers. Ikon Gallery joins the artist in extending her thanks to Anthony d'Offay, Mark Fletcher and Mario Diancono for their continued support. We are immensely grateful to the artist for her commitment and vision in creating an extraordinary body of work for this exhibition. --- - Published: 2025-06-04 - Modified: 2025-06-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/making-art-global-part-2-magiciens-de-la-terre-1989-softcover/ - Price: 100.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications In 1989, an exhibition in Paris united the work of over a hundred artists and, since only half would be described as Western, it radically challenged the Western art system from within. 'Magiciens de la Terre' argued for the universality of the creative impulse and endeavoured to offer direct aesthetic experience of contemporary works of art made globally and presented on equal terms. Photographs and gallery plans reconstruct the exhibition in detail, and an essay by Lucy Steeds provides an extended examination of its history and context. Essays by Jean-Marc Poinsot and Pablo Lafuente look at the discursive and curatorial legacy, and responses from the time - a statement by and interview with curator Jean-Hubert Martin and texts by Rasheed Araeen, Jean Fisher, Thomas McEvilley and Gayatri Chakrovorty Spivak - offer a critical backdrop. Recent recollections by participating artists Frederic Bruly Bouabre, Alfredo Jaar and Barbara Kruger are also included. This title is a companion to Making Art Global (Part 1): The Third Havana Biennial 1989. --- - Published: 2025-06-04 - Modified: 2025-06-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/85-new-wave-the-birth-of-chinese-contemporary-art-softcover/ - Price: 30.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications Between 1985 and 1990, a group of over one thousand young Chinese artists living in an environment without galleries, museums, or any systematic support for art and with unprecedented enthusiasm and passion, led a fundamentally influential artistic movement. It marked the end of a monolithic artistic model, achieving unprecedented freedom and opened a path for Chinese art to march toward internationalization and contemporaneity. After 1985, 'contemporary art' irreversibly became the driving force behind Chinese art. This is the famous '85 New Wave movement. The '85 New Wave movement represents a watershed in contemporary Chinese art history, which departed from the old time and pointed out a new direction. This movement also cultivated a group of artists that have impact in the world, with their works influenced and changed the direction and structure of Chinese and world art. And yet today, our understanding of this incredibly important period remains remarkably limited. Aside from a small number of printed materials, we are rarely able to see the original works from the '85 period. A great number of works were lost or dispersed abroad. This is the first retrospective exhibition of the '85 movement, twenty years after it has run its course, but luckily, we have found many important works from this period. In this process, we have been fortunate to have the enthusiastic support and encouragement of many artists and collectors, allowing us to re-present a basic outline of this precious period to the public. This exhibition also marks the publication of... --- - Published: 2025-06-04 - Modified: 2025-06-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/body-talk-feminism-sexuality-and-the-body-in-the-work-of-six-african-american-woman-artists-softcover/ - Price: 70.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications Bridging together artists from different parts of the continent, this group exhibition strives to define and articulate notions of feminism and sexuality in the work of women artists whose body (their own or that of others) serves as a tool, a representation or a field of investigation. The critical resonance of a specifically African - and black - feminism, together with the spread of artistic practices to international networks, have given shape to the development of a black feminist art. Stemming from the continent and the Diaspora, this black feminist art depicts bodies that continue a tradition of activism and freedom of speech. Artists: Zoulikha Bouabdellah; Marcia Kure; Miriam Syowia Kyambi; Valerie Oka; Tracey Rose; Billie Zanwega Authors: Sarah Adams; Eva Barois De Caevel; Ken Bugul; Frieda Ekotto; D. E. Fault; Koyo Kouoh; Alya Sebti --- - Published: 2025-06-04 - Modified: 2025-06-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/lubaina-himid-work-from-underneath-softcover/ - Price: 81.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications Work from Underneath marks the first solo museum show in the United States of Turner Prize–winning British artist Lubaina Himid (born 1954). A pioneer of the British Black Arts Movement of the 1980s and ’90s, Himid has long championed invisible and marginalized histories, and throughout the last three decades, Himid’s works in drawing, painting, sculpture and textile have critiqued the consequences of colonialism and questioned the invisibility of people of color in art as well as in the media. Catalog contributors include art historian Jessica Bell Brown, poet and theorist Fred Moten, and an interview with the artist by New Museum Associate Curator, Natalie Bell. Lubaina Himid: Work from Underneath is part of an ongoing series of solo exhibitions that provide a focused exploration of artists’ practices and continues the New Museum’s history of giving contemporary artists their first museum presentations in New York. --- - Published: 2025-05-30 - Modified: 2025-05-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/sheela-gowda-hardcover/ - Price: 25.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications Sheela Gowda's art resides within a space between the local and the global. Her sculptural installations are comprised of such simple materials as cow dung and ash, but each piece is undeniably monumental in its scale and content. Her work reflects upon the passage of time, nuances of violence, the pain of grief concepts universally shared and understood. Yet her use of specific and indigenous media, such as tar drums used as temporary homes by road workers, or Kumkum, a red dye used for body adornment, address local concerns and lends primacy to the subaltern and a consideration of reality. Originally trained as a painter, Sheela made a radical shift towards sculpture and installation in the 1990s. Using unconventional and often lowly materials proved a means of subversion as well as a poignant expression of the angst and melancholy precipitated by local socio-political tensions. Her labour-intensive installations demonstrate her principle of preserving the integrity of her materials while simultaneously contending with the peculiar resistances of each. She seeks a kind of specificity within abstraction in order to avoid strident statements and instead reveal meaning through subtle layers of suggestion. This book is the first comprehensive monograph of the artists work. --- - Published: 2025-05-30 - Modified: 2025-05-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/shirin-neshat-hardcover/ - Price: 50.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications Internationally acclaimed photographer, videographer, and filmmaker Shirin Neshat first came to prominence in the mid-1990s when she exhibited her series the Women of Allah, an extraordinary body of work exploring women in Islamic culture. Since then, the Iranian-born artist has continued to explore difficult subjects: the boundaries between East and West, men and women, the sacred and the profane, exile and belonging. Her work is marked by its graphic boldness and stirring imagery: photographs of women cloaked in black veils with excerpts of Farsi poetry inscribed across the surface; videos of clans of men and women in barren landscapes chanting or groups of men and women listening to rousing moralistic sermons in a public hall; and, as in her most recent projects, magical realist works in which women fly or plant themselves in gardens to ensure their fertility. Renowned art critic and historian Arthur C. Danto explores the entirety of the artist's rich and varied oeuvre, from the earliest photographs to her latest work, the film Women Without Men. Her first feature film, for which she was awarded the prestigious Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival, is based on the novella of the same name that was banned in Iran; it has taken nearly seven years to complete. In addition to the important essay by Danto, the book includes a foreword in the form of a letter by artist Marina Abramovic and commentaries for each series of work by Neshat herself, allowing a glimpse into the... --- - Published: 2025-05-30 - Modified: 2025-05-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/90-years-of-collecting-a-selection-of-fine-works-of-art-acquired-by-and-donated-to-the-national-palace-museum-%e5%a4%a9%e4%bf%9d%e4%b9%9d%e5%a6%82%ef%bc%9a%e4%b9%9d%e5%8d%81%e5%b9%b4%e4%be%86/ - Price: 25.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications "The depth and style of a museum are determined by the quality and quantity of its artifact collection. The National Palace Museum's (NPM) original artifact collection primarily comprised those inherited from the Qing court. However, as the number and types of artifacts increase and new vitality and values are instilled into the museum, the NPM subsequently emerged as one of the top museums around the world. To celebrate the 90th anniversary of the NPM, this special exhibition catalogue will introduce antiquities, paintings and calligraphy, and rare books and historical documents that the NPM has acquired over the years; they include Qing court artifacts that had been scattered around the world (exemplifying the NPM's effort in artifact acquisition) as well as those donated to the NPM by the public. The kind gesture made by the public often allows the NPM to enrich the artifacts displayed at its exhibitions. In addition, artifact donations by the public occasionally feature rare and world-famous masterpieces, which generate a great buzz. This exhibition catalogue is divided into three chapters, which are "Antiquities," "Paintings and Calligraphy," and "Rare Books and Historical Documents. " "Antiquities" spans across six thousand years of Chinese history beginning from the time of the Hongshan culture to that of the modern-day era to display the evolution of human civilization, ideologies and beliefs, the society, and artistic fashion. "Paintings and Calligraphy" introduces artistic masterpieces created by scholars over the course of Chinese history that reveal how people sharpened their skills in the exploration of... --- - Published: 2025-05-30 - Modified: 2025-05-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/galeria-nationala-alexandru-cebuc/ - Price: 28.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications Romanian painting in the collection of the Art Museum of the Socialist Republic of Romania: The National Gallery; Alexandru Cebuc --- - Published: 2025-05-30 - Modified: 2025-06-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/along-ecological-lines-contemporary-art-and-climate-crisis-softcover/ - Price: 36.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications "If only more artists were following the 'ecological lines' laid out in this important book. It combines acute critical commentary, scientific analysis, and in-depth responses from artists whose innovative works and lives offer fresh approaches to so-called civilization's greatest challenges... " - Lucy R. Lippard. "We need more accounts, like this one, of practices (in art and in life) that point to ways forward, beyond the present climate crisis. " - Emily Eliza Scott. Along Ecological Lines is the second critical anthology in Gaia Project's bestselling Elemental series. Bringing together essays, interviews and case studies it examines the work and ideas of a range of environmentally engaged artists working in Europe today. Providing readers an insight into practices that are dealing in different ways with the urgent and complex manifestations of climate change, this book addresses questions about how art can positively enter a discourse which is often dominated by political and scientific voices. Spanning seven chapters of writings by artists, activists and academics, this volume brings together various interconnected themes from self-sufficiency and civil disobedience, to inter-species justice, divestment and de-growth, to environmental ethics. The collected texts reveal a new immediacy amongst a growing network of practitioners collaborating across disciplines to bring creative, at times visionary methods to bear on environmental and ecological challenges. Published in partnership with the édhéa - Valais School of Art, Sierre, Switzerland. --- - Published: 2025-05-30 - Modified: 2025-05-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/visual-culture-and-decolonisation-in-britain-hardcover/ - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications First published in 2006, this volume provides the first in-depth analysis of the place of visual representations within the process of decolonisation during the period 1945 to 1970. The chapters trace the way in which different visual genres – art, film, advertising, photography, news reports and ephemera – represented and contributed to the political and social struggles over Empire and decolonisation during the mid-Twentieth century. The book examines both the direct visual representation of imperial retreat after 1945 as well as the reworkings of imperial and ‘racial’ ideologies within the context of a transformed imperialism. While the book engages with the dominant archive of artists, exhibitions, newsreels and films, it also explores the private images of the family album as well as examining the visual culture of anti-colonial resistance. --- - Published: 2025-05-30 - Modified: 2025-05-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/new-collecting-exhibiting-and-audiences-after-new-media-art-hardback/ - Price: 64.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications The collections of museums, galleries and online art organisations are increasingly broadening to include more new media art. Because new media is used as a means of documenting, archiving and distributing art, and because new media art might be interactive with its audiences, this highlights the new kinds of relationships that might occur between audiences as viewers, participants, selectors, taggers or taxonomisers. New media art presents many challenges to the curator and collector, but there is very little published analytical material available to help meet those challenges. This book fills that gap. Drawing from the editor's extensive research and the authors' expertise in the field, the book provides clear navigation through a disparate arena. The authors offer examples from a wide geographical reach, including the UK, North America and Asia and integrate the consideration of audience response into all aspects of their work. The book will be essential reading for those studying or practicing in new media, curating or museums and galleries. --- - Published: 2025-05-30 - Modified: 2025-05-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/four-generations-the-joyner-giuffrida-collection-of-abstract-art/ - Price: 35.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art is widely recognized as one of the most significant collections of modern and contemporary work by African and African Diasporan artists, and Four Generations draws upon the collection's unparalleled holdings to explore the critical contributions made by black artists to the evolution of visual art in the 20th and 21st centuries. Extensively illustrated with hundreds of works in a variety of media, and featuring scholarly texts by leading artists, writers and curators, Four Generations gives an essential overview of some of the most notable artists and movements of the last century, up to and including works being made today. Four major new scholarly essays provide touchstones for the unifying themes of the collection, and provide historical background on the struggles, innovations, communities and questions that have driven the development of African American and African arts―including a new text by Joost Bosland on the reception of contemporary African art after 1989; Susan and Elihu Rose Chief Curator of the Jewish Museum’s Norman L. Kleeblatt on the pioneering achievements of Norman Lewis; Tate Modern Senior Curator Mark Godfrey on black artists in the 1960s and 1970s; as well as a crucial look at contemporary art and practice by the book's editor Courtney J. Martin, Assistant Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University. Short essays on single artists and significant works punctuate each historical chapter, including texts and interviews by noteworthy writers such as Thelma Golden, Philippe Vergne, Thomas J. Lax, Lawrence... --- - Published: 2025-05-30 - Modified: 2025-05-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/the-lives-of-chinese-objects-buddhism-imperialism-and-display/ - Price: 40.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications The Lives of Chinese Objectsis a fascinating book. It is the result of excellent historical research as well as curatorial expertise. The reader is taken on an amazing journey starting with the startling discovery of the image of five Chinese bronzes on display as part of the Great Exhibition in 1851... The stories uncovered are riveting, a mix of curatorial detail and description, historical research and theoretical analysis. This book is beautifully written - clear, detailed and informative. The author is ever present in the text and the book is as much a story of her journey, as it is a story of the lives of the 'Putuo Five'. I just wanted to keep reading. " · Suzanne MacLeod, University of Leicester This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo - China's most important pilgrimage island - to their seizure by a British soldier in the First Opium War in the early 1840s, and on to a starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s, they moved in and out of dealers' and antiquarian collections, arriving in 1867 at Liverpool Museum. Here they were re-conceptualized as specimens of the 'Mongolian race' and, later, as examples of Oriental art. The statues escaped the bombing of the Museum during the Second World War and lived out their existence for the next sixty years, dismembered, corroding and neglected in the stores, their histories... --- - Published: 2025-05-30 - Modified: 2025-06-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/art-theory-and-practice-in-the-anthropocene-hardback/ - Price: 30.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene contributes to the growing literature on artistic responses to global climate change and its consequences. Designed to include multiple perspectives, it contains essays by thirteen art historians, art critics, curators, artists and educators, and offers different frameworks for talking about visual representation and the current environmental crisis. The anthology models a range of methodological approaches drawn from different disciplines, and contributes to an understanding of how artists and those writing about art construct narratives around the environment. The book is illustrated with examples of art by nearly thirty different contemporary artists. --- - Published: 2025-05-29 - Modified: 2025-05-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/japanese-art-after-1945-scream-against-the-sky-hardcover/ - Price: 30.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications, RARE BOOKS SALE This is a catalogue of Japanese avante-garde art since 1945. It surveys some 200 works, including painting, sculpture, photography, performance, video, film and installation art, by more than 100 artists. Rebellious groups such as the Gutai, a 1950s experimental movement, are also represented. --- - Published: 2025-05-29 - Modified: 2025-05-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/contemporary-chinese-art-a-history-1970s-2000s-by-wu-hung-hardcover/ - Price: 20.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications In this first systematic introduction to contemporary Chinese art, Wu Hung provides an accessible, focused and much-needed narrative of the development of Chinese art across all media from the 1970s to the 2000s. From its underground genesis during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), contemporary Chinese art has become a dynamic and hugely influential force in a globalized art world where the distinctions between Eastern and Western culture are rapidly collapsing. The book is a richly illustrated and easy-to-navigate chronological survey that considers contemporary Chinese art both in the context of China's specific historical experiences and in a global arena. Wu Hung explores the emergence of avant-garde or contemporary art - as opposed to officially sanctioned art - in the public sphere after the Cultural Revolution; the mobilization by young artists and critics of a nationwide avant-garde movement in the mid-1980s; the re-emphasis on individual creativity in the late 1980s, the heightened spirit of experimentation of the 1990s; and the more recent identification of Chinese artists, such as Ai Weiwei, as global citizens who create works for an international audience. --- - Published: 2025-05-29 - Modified: 2025-05-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/zooming-in-histories-of-photography-in-china-hardcover/ - Price: 20.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications From the first sets of photographic records made by Western travellers to the emergence of ‘Chinese photography’ imbued with national anxiety and individual desire, and from doctored portraits of Chairman Mao to ‘experimental’ representations of urban transformation and avant-garde performances of the post-Cultural Revolution era, the development of photography in China has followed divergent paths through changing sociopolitical contexts, producing images with different agendas, technological innovations and artistic pursuits. Zooming In explores multiple histories of photographic production in China. At its centre lies a large question: how has photography represented China and its people, collective history and memory, individual subjectivity and creativity? To address this multifaceted question, Wu Hung offers an in-depth study of selected photographers, themes and movements of photography in China from 1860 to the present, covering a wide range of topics from portraiture to photojournalism, architectural and landscape photography, photo-publications and conceptual photography. --- - Published: 2025-05-28 - Modified: 2025-05-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/the-music-of-colour-sam-gilliam-1967-1973-softcover/ - Price: 99.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications Between 1967 and 1973, American abstract painter Sam Gilliam (born 1933) undertook some of the most radical work of his six-decade-plus career, a period culminating in Gilliam's representing the US at the Venice Biennale in 1972. The work, including his Martin Luther King series and Jail Jungle series, reflected the fractured political climate of this period. It was also during this period that Gilliam began his beveled-edge paintings. In these iconic works, Gilliam poured acrylic paint directly onto the unprimed canvas, which he folded and crumpled while the paint was still wet, then stretched the canvas over a chamfered frame. The work in Sam Gilliam: The Music of Color conveys the influence of the DC Color Field school on Gilliam's art, and his blending of the lines between sculpture and painting. --- - Published: 2025-05-22 - Modified: 2025-05-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/contemporary-art-brazil-hardcover/ - Price: 50.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications "Edited by Hossein Amirsadeghi, executive edited by Catherine Petitgas, with essays by Pablo León de la Barra, Kiki Mazzucchelli, Rodrigo Moura and Paulo Venancio Filho. Brazil is arguably the most fascinating emerging economy in the world today. As a result of its recent exponential growth, the country is experiencing an exciting blossoming of culture across many areas. Contemporary Art Brazil brings together 120 of the most important Brazilians who are currently active in the realm of the fine arts, including artist, gallerists, heads of institutions, critical thinkers and collectors. Extensively illustrated and based on the most up-to-date research, Contemporary Art Brazil provides an invaluable survey of current trends and key players, placing them in the context of Tropicalismo and NeoConcretism, the two movements that first brought the Brazilian art scene to international attention in the 1960s. Although they are regularly challenged, both remain major sources of reference for artists today. The book presents profiles of internationally recognised figures such as the artists Cildo Meireles, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto and Tunga, and the collector Bernardo Paz (owner of the world-famous Inhotim sculpture park), as well as other personalities, including the iconic curators Aracy Amaral and Walter Zanini, older-generation artists Antonio Dias and Nelson Leirner, and younger-generation practitioners Jonathas de Andrade, Rodrigo Bivar and Cinthia Marcelle. Contemporary Art Brazil also features four scene-setting essays. The Mexican-born, London-based independent curator Pablo León de la Barra approaches Brazilian art from a non-Brazilian perspective. The art historian Kiki Mazzucchelli reviews the history and critical importance... --- - Published: 2025-05-22 - Modified: 2025-05-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/inverted-utopias-avant-garde-art-in-latin-america-hardcover/ - Price: 65.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications In the twentieth century, avant-garde artists from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean created extraordinary and highly innovative paintings, sculptures, assemblages, mixed-media works, and installations. This groundbreaking book presents more than 250 works by some seventy of these artists (including Gego, Joaquín Torres-García, Xul Solar, and José Clemente Orozco) and artists' groups, along with interpretive essays by leading authorities and newly translated manifestoes and other theoretical documents written by the artists. Together the images and texts showcase the astonishing artistic achievements of the Latin American avant-garde. Inverted Utopias focuses on the emergence and development of this art during two decisive periods. The first marks the return from Europe of Latin American avant-garde pioneers who came home to bring the promise of a new art to societies in the early stages of modernization. The second period, following World War II, encompasses the expansion of avant-garde activities throughout Latin America as artists expressed their independence from developments in Europe and the United States. As the authors explain, during both of these periods Latin American art was fueled by the belief that artistic creations could present a form of utopia—an inversion of the original premise that drove the European avant-garde—and serve as a model for a new society. As an insightful source for new ideas about the nature and function of modern art, Inverted Utopias is an essential book that will become a classic text in the field. --- - Published: 2025-05-21 - Modified: 2025-05-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/postwar-art-between-the-pacific-and-the-atlantic-1945-1965-hardcover/ - Price: 110.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications This unprecedented global survey of the art of the postwar era represents a comprehensive examination of the production of art across all continents, under the conditions engendered by World War II. Accompanying the exhibition "Postwar: Art between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945 1965," this extensive catalogue presents the work of more than 200 artists from over 50 countries. Uniquely, it understands the term postwar as a truly global condition, focusing on the increasingly interdependent nature of the world as the result of new geopolitical affinities and technological realities. The catalogue illuminates how these epochal social changes manifested worldwide across the practices of painting, sculpture, installation, performance, cinema, and music, through eight thematic sections: Aftermath: Zero Hour and the Atomic Era; Form Matters; New Images of Man; Realisms; Concrete Visions; Cosmopolitan Modernisms; Nations Seeking Form; and Networks, Media, and Communication. Key historical texts, visual essays, color illustrations, and over 35 original contributions by leading international art historians, curators, and scholars offer new insights into the complex legacies of artistic practice and art historical discourses that emerged in the aftermath of World War II s devastation. Artists biographies, a comprehensive bibliography, and chronologies of the postwar period further supplement what will become an indispensable resource for future research. --- - Published: 2025-05-21 - Modified: 2025-06-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/mining-the-museum-an-installation-by-fred-wilson-hardcover/ - Price: 200.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: RARE BOOKS SALE, Publications "Until recently, the viewpoints of Native and African Americans have largely been excluded from museum exhibitions. Have these exclusions been intentional or are they a reflection of institutional biases that reflect larger societal prejudices? With his startling use of juxtaposition and irony, Fred Wilson, an artist of African-American and Carib descent, places this question at the heart of the critically acclaimed Mining the Museum. Wilson "mined" the collection of a traditional historical society and designed an installation that illustrated the complicity of museum practices in upholding— perhaps inadvertently—racism. The power of Mining the Museum lies not so much in the objects that Wilson has selected from the collection, but in how he has displayed them. Fine silver teapots are juxtaposed with iron shackles and a Klan hood serves as the linen in an antique baby carriage. Wilson's daring arrangements will compel anyone who reads Mining the Museum to actively question how museums perpetuate cultural biases. Illustrated with over twenty-five color and sixty-one black-and-white illustrations, the unique design of this publication captures the rhythm and emotional tenor of the installation. An essay by Lisa Corrin, the exhibition's cocurator from The Contemporary in Baltimore, argues that the identity crisis facing American museums cannot be resolved until they confront their own pasts and invite other voices to participate in arriving at a solution. Other contributions include a discussion of Mining the m from the historian's viewpoint by scholar Ira Berlin and an intimate dialogue between Fred Wilton and the art historian Leslie King-Hammond... --- - Published: 2024-06-06 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/artist-kitchen-salon-zine-2nded/ - Price: 5.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter The Artist Kitchen Salon Zine documents a series of Artist Kitchen Salons which were part of iniva’s recent Research Network programme ‘If Sea is History? – What is Nation? ’ This programme reflected on the sea as an archive that connects the body and memory and this publication reflects on the ongoing research of Research Associates’ Safiya Robinson, Holly Graham, Shenece Oretha and Beatrix Pang. It seeks to answer: What is conjured in our memory through food, in gathering together over an evening meal? This A5 bound zine functions as part cookbook (to be used in your kitchen) and part memoir of notes and reflections to be used as a source of inspiration on nationhood and identity. Alongside contributions from the Research Associates, it also includes a written foreword by Tavian Hunter and Maggie Matić, quotes, archival material, reading lists and recipes from each Artist Kitchen Salon that took place at Studio Voltaire from September 2022 until March 2023.   First edition printed in 2023 by Mixam UK Ltd. Second edition reprint in 2024. --- - Published: 2024-03-19 - Modified: 2025-04-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/slow-emergency-siren-ongoing-accessing-handsworth-songs/ - Price: 20.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Small Parcel ‘Slow emergency siren, ongoing’ (LUX, 2022) documents the process of making the 1980s film, ‘Handsworth Songs’, more and differently accessible. It contains translations of the film’s sound into captions and translations of its images into audio descriptions, as well as essays and reflections on the film and its translations. This publication has been designed to fully comply with UKAAF’s MS03 and G003 guidelines. Where possible we have gone beyond the minimum standards. References in the footnotes direct users to these guidelines as well as to those of the international standards offered in the WCAG 2. 2 Web Accessibility Guidelines. --- - Published: 2024-03-19 - Modified: 2025-04-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/this-broken-piece-of-yard/ - Price: 15.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Small Parcel Published by LUX 'this broken piece of yard' collects contributions by participants to Cairo Clarke’s programme developed as part of her Curatorial Fellowship at LUX in 2020/1. Centering learning through practice and embedding Black feminist futurity at its core. Together we honour forms of knowledge production and dissemination that slip between the cracks, are formed on unstable ground, and take on multiple temporalities. Offerings are drawn from strands of theorising taking place in autonomous spaces, inserting the speculative into the present and holding space for the mess. this broken piece of yard was born out of exploring the history of LUX (formerly the London Filmmakers Co-op); navigating the lived conditions of Covid-19 and global uprisings in defence of Black life – together culminating in asking “what do we want from arts organisations now? ” and “what do we want to bring into being? ” Contributors: Ode, Bea Freeman, Isaac Kariuki, Lola Olufemi, Rebecca Bellantoni, Tanaka Fuego, Shenece Oretha, Maybelle Peters, sisterwoman vegan, Onyeka Igwe, Sandra Jean Pierre, June Givanni, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Julia Chinyere Oparah, Linda Jones, Kumbirai Makumbe, Tamar Clarke-Brown, Cairo Clarke --- - Published: 2023-07-24 - Modified: 2025-03-07 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/sky-seeds-and-me/ - Price: 260.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Artist Editions - Product shipping classes: Artist prints This limited edition work by Neeta Madahar is inspired by the artist's first film work 'Falling', commissioned by iniva, Fabrica and Photoworks in 2005. The edition reflects on the dream-like temporality of nature and memory. Sycamore seeds tumble slowly toward the viewer in a dramatic moment that echoes naturally occuring phenomena yet enables the viewer to immerse themselves in stillness and intimate details. This ordinary scene is exposed in crystalline detail, albeit in an uncanny exaggerated form and colour. A small number from this edition were released in 2005 and sold through. In 2023 iniva releases three further prints from the original edition run of 50. About the Artist Neeta Madahar’s photography and film practice explores the beauty and unexpected drama found in familiar surroundings. Madahar represents the physical world in unusual ways enabling the viewer to immerse themselves in the acute details. Madahar was selected for the Recontres d’Arles Photography Festival, France in 2004 and exhibits at Purdy Hicks Gallery, London and Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston. --- - Published: 2023-07-24 - Modified: 2023-11-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/experiments-in-imagining-otherwise/ - Price: 12.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter This is a book of failure and mistakes; it begins with what is stolen from us and proposes only an invitation to imagine. In these playful written experiments, Lola Olufemi navigates the space between what is and what could be. Weaving together fragmentary reflections in prose and poetry, this is an exploration of the possibility of living differently, grounded in black feminist scholarship and political organising. Olufemi shows that the horizon is not an immaterial state we gesture toward. Instead, propelled by the motion of thinking against and beyond, we must invent the future now and never let go of the otherwise. Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and CREAM/Stuart Hall Foundation researcher from London. Her work focuses on the uses of the feminist imagination and its relationship to futurity, political demands and imaginative-revolutionary potential. She is the author of Experiments in Imagining Otherwise and Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power, the co-author of A FLY Girl’s Guide to University, and a member of ‘bare minimum’, an interdisciplinary anti-work arts collective. --- - Published: 2023-05-02 - Modified: 2023-11-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/space-crone/ - Price: 13.99 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Edited and introduced by So Mayer and Sarah Shin Ursula K. Le Guin witnessed and contributed to many of the twentieth century’s rebellions and upheavals, including women’s liberation, the Civil Rights movement and US anti-war and environmental activism. Spanning fifty years of her life and work, Space Crone brings together Le Guin’s writings on feminism and gender for the first time, offering new insights into her imaginative, multispecies feminist consciousness: from its roots in deep ecology and philosophies of non-violence to her self-education about racism and her writing on motherhood and ageing. --- - Published: 2023-05-02 - Modified: 2024-03-12 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/your-silence-will-not-protect-you/ - Price: 12.99 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter With a Preface by Reni Eddo-Lodge and an Introduction by Sara Ahmed Audre Lorde (1934-92) described herself as ‘Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’. Her extraordinary belief in the power of language – of speaking – to articulate selfhood, confront injustice and bring about change in the world remains as transformative today as it was then, and no less urgent. Your Silence Will Not Protect You brings Lorde's poetry and prose together for the first time. --- - Published: 2023-04-17 - Modified: 2025-02-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/donald-rodney-autoicon/ - Price: 15.99 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter An illustrated examination of Donald Rodney's seminal digital media work Autoicon (1997–2000). Donald Rodney's Autoicon, a work originally produced as both a website and CD-ROM, was conceived by the artist in the mid-1990s but not completed until two years after his death in 1998. Referencing Jeremy Bentham's infamous nineteenth-century "Auto-Icon," the work proposes an extension of the personhood and presence of Rodney, while critically challenging dominant conceptions of the self, the body, and historicity. Grounded in a partial collection of medical documents that constitute biomedicine's attempts to comprehensively "know" and maintain Rodney's body during his lifelong experience of sickle-cell aneamia, Autoicon pursues the artist's address, from the mid-1980s onward, of the British social and institutional body's cellular composition through racialized, biopolitical power. Autoicon consists of a Java-based AI and neural network that engages the user in text-based "chat," and provides responses by drawing from a dense body of "data points" related to Rodney and his work, including documentation of artworks, medical records, interviews, images, notes, and video. Pulling both from this internal archive and the external archive of the Internet, a "montage machine" composes constantly mutating images according to a rule-based system established around Rodney's working process. In this One Work edition, curator Richard Birkett traces the distinct contemporary presence of Autoicon, and the ideas and relations that emerged around its conception before and after Rodney's death, particularly linking the work to the artist's seminal 1997 exhibition 9 Night in Eldorado. Birkett addresses Autoicon as both an index of entangled... --- - Published: 2022-12-08 - Modified: 2023-11-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/what-is-black-art-writings-on-african-asian-and-caribbean-art-in-britain-1981-1989/ - SKU: 5 - Price: 10.99 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter A landmark anthology on British art history, bringing together overlooked and marginalized perspectives from 'the critical decade' What is Black art? This vital anthology gives voice to a generation of artists of African, Asian and Caribbean heritage who worked within and against British art institutions in the 1980s, including Sonia Boyce, Lubaina Himid, Eddie Chambers and Rasheed Araeen. It brings together artists' statements, interviews, exhibition catalogue essays and reviews, most of which have been unavailable for many years and resonate profoundly today. Together they interrogate the term 'Black art' itself, and revive a forgotten dialogue from a time when men and women who had been marginalized made themselves heard within the art world and beyond. --- - Published: 2022-12-08 - Modified: 2025-04-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/fugitive-feminism/ - Price: 12.99 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter The first book in Crescent: a new series of contemporary writing. With a Foreword by Edna Bonhomme Humanity has always excluded Others on the basis of race and gender. What happens to people who choose to flee, following in the footsteps of those who resisted enslavement? This audacious manifesto draws on the legacies of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis and others to consider the ways in which Black women have been excluded from, struggled to achieve and opted to reject the category of ‘human’. Sociologist Akwugo Emejulu argues that it is only through embracing the status of the ‘fugitive’ that Black women can determine their own liberation. Fugitive Feminism is a call for the collective process of speculative dialogue and a bold new model for action. --- - Published: 2022-12-08 - Modified: 2024-03-12 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/gay-betrayals-afterall-two-works-series/ - Price: 11.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter In 1997, during a symposium at Centre Pompidou, Leo Bersani presented a prescient critique of the assimilative tendencies that made ‘gays melt into the very culture they like to think of themselves as undermining. ’ Mired in micropolitics, for Bersani, queer activism had relinquished the radical task of reconfiguring the horizon of the possible. Later published as ‘Gay Betrayals’, Bersani’s intervention champions a truly disruptive vision of homosexuality, one that betrays the relational, identitarian and communitarian foundations of bourgeois heterosexual respectability through ‘antimonogamous promiscuity’. Building on extensive artistic research into the politics of queer spaces and culture some 20 years later, artist duo Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings revisit Bersani’s polemic with a response in three acts. Through a kaleidoscopic array of drawings, preparatory sketches and egg tempera paintings, a narrative of everyday (homo)sociality comes into view. A series of statuesque figures are caught as they feel the outlines of existing power structures, try out new strategies of inclusivity and, ultimately, wrestle with the blurred lineaments of identity and community. --- - Published: 2022-12-08 - Modified: 2023-11-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/art-on-the-frontline-mandate-for-a-peoples-culture/ - Price: 11.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter In her stirring essay ‘Art on the Frontline', scholar and activist Angela Davis asked, ‘How do we collectively acknowledge our popular cultural legacy and communicate it to the masses of people, most of whom have been denied access to the social spaces reserved for arts and culture? ' Looking to the cultural forms born of Afro-American struggles, Davis insists that we attempt to understand, reclaim and glean insight from these in preparing a political offensive against the racial oppression inherent to capitalism. Working from a site of racial uprising some thirty-five years later, artist Tschabalala Self responds to Davis's words with a new series of characteristically vibrant, challenging and provocative works on paper. Her series of three individual subjects emerge collectively as something greater than their parts, suggesting in the ebbs and flows in joy and disdain a kind of shared social consciousness. --- - Published: 2022-12-08 - Modified: 2023-11-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/can-the-subaltern-speak/ - Price: 11.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter In 1985 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's seminal essay, 'Can the Subaltern Speak' transformed the analysis of colonialism. In a deeply divided world Spivak's text interrogated the historical and ideological factors that, by obstructing the potential for certain subjects to be heard, maintained the degraded status of those subjects on the world's peripheries. The text remains, in the third decade of the twenty-first century, as compelling as ever, and affirms the continuing relevance of Marxism to contemporary decolonial thought. In this Afterall Two Works edition, the essay is given new life in dialogue with especially commissioned artwork by Ecuadorian artist Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza. Loaiza's preoccupation with questions of visibility and occlusion, the need for and absence of the image, has guide the creation of a mesmerising set of works. These form a visual vocabulary that echoes and refracts Spivak's central terms, bringing new inflections to an enduringly important text. --- - Published: 2022-12-08 - Modified: 2023-11-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/of-our-spiritual-strivings/ - Price: 11.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter In 1903 W. E. B. Du Bois's text The Souls of Black Folk made history as a work of sociological thought, and would go on to become a cornerstone of African American literature. In it, Du Bois combined music, history and memoir to advance a vital message of resistance in the uniquely dehumanising context of the so-called ‘Jim Crow' era. It was in this collection that Du Bois, in ‘Of Our Spiritual Strivings', wrote of the ‘double consciousness' experienced by the Black subject - a ‘sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity'. Refusing this fate, Du Bois passionately and creatively makes the case for the rights of Black people of the South to be treated with equality and justice. Over a century later, artist Christina Quarles brings new energy to Du Bois's unfinished project, speaking to his melodious text with her own distinctive visual poetics, testing and inverting the ‘double consciousness' idea. Quarles, whose work is informed by her own daily experience with ambiguity, engages with the world from a position that is multiply situated. --- - Published: 2022-12-08 - Modified: 2023-11-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/the-everyday-of-everydayness/ - Price: 11.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter ‘The character of the everyday has always been repetitive and veiled by obsession and fear', wrote Henri Lefebvre in 1987. Drawing on his mid-twentieth century Critique of Everyday Life, a monumental contribution to social thought, ‘The Everyday and Everydayness' takes seriously the everyday as a structure imposed upon all of life in the context of the ‘modern'. At a moment of enforced reflection on the everyday, internationally renowned contemporary artist Julie Mehretu re-examines and responds to Lefebvre's text, bringing to bear on it her own longstanding fascination with questions of time, space and place. Mehretu's mastery in interrogating these concepts collides with Lefebvre's work in surprising ways that vindicate and invigorate this radical, rich and prescient text in the present. --- - Published: 2022-12-08 - Modified: 2023-11-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/visual-pleasure-narrative-cinema/ - Price: 11.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Since it first appeared in Screen in 1975, Laura Mulvey's essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ has been an enduring point of reference for artists, film-makers, writers and theorists. Mulvey’s compelling, structured and polemical analysis of visual pleasure has provoked and encouraged others to take positions, challenge pre-conceived ideas and produce new works that owe their possibility to the generative qualities of this key essay. In this book, the artist Rachel Rose has produced an innovative work that extends and adds to the essay’s frame of reference. Drawing on eighteenth and nineteenth-century fairy tales, and observing that their flat narratives matched the flatness of their depictions, Rose has drawn a connection between what happened in these illustrations before cinema, and what Mulvey describes in her essay – cinema flattening sexuality into visuality. Rose’s intricately layered work, with its mixing of genres and histories, is a complex and playful reformation. This title is part of the Two Works series and was designed by Sara de Bondt. --- - Published: 2022-12-08 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/reshaping-the-field-arts-of-the-african-diasporas-on-display/ - Price: 24.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter The thirteenth title in the Afterall Exhibition Histories series, this publication explores key moments that have created ruptures in how Blackness has been framed through exhibitions, emphasising how Black artists have been viewed and African diasporic art histories have been shaped. The 268-page publication expands the field of exhibition histories through a selection of pioneering exhibitions that have shaped Black art today. Emphasizing how Black artists have organized, networked and created space for their work, it is the first publication to focus exclusively on African diasporic art in the US and UK through the histories of Black art exhibitions. Through a range of contributions by artists, art historians, curators and theorists, this publication reflects on the sociopolitical circumstances that were essential to the emergence of a field of study and mode of exhibition that is constantly reshaping itself and challenging normative orders. Edited and introduced by Nana Adusei-Poku, with contributions by Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd, Bridget R. Cooks, Abby R. Eron, Amber Esseiva, Cheryl Finley, Languid Hands (Imani Mason Jordan and Rabz Lansiquot), Julie L. McGee, Derek Conrad Murray, Serubiri Moses, Senam Okudzeto, Richard J. Powell, Jamaal B. Sheats, Howard Singerman, Marlene Smith with Claudette Johnson, Lucy Steeds and Brittany Webb. --- - Published: 2022-12-08 - Modified: 2023-11-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/afterall-journal-issue-53/ - Price: 9.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Issue 53 ‘Medium/Metaphor/Milieu’ looks at the exhibitionary in and beyond exhibitions. Gathered through the notions of medium and milieu, it looks at a range of practices and modes of thinking that foreground the exhibitionary in concrete, spatial, architectural and experiential terms. In parallel, the artists and authors included also explore the risks and potential of metaphors as a site of exhibition-making. --- - Published: 2022-12-08 - Modified: 2023-11-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/practice-makes-perfect/ - Price: 15.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Comprising of new writing and works drawn from, and a part of, Uddoh’s 2021 exhibition at Focal Point Gallery, Practice Makes Perfect focuses on themes of radical self-love, inspired by black feminist practice and writing. Through performance, film, installation and sound, Uddoh explores an infatuation with places, objects and celebrities in British popular culture, and the effects of these on self-formation. She is influenced by her architectural background, rooting stories in specific spaces and materials. Co-published by Book Works and Focal Point Gallery as part of our Co-Series, in association with the Bluecoat, and The Bower. --- - Published: 2022-12-08 - Modified: 2023-11-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/shy-radicals-the-antisystemic-politics-of-the-militant-introvert/ - Price: 11.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear – Lao Tzu Drawing together communiqués, covert interviews, oral and underground history of introvert struggles (Introfada), here for the first time is a detailed documentation of the political demands of shy people. Radicalised against the imperial domination of globalised PR projectionism, extrovert poise and loudness, the Shy Radicals and their guerrilla wing the Shy Underground are a vanguard movement intent on trans-rupting consensus extrovert-supremacist politics and assertiveness culture of the twenty first century. The movement aims to establish an independent homeland – Aspergistan, a utopian state for introverted people, run according to Shyria Law and underpinned by Pan-Shyist ideology, protecting the rights of the oppressed quiet and shy people. Shy Radicals are the Black Panther Party of the introvert class, and this anti-systemic manifesto is a quiet and thoughtful polemic, a satire that uses anti-colonial theory to build a critique of dominant culture and the rising tide of Islamophobia. --- - Published: 2022-10-03 - Modified: 2023-03-16 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/kalika/ - SKU: 25 - Price: 350.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Artist Editions - Product shipping classes: Artist prints To accompany iniva's exhibition 'Village Letters', we are delighted to announce the launch of a limited edition print by the artist Prafulla Mohanti in October 2022. The print, entitled Kalika in reference to the all powerful female Hindu goddess Kali or Kalika, comes from an orginal watercolour featuring the artists iconic motif of bright concentric circles. This work, chosen for its seductive, visceral tones, is representative of Prafulla's spiritually-led painting and drawing practice. Realised as a giclee print and finished with a silkscreen layer to capture the painterly watercolour bleed. This is an extremely rare opportunity to own work by the artist. About the Artist Prafulla Mohanti (b. India, 1936) was born and brought up in the village of Nanpur (Orissa), and moved to England in 1960 after graduating as an architect in Bombay. In 1964 he gained a diploma in town planning at Leeds where in the same year his first solo exhibition of paintings was held. He worked as an architect-planner for the Greater London Council (1965 to 1969) but gave this up to devote himself to painting and writing. His paintings have been exhibited all over the world and are in several private and public collections including the British Museum-London, the Gallery of Modern Art, The Hepworth Wakefield, and ICCR- New Delhi. --- - Published: 2022-06-02 - Modified: 2022-12-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/limited-edition-pamphlet/ - Price: 12.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications Edition of 75 18 x 12 cm 16 Sides, Concertina fold Printed on (G.F. Smith) Colorplan Lockwood Green 175gsm Designed by Bamidele Awoyemi. Printed by Calverts Design & Print Pamphlet Photographs: Fikayo Adebajo 2022 iniva is delighted to launch this limited edition pamphlet created by Rohan Ayinde to accompany the artist's exhibition Dancing In The Ellipsis // A Cartographer’s Black Hole. Each pamphlet features a collection of poems which are in conversation with Rohan Ayinde's exhibition at the Stuart Hall Library. The prose mirrors the frequency found in Ayinde's photographic and drawn work; reflecting on questions of home, place, diaspora, freedom and blackness. At the heart of Ayinde's poetry is a desire to "write home", building physical spaces for readers to get lost in. Biography Rohan Ayinde is an interdisciplinary artist based between London and Chicago. His work is centered around creating otherwise potentials (Ashon Crawley), and in so doing breaking down and simultaneously reconfiguring the ideological architectures that shape our daily and generational lives. The landscapes his work explores are formed through the lens of a black radical imagination committed to describing freedom as a horizon of possibility. They are an archive of the journey there; maps/scores under continuous construction and refusals to acquiesce to the dominant structures of thought that frame the world we live in. Ayinde’s work oscillates between abstract drawings, audio-visual poetry, photography, performance and sculpture, and is interested in the ways that abstraction can function as a method for thinking about black radical thought as a form, or a poetics. He talks about his work as being “in a constant negotiation with itself, trying to understand the role it plays in building the worlds it is invested in imagining.... --- - Published: 2022-05-31 - Modified: 2022-11-07 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/floating-margins/ - Price: 7.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter We are honoured to share this collection of heart-led texts from ten contributors whose work generatively interrupts linear histories and de-godded cultural discourse. Texts by Adelaide Bannerman and Michael Smythe, Hassan Vawda, Adam Farah and PJ Winter, Amahra Spence, Amal Khalaf, Jemma Desai, Sepake Angiama. Gloria Anzaldúa tells us that we must work from the inside out. Can publishing, too, become a gesture of the body? Can we use it to pay more attention to what we need and desire? We are honoured to share this collection of heart-led texts from ten contributors whose work generatively interrupts linear histories and de-godded cultural discourse. Texts by Adelaide Bannerman and Michael Smythe, Hassan Vawda, Adam Farah and PJ Winter, Amahra Spence, Amal Khalaf, Jemma Desai, Sepake Angiama. This publication is created by STUART, an experimental art publishing practice and collective producing printed matter and publications. Initiated by Rose Nordin with Priya Jay and Amrita Dhallu, the project centres live archiving, conversation as marginalia and the book as a site of collaboration. Edited by Amrita Dhallu and Priya Jay Designed by Rose Nordin Published by STUART Supported by iniva and Arts Council England --- - Published: 2022-03-30 - Modified: 2023-03-16 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/perfume-vessel/ - SKU: 10 - Price: 480.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: featured - Product categories: Artist Editions - Product shipping classes: Artist prints iniva is delighted to launch an edition by artist Emii Alrai to accompany her commission for Future Collect, A Core of Scar, at The Hepworth Wakefield. Perfume Vessel was produced in collaboration with North Lands Creative, a world-leading contemporary glass art studio based in Caithness, Scotland, who facilitated the production of the Future Collect commission. This blown glass sculptural edition is inspired by ancient glass perfume bottles. Shaped to look like Iraqi dates, the edition echoes themes of archaeology and diasporic experience. Each edition has been fitted to an armature, custom-made by Mark Webster of MW Fabrications. These armatures mimic display modes typically used by archaeological museums. Alrai invites us to consider such devices as instruments of colonial capture. Proceeds from the sale of this edition will support the development of an artist’s book by Emii Alrai, creating a permanent legacy for both the artist and the Future Collect project. Future Collect Commission: A Core of Scar (7th April-4th September 2022) Emii Alrai was commissioned by iniva and The Hepworth Wakefield in 2021 as a part of Future Collect, a three-year programme initiated by iniva (the Institute of International Visual Arts) aimed at transforming the future of public art collections across the UK to better reflect our culturally diverse society. A Core of Scar will be acquired for The Hepworth Wakefield’s permanent collection in 2022. In A Core of Scar, Alrai has created a series of hand-blown glass vessels, evoking ancient funerary urns. The vessels are marked by the scars... --- - Published: 2021-09-16 - Modified: 2025-08-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/a-reimagining-of-relations/ - Price: 10.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications We are delighted to announce Jade Montserrat’s publication, A Reimagining of Relations, as part of her Future Collect commission with iniva and Manchester Art Gallery. This visually rich artist publication makes material the dialogue and ideas that have shaped Montserrat’s process over the past two years. Centring the conversations that have taken place between the artist and fellow creatives through the public programme associated with the commission, the publication also reveals her research and thinking around African American actor Ira Aldridge. A key point of departure for Montserrat was the first work acquired by Manchester Art Gallery, James Northcote’s portrait of Ira Aldridge posing in character as Othello. A Reimagining of Relations asks us to consider the story behind the man in the painting alongside questions of institutional care for people, objects and performances. The publication is punctuated by three Acts; Act I: Ira – Curiosity and Creative Language, Act II: Scoring Performance and Act III: On Publishing Radical Constitutions. The Acts are made up of collective conversations, featuring Amber Akaunu (Root-ed Zine), Fauziya Johnson (Root-ed Zine), Maurice Carlin (Co-Director Islington Mill), Rivca Rubin (Co-Director Islington Mill), Amy Lawrence (Artist), Jack Ky Tan (Artist), Hamja Ahsan (Artist) and No Matter (Poetry Collective). It also includes conversations between Montserrat and curator-in-training Nikita Gill and between curator Kate Jesson and former Director of the National Portrait Gallery Sandy Nairne, alongside a commissioned essay by Alan Rice on the relationship between Montserrat’s work, Ira Aldridge and the history of Black communities in the... --- - Published: 2021-06-29 - Modified: 2025-08-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/new-reflecting-on-feelings-cards/ - Price: 6.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Emotional Learning Cards - Product shipping classes: Large Letter The 40 cards in this set feature commentary and questions which can be used as conversation prompts in workshops, therapy sessions and the classroom. Designed to be used with our Emotional Learning Cards, the themes explored include everyday feelings, those relating to identity, belonging and thinking about our place in the world. A new accompaniment to our Emotional Learning Cards The Reflecting on Feelings card pack contains 40 cards, featuring commentary and questions which can be used as conversation prompts in discussions, workshops, therapy sessions and the classroom. Themes explored include everyday feelings, those relating to identity, belonging and thinking about our place in the world. The cards support the development of emotional understanding, broaden vocabulary and enable deeper, more extended thinking and discussion to take place. Written by Director of A Space art and therapy service, Lyn French (art therapist, counsellor and psychoanalytic psychotherapist) and designed by Sonja Frick, this set can to be used together with any of our Emotional Learning Card image sets, are suitable for use with any age group and can be used with our free resources to further extend activities and thinking. --- - Published: 2019-11-29 - Modified: 2023-03-16 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/here-we-come/ - Price: 50.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Artist Editions - Product shipping classes: Artist prints Shepherd Manyika has produced a special limited edition, based on his most recent project Here We Come, The Release Party (2019). The project, made possible through funding from #MyWestminster, involved Manyika working with ETAT (Encouragement Through the Arts and Talking), a Westminster based community group, to respond to preconceived notions of hip-hop. Collectively they produced incredible tracks of spoken word and rap – combining inspiration from drill to wartime classics, recorded in an eight track vinyl EP. This is a rare opportunity to own one of Shepherd Manyika’s works, especially produced for Iniva’s 25th anniversary. --- - Published: 2018-03-01 - Modified: 2023-03-16 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/black-sapphire-mandingo/ - Price: 7,200.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: exclude-from-catalog, exclude-from-search, outofstock - Product categories: Artist Editions - Product shipping classes: Artist prints Iniva is delighted to announce a new limited edition diptych print by Donald Rodney, produced in collaboration with the Estate of Donald G Rodney. A leading British artist of his generation, Rodney was profoundly influenced by the work of artists including Eddie Chambers, Keith Piper, Sonia Boyce and others who were re-examining social and historical narratives from a black perspective. Though his work continually evolved, Rodney always returned to the human form deployed through multiple manifestations. He would often explore recurring themes of black masculinity, the body and the stereotyping of the black man as “public enemy”, and an icon of danger, often bristling with unbridled and untamed sexuality. Photography for Rodney was a technical means to subvert images, deconstruct and reconstruct a set of realities mediated by print and broadcast media, advertising and commercial illustration. Viewed online, Rodney’s sketchbook number 35 from 1990 shines a slither of light on his view how the ‘genuine history of the slave trade’ is perversely romanticised in a form of pulp fiction which eroticised the daily trauma of plantation life. He made collages overlaying book covers, photographing, disassembling, reassembling and re-photographing to saturate colour and polarise the contrast. Images of people would be cut up, dismembered, and roughly taped together again to create fragile, hybrid, alien and alienated forms. A metaphor perhaps for his own experience of medical incursions transformed poetically through cutting paper creating something more ephemeral and otherworldly. Find out more about Donald Rodney's work at the London Art Fair 2018. --- - Published: 2017-06-15 - Modified: 2025-03-13 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/lets-talk-about-values/ - SKU: letstalkaboutvalues - Price: 17.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Emotional Learning Cards - Product tags: Emotional Learning Cards - Product shipping classes: Large Letter - 30 colour cards including the British values explored in detail - On the front: an image of an original artwork by Shiraz Bayjoo - On the back: descriptive text linking values with emotions + questions for discussion - A fold out leaflet with lesson plans created by a senior school leader as well as ideas for using them in the therapy setting - 2 additional cards with the complete A-Z list of values and suggestions for extending Receive 5% off when you buy any four sets of Emotional Learning Cards together, 10% off when you buy all seven sets. Boxed set of 30 Contemporary Art Cards with commentary + questions exploring key life values. Values reflect the principles we live by. They influence the choices we make, how we relate to others and what we consider most important in life. In the UK, the Department for Education requires that four values, defined as British values, are now taught in all schools as part on the national curriculum. Labelling key values as nation-specific raises intriguing questions around identity and belonging. Let’s talk about values helps young people explore why we have values and what they look like in action, in order to build inclusive communities and live meaningful lives. Let's talk about values is co-published by Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and A Space, an arts and therapy service. It brings together 30 original lithographic images commissioned from artist Shiraz Bayjoo, reflecting the richness of global contemporary art, while the text written by A Space, reflects over 20 years’ experience of working in the field of psychotherapy. The set was commissioned by Opossum, a federation of primary schools in north London who will use the cards as starting point to support reflection, discussion and art making in the classroom, and are suitable for Key Stage 2 onwards. They can be used in a variety of contexts by teachers, therapists, mentors, psychologists and parents/carers. All artworks commissioned from... --- - Published: 2017-04-19 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/how-do-we-live-well-with-others/ - SKU: HDWLWWO - Price: 14.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Emotional Learning Cards - Product tags: Emotional Learning Cards - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Receive 5% off when you buy any four sets of Emotional Learning Cards together, 10% off when you buy all seven sets. As well as challenging commonly held assumptions about who makes art and what its purpose might be, the cards bring together the kinds of questions artists enquire into with those which are at the root of all emotional learning and therapeutic exploration. ‘How do we live well with others? ’ is the latest emotional learning resource in our series. The images featured are beautiful reproductions of contemporary artworks selected for their psychological resonance and their visual impact. This set has been developed to raise awareness of our similarities and differences, and their effect on our understanding of each other. The set addresses questions including: What has influenced who we are now and how do we make sense of who we are becoming? What are the conscious and unconscious impacts of history, memory, class, race, culture, gender, family and society on our perceptions of ‘self’ and ‘other’? It is now widely recognised that well-being in every part of life depends on successfully building understanding, insight and emotional resilience. Emotional Learning Cards occupy a leading position in the growing fields of emotional learning and psychological therapies, bringing together the extensive experience of Iniva and A Space in both the arts and therapies. Our cards support ‘meaning-making’ as well as challenging often stereotypical ideas about who makes art and what its purpose might be. Featured Artists: Yinka Shonibare MBE, Ai Weiwei,... --- - Published: 2017-04-19 - Modified: 2025-08-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/who-are-you-where-are-you-going/ - SKU: WAYWAYG - Price: 14.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Emotional Learning Cards - Product tags: Emotional Learning Cards - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Receive 5% off when you buy any four sets of Emotional Learning Cards together, 10% off when you buy all seven sets. These cards provide images of contemporary art that support people of all ages to gain deeper insights into their identity, backgrounds, values and attitudes. Together with questions and ideas, it is particularly valuable for those coping with change and transition. Who are you? Where are you going? features artworks by culturally diverse and international artists, together with questions and prompts which stimulate activity and discussion around the themes of identity and transition. People’s identities are ever changing and are rooted in social, emotional and cultural histories. They are revealed or hidden in our personal and cultural belief systems, values and attitudes. Mapping emotional and social histories can provide us with deeper insights into who we are and where we come from, a process which provides us with greater self understanding and increased agency over where we are going. Each artwork in this boxed set has been carefully selected to deepen and widen understanding of the themes explored within the resource. The artists and images reflect a range of different cultural backgrounds, making the cards particularly useful for developing understanding around diversity and multiculturalism. NEW AND IMPROVED EDITION 2014 Featured Artists: Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Shiraz Bayjoo, Los Carpinteros, Sokari Douglas Camp, Juan Pablo Echeverri, Yara El-Sherbini, Alex Flemming, Diana Fonseca, Aya Haidar, NS Harsha, Permindar Kaur, Anthony Key, Hew Locke, Otobong Nkanga, Lucy Orta, Wilfredo Prieto, Donald... --- - Published: 2017-04-19 - Modified: 2025-08-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/what-do-you-feel/ - SKU: WDYF - Price: 14.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Emotional Learning Cards - Product tags: Emotional Learning Cards - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Receive 5% off when you buy any four sets of Emotional Learning Cards together, 10% off when you buy all seven sets. A beautiful learning resource for stimulating young people’s creative exploration, developing self-awareness and understanding adolescence. 20 thought provoking images of contemporary art, each with a series of questions and prompts, help to facilitate important and honest conversations with young people. "What do you feel? " is a stimulating art education and emotional learning resource that can be used in the classroom, after-school workshops, therapeutic settings and at home. Processing emotional responses to life, finding ways to express oneself and understanding relationships are essential life skills. This set of emotional learning cards is ideal for helping children and young people to build these skills. The cards in the boxed-set feature contemporary artworks by culturally-diverse artists on one side, with questions relating to the images on the other. The cards creatively bring to the surface important themes and experiences that are central to the lives of young people, including: understanding relationships; preparing for change and transition; acknowledging and working through losses; thinking about social, personal and cultural identities; identifying emotions and learning how to express them. Recommended for 10-14 year olds, the cards can be used with individuals or groups at home, in school or in therapy and counselling sessions. The set also includes a booklet with ideas for using the cards in their own right or as the starting point for creative projects. NEW AND IMPROVED 2014 EDITION. Featured... --- - Published: 2017-04-19 - Modified: 2025-08-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/a-z-of-emotions/ - SKU: AZE - Price: 16.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: featured - Product categories: Emotional Learning Cards - Product tags: Emotional Learning Cards - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Receive 5% off when you buy any four sets of Emotional Learning Cards together, 10% off when you buy all seven sets. Boxed set of 26 Contemporary Art Cards for building an Emotional Vocabulary. Life includes ups and downs for everyone. Strengthening our capacity to tolerate unsettling feelings and building our resilience so that we recover quickly from setbacks are both vital to well-being. The A-Z of Emotions is the latest emotional learning resource in our series, featuring 26 commissioned artworks from contemporary artists, paired with a therapeutically informed alphabet and commentary + questions designed to stimulate personal reflection and group discussion. Throughout history, artists from all disciplines have recognised the importance of documenting and exploring ‘felt experiences’. Each of the artists included has produced original works to illustrate feelings from ‘anger’ to ‘zest for life’ using a range of media from digital montage to watercolour and collage. The accompanying texts have been written by an experienced therapist to help navigate complex personal and emotional exploration across age groups. The Artwork Drawing on Iniva’s extensive knowledge, the selected artists have been carefully chosen for commission in order to reflect the richness of global contemporary art. Artists featured include: Larry Achiampong (Digital Montage), Phoebe Boswell (Pencil on Paper), Dia Batal (Mixed Media), Chila Burman (Mixed Media Collage), Matthew Krishanu (Oil on Canvas). Each artist has contributed 5 or 6 original images. --- - Published: 2017-04-19 - Modified: 2025-08-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/what-do-relationships-mean-to-you/ - SKU: WDRMTY - Price: 17.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Emotional Learning Cards - Product tags: Emotional Learning Cards - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Receive 5% off when you buy any four sets of Emotional Learning Cards together, 10% off when you buy all seven sets. Boxed set of 30 Contemporary Art Cards with commentary & questions exploring sexual identities and intimate relationships. Intimacy, sexual identities, love... what does it all mean? Making sense of our relationships and of the context for these experiences is something that, throughout time, artists from different disciplines and diverse cultures, have recognised the importance of. Sometimes this task requires that we explore our past and present from multiple perspectives. What do relationships mean to you? is the latest emotional learning resource in our series, using visual art to explore sexual identities and intimate relationships. These cards use contemporary art to support reflection on key themes ranging from what makes a relationship meaningful, emotionally enriching and sustainable through to how we articulate sexual difference and alternative sexualities. Needless to say, a good relationship with our inner self is where it all starts! Designed to stimulate discussion, art making, personal reflection, diary writing, storytelling and creative play; the cards can help to make sense of life experiences, open up new ways of thinking about emotions and encourage free expression. Featured Artists: Jannane Al-Ani, Alina Azadeh, Farah Bajull , Phoebe Boswell, Sutapa Biswas, Sonia Boyce, Helen Chadwick, George Chakravarti, Neha Choksi, Sarah Cole, Song Dong, Meschac Gaba, Sheila Ghelani, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Joy Gregory, Shilpa Gupta, Zhi Holloway, Deborah Kelly, Mouna Karray, Mem Morrison, Chris Ofili, Imran Qureshi, Sheena Rose, The Singh... --- - Published: 2017-04-19 - Modified: 2025-06-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/a-z-of-leadership/ - SKU: AZL - Price: 16.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Emotional Learning Cards - Product tags: Emotional Learning Cards - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Receive 5% off when you buy any four sets of Emotional Learning Cards together, 10% off when you buy all seven sets. Boxed set of Contemporary Art Cards for building emotionally intelligent leadership. The A-Z of Leadership is the latest emotional learning resource in our series featuring evocative and compelling artworks by international contemporary artists along with psychologically informed commentary + questions. We all understand the everyday meaning of emotional intelligence but how does it apply to leadership? Whether we hold a responsible position in a small or large organisation or are trying to be an effective role model to others, we can benefit from expanding our understanding of the conscious and unconscious factors at play. At the heart of effective leadership is the capacity to build relationships that can sustain more complex challenges. We need to be able to work with difference, balance needs, understand unconscious agendas and take into account other viewpoints or cultural influences which may be very different from our own. The A-Z of Leadership cards are designed to go beyond common themes by reflecting on these kinds of subjects and on the psychological dimensions of taking on a leadership role. Featured Artists: Endia Beal, Idris Khan, Nina Mangalanayagam, Joy Gregory, Kimathi Donkor, Karl Ohiri, Razwan Ulhaq, Mohamed Bourouissa, Alida Rodrigues, Natalia Anciso, Ria Hartley, Aya Haidar, Nandan Ghiya, Oscar Murillo, Park Chan-kyong, Halil Altindere, Felipe Castel Blanco, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye,Delaine de Bas, Erika Tan, Jack Tan, Sandra Ramos, Hassan Hajjaj, Faisal Abdu'Allah, Barby Asante and Lerato... --- - Published: 2017-01-27 - Modified: 2025-02-05 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/all-things-considered/ - SKU: TsherinSherpaAllThings - Price: 450.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Artist Editions - Product shipping classes: Artist prints Iniva is delighted to launch a new limited edition print by acclaimed Nepalese artist Tsherin Sherpa, created in collaboration with Rossi & Rossi Contemporary. This outstanding digital print which comes in two sections, was created from the original monumental canvas based diptych ‘All Things Considered'. 'All Things Considered consists of two enormous spirit figures hovering above scenes of chaos and play. There's a sense of confusion and protection amongst smothering amounts of fire and smoke. Golden children from different parts of the world are depicted either playing blissfully or in anguish amongst the turmoil, almost as if on a different plain of existence. In today's world we are all affected by some form of upheaval, be it from poverty, war, genocide, sickness, discrimination or environmental changes. Much of the hatred comes out of our attachment to individual realities and belief systems. As we draw lines between countries and close our minds to other cultures and their identities, we turn away from our commonalities. Here, I search for equanimity above the current destruction in the world, hoping that the next generation can see past the differences and find some better ground. ' Tsherin Sherpa - From Parallel Realities, Contemporary Tibetan Art. About the Artist Born in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tsherin Sherpa currently works and lives in the United States. From the age of 12, he studied traditional Tibetan thangka painting with his father, a renowned thangka artist from Ngyalam, Tibet. After studying computer science and Mandarin in Taiwan, he returned to Nepal... --- - Published: 2017-01-27 - Modified: 2025-02-05 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/naufrage-du-dalblair/ - SKU: ShirazBayjooNaufrage - Price: 150.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Artist Editions - Product shipping classes: Artist prints Iniva is delighted to announce a new limited edition print by Shiraz Bayjoo to accompany the artist's residency and exhibition Ile de France 14 January - 7 February 2015. This small, affordable edition of 30 giclée digital prints depicts an archival postcard of the Dalblair, a 19th century steel barque which sunk off the coast of Mauritius in 1902 and after which the print is named. Bayjoo has used collage and acrylic watercolour to transform the depicted boat, the shipwreck of which is now a mainstay of the tourist coastline at the Pointe D'Esnay. The print captures Bayjoo's interest in encounters between his native Mauritius and its colonial past which are omnipresent in his work Ile de France, and are commonly found as a juxtaposition of painted and archival material in his artworks. Printed onto a cotton rich Somerset Satin paper with raw edging. Bayjoo will be exhibiting and developing work in our education space during the residency. Iniva is providing Bayjoo with an open studio to enable a dialogue with visitors and provide an opportunity for him to edit his new film Ile de France. This is a rare opportunity to own one of Bayjoo's works, produced in collaboration with Iniva solely for the residency. --- - Published: 2017-01-27 - Modified: 2021-12-13 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/banksia/ - SKU: AlidaRodriguesBanksia - Price: 60.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Artist Editions - Product shipping classes: Artist prints Iniva is delighted to announce a new limited edition print by Alida Rodrigues to accompany her residency and exhibition Anthologia during October 2014. This small, affordable edition of 30 giclée digital prints has been created from one of Rodrigues iconic black and white portrait photographs, which features a distinctive spiked Australian wildflower addition from the plant genus Banksia for which the print has been named. The plant collage addition runs off the postcard and into the print which has been created on a 100% cotton rich German Etch paper. Rodrigues work consists of a found black-and-white photographs from the 19th century. These original ‘postcards' were self-portraits of individuals, couples and families sent to their loved ones as mementos and communiqués. The faces of some of these anonymous subjects are obscured by botanical illustrations, and named after a plant genus. Playing with tropes of identity, traditional hand-painted photography, history and collage, Rodrigues performs the role of a botanist, painstakingly crafting, cataloguing and naming the specimens in her collection. Alida Rodrigues will be exhibiting and developing work in our education space during October 2014. Iniva is providing Rodrigues with an open studio to enable a dialogue with visitors and provide an opportunity for her to experiment with her practice. During this time, the public are invited to view both an existing and a developing body of work within the space. This is a unique opportunity to own one of Alida's works, produced in collaboration with Iniva solely for the Anthologia residency. --- - Published: 2017-01-27 - Modified: 2023-03-16 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/good-morning-freedom/ - SKU: SoniaBoyceGoodMorning - Price: 215.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Artist Editions - Product shipping classes: Artist prints The acclaimed artist, Sonia Boyce, works in a wide range of media to address contemporary urban experience and the relationship between sound and memory. Boyce rose to prominence in the 1980s for her work questioning racial stereotypes in the media and in day-to-day life. Her more recent work has shifted to explore social practice and collaboration, with the audience as an integral part of the artwork. In Scat, produced in collaboration with Iniva, Boyce explores the significance of sound in art through the presentation of two video works and through The Devotional Collection, a multi-media archive she has built which charts the history of black women in the music industry. Good Morning Freedom is a new limited edition print, created especially for Scat and developed through archive materials from The Devotional Collection. Boyce has sampled the 1970's hit ‘Good Morning Freedom'; an uplifting song that reached number 10 in the UK singles charts in 1970. Performed by the band Blue Mink, it features the vocals of Madeline Bell, a US session singer who settled in the UK having started out singing gospel in the United States. The vibrant print communicates the spirit and effervescence of the song. Recognised as an important artist for her generation, Sonia Boyce only occasionally produces limited edition prints and as such this is a rare opportunity to own a work of hers. Watch Sonia Boyce talk about her limited edition print --- - Published: 2017-01-27 - Modified: 2021-12-13 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/homage-to-the-poet-langston-hughes/ - SKU: PeterClarkeHomage - Price: 250.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Artist Editions - Product shipping classes: Artist prints Print by Peter Clarke on the occasion of the Iniva exhibition 'Wind Blowing on the Cape Flats'. One of the most accomplished and versatile visual South African artists, Peter Clarke was born in 1929. In his early twenties he declared that he would make his living as an artist, which was a highly unusual ambition for a young black South African at the time. Over the last sixty years, Clarke has reflected on his country's social and political history and is often referred to as the ‘quiet chronicler'. His work constitutes a subtle critique of apartheid and its social consequences as well as more recently, aspects of the ‘new' South Africa. The exhibition Wind Blowing on the Cape Flats honours Clarke's life, work and contribution to art over sixty years and tells the story of an artist who is part of a lost generation, a voice that has been largely unheard in Europe. This print, a four-colour lithograph, is after an original hand-coloured linocut from the artist's personal collection. It depicts an outstretched single hand, reaching towards a dove, suggesting a yearning for peace or solidarity. The work is a homage to the American poet and social activist Langston Hughes who was recognised for his contribution to the 'Harlem Renaissance' and was an important influence on the artist. --- - Published: 2017-01-27 - Modified: 2023-03-16 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/omerfast/ - SKU: OmerFastRichard - Price: 200.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Artist Editions - Product shipping classes: Artist prints Born in Jerusalem and based in Berlin, Omer Fast is one of the most innovative video artists working today. Using familiar sources of reference, Fast manipulates time, memory and location with a multi-layered elegance, which is both subtle and humorous. The print Richard was produced with Iniva when Fast was part of inIVA's Atlas season of exhibitions and events that map ideas and experiences largely drawn from uncharted territory in 2004. The print includes a still and text from Fast’s film Godville in which he interviews 18th-century character interpreters in Colonial Williamsburg, a living history museum in Virginia, USA. The characters in Godville represent a cross-section of the town's resident reenactors interviewed in their assigned eighteenth-century settings and period garments and the film tells the story of a town whose residents are unmoored and floating somewhere in between America's past and present, fantasy and reality. The composition of the print mimicks his playful editing process of cutting and arranging scraps of text to create new frissons within language. Omer Fast is pre-occupied with the way conventional documentary approaches misrepresent and distort history. His ruminations have a multilayered elegance that is subtle, humorous, and continuously overlapping between time, memory and location. --- - Published: 2016-12-20 - Modified: 2023-03-16 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/reviewing-the-future-in-broken-english/ - SKU: KeithPiperReviewing - Price: 275.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Artist Editions - Product shipping classes: Artist prints Iniva is delighted to announce a new limited edition print by Keith Piper entitled Reviewing the future in Broken English. This silk screen print was produced by Bluecoat Print Studio alongside the artist, to celebrate Keith's forthcoming solo exhibition Unearthing the Bankers Bones, a Bluecoat/Iniva collaboration, Liverpool 28 October 2016 - 22 January 2017. The print references research and visual strategies which address contemporary concerns about the impacts of globalisation, themes found in the wider exhibition. About the Artist Keith Piper is an artist, curator, researcher and academic. His work over the past 25 years has explored issues of racial, gender and class identity. Piper first exhibited in 1981 as a member of the BLK Art Group, an association of black British art students that included peers Eddie Chambers, Claudette Johnson and Donald Rodney. In a series of exhibitions entitled 'The Pan African Connection' the group sought to explore issues relevant to aspects of black political struggles through contemporary art practice. Using a wide range of media, from painting, sculpture and installation, to interactive and digital media he has made interventions into arts and non arts spaces both in the UK and internationally. He currently lives and works in London. --- - Published: 2009-01-15 - Modified: 2025-04-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/shen-yuan/ - SKU: ShenYuan - Price: 17.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Having exhibited internationally to great acclaim, Shen Yuan is emerging as one of the most important and innovative artists working in Europe today. Living and working in Paris since 1990, she forms part of a generation of artists who left China to pursue their artistic practice. Shen Yuan, the first monograph to be published on the artist's career, takes readers on a visually exciting journey of Shen Yuan's work to date. Documenting past projects and work in progress for her first major solo exhibition, the book also includes colourful sketchbook pages of both realised and unrealised projects, which provide insight into the artist's working process. Alongisde newly commissioned essays by Hou Hanru, Evelyne Jouanno, Martina Köppel-Yang and Gilane Tawadros, quotations from the artist provide a lively and enlightening commentary on her work. Published on the occasion of a touring exhibition at Arnolfini, Bristol; Chisenhale Gallery, London; and Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool --- - Published: 2007-12-11 - Modified: 2025-04-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/exiles-diasporas-strangers/ - SKU: ExilesAAH - Price: 15.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications, Annotating Art's Histories Migration throws objects, identities and ideas into flux across a global network of travelling cultures. Examining life-changing journeys that transplanted artists and intellectuals from one cultural context to another, Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers offers a thematic overview of the critical and creative role of estrangement and displacement in the story of 20th-century art. Revealing the traumatic conditions that shaped numerous variants of modernism - among indigenous artists in Australia and Canada as much as émigré art historians from Central Europe - these critical studies also highlight multidirectional patterns of cross-appropriation that trouble the settled boundaries of national belonging, whether manifested in 1920s Nigeria or in post-modern works by black British artists of the 1980s. Coming up to date with historical perspectives on conceptual art's engagement with alterity, Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers makes a unique contribution to art history's rapprochement with the post-colonial turn. Annotating Art's Histories series Featuring internationally renowned scholars and curators at the critical edge of current research in art history, visual culture, and the humanities, Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures is the third volume in the Annotating Art's Histories series. Newly-comissioned writings are presented alongside bibliographies, translations, and selected reprints of key texts. Building up a richer understanding of cultural difference as a dynamic feature of 20th-century art, this acclaimed series is essential reading for students, practitioners, and anyone curious about cross-cultural interaction in the visual arts. The Annotating Art's Histories series is supported by The Getty Foundation. Other books in the series Cosmopolitan Modernisms Pop Art... --- - Published: 2007-08-29 - Modified: 2024-10-17 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/states-of-exchange-estados-de-intercambio/ - SKU: StatesofExchange - Price: 17.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter At a time when borderless communication is assumed to be the global standard and economic powers no longer adhere to old boundaries of East and West, Cuba is a country caught in flux. States of Exchange explores how artists in Cuba deal with the contradictions, ambiguities and social negotiations in Cuban life, leading a critical culture that prevails in the country since the mid-1980s. With contributions from the curators - Gerardo Mosquera on the history and context of current Cuban art and Cylena Simonds on the exhibition's themes of economic and communication exchange - this book also includes texts by different writers on the six exhibiting artists. In addition it features a survey of current video practice, exploring its status as an alternative means for creatively investigating and exchanging knowledge about Cuba's historical past and social present. En una época en la que damos por sentado que la comunicación sin fronteras es el estándar global, y las potencias económicas ya no se adhieren a las viejas líneas divisorias del esquema Este-Oeste, Cuba es una nación en constante estado de cambio. Estados de intercambio explora la forma en que los artistas de Cuba manejan las contradicciones, ambigüedades y negociaciones sociales de la vida cubana, encabezando una cultura crítica que impera en el país desde mediados de los años ochenta. Con contribuciones de los curadores - Gerardo Mosquera escribe sobre la historia y el contexto del arte cubano actual, y Cylena Simonds sobre los temas de intercambio económico y de comunicación a... --- - Published: 2007-05-17 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/pop-art-and-vernacular-cultures/ - SKU: PopArt - Price: 15.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: featured - Product categories: Publications, Annotating Art's Histories How does pop art translate across cultures? What does pop art look like through a post-colonial lens? This collection, co-published by Iniva and The MIT Press, casts new light on the aesthetics and politics of pop by bringing cross-cultural perspectives to focus on the shifting boundaries of ‘high' and ‘low' across different national and international contexts. Artists have long challenged the discourse of officialdom by turning to dissident elements in vernacular cultures. Exploring practices that range from the recycling of consumerist leftovers in Chicano rasquachismo to the painterly pastiche of Hindu 'photo-gods', innovative studies reveal how unexpected antagonisms in the social life of images have also questioned the categories of 'folk', 'nation' and ‘people' in the visual culture of modernity. When Mao goes pop, should we view the results as avant-garde, anti-modern or post-modern? Who ‘owns' popular culture in South Africa or Brazil? Why is hybridity so closely associated with the carnivalesque and the grotesque? Taking a fresh look at global transitions from modernism to post-modernism, the critical revision put forward in Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures radically expands our understanding of the late 20th-century period from which our working definitions of contemporary art are drawn. Annotating Art's Histories series Featuring internationally renowned scholars and curators at the critical edge of current research in art history, visual culture, and the humanities, Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures is the third volume in the Annotating Art's Histories series. Newly-comissioned writings are presented alongside bibliographies, translations, and selected reprints of key texts. Building... --- - Published: 2006-08-21 - Modified: 2024-10-17 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/alien-nation/ - SKU: AlienNation - Price: 19.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Small Parcel The scale of current global insecurity and fear may feel unprecedented, but Alien Nation is a timely reminder that today's anxieties are in fact a frighteningly recurrent theme. In the Cold War narratives of the 1950s and '60s that were played out in science fiction films, fears surrounding a communist invasion and atomic catastrophe were displaced onto an alien, often racialised ‘other'. In recent years artists from around the world have again taken up elements of science fiction and the figure of the alien to explore the fear of difference and the perceived threat of the outsider. Featuring the work of twelve contemporary artists alongside original film posters, film stills and archival photographs from the Cold War era, this lavishly illustrated book offers another chapter in this all too real fiction. It includes interviews with the artists, an in-depth exploration of the connections between science fiction, political and media narratives and contemporary art, as well as a major essay on the BBC television series Quatermass. It also includes a glossary of extra-terrestrial beings and an annotated tour through sci-fi films evoking race as an alien spectre. Texts: Claire Fitzsimmons, Jens Hoffmann, David Alan Mellor, Cylena Simonds, Greg Tate, Gilane Tawadros/John Gill Artists: Laylah Ali, Hamad Butt, Edgar Cleijne, Ellen Gallagher, David Huffman, Hew Locke, Marepe, Henna Nadeem, Kori Newkirk, Yinka Shonibare, Eric Wesley, Mario Ybarra Jr. Book design: APFEL (A Practice for Everyday Life) --- - Published: 2006-06-08 - Modified: 2024-10-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/discrepant-abstraction/ - SKU: DiscrepantAbstractsAAH - Price: 15.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications, Annotating Art's Histories Discrepant Abstraction is hybrid and partial, elusive and repetitive, obstinate and strange: it includes almost everything that does not neatly fit into the institutional narrative of abstract art as a monolithic quest for artistic ‘purity'. Exploring cross-cultural scenarios in 20th-century art, this ground-breaking collection, co-published by Iniva and The MIT Press, alters our understanding of abstract art as a signifier of modernity by revealing the multiple directions it has taken in diverse international contexts. Impure, imperfect and incomplete, the version of abstraction that emerges from this global journey - from Hong Kong and Islamic regions to Canada, Australia, Europe and the United States - shows how the formal ingenuity of abstract art has been cross-fertilised, from abstract expressionism onwards, by creative discrepancies that arise when disparate visual languages are brought into dialogue. Annotating Art's Histories series Featuring internationally renowned scholars and curators at the critical edge of current research in art history, visual culture, and the humanities, Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures is the third volume in the Annotating Art's Histories series. Newly-comissioned writings are presented alongside bibliographies, translations, and selected reprints of key texts. Building up a richer understanding of cultural difference as a dynamic feature of 20th-century art, this acclaimed series is essential reading for students, practitioners, and anyone curious about cross-cultural interaction in the visual arts. The Annotating Art's Histories series is supported by The Getty Foundation. Other books in the series Cosmopolitan Modernisms Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers --- - Published: 2005-05-05 - Modified: 2025-07-31 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/cedric-price-retriever/ - SKU: CedricPriceRetriever - Price: 9.99 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications, Annotations - Product shipping classes: Small Parcel The time-based interventions of radical British architect Cedric Price (1934-2003) earned him legendary status among artists and architects alike. This publication provides a unique insight into the preoccupations of one of Britain's leading architects and thinkers. In 2004 Eleanor Bron and Samantha Hardingham set about locating and cataloguing each title from Cedric Price's personal library. What has emerged is a map of Price's thought processes and imagination - a set of both strategic and unruly co-ordinates for the projects that emerged from his office. Bron and Hardingham, in keeping with the coding system of Cedric Price Architects, have created an annotated catalogue with symbols and codes referring to possible categories in which to place each book. However, space is left for the reader to add notes and annotations and the utilitarian nature of the publication - offered as a self-assembly kit - allows readers to assemble it as they wish and create their own map from the catalogue. As Price notes, '... hardly anything, believe me, is more depressing than going straight to the goal' (Gunter Grass). A4 size, the pages fit into any binding system. Price's preferences for fonts, symbols, paper and information are reflected in Paul Khera's design. In the knowledge of one civilisation printed on the remains of another, the book is produced from 100% post consumer waste, with the colour on the pages being derived from vegetable ink. Eleanor Bron is an actress and writer who first met Price in 1970. Samantha Hardingham is a writer... --- - Published: 2005-04-11 - Modified: 2024-03-12 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/shades-of-black-assembling-black-arts-in-1980s-britain/ - SKU: ShadesofBlack - Price: 19.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Medium Parcel In the 1980s - at the height of Thatcherism and in the wake of civil unrest and rioting in a number of British cities - the Black Arts Movement burst onto the British art scene with breathtaking intensity, changing the nature and perception of British culture irreversibly. This richly illustrated volume presents a history of that movement. It brings together in a lively dialogue leading artists, curators, art historians and critics, many of whom were actively involved in the Black Arts Movement. Thirteen original essays combine cultural theory with anecdote and experience, and the collection debates how the work of the black British artists of the 1980s might be viewed historically. The book includes a unique catalogue of images, an extensive list of suggested readings, and a descriptive timeline situating the movement vis-à-vis relevant artworks and films, exhibitions, cultural criticism, and political events from 1960 to 2000. Contributors: Stanley Abe, Jaward Al-Nawab, Rasheed Araeen, David A. Bailey, Adelaide Bannerman, Ian Baucom, Dawould Bey, Sonia Boyce, Allan deSouza, Jean Fisher, Stuart Hall, Lubaina Himid, Naseem Khan, susan pui san lok, Kobena Mercer, Yong Soon Min, Keith Piper, Zineb Sedira, Gilane Tawadros, Leon Wainwright, Judith Wilson --- - Published: 2005-01-01 - Modified: 2025-05-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/cosmopolitan-modernisms/ - SKU: CosmoModsAAH - Price: 15.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications, Annotating Art's Histories Co-published by Iniva and The MIT Press, Cosmopolitan Modernisms explores various moments in 20th-century art where the encounter between different cultures has produced something distinctive and revealing about the lived experience of modernity. Distinguished art historians and emerging scholars are brought together in this book by a critical dialogue that pushes beyond separate areas of study to arrive at a more connective approach to the history of art. Travelling through a variety of historical contexts, from colonial India and pre-war Germany, to post-1945 Brazil, and the Caribbean and African American spaces of the black Atlantic diaspora, this unique collection re-defines the ‘cosmopolitan' as a critical aspect of the questioning attitude that artists adopted throughout the world. Annotating Art's Histories series Featuring internationally renowned scholars and curators at the critical edge of current research in art history, visual culture, and the humanities, Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures is the third volume in the Annotating Art's Histories series. Newly-comissioned writings are presented alongside bibliographies, translations, and selected reprints of key texts. Building up a richer understanding of cultural difference as a dynamic feature of 20th-century art, this acclaimed series is essential reading for students, practitioners, and anyone curious about cross-cultural interaction in the visual arts. The Annotating Art's Histories series is supported by The Getty Foundation. Other books in the series Cosmopolitan Modernisms Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers --- - Published: 2004-01-23 - Modified: 2025-05-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/changing-states-contemporary-art-and-ideas-in-an-era-of-globalisation/ - SKU: ChangingStates - Price: 25.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: featured - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Small Parcel Featuring the work of over 100 artists and writers, this unique anthology maps the changing landscape of contemporary art and culture over the past decade in the context of global economics and local politics. Seen through the prism of a decade of artistic programming by Iniva, the book examines the most pressing issues that have driven international contemporary art at the turn of the millennium. The presentation of compelling issues in an accessible and visual way makes this book essential reading for academics and art enthusiasts alike. Thematic chapters on key concepts - such as modernity, nation, site, technology, the postcolonial city, performance, the archive and sport - combine new writing with artists' pages, reprints of much sought-after texts, unpublished transcripts of discussions and interviews featuring leading international scholars. The inclusion of a glossary and a timeline plotting some of the decade's greatest artistic achievements makes this an important book for anyone interested in international contemporary art. Celebrating ten years of Iniva projects, the anthology provides a compendium of groundbreaking artworks, debates and ideas that have been at the cutting edge of wider social, economic and political transformations. Preface: Stuart Hall Contributors: Remi Abbas, Absalon, Kourush Adim, AES art group, Laylah Ali, Janine Antoni, Lyle Ashton Harris, David A. Bailey, Ian Baucom, Sutupa Biswas, Louise Bourgeois, Frank Bowling, Sonia Boyce, Guy Brett, Tania Bruguera, Roddy Buchanan, Hamad Butt, Eddie Chambers, Clifford Charles, Carl Cheng, Freddy Contreras, Clare Cumberlidge, Avtarjeet Dhanjal, Tarsila do Amaral, Ricardo Dominguez, Aaron Douglas, Jimmie Durham, Richard... --- - Published: 2003-03-04 - Modified: 2025-06-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/veil-veiling-representation-and-contemporary-art/ - SKU: Veil - Price: 17.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Small Parcel Veil is the first publication to explore the representation of the veil - one of the most powerful symbols in contemporary visual culture - and serves as an essential starting point to establish a new international dialogue. Extending possible interpretations of the veil and investigating the ambiguities and paradoxes expressed in contemporary arts practice, it provides both a social and an historic context to the veil's multilayered symbolism. Alongside newly commissioned essays by leading international scholars and works by contemporary visual artists, key historical texts trace a trajectory of writings across religions, cultures, genders and ages to reflect the breadth of conflicting and constantly shifting attitudes towards the veil. Texts: Leila Ahmed, Jananne Al-Ani, David A. Bailey, Alison Donnell, Frantz Fanon, Reina Lewis, Hamid Naficy, Zineb Sedira, Ahdaf Soueif, Gilane Tawadros Artists: Faisal Abdu'Allah, Kourush Adim, AES art group, Jananne Al-Ani, Ghada Amer, Farah Bajull, Samta Benyahia, Gaëtan de Clérambault, Marc Garanger, Shadafarin Ghadirian, Ghazel, Emily Jacir, Ramesh Kalkur, Majida Khattari, Shirin Neshat, Harold Offeh, Gillo Pontecorvo, Zineb Sedira, Elin Strand, Mitra Tabrizian Published on occasion of Veil, an Iniva touring exhibition initiated by Zenib Sedira, developed by Jananne Al-Ani and Sedira, and curated by Al-Ani, David A. Bailey, Sedira and Gilane Tawadros --- - Published: 2003-01-01 - Modified: 2025-06-17 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/vampire-in-the-text-narratives-of-contemporary-art/ - SKU: Vampire - Price: 14.99 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Small Parcel This collection of writings by Jean Fisher traces the author's journey through the political and intellectual turbulence of the past 20 years and its impact on both artistic practice and the writing of art. Through her close study of Anglo/Irish and US/Native American colonial and contemporary relations, Fisher explores the effectiveness of artistic practice in the construction of political and subjective agency. Each essay in the first part of the book maps a possible terrain for approaching the work of a single artist - among them, James Coleman, Jimmie Durham, Susan Hiller, Gabriel Orozco and Adrian Piper - while the texts in the second part reflect upon artistic practice in relation to questions of subjectivity, postcoloniality and multiculturalism. Jean Fisher's interdisciplinary approach to writing provides rich insights into the relationship between visual art and theory and has been highly influential to a generation of international scholars, artists and curators. Artists featured: Judith Barry, James Coleman, Willie Doherty, Jimmie Durham, David Dye, Jack Goldstein, Susan Hiller, Anselm Kiefer, Avis Newman, Everlyn Nicodemus, Gabriel Orozco, Adrian Piper, Santi Quesada, Frank Stella, Lee Ufan Preface: Cuauhtémoc Medina --- - Published: 2002-04-01 - Modified: 2024-10-17 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/chinese-art-at-the-crossroads-between-past-and-future-between-east-and-west/ - SKU: ChineseArt - Price: 20.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Small Parcel This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding more about the transformations occurring in Chinese art today. This wide-ranging collection of texts and images, by artists, critics and curators, reveals the tensions, fervour and zeal of one of the most exciting art scenes anywhere in the world. The book's essays, interviews and debates provide varied, lively and well-informed insights from a diverse range of individuals at the forefront of Chinese contemporary art. This wide-ranging collection of texts, interviews, discussions and images, previously published on the Chinese-art. com website in 2001, embraces a disparate group of voices and offers local and global perspectives on the art scenes of mainland China and its diaspora. --- - Published: 2002-01-27 - Modified: 2024-10-25 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/a-long-conversation-with-stuart-hall/ - SKU: StuartHallDVD - Price: 12.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: DVD, Publications Stuart Hall is an important figure in the influential interdisciplinary field known as cultural studies. In this stimulating and eloquent four-hour interview, conducted by the literary journalist Maya Jaggi and directed by Mike Dibb, Hall reflects on his life and career, talking personally and in depth about the trajectory of his work and how it has intersected with broader political movements. In a conversation both intimate and sweeping in scope, Hall describes his migration from Jamaica to England, his immersion in left-wing politics in London, the influence of Raymond Williams and E. P. Thompson on the evolution of his thought, and the context within which the early classic texts of cultural studies were written. Hall also shares his pessimism about the economic recession and his optimism about Barack Obama's victory. Future analysis of Hall's work, and of cultural studies in general, will need to take account of this fascinating and indispensable first-person account of his life and ideas. The conversation is broken into short sections to facilitate use in the classroom. --- - Published: 2000-10-01 - Modified: 2025-08-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/drawing-space-contemporary-indian-drawing/ - SKU: DrawingSpace - Price: 7.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Weaving a thread between contemporary drawing and nineteenth-century Company paintings, Drawing Space: Contemporary Indian Drawings maps the intimate historical connection between Britain and India. In the early nineteenth-century, Company paintings forged a new relationship between Indian artists and their colonial patrons, the East India Company. The drawn line was traditionally used as a means of defining social and physical space; this publication explores how it has become a device for negotiating space in ways that are self-empowering. Bringing together three of India's most innovative contemporary artists - Sheela Gowda, N. S. Harsha and Nasreen Mohamedi - Drawing Space contains specially commissioned essays, interviews and diary extracts, providing not only an art-historical background of the work, but also personal insights into the creative processes of the three artists. Published on occasion of the exhibition Drawing Space, co-produced by Iniva and Beaconsfield in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum. --- - Published: 1999-07-28 - Modified: 2017-07-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/mixed-belongings-and-unspecified-destinations-annotations-1/ - SKU: MixedBelongings - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications, Annotations Edited by Nikos Papastergiadis with contributing essays from Graham Crow, Simon Edge, Richard Hylton, Doreen Massey, Lynda Morris, Yinka Shonibare and Tim Rollins, this book explores the different and complex relationships between artists and notions of community. Annotations 1 brings together the papers delivered during the one-day interdisciplinary conference 'Imagined Communities' at John Hansard Gallery in May 1996. Annotations series Iniva's Annotations series assembles art and ideas that have existed previously in a different context. These short accessible volumes are perfect introductions to some of the issues at the heart of current critical debate. Other titles in the series Cedric Price Retriever Modernity and Difference, Stuart Hall and Sarat Maharaj Run Through the Jungle: Selected Writings by Eddie Chambers Steve Ouditt: Creole in-site Sonia Boyce: Performance --- - Published: 1999-01-31 - Modified: 2019-08-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/recordings-a-select-bibliography-of-contemporary-african-afro-caribbean-and-asian-british-art/ - SKU: Recordings - Price: 9.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: World Zone 1 Standard An archive of audio and video tapes, ephemera, books and exhibition catalogues on the practice of black artists was established at Chelsea College of Art in 1985 and its holdings are now published in this bibliography. Aiming to reflect the diversity of black British visual arts practice, it provides an invaluable resource for historical documentation and research worldwide. --- - Published: 1999-01-30 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/steve-ouditt-creole-in-site-annotations-4/ - SKU: SteveOudittCreole - Price: 4.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications, Annotations - Product shipping classes: Large Letter 'A post-independence American/English-educated Christian Indian Trinidadian West Indian Creole male artist'. This is how Steve Ouditt describes himself in a playful and poignant comment on the complexities of diasporan identities which have become so resonant in the so-called post-modern world. Profoundly aware of the limitations of language, Ouditt's writings and art navigate the difficult terrain between the visual and the verbal, between the poetic and the prosaic. Creole in-site collects together the artist's writings for the first time, alongside images of his work. Annotations series Iniva's Annotations series assembles art and ideas that have existed previously in a different context. These short accessible volumes are perfect introductions to some of the issues at the heart of current critical debate. Other titles in the series Cedric Price Retriever Modernity and Difference: Stuart Hall and Sarat Maharaj Run Through the Jungle: Selected Writings by Eddie Chambers Frequencies: Investigations into Culture, History and Technology Sonia Boyce: Performance Mixed Belongings and Unspecified Destinations --- - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/fault-lines-contemporary-african-art-and-shifting-landscapes/ - SKU: FaultLines - Price: 20.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Small Parcel In geological terms, fault lines reveal themselves as fractures in the earth's surface but they also mark a break in the continuity of the strata and create new landscapes. Fault Lines brings together artists and writers from Africa and the African diaspora whose works trace the fault lines that are shaping contemporary experience locally and globally. Published on the occasion of the 50th Venice Biennale, Fault Lines traces a journey from the rousing words of the first presidents of the independent states of Africa to the current 'states of emergency' that Stuart Hall discerns in the work of the Fault Lines artists. Achille Mbembe's honest and insightful notes on the postcolony; Sarat Maharaj's discussion of ‘cultural managerialism' in apartheid South Africa; and Okwui Enwezor's analysis of the institutional reception of multicultural art provide the cultural, economic and political context in which the Fault Lines artists are operating. Complementing Gilane Tawadros's introduction to the curatorial framework of the exhibition and to the artists she has selected, essays have been commissioned from a wealth of established and emerging writers on the individual artists. Contributors: Gamal Abdel-Nasser, Solomon Deressa, Deepali Dewan, Okwui Enwezor, Lisa Fischman, Elsabet Giorgis, Stuart Hall, Salah Hassan, Sarat Maharaj, Prince Massingham, Achille Mbembe, Prince Mbusi Dube, Kobena Mercer, Landry-Wilfrid Miampika, Adriano Mixinge, Simon Njami, Kwame Nkrumah, Bheki Peterson, Nasser Rabbat, Niru Ratman, Jérôme Sans, Mark Sealy, Yasmeen Siddiqui, Gilane Tawadros, Ramon Tio Bellido, Hamza Walker, Kateb Yacine Artists: Laylah Ali, Kader Attia, Samta Benyahia, Zarina Bhimji, Frank Bowling, Clifford... --- - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2017-07-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/modernity-and-difference-annotations-6/ - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications, Annotations Modernity and Difference includes an influential conversation between Professor Stuart Hall and Professor Sarat Maharaj on modernity, difference and untranslatability, which took place at the Lux Centre in Hoxton, London, at an event organised by Iniva. In this extraordinary discussion, two of today's most important commentators on race and culture map out a new space for thinking about difference - a space which is both translatable and untranslatable and, ultimately, escapes fixity and closure. This volume also publishes Stuart Hall's keynote address to the Tate Gallery's 'Museums of Modern Art and the End of History' conference, in which he proposes the history of modernity and modernism to be a series of 'cultural translations', rather than being firmly enshrined in the Western canon. Sarat Maharaj's 'Perfidious Fidelity: The Untranslatability of the Other', first published with the papers from Iniva's first conference on the 'new internationalism' is reprinted here, as it introduces and lays out the framework within which Maharaj speaks of translation and untranslatability. Annotations series Iniva's Annotations series assembles art and ideas that have existed previously in a different context. These short accessible volumes are perfect introductions to some of the issues at the heart of current critical debate. Other titles in the series Cedric Price Retriever Run Through the Jungle: Selected Writings by Eddie Chambers Steve Ouditt: Creole in-site Frequencies: Investigations into Culture, History and Technology Sonia Boyce: Performance Mixed Belongings and Unspecified Destinations --- - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2023-06-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/beyond-the-fantastic-contemporary-art-criticism-from-latin-america/ - SKU: Beyondthefantastic - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications Beyond the Fantastic brings together a selection of influential essays that have informed critical discourse on the visual arts in Latin America from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. It provides an invaluable context for viewing contemporary Latin American art and includes contributions from leading critics and art historians. Contributors: Mónica Amor, Pierre E. Bocquet, Gustavo Buntinx, Luis Camnitzer, Néstor García Canclini, Ticio Escobar, Andrea Giunta, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Paulo Herkenhoff, Mirko Lauer, Gerardo Mosquera, Celeste Olalquiaga, Gabriel Peluffo Linari, Carolina Ponce de Léon, Mari Carmen Ramírez, Nelly Richard, Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, George Yúdice --- - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/reading-the-contemporary-african-art-from-theory-to-the-market-place/ - SKU: ReadingtheContemporary - Price: 20.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Medium Parcel This anthology brings together 22 essays in which key critical thinkers, scholars and artists explore a wide range of subjects including contemporary African visual art, cinema and photography. They lay out theoretical and critical frameworks for engaging with these practices, locating them within the context of current debate and the continent's history. Contributors: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Manthia Diawara, Ima Ebong, Okwiu Enwezor, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Salah Hassan, Sidney Kasfir, Daivd Koloane, Thomas McEvilley, Kobena Mercer, V. Y. Mudimbe, Laura Mulvey, Everlyn Nicodemus, Olu Oguibe, Chika Okeke, John Picton, Colin Richards, Margo Timm, N. Frank Ukadike, Ocatvio Zaya --- - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2022-11-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/signals-magazine-1964-1966/ - SKU: Signals - Price: 25.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Medium Parcel First published between 1964 and 1966, Signals was the international forum for European, Latin, Central and South American artists. Edited by the celebrated artist David Medalla, this cutting-edge journal documented exhibitions at the Signals showroom in London, and also included poems, critical essays, scientific digests, images, photographs and experimental art news. Documenting vital exhibitions and events in Britain and abroad, Signals brought together leading innovative artists, writers and poets of the time and, in addition, establishes a context for kinetic, time-based, performance and environmental art. Artists featured in the original and now reproduced in the facsimile editions include Jesús Rafael Soto, Takis, Lygia Clark, Sergio de Camargo, Carlos Cruz-Díaz, Eduardo Chillida and Marcela Salvadori, and many others. Signals magazine remains an essential contribution to this important period in 20th century art and is still a crucial document of the mid-1960s international art scene. Many of today's young contemporary artists, at work in both the northern and southern hemispheres, are inspired by the magazine's style and far-reaching content. This special facsimile edition comprises volumes one and two and comes complete with a comprehensive index. There are 10 issues in total, as numbers 3 and 4 are combined into one twin issue (as in the original). Iniva gratefully acknowledges the support and assistance of James Moores, Jane Rankin-Reid and Pulsynetic in preparation of the Signals archive set and index --- --- ## Projects - Published: 2025-06-18 - Modified: 2025-06-19 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/living-legacies-collaboration-community-and-radicality/ - Project Types: Project “Our archive is a living one—it reflects a genealogy of Black and international artists that belong to all of us. We must preserve and activate it, not just for memory’s sake, but as a way to inspire and empower future generations. ” — Sepake Angiama, Artistic Director, iniva Living Legacies is a transformative four-year project rooted in the legacies of Global Majority artistic practice. It activates iniva’s unique visual arts archive centred on radical global art histories and reconnects it with contemporary communities in Westminster, Lambeth and Southwark through co-created exhibitions, events, podcasts and digital resources. The project foregrounds identity, belonging and cultural memory through intergenerational partnerships with young people (16–25) and older adults (65+), artists, educators and grassroots organisations. Launched with a development grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Living Legacies is grounded in inclusivity, creativity and care. The project will: Improve access through inclusive communication, digital tools and physical accessibility Increase engagement by activating the archive through storytelling and creative interpretation Grow knowledge and skills by supporting underrepresented people into heritage and archiving roles During the Development Phase (2024–25), Living Legacies bring artists, elders and youth together in zine-making, archiving and emotional learning workshops that explored home, identity and memory. These sessions demonstrate the power of the archive as a tool for care, connection and transformation. This lays the foundation for deeper, long-term partnerships across London’s diverse communities. Living Legacies is supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. --- - Published: 2025-06-06 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/present-land/ - Project Types: Open Call, Project, Workshop Present Land is a community art project based in Westminster, exploring climate justice through creative collaboration. Over four participatory workshops hosted at the Stuart Hall Library, local residents will work with a commissioned artist to reflect on environmental issues and share strategies for sustainable action. Prioritising youth (16–25) and older adults (65+), the project proposes intergenerational dialogue while addressing social isolation and climate inequality. Community members will help shape the programme, and present their work during a final open day. Resources developed will be shared online, expanding public access and long-term impact. Present Land is supported by Westminster City Council. --- - Published: 2025-06-02 - Modified: 2025-08-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/dub-encyclopaedia/ - Project Types: Exhibition - Event types: Exhibition Dub Encyclopaedia is an immersive installation by artists Antonio José Guzman and Iva Jankovic, opening at the Stuart Hall Library on 13 June 2025 presented by iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts). Antonio Jose Guzman and Iva Jankovic are Netherlands-based artists whose collaborative practice weaves together indigo-dyed textiles, sound, and performance to explore colonial legacies, migration, and diasporic identity. Drawing on diverse musical traditions, including dub and punk, their immersive installations and live works evoke the emotional resonance of displacement and cultural memory. Through patterned fabrics inspired by DNA sequencing and vernacular motifs, Guzman and Jankovic map global connections across the Black Atlantic, using indigo as a symbolic material to examine the transatlantic slave trade and the movement of people, knowledge, and ritual. Drawing on the radical tradition of dub poetry, Dub Encyclopaedia maps diasporic journeys through textiles, sound, and archival traces. The centrepiece of the exhibition is a nomadic tent constructed from indigo ajrak fabrics and houses poems, books, soundscapes, and archival materials. Through this constellation of media, the artists explore storytelling, pedagogy, and resilience in the context of global migration and vernacular memory. Presented as part of the Concrete Roots series for the Liverpool Biennial 2025, Dub Encyclopaedia marks the artists’ first solo presentation in the UK. Following a performance at the Biennial, two hand-crafted dresses featured in the live piece will travel to London, forming part of the exhibition narrative at iniva’s Stuart Hall Library. All poems presented will enter the Stuart Hall Library collection, continuing the... --- - Published: 2025-01-27 - Modified: 2025-03-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/braiding-sessions/ - Project Types: residency iniva and down river road are pleased to announce Braiding Sessions, a partnership programme between Stuart Hall Library and Karara Community Library. The project explores the various practices that cultural workers, curators, librarians, and administrators engage in their communities to promote engagement with their knowledge resources and safeguard against memory loss and historical revisionism. As part of the project, iniva will be hosting Brian Muraya from Karara Community Library in early February. The project is supported by the British Council through the UK/Kenya Season 2025 Catalyst Grant. --- - Published: 2024-10-25 - Modified: 2025-08-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/culture-zine-club/ - Project Types: Learning, Workshop Are you a young person living in Westminster between 16 –18 looking for a creative way to explore your identity and heritage? Join our zine-making workshops! This project invites young people, to delve into the rich archive of Iniva and the Stuart Hall Library (SHL) — a treasure trove documenting the impactful legacies of Black and Asian artists who have shaped contemporary British art and culture. In three interactive workshops, you'll dive into work of artists often overlooked in classrooms. You’ll learn how to use archives and libraries as powerful tools to explore personal heritage, identity, and self-expression. By curating your own unique narrative, you’ll develop a deeper connection to these resources, now and in the future. By the end of the project, you’ll collaborate with other participants to create pocket-sized zines that reflect your creative journey. These zines will not only document your experience but also serve as a guide on how to use libraries and archives creatively. The final zine will be shared with schools, art organizations, and groups across Westminster and published digitally on our website. Don’t miss this chance to make your voice heard and be part of a creative community. Discover the power of archives, learn new skills, and share your story with the world! --- - Published: 2024-10-23 - Modified: 2024-10-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/1111-x-iniva-residency-2024/ - Project Types: residency iniva and Residency 11:11 are thrilled to announce that curator, writer and researcher Beulah Ezeugo has been selected for Residency 11:11’s November Residency in partnership with iniva. Residency 11:11’s domestic residency is a research-based residency situated in a residential shared flat in London. For a duration of one month the residency aims to connect its guests to the city’s artistic landscape, encouraging practitioners to explore local discourses and collaborations. This residency invited practitioners with a strong interest in special collections, artists archives and archival practices to engage with iniva’s Artist File Collection. The collection primarily contains various amounts of ephemera in the form of gallery invitations, press releases, 35mm slides, biographies, press clippings and much more. Much like iniva’s Stuart Hall library collection it documents radical and emergent contemporary artistic practice centering Global Majority, African, Asian, and Caribbean diaspora perspectives. Beulah Ezeugo is an artist & curator who works with others against the rapid tightening and regularisation of national borders. Her practice engages with postcolonial geographies, archival practices, & collective memory and expands outwards through exhibition-making, programming, & publication. As an independent curator, she is interested in supporting collaborative & research-led artists’ practices. Beulah is currently a research associate at CCA Derry~Londonderry, and one-half of the collective Éireann & I Archive, a migrant memory project. Ezeugo is currently focused on how marginalised groups have historically used fabrication—through falsified documents, elaborate dress, racial passing, or other elaborate personal myths—to navigate systemic barriers. She is especially interested in how these strategies mirror... --- - Published: 2024-09-05 - Modified: 2024-11-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/global-resiliencies/ - Project Types: Open Call, Exhibition, Workshop - Event types: Exhibition Global Resiliencies is a project centred on activist zines produced between 2010 and 2022. It asks how grassroots publications can reflect and shape political movements and collective action across different geopolitical contexts around the globe. At its core, this project seeks to explore how zines—those self-published, often ephemeral documents of resistance—offer unique insights into how people resist, build communities, and foster solidarity across borders. From 2 October 2024, to 28 February 2025, Global Resiliencies unfolds at the Stuart Hall Library as a living, evolving showcase rather than a conventional, static exhibition. This approach emphasises a continuous process of gathering, sharing, and reflecting on activist voices and materials. The project's format is open and participatory, designed to create new connections between distant geographies and varied political struggles. Global Resiliencies is launched alongside an international open call for activist zines. The call invites activists, artists, and cultural workers engaged in various forms of struggle to share their stories, strategies, and visions. In addition to being featured in the exhibition, the selected submissions will become part of the Stuart Hall Library’s zine collection, expanding it to include more voices, experiences, and forms of resistance. Through the act of collecting, the project aims to ensure the legacies of these movements to inspire future generations. As part of Global Resiliencies, iniva will also be collaborating with RCA Palestine Society to create a new zine which will record their recent political activism and efforts for Palestinian liberation and those from other student organisations. The zine will... --- - Published: 2024-07-26 - Modified: 2025-08-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/the-gathering-2024/ - Project Types: Project - Event types: Workshop The Gathering 2024 offers a unique space centring Global Majority UK-based artists and cultural workers to convene in exploration of restorative practices to build frameworks for stronger relationships and more sustainable arts ecologies. The Gathering 2024 runs from the 26th to the 27th October 2024. This programme is cooperatively built between our curatorial board, led by: Zoé Whitley Yesomi Umolu Sepake Angiama Beatriz Lobo Nate Agbetu This two-day gathering focuses on how we bring rest into our communities. Expanding holistically through our five programme pillars – Practice, Mind, Embodiment, Environment, and Nourishment – we centre our attention on different forms of rest. As part of the curatorial process, we worked with a Sub-Committee for each pillar, proposing frameworks and identifying contributors for the programme. PRACTICE Informing access and working conditions. Members - Zoé Whitley, Bonlanle Tajudeen and Harold Offeh The practice pillar seeks to find balance and knowledge within the works of transdisciplinary cultural workers. This pillar is focused on creating programming and moments that can engage a multi-hyphenate audience in search of the common thread surrounding rest. Reflecting on working conditions, exhaustion and precarity across the sector, The Gathering can be a space to review and reimagine support systems, particularly focused on peer-to-peer support. By offering practical sessions on common issues such as ‘negotiating contracts’ and ‘building care riders’, we hope that delegates will leave the retreat better informed about cultural infrastructural support and have developed language and tools to negotiate better working conditions. The sub-committee was inspired by... --- - Published: 2024-05-09 - Modified: 2025-07-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/kla-art-festival-artist-in-residence/ - Project Types: residency iniva and 32° East are excited to announce that artist Seyi Adelekun has been selected as the KLA ART '24 Artist-in-Residence. This residency is a partnership opportunity through British Council’s Biennials Connect for an artist based in the UK to take part in KLA ART '24 Festival in Kampala, Uganda. KLA ART, Kampala Contemporary Art Festival, is a non-commercial venture with an emphasis on the commission of new works of an experimental nature. Through an extensive professional development programme for artists and curators, KLA ART is currently focusing on strengthening the visual art scene within Uganda and East Africa. The theme for KLA ART ’24, Care Instructions, invites artists and the public to look at cultural heritage through the lens of care. Selected through a popular open call, Seyi’s project aims to create an abstract sculptural installation of The Tree of Life, symbolizing spiritual wisdom rooted in nature. It will highlight the importance of African traditional herbal medicine in caring for the spirit, mind, and body, fostering a deep connection with plant spirits and reverence for the land. Seyi was in residence at 32° East art centre over a three-month period from May to July 2024, immersing themselves in local herbal knowledge to create a new work of art for KLA ART '24 Festival in August 2024. Teesa Bahana, Director at 32° East said, “We are very pleased to welcome Seyi to Kampala and our purpose-built art centre. Seyi's project stood out because of its direct connection to the KLA... --- - Published: 2024-05-09 - Modified: 2025-01-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/promise-me-tomorrow/ - Project Types: Exhibition - Event types: Exhibition Promise Me Tomorrow is an exhibition that brings together the artistic and education practices and processes of our two-year national programme CoLab. Taking place at schools across the country, between 2022 and 2024, each CoLab project involved artists, mental health practitioners and educators. Since 2022 iniva has organised a series of workshops for students of various ages while developing resources for educators. Each project has created a zine to illustrate the process and in some cases an artwork was left with the school as a permanent legacy of the project. Throughout all the projects and iniva’s education programme, priority is given to how creativity can be used to support young people to find and amplify their own voices. The aim is to strengthen their feelings of autonomy, their ability to speak out about what matters to them and explore their own identity untethered from the context they are within. Most of the projects used the classroom as a site to reconfigure, reconsider and reorientate, removing the usual hierarchies from the institution by creating a democratic public sphere within educational space. This autonomy allowed students to make informed choices about their work, engage in open dialogue with their peers and take part in critical discussions about societal issues. Artists used methods and processes to offer them a way to express themselves whether through photography, drawing, clay modelling or collage. Each took their starting point from a pressing societal issue enabling students to critically examine issues of identity, race, class, activism and... --- - Published: 2024-04-12 - Modified: 2024-04-12 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/transformation-of-silence/ - Project Types: Workshop Transformation of Silence into Words & Action is the title of an essay by poet, feminist, activist & educator Audre Lorde. Under this banner we will come together for collective study, scanning, zine making and research on Palestine and Israel, to transform our silences into language and take action in making audible demands, for collective freedoms, self-determination and joy through the works of artists, writers and other cultural producers. We offer the Stuart Hall Library and our resources to everyone who wants to come together with others in dialogue, to develop pedagogies, for read-ins and teach-ins, in line with all of the work iniva has supported over the past 30 years, and to counter the continual misinformation we see in the media. --- - Published: 2024-02-27 - Modified: 2024-09-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/unseen-guests/ - Project Types: Commission “I’m interested in the way that unseen guests arrive at parties, and become actually quite prominent party members, becoming central actors in the ongoing proceedings” — John Akomfrah As part of the public programme for the British Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, Unseen Guests is a commission of eight artists based in the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), working across new media, audiovisual and writing to create new works in dialogue with the work of filmmaker and artist John Akomfrah. For the second edition of the Post-National Digital Pavilion, iniva presents Unseen Guests. The Pavilion is a series of radical re-imaginings of nationhood, reflecting on the entanglement between land and water, movement and m/otherlands, in the forging of new identities and subjectivities. Unseen Guests invites eight artists to develop new works, including Ibiye Camp, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Gladys Kalichini, Rodrigo Nava Ramirez, Shamica Ruddock and Helena Uambembe, and writers Yaa Addae and Alex/is G. Tayie, selected through an international open call. Investigating histories embedded in cultural and environmental landscapes, and exploring their relationships with present geopolitical issues, Unseen Guests proposes artistic investigations alongside Pan-African cultural archives across the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), focusing on documentations of anticolonial events and testimonies of climate change. Experimenting with elements that may not have been recognisable as significant, Unseen Guests commissions a series of artworks exploring archival material to identify connecting tissues between different narratives. Unseen Guests is co-curated by Renée Akitelek Mboya and Beatriz Lobo Britto, and produced by Leanne Petersen.... --- - Published: 2024-02-23 - Modified: 2024-05-22 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/out-of-margin-a-transnational-perspective/ - Project Types: Reading Group Identity is not as transparent or unproblematic as we think. Perhaps instead of thinking of identity as an already accomplished fact, which the new cultural practices then represent, we should think, instead, of identity as a 'production', which is never complete, always in process, and always constituted within, not outside, representation. — Stuart Hall, Cultural Identity and Diaspora, 1997. Join us to collectively read and discuss texts that think through practices in relation to 'Identity, Migration and Diaspora' in the transnational world. Funded by UAL’s Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN) and iniva, these reading groups are part of Out of Margin: A Transnational Perspective, a research project focus on reading, discussing and sharing texts relating three paradigms: History, Theory and Practices. It aims to expand the interpretation of art and its discourse to reflect on the social and political impact of globalisation. At the heart of this space is a desire to champion critical theory and practice in art making, curation and collection care that disrupt the prolonged systems of Western pedagogy and colonisation of knowledge. This series of 12 reading sessions explore practices outside the Euro-American axis through four emergent sections, highlighting voices that are historically underrepresented. About the facilitator Jessica Wan is a curator and writer who works to rethink access from the perspectives of transnationalism, migration and feminist thought. Dedicated to exploring how knowledge and inhabitation is produced through fugitivity and entanglement, her research focuses on radical pedagogies and artistic practices that reflect on... --- - Published: 2023-12-20 - Modified: 2025-08-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/materials-speak/ - Project Types: Exhibition - Event types: Exhibition Opening: Thursday 25 January 2024, 5:30pm - 7:30pm BOOK HERE Materials Speak is a personal exploration of memory and narrative of objects, with a particular focus on textiles. Designer Dharma Taylor was the Stuart Hall Library Artist-in-Residence, from May to July 2023. Departing from Stuart Hall’s text, ‘Constituting an Archive’ (2001), Dharma investigated the potential meaning for a ‘living archive’, and the role that objects play in our daily lives. Through the residency, Dharma further explored the history of tapestry and how textiles have been used by diasporic communities in fashion, design and architecture to build identity and belonging in new places. Woodgrain (2023), the central artwork in this exhibition, takes its inspiration from a vivid memory of the opening of a shipping container. The container consisted of objects belonging to Dharma’s parents from an extensive visit to Barbados. Unfurled, the folds in the shipping container created a series of geometric shapes that formed the basis for her design. Dharma describes the arrival and unpacking of a shipping container as an act of transitioning through the intricacies and shapes within the wood-grain. The work reflects upon notions of migration, home and returning, while interweaving these early memories within her design. Building upon tapestry traditions, Dharma unveils how textiles serve as ornamental elements as well as tools for expressing identity and fostering a sense of belonging in unfamiliar territories. Materials Speak invites you to reflect on how objects, instrumental in the formation of diasporic identities, can serve as conduits for cultural... --- - Published: 2023-09-06 - Modified: 2024-05-20 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/shifting-the-centre-anticolonial-ways-of-seeing-exhibition/ - Project Types: Exhibition - Event types: Exhibition Opening Times Tuesday– Friday, 10am – 5pm Opening Event Monday 25 September 2023, 5:30pm – 7:30pm Shifting the Centre is International Curators Forum’s (ICF) archival activation project dedicated to excavating the radical observations, emancipatory dreams, and revolutionary practices of anticolonial thinkers to develop counter approaches by asking: what kinds of ideas emerge when those resisting dominant forces are the protagonists of world history? The project locates connections between seemingly unrelated events, people, issues and objects as a way of rejecting a single vantage point from which to understand, tell and mobilise histories. Ultimately, it seeks to widen what dominant forces attempt to narrow: our vision, imagination, and the political possibilities available to us. ______ Anticolonialism can be understood as a tradition of thought and action; a transnational counter-politics enacted by peoples resisting the material conditions, structural legacies and ideologies that normalise empire. Anticolonial Ways of Seeing is the second iteration of ICF’s Shifting the Centre project. It considers the concept of ‘anticolonialism’ as a framework that allows clear links to be drawn between racialisation and capitalism, between past and present-day injustices, and local and global political struggles. The exhibition asks: is a contemporary anticolonial visual language possible? What are its concerns, reference points, and principles? What kinds of demands can it articulate? What sort of education can it provide? What histories does it draw from? For the exhibition, publications from Stuart Hall Library are placed into dialogue with a variety of materials found in iniva’s archive collection to build a... --- > Contested Sites is a research series that investigates events, perspectives and languages in recent canonised history beyond the borders of place, position and memory. - Published: 2023-07-17 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/research-network-contested-sites/ - Project Types: Research Network Stuart Hall writes in essay Constituting an Archive the importance of the meticulous task of creating Black and Asian diaspora archives as an informal act of messaging the future to say, ‘we were here and we did this’. To contest is to dispute, question and oppose an object of contention by the act of calling to witness. Continuing Stuart Hall’s ideas around testifying to history and re-affirming existence, Contested Sites is a research series that investigates events, perspectives and languages in recent canonised history beyond the borders of place, position and memory. Recognising the multiple ways in which histories hold multiple contested narratives, we embark on a journey to consider archives, bodies, institutions and geographies, whether material or digital, as sites for future histories. The Research Network is a space that brings together curators, writers, artists and creatives to share their ongoing research in dialogue with others. For this year’s Research Network, we invited Research Associates Orsod Malik, Meera Shakti Osborne, Gary Stewart and Lamya Sadiq to think through the following research question(s): How is memory contested considering geographical concepts? How can the constitution of the body be contested? How can we practically shift historical narratives around archives? How contested pasts inform institutional futures? iniva's Research Network is supported by Arts Council England and Freelands Foundation. Biographies Orsod Malik is a UK-based Sudani curator, writer, content producer and digital strategist. He is the founder of @code__switch an archive/continuum of radical internationalism dedicated to drawing links between anticolonial struggles and thought... --- - Published: 2023-05-02 - Modified: 2023-12-21 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-artists-residency-2023/ - Project Types: residency iniva and Stuart Hall Foundation are thrilled to announce that artist and maker Dharma Taylor has been selected for the sixth Stuart Hall Library Artist’s Residency – a funded opportunity at Stuart Hall Library in London, UK, that builds on Professor Stuart Hall’s unique contribution to intellectual and cultural life. Building on the distinct connections between iniva and Stuart Hall Foundation, the residency allows visual artists the space to think about some of the key themes related to the work of iniva and the Stuart Hall Foundation, including the language of the diaspora, culture, identity and archiving. This year, reflecting on Stuart Hall’s paper ‘Constituting an archive’ (published by Third Text, Spring 2001), artists were invited to apply with research proposals that responded to the concept of “the living archive” and consider the multiple ways in which an archive as a site may hold multiple narratives that are contested. The Stuart Hall Foundation and iniva were particularly interested in working with an artist whose practice is informed by perspectives on politics, identity and activism; who is interested in the language of the international and ideas around diaspora; and whose methodology may relate to notions of archiving and the archival. Selected artist Dharma Taylor is a multidisciplinary artist, combining textiles with woodwork to produce narrative-rich, design-driven works that seek to observe aspects of systems within which we exist and that allow her to explore her position within the Diaspora and contemporary British society. Her practice focuses on memory and the prehistory... --- - Published: 2023-05-01 - Modified: 2025-03-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/can-publications-be-porous/ - Project Types: Exhibition - Event types: Exhibition Can publications be porous? is an exhibition of works by Sadia Pineda Hameed (LUMIN), Amber Akaunu and Fauziya Johnson (ROOT-ed Zine), co-curated with artist and cultural futurist Lauren Craig. This exhibition takes the Stuart Hall Library as an experimental space questioning the porosity of publishing. Through observing how artists move, think through and reject concepts of collectivity and individuality as separate, this exhibition seeks to share their exploration of expanded publishing through drawing, painting and sculpture. The exhibition is the third phase of a project initiated by Lauren Craig in 2021 under the title HerStories // Shelf Life, which brings together B/black women and non-binary people of colour collectives who are involved in creative writing and publishing. Highlighting collaborative and rhizomatic methods of cultural production and dissemination, this research project takes a digital peek at the shelf life of collective publishing, from printed matter to digital audiovisual. The first phase (2021) entailed a roundtable discussion, while the second stage was composed of online 1:2:1 performative interviews (2022). Both phases are now compounded by the third phase as a physical exhibition, where the library becomes a transitional space. Bringing together artists' interviews and book lists as abstract audio collages, and the artists’ visual responses to a score composed by Lauren Craig through the conceptual modality S:E:P:A:L:S, which will be unpacked in a public programme – questions based on sustainability; experience/engagement; practice/presencing; action/attunement; learning/empowerment; sensitivity. Lauren Craig says: The artworks in the exhibition aim to challenge the notion of the hierarchy of... --- - Published: 2023-04-28 - Modified: 2023-11-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/fugitive-feminism-reading-group-session/ - Project Types: Reading Group iniva x Silver Press invite you to join us at Stuart Hall Library for three reading group sessions in May, June and December 2023 focused on resonances from the publication, Fugitive Feminism. Humanity has always excluded Others on the basis of race, class and gender. What happens to people who choose to flee, following in the footsteps of those who resisted enslavement? Fugitive Feminism written by Akwugo Emejulu with a foreword by Edna Bonhomme was published by Silver Press in 2022, as the first book in Crescent: a new series of contemporary writing. This audacious manifesto draws on the legacies of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Sylvia Wynter and others to consider the ways in which Black women have been excluded from, struggled to achieve and opted to reject the category of ‘human’. Sociologist Akwugo Emejulu argues that it is only through embracing the status of the ‘fugitive’ that Black women can determine their own liberation. Fugitive Feminism is a call for the collective process of speculative dialogue and a bold new model for action. These reading group sessions are supported by funding from Freelands Foundation. About the Author Akwugo Emejulu is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Her research interests include the political sociology of race, class and gender and women of colour's grassroots activism in Europe and the United States. She is the author of several books including Precarious Solidarity (forthcoming, Manchester University Press) and Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (Policy... --- - Published: 2023-03-21 - Modified: 2024-04-26 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/uncovering-the-archive/ - Project Types: Talk Uncovering the Archive is an archival collaboration between iniva and MayDay Rooms (MDR). We are offering a free series of workshops & screenings to existing youth programmes with an aim to engage young people (16-25) from marginalised communities such as Black and QTIPOC/PGM*, working class, migrant and disabled. The intention is to introduce the archive as a resource and archiving as a mode of storytelling available to, and representative of, the identities and lives of those normally excluded from history making practices. By working with the collections held both at iniva and MDR, the programme aims to offer young people with the tools to confidently explore, interrogate and create the stories they want to tell or wish were told through engaging activities that center creative play, conversation and making. By introducing young people to places, digital spaces and people that are made for/representative of them, we hope to empower their claim to history and uphold the integrity of what is important to them. We recognise that archives are often spaces accessed by people with privilege ie. wealthy/higher educated/ablebodied/neurotypical, and so a core objective is to work to open up these spaces through prioritising access, inclusion and safety. This programme will be facilitated by creative practitioners from marginalised backgrounds whose practices are informed by disruptive approaches to history telling and making. Subject to consent from participants, physical/digital copies of their creations will hold a permanent place at both MDR and Iniva archives. All originals will be kept by participants. *Queer, trans,... --- - Published: 2023-03-21 - Modified: 2023-10-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/show-and-tell-tours/ - Project Types: Talk The show-and-tell tours is a series of talks that highlight key collections from iniva's archive currently being catalogued as part of our Archives Revealed Cataloguing Project. The Archives Revealed Programme ensures that significant archive collections, representing the lives and perspectives of people across the UK, are made accessible to the public. The four archive collections included in this project are Veil touring exhibition; iniva's early constitution and governance documentation; iniva's founding symposium: Towards a New Internationalism and X-Space programme of digital art commissions. Each of these show-and-tell tours will invite you to reflect on the historical contexts and narratives of each collection and explore the archival process of making them widely accessible. --- - Published: 2023-03-18 - Modified: 2023-03-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/iniva-x-the-laundry-arts/ - Project Types: Reading Group ‘How can we create a universal moment that also recognises difference? ’ is the question posed by The Laundry Arts for the collective readings that consider strategies for organising and survival in the arts. The Laundry Arts is a creative platform + studio engaging with the curious, visionary and creatively courageous. Their work is purpose-led, insightful and challenging. They are a growing network of creators and thinkers, leading in their fields, kicking down doors and refusing to be unseen. They curate exhibitions, produce installations, self-publish and collaborate with cultural organisations and brands in the production of experiential content, from dinners to parties and discussions. Between January and March 2020, we will meet together for three sessions on Ethnicity as Counterculture, Art Strikes and Emergent Strategies. --- - Published: 2023-02-09 - Modified: 2024-03-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/future-collect-artist-year-3-maria-amidu/ - Project Types: Project iniva and Towner Eastbourne are delighted to announce that the third and final Future Collect commission has been awarded to artist Maria Amidu. The final Future Collect commission supports the creation of a major new work of art by a British-based artist of African and/or Asian descent, for exhibition and acquisition at Towner Eastbourne in 2024. The exhibition will be supported with an education and engagement programme, plus new research into Towner’s growing art collection. The project also supports significant curatorial development in the form of a year-long curatorial traineeship. Previous Future Collect artists are Jade Montserrat with curator Nikita Gill at Manchester Art Gallery and Emii Alrai with curator Amber Li at The Hepworth Wakefield. Maria Amidu’s artistic concerns are influenced by the complexities of the relational – between people, and between people and place. Through writing, printmaking, artist’s books, audio visual works and sometimes glassmaking she tries to substantiate what might be going on in collective situations, paying specific attention to what is hidden, obscured or unspoken. The selection panel, composed of curatorial teams from iniva and Towner, chose the artist because of her open and generous exploration of place both personally and as an invitation to others, her questioning approach to processes of archiving and collecting, and her sensitive considerations of care, temporality and memory. Maria Amidu, who is based in East Sussex, says, "To be the third artist selected for Future Collect is such a privilege, it is such an incredible opportunity to develop new work.... --- - Published: 2023-02-01 - Modified: 2023-04-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/maria-amidu-exhibition-untilted/ - Project Types: Exhibition - Event types: Exhibition Featuring Maria’s series of works on paper, the exhibition includes: somewhere (2020) and episode(s) (2022). The showcase explores Maria’s utilisation of material and language to create delicate works that respond to ideas around correspondence, communication and the residues they create. Employing what can often be viewed as mundane objects such as water, ink and paper, Maria’s experimentations are an indication of her practice to date. Untitled reveals Maria’s interest in materiality and resonates with the surroundings of the Stuart Hall library, where transmissions between people and objects are encouraged, more specifically paper. There is also the opportunity to delve further into Maria’s process through the exploration of books that inspire her own practice. Hollie Douglas, Future Collect Curatorial Trainee said, “This exhibition gives insight into the excavations and processes by which Maria works with simple materials, and the relationship she draws between them. At the heart of this work lies the communication between the materials, the space that is left when they correspond, which Maria seizes as the point of inception for her works. The exhibition invites the audience to pause and reflect - from which point we may interrogate the silences that are present in the space. ” Maria Amidu commented “I have decided to install two works in progress for this index show - episode(s) and somewhere. Both pieces are exploring the role writing plays in emotional expression. I am preoccupied with what the apparatus for writing – paper, pigment, print – can afford, how their material properties... --- - Published: 2023-01-25 - Modified: 2025-08-07 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/on-our-table/ - Project Types: Talk - Event types: Talk On Our Table is a series of short lunchtime tours, which aim to showcase contemporary art histories and challenge conventional notions of diversity and difference. Come and share with us on our table and gain a glimpse of iniva’s Stuart Hall Library and archive collections. The Library and Archive team will guide you through the rich contexts and social depths contained in Stuart Hall Library through a selection of library and archive materials. --- - Published: 2022-12-14 - Modified: 2023-08-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/youth-rising/ - Project Types: Project - Event types: Iniva Creative Learning iniva and Nowadays On Earth have partnered to research ways that iniva can support young people in Westminster to engage in intersectional climate action, focusing on interdisciplinary methods. Project update - July 2023 The report for the Youth Rising project is ready and is shared in the format of a zine. You can find the physical copy at the Stuart Hall Library or access a digital copy here: About Youth Rising This will be a 3-part process consisting of the research phase, delivery phase and reporting phase to develop an emerging strategy for iniva to position itself as a network-building library that connects knowledge and action. We live in a world filled with intimidating statistics about the climate crisis, making such crucial information inaccessible for young people from underserved communities to feel equipped to take climate action. In the meantime, societies across the globe are suffering from collective eco anxiety, which particularly affects young people. Some of the issues we have recorded include: People feeling disconnected from their local communities Lack of resources and knowledge to create impact Combatting inaction and climate doomism The goal of the project is to create an engaging creative learning map and series on creative (un)learning for environmental justice and support young people to engage with climate activism. We will be presenting key information and concepts strategically, fostering education and action. Through this research, we will seek to answer the following questions: How can iniva support young people to engage with climate justice? What knowledge... --- - Published: 2022-12-01 - Modified: 2024-03-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/colab/ - Project Types: Learning CoLab brings together artists, mental health workers and educators to take iniva’s artistic programme to schools. CoLab invites artists to deliver a series of workshops for students while developing resources for educators, culminating in a permanent artwork that is left as a legacy within the school(s) and a publication for the Stuart Hall Library. The whole process is supported by a mental health worker that guarantees the safeguarding of the students while ensuring the well-being of artists and educators. At the heart of the project is the ambition to introduce creative and critical approaches to enable pupils to better understand their place within the school setting and the world beyond, extending this to the approach of teachers and senior leadership. CoLab projects run alongside iniva’s artistic programme. For 2022-23, the projects happen in Manchester and Wakefield, locations where Future Collect has taken place, and Barking and Dagenham, continuing a long-term partnership between iniva and the borough. 2023-2024 the project will take place in Redditch and Eastbourne. Image: Young Peoples Makers Session on 10 November 2022 --- - Published: 2022-10-14 - Modified: 2023-05-25 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/iniva-x-afterall-bookshop/ - Project Types: Book Launch - Event types: Book Launch From October 2022 - October 2023 iniva and research and publishing institute, Afterall will be partnering to create an iniva x Afterall bookshop at the Stuart Hall Library, punctuated by three public book launch events over the coming months. LAUNCH 2: Thursday 15 June 2023 5. 30-7. 30pm for the launch of Afterall's newest title from their Exhibition Histories series Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display. For more information contact Jenny Starr, jstarr@iniva. org LAUNCH 1: Thursday 20 October 2022 5. 30-7. 30pm for the launch of Afterall’s Two Works series and Afterall Journal Issue 53 at the Stuart Hall Library. Come and raise a glass whilst browsing the six titles from the series and the latest journal issue, hear three curated readings and have the opportunity to buy. The Two Works series will be specially paired with iniva’s publications to bring you fascinating art historical insights into curating, performance, intersectionality and much more. A discount will apply to our Afterall/iniva bundles. About Afterall Afterall is a Research Centre of University of the Arts London, located at Central Saint Martins. Afterall focuses its research activities on the value of contemporary art and its relation to wider society. Its specialist research areas include ‘Art Becoming Public’, which addresses exhibitions, institutions and what happens when art becomes public and ‘The Work of Art’, which focuses on researching through the work of art, while interrogating the scope and parameters of this commitment. The research centre works with partners across... --- - Published: 2022-09-20 - Modified: 2023-04-17 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/research-network-if-sea-is-history-what-is-nation/ - Project Types: Research Network What is conjured in our memory through food, in gathering together over an evening meal? If Sea is History? - What is Nation? draws from DRIFT – a post national digital pavilion project that takes the form of a series of radical re-imaginings of Europeanness which reflects on the entanglement between land and water, movement and m/otherlands, in the forging of new identities and subjectivities. Following on from last year's research network, ‘Archipelagos in Reverse’, we will consider the sea as an archive that connects body and memory. The Research Network is a space that brings together curators, writers, artists and creatives to share their ongoing research in dialogue with others. As part of this year's programme, iniva is partnering with Studio Voltaire for a series of monthly Artist Kitchen Salons with our four Research Network Associates Safiya Robinson (sisterwoman vegan), Holly Graham, Shenece Oretha and Beatrix Pang to share your ongoing work. iniva's Research Network is supported by Freelands Foundation. Associates Safiya Robinson is a creative cook, writer, wellness advocate and the founder of sisterwoman vegan, a plant based social enterprise exploring wellness through food. A creative and vibrational cook , she creates plant based dishes inspired by her Black American, Jamaican and British heritage and believes that food is a healing modality, centring community, education and mindfulness in her work. With a focus on holistic wellness and mental health she creates spaces for critical food conversation and seeks to empower us all to think more critically about the... --- - Published: 2022-08-31 - Modified: 2023-11-24 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/village-letters/ - Project Types: Exhibition - Event types: Exhibition Opening 27 September 2022, iniva is proud to present Prafulla Mohanti’s first solo exhibition in London since 2008. Following Prafulla Mohanti’s exhibition Full Circle, curated by Future Collect Curatorial Trainee Amber Li at The Hepworth Wakefield, iniva is delighted to support the work of Prafulla Mohanti with a new solo exhibition titled Village Letters, opening at the Stuart Hall Library. The exhibition includes drawings that have never been shown before, next to the artist’s emblematic paintings and textiles. Village Letters focuses on all six Prafulla’s published books: My Village, My Life: Portrait of an Indian Village (1974), Indian village tales (1975), Through Brown Eyes (1985), Changing Village, Changing Life (1990), Longing: Poems (2004) and Shunya: Prafulla Mohanti, Paintings (2012), and reflects on the artist’s fundamental relationship with his village. Born in Nanpur (Odisha, India), Prafulla still visits his village every year, where he also runs an educational project for young people. As part of a public programme, iniva’s curator, Beatriz Lobo, will run a reading session to reflect on social, political, spiritual and artistic stories presented on the books; and the artist Meera Shakti Osborne will lead on a series of workshops with local students, creating a zine in response to Prafulla’s work. Beatriz Lobo, Curator said, "It’s been a privilege to work with Prafulla Mohanti. The process has been rooted in care from both parts, allowing us to connect as curator and artist, and as friends. Village Letters focuses on Prafulla’s six published books. He’s a prolific writer and... --- - Published: 2022-04-29 - Modified: 2023-05-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/dancing-in-the-ellipsis-a-cartographers-black-hole/ - Project Types: Exhibition - Event types: Exhibition https://iniva. org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Freedom_Mix1. mp3 iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) are pleased to present Dancing In The Ellipsis // A Cartographer's Black Hole, a site-specific installation at iniva’s Stuart Hall Library showcasing the work of artist Rohan Ayinde. On display is a series of five drawings and three photographs hung in between bookshelves, on walls, and in the informal library area, audiences can listen to a call and response song created in collaboration with Ayinde and musical artist Hector Plimmer, which weaves together music and poetry. This exhibition highlights the multidisciplinary processes within Ayinde’s practice of drawing, sound, photography, performance, sculpture, which is also accompanied by a limited edition pamphlet featuring poetry and text by Ayinde which explores the artist’s research whilst in residence at the Stuart Hall Library in 2021. The works in this exhibition are manifestations of Ayinde’s investigations into his own identity as a black man living in the UK, who is from Guyana via Africa but has lived almost a third of his life in the USA. Within this entangled personal history, Ayinde explores his self as a translation of the many contexts and places he has belonged to. He relates this to his work within abstraction as an expression of blackness, home, and place. The works in the exhibition are for sale. See price list below. This exhibition was supported by Stuart Hall Foundation, Freelands Foundation and Arts Council England. Biography Rohan Ayinde is an interdisciplinary artist based between London and Chicago. His work is centered... --- - Published: 2022-02-17 - Modified: 2025-03-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/drift-a-digital-european-pavilion/ - Project Types: Digital Project drift. iniva. org iniva proposes DRIFT – a post-national digital pavilion; a series of radical re-imaginings of Europeanness which reflect on the entanglement between land and water, movement and m/otherlands, in the forging of new identities and subjectivities. DRIFT will consider Europe from three vantage points, The River, The Island and The Coastline, creating three artistic outcomes: a publishing project, a podcast and a commissioned soundscape, linked by the DRIFT microsite making our dialogue digitally accessible within and beyond Europe. We have drawn from the etymology of the word pavilion or papillon, in the creation of the DRIFT pavilion: a light, temporary, structure that moves from location to location, making stops to host, gather data and record creative practice. Our three locations will be The River represented by iniva’s home – Stuart Hall Library on the Millbank of the River Thames, The Island – the Giardini on the Island of Venice during the 2022 Art Biennale, The Coastline – the Turner Contemporary and Open School East on the coastline of England. The digital pavilion brings together existing programmes of iniva’s work in these locations between November 2021 and December 2022, challenging notions of Europeanness through international, regional and hyperlocal events. This includes our Research Network programme which uses the framework of the archipelago as the site of cultural exchange; a conversation between diasporic artists representing European nations at the Venice Biennale in 2022; and social practice through community workshops with Open School East and their migrant youth group. At these... --- - Published: 2022-02-17 - Modified: 2023-02-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/emii-alrai-future-collect-commission/ - Project Types: Exhibition - Event types: Exhibition Artist Emii Alrai (b. 1993) will present A Core of Scar at The Hepworth Wakefield this spring. Alrai, who lives in Leeds and has a studio in Wakefield, creates works and installations that subvert the traditional visual language of museum displays. Alrai weaves together ancient mythologies from the Middle East and oral histories from her own Iraqi heritage in objects which imitate archaeological artefacts. Alrai’s work draws attention to the contrast between the polished aesthetics of museums and the states of ruin which befall archaeological objects and the landscapes they are excavated from. For The Hepworth Wakefield, Alrai is creating a series of hand-blown glass vessels that evoke ancient funerary urns. The vessels are marked by scars and seams, which emerge from the making processes of casting and joining. In archaeological artefacts, such scars can hint at the violence of the object’s separation from its homeland – a separation that parallels experiences of migration and diaspora. These glass vessels will be shown together with engravings from Wakefield’s collection of historic Yorkshire landscapes, depicting gorges and scars formed by melting glaciers. In these distinctive and dramatic landscapes, Alrai finds affinities with bodily scars, which were once open wounds. Alrai’s commission investigates these physical markers of the past, weaving together body, landscape and object as sites of memory. Photographs, sketches and small sculptural objects will also be displayed to reveal Alrai’s research and creative process in developing the commission. About the commission, Emii Alrai, said: “I’m excited for the opportunity to develop... --- - Published: 2022-01-14 - Modified: 2022-03-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/pink-tongue-brown-cheek/ - Project Types: Exhibition - Event types: Exhibition We are pleased to present Pink Tongue, Brown Cheek, showcasing the work of Rosa-Johan Uddoh. With its title punning on Franz Fanon's seminal text, Black Skin, White Masks, Uddoh's works explore masks and personas, with tongue-in-cheek irony. One work that is central in the exhibition is Practice Makes Perfect, 2020 a video work where Uddoh explores popular culture and fantasy using a tongue twister based on an essential essay by Stuart Hall titled ‘What is this "Black" in Black popular culture? ’. Alongside her collaborator Louis Brown, Uddoh explores other themes such as the Black curriculum as well as addressing questions of racism in popular culture. This work also touches on whether government regulations consider the care needs of children and young people. Biography Rosa-Johan Uddoh (b. 1993, Croydon) is an interdisciplinary artist working towards radical self-love. She is inspired by Black feminist practice and writing. Through performance, writing and multi-media installation, she explores places, objects and celebrities in British popular culture, and their effects on self-formation. Collaboration is key to Rosa’s work, often working together with children, activists and other artists to explore themes that impact our communities and share knowledge. Rosa is a lecturer in Performance at Central Saint Martins. She was a finalist for Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2021. Rosa was the Liverpool Biennial and John Moores University Fellow 2018-2019 and was the Stuart Hall Library Resident for 2020. She was a Sarabande: Lee Alexander Mc Queen Scholar. Rosa’s solo presentations include: ‘Practice Makes Perfect’, Focal Point... --- - Published: 2021-11-03 - Modified: 2023-03-16 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-artist-in-residence-2021/ - Project Types: residency iniva and Stuart Hall Foundation are thrilled to announce that artist and poet Rohan Ayinde has been selected for the fifth Stuart Hall Library Artist’s Residency – a funded opportunity with support from Arts Council England that builds on Professor Stuart Hall’s unique contribution to intellectual and cultural life. Building on the distinct connections between iniva and Stuart Hall Foundation, the residency allows a visual artist the space to think about some of the key themes related to the work of Iniva and the Foundation, including the language of the diaspora, culture, identity and archiving. This year marks the 70th anniversary of Professor Stuart Hall’s arrival in Britain from Jamaica in 1951 and in commemoration, the residency invited an artist to respond to the concept of ‘arrival’ and its capacity to transform and trouble notions of fixed cultural identities. Selected through a richly competitive open call, Rohan Ayinde will be resident for three months at the Stuart Hall Library in London, UK, from October to December 2021. The panel selected Ayinde for his dynamic and imaginative proposal that brings a multidisciplinary and nuanced critical approach to grappling with the shifting landscape of race and black radical politics. Ayinde’s work oscillates between abstract drawings, audio-visual poetry, performance and sculpture, and is interested in the ways that abstraction can function as a method for thinking about black radical thought as a form, or a poetics. His research during the residency will take Stuart Hall’s description of “diaspora identity” with the work of... --- - Published: 2021-10-20 - Modified: 2025-03-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/emii-alrai-showcase-a-perpetual-remaking/ - Project Types: Exhibition - Event types: Exhibition iniva are pleased to present Emii Alrai as the second artist to be commissioned by Future Collect. Showcase – A Perpetual Remaking takes into consideration the ongoing artistic research and processes within Alrai’s practice. Emii Alrai (b. 1993, Blackpool) is an artist based in Leeds. Her practice is informed by inherited nostalgia, geographical identity, and post-colonial museum practices of collecting and displaying objects. Focusing on ancient mythologies from the Middle East alongside personal oral histories of Iraq, she weaves together narratives by forging artefacts and visualising residues of cultural collision. Alrai creates monumentally-scaled installations which play on museological displays and dioramas. She draws attention to the clash between the polished aesthetics of imperial museums and the states of ruin which befall archaeological artefacts and their landscapes of excavation. Alrai’s art often contains elements which appear broken or unfinished. In this, they point towards moments of rupture and of diasporic separation from homeland. Their incompleteness asks the viewer to imagine archaeological sites as spaces of active memory. Capture (2021), the film resulting from research Alrai undertook on the Triangle Astérides residency in Marseille, explores these concerns through slow, unfolding contemplations on fragments, the landscapes they leave behind, and their new, classified existences within the museum. Its title alludes to the metal armatures which hold such objects, devices which assume neutrality yet ensnare, asserting ownership and inflicting colonial violence. Armatures also appear in the ink drawings in this showcase, propping up jewel-green, disembodied hands. A tangling of links between armour, arm, and... --- - Published: 2021-09-16 - Modified: 2024-03-13 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/future-commons/ - Project Types: Project Future Commons is a responsive space for support, critical discussion and connection. The group emerged from the needs expressed for a space that nurtures creative belief, radical practice and open peer-level exchange outside formal work structures: Together, we favour process over outcome, intimacy over surveillance, and abundance over scarcity. Future Commons includes Chloe Austin, Tammi Bello, Tobi Alexandra Falade, Nikita Gill, Anahi Saravia Herrera, Amina Jama, Priya Jay, Amber Li, Jessica Lowe-Mbirimi and Kinnari Saraiya. The group first met in August 2021 and continued to meet every two weeks until October 2023. Conversation was at the heart of their gathering, and they also organised studio visits, group trips and crits with selected mentors as ways of expanding their collective practice. In 2023, the group made a publication entitled Future Commons: Notes on a year of care, connection and conversation. Part of an edition of 250, it has been distributed in pairs to a list of 100 individuals and institutions who were invited to keep one and pass one on. A further 50 are kept in the Stuart Hall Library - one reference copy and the rest available to take away. A PDF version of the publication is available to read online, here Developed and coordinated by Priya Jay, former Barbican-iniva curatorial trainee 2018-19, Future Commons exists as part of iniva’s Future Collect initiative. To get in touch, please email pjay@iniva. org and to contact the group, please email futurecommons@iniva. org. Image: Shadow Selves, 2017. Courtesy of the artist Tobi Alexandra... --- - Published: 2021-09-15 - Modified: 2021-10-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/making-history/ - Project Types: Exhibition - Event types: Exhibition Making History is a collaborative project initiated by Meera Shakti Osborne, exploring notions of migration, displacement and self-love through storytelling, sewing and image making. The collection of tapestries, all made through community workshops held across London, weave together personal experiences, not as singular or objective, but as a shared condition. The Making History project started as a collaborative tapestry making project, exploring storytelling through sewing and image making. It was inspired by a research project started in 2017, that focused on the forgotten and omitted histories of Meera’s family’s migration to the UK in the 1970s. Due to the pandemic, the workshops moved online and Meera developed the idea of a sound tapestry. Making History started exploring singular emotions chosen by the participants. The sound tapestries are a digitally-woven combination of speaking and original music by the producer A. G, made up of samples submitted by the participants. The project is created with participants at Art4Space, Girls Project, Boundary Women’s Project and Stuart Hall Library in the autumn and winter of 2019, and by Peckham Youth Platform, The Gap Arts Project Digital Tapestries and 1525 Collective between 2020-21. Biography Meera Shakti Osborne is an artist and community organiser from London. Meera’s work focuses on collective healing through creative self-expression. Meera is interested in the use of art as a tool to create historical documents that represent feelings and the inbetween stuff that often gets left out of history making. They work in sound, oil paint, textile, breathing, talking and dancing.... --- - Published: 2021-08-02 - Modified: 2021-08-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/project-me-myself-and-i/ - Project Types: Exhibition, Talk, Workshop - Event types: Iniva Creative Learning ArtLab+ reverses the damage of inherited mistakes in art education... I think you have to look at how a project like this impacts on the bigger picture... we have had to look in on ourself as a school and think 'how do we teach art and how do our children see art? Are we stifling the children with obsessions about getting things right? ' The legacy of ArtLab+ for us will be questioning how we can challenge that... - Adell Horbury Assistant Head Teacher, Earlsmead Primary School This year we had nearly every child in year 4 bringing a letter back, hoping to join ArtLab+ has become 'ArtLab+ taught (the children) that there is no right or wrong in Art... we need to work on that more as a school, that not everything has to be a certain way... ' In April 2021, artist Shepherd Manyika and art therapist Sarah Furneaux - Blick returned to Earlsmead Primary School to complete year 3 of the ArtLab+funded by Children in Need. Shepherd and Sarah in collaboration with Susan Damali Ibreck, iniva's curator of learning and wellbeing, led on a delivery of art therapy informed arts practice focussed on: developing confidence increasing emotional learning skills and vocabulary broadening horizons Over the three years, we worked with over 40 children, ages 8 - 11 with varying SEND alongside those with an interest in art that is not able to be supported in the home. Within ArtLab+ we create space to think critically about a... --- - Published: 2021-07-31 - Modified: 2021-07-31 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/contemporary-art-space-project-year-2/ - Project Types: Exhibition, residency After a very tricky year of postponements and delays we were all very excited to get back into schools to start delivering Year 2 of the Contemporary Art Space project in April 2021. Find out more about the background of the project here. This years CAS artists, De’Anne Crooks, Toni Lewis and Haseebah Ali were in very-short-residence with three RSA schools; Holyhead School, RSA Academy in Tipton and Abbeywood First School respectively and worked with the art therapist Julie Buxton. All were warmly welcomed by students, staff and senior leadership. (more... ) --- - Published: 2021-05-04 - Modified: 2021-05-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/i-as-monument/ - Project Types: Book Launch, Talk "The idea behind the book was to monumentalise the works produced by the artists who participated in the workshops just before the lockdown in 2020. The works experienced through this book would have been part of an exhibition and as such, an impermanence. This artists book is an offering to permanence, similar to what a monument would offer within a real landscape. This book is also a monument to childhood. " Shepherd Manyika April 2021 Between January and March 2020, artist Shepherd Manyika worked with 15 children from Earlsmead Primary School, North London over 8 Saturdays as part of the three-year programme ‘ArtLab+’. ArtLab+ is a series of integrated art and art therapy workshops that supports the development of critical thinking, emotional learning and art making skills for children in years 4 - 6. Using the title, I AS MONUMENT as a starting point, for year two of the project, Manyika worked in collaboration with art therapist Sarah Furneaux-Blick to help the young people bring their ideas of monuments to life. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic, the workshops and resulting exhibition were cut short. This artists book is Manyika’s response to the development of the young people as artists and charts the process of each individual over the 8 weeks. The works capture their creativity and exploration of ideas as they were introduced to making, through a number of artistic expressions and materials, echoing Shepherd's own practice. By overlaying drawing, using collage and editing, Shepherd has extended the children's... --- - Published: 2021-04-15 - Modified: 2025-03-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/research-network-archipelagos-in-reverse/ - Project Types: Research Network The mountain peak is a tip A tip is also a clue A clue to the archive’s archipelagic relations No archive is an island susan pui san lok, 'Tiohtià:kee, Tāmaki Makaurau, somewhere over the under, beneath the between' essay in Alexandra Chang, Charlotte Huddleston, Janine Randerson eds. Ngā Tai o te Ao: Global Tides(St Paul St Publishing, Auckland University of Technology / Global Art Exchange, the Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New York University). E-publication. What could the archipelagic awaken in a small-scale research institution such as iniva? What could it mean to map the resonances and resistances carried by the sea, in waves, that ebb and flow through time and space to displace chronology? Could the archives be understood as fragments that when meshed together form new subjectivities and therefore new bodies of thought. The archipelagic as a cartography of thought that finds commonalities and affinities in waves, movement, resistance, rhythm, migration, notions of return, anti-capitalism, spiritualism, post-colonial & ecological Black and Asian feminist practice, to map new encounters of meaning. iniva has invited several partner institutions to nominate a researcher or fellow to be part of the Research Network, 'Archipelagos in Reverse'. 'Archipelagos in Reverse' is the research practice that brings curators, writers, artists, designers together to share their ongoing research through close study (reading and listening) and in dialogue with others through a series of open conversations. Six Research Associates will be joining us throughout 2021-2022: Adjoa Armah (Afterall), Cairo Clarke (LUX), Rahila Haque (TrAIN), Daniella Rose King (Tate), Lola... --- - Published: 2021-03-24 - Modified: 2021-04-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/womens-history-month-celebrating-westminsters-women/ - Event types: Exhibition “I'm actually proud of myself (and everyone else) for not going into judgement and backing out of a public display. ” Over the past year, Iniva has been working with the Westminster Women’s Network (WWN) at Westminster Council. This partnership grew from a pre-pandemic project idea considering women’s hidden creativity, formed with artist Zarah Hussain.   This theme became more poignant as the pandemic required new coping mechanisms for achieving wellbeing in such an unknowable time. In January and February 2021, Iniva supported on the delivery of two workshops led by Zarah and art therapist Sarah Furneaux-Blick for members of the Women’s Network. The workshops created space and time for the women to focus on their own wellbeing through exploration of Zarah’s artwork and artworks found within Iniva’s Emotional Learning Cards, in a therapeutically supported way. Over 50 packs of creative materials were sent out to WWN members in January. The packs included watercolours, collage materials and a series of grids created by Zarah, reflecting her practice, for the participants to use as a starting point for their thinking and making. The participants were encouraged to explore their individual creativity through the act of making, thinking about the emotions raised by the pandemic and what had helped them over this time. The workshops were enjoyable, fun and full of interesting stories, support and care. They were a privilege to be part of. The resulting artworks now form an exhibition open to the public at Westminster City Hall until June 2021.... --- - Published: 2021-03-02 - Modified: 2021-10-20 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/reflections-on-public-realm/ - Event types: Exhibition Between March and April Iniva is working in partnership with GLA on a project for the ‘Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm’. The commission is developing a more joined-up approach and creating a shared understanding of the importance of different achievements and stories in the city’s public spaces. We are starting conversations around public space and collective memory in London with artists Ting-Ting Cheng, YARA + DAVINA and Harun Morrison. Each artist will engage with questions and offer prompts for discussion on public space and social practice on our social media platforms. The final section of the project is dedicated to artist and writer Harun Morrison and his text "Ice Cream over Bronze". Divided into three parts, this commissioned piece proposes three monuments for the future, interrogating our relationship with public space. Read the full piece here. Biography Harun Morrison is an artist and writer based on the inland waterways. He is the current recipient of the Wheatley Fine Art Fellowship, hosted by Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham City University and Eastside Projects. His forthcoming novel, The Escape Artist will be published by Book Works in 2022. Harun's exhibition 'Experiments with Everyday Objects' opens at Eastside Projects this Spring and runs till the end of July. Recent soundworks will also feature in the 30th anniversary edition of the Dakar Biennial (postponed in 2020). Since 2006, Harun has collaborated with Helen Walker as part of the collective practice They Are Here. He is also a trustee of the Black Cultural... --- - Published: 2020-07-09 - Modified: 2020-07-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/supporting-year-6-transition/ - Project Types: Learning - Event types: Iniva Creative Learning These colourful, helpful resources are designed to support Year 6 children as they transition to Year 7. Created by Lyn French (Director of A Space Art and Therapies service), with illustrator Aleesha Nandhra and designer Sonja Frick. A Space works in primary and secondary schools across Hackney to support teachers and pupils with emotional and developmental needs. Resource 1 supports teachers, carers and parents in working with Year 6. Resource 2 is for the children themselves. With references to the lockdown experience, the resources guide you through practical and emotional challenges pupils face as they move from Primary to Secondary School. How to use these transition support resources: Resource 1 Option 1: This digital handout can be read by Year 6 teachers, parents and carers with children and the questions included used to open up discussion. Option 2: Year 6 pupils can be given the resource and asked to create their own Moving on/Moving up diary, recording their answers in a book and illustrating them. Resource 2 Option 1: These exercises can be used by Year 6 children on their own as colouring in sheets. The questions included can be answered in writing or used to prompt a whole class discussion Option 2: The black and white illustrations can be coloured in and cut out to make a collage which can include answers to some of the questions posted. They can also be used to create a visual diary on the theme of moving on and moving up or as... --- - Published: 2020-07-07 - Modified: 2020-07-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/childrens-art-week-activity-resources-inspiring-creative-emotions/ - Event types: Iniva Creative Learning Order your free copies for schools Iniva Creative learning have produced a printed and downloadable leaflet with the support of Engage and Children in Need. The leaflet provides a taster of what we do in our ArtLab+ projects and aims to help primary pupils explore their emotions with their families and carers at home. We recognise that the last few months have been incredibly hard on many of us, and particularly hard on our children's mental health. The activities, devised by art therapist Sarah Furneaux-Blick and psychotherapist Lyn French (director of A Space Therapies Service) use artwork created by children from this years ArtLab+ led by artist Shepherd Manyika. ArtLab+ is a programme of workshops delivered at Earlsmead Primary School. The ArtLab+ artists all hope that their work can help inspire and support their peers. The leaflet transforms to become a stencil for pattern making, frames to see the world differently and provides you with building shapes that slot together to create mini sculptures. All this whilst giving space for and supporting conversations around emotions for children, carers and the whole family. Please get in touch if you would like to receive printed leaflets for your school. Completed your activities? We'd love to see your work, send your images to us through the link below and we'll upload your work to our gallery. Contact: sibreck@iniva. org --- - Published: 2020-05-05 - Modified: 2021-05-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/artlab-at-earlsmead-primary-school/ - Event types: Iniva Creative Learning In January this year, we began our second year of delivering ArtLab+ for 15 pupils across Years 4 - 6 at Earlsmead Primary School in Tottenham. The project is delivered through 10 Saturday workshops and culminates in an exhibition and launch event. Funded by Children In Need, the project builds on our past ArtLab programme created in partnership with the Opossum Federation and A Space arts and therapies service. This programme has proved to support the development of confidence, emotional learning and oracy skills in those taking part. Within ArtLab we provide opportunities to learn new art making skills, broaden horizons and create space to think critically about different artists' work from across the globe, exploring how this can help the participants position themselves in the world. A core component of the workshops is the use of our Emotional Learning Cards; these act as reference, tool and inspiration. They create a space within which new vocabulary can be understood, emotions explored and more complex ideas worked through, allowing multiple points of entry (and return) for children struggling internally and externally with life's challenges. Lead artist Shepherd Manyika, joined this year by Art Therapist Sarah Blick chose the time - relevant theme of Monuments (think Kara Walker, Millicent Fawcett and recent campaigns at Cape Town, Oxford and Goldsmiths Universities). Though cut short by the Government decision to close schools in response to Covid 19, eight out of ten of the planned workshops were delivered over the Spring term. A small fraction... --- - Published: 2020-05-01 - Modified: 2025-03-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/proximate-currents-when-everything-fuses-together/ - Project Types: Project - Event types: Screening Iniva is delighted to present a new moving image work by artist Ben Yau. Echoing Stuart Hall's 2011 essay "The Neoliberal Revolution", the project collages a wide range of clips, focusing on moments of historical rupture and settlement in Britain. The work fuses together disparate footage with various sound clips from political speeches and interviews with Hall, in an attempt to capture fugitive images of past and present crises. Footage of the Brixton Riots, military airstrikes in Iraq, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, as well as vehicle crash tests, wildlife documentary and televised advertisements, are conjoined in a mass of "proximate currents", moments that brush up against each other. Slowly, they trace a non-linear narrative from the Thatcher Era to the present moment, of "the long march of neoliberalism". Biography Ben Yau (b. 1992, Glasgow) is a Chinese-Scots visual artist. Yau graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in 2019 and shortly thereafter was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries as well as Creekside Open. He has exhibited in galleries such as South London Gallery, Leeds Art Gallery, Copeland Gallery and CGP, and in 2017 co-founded the art collective confronting environmental capitalism, Decade Zero, with fellow artist Zaneta Zukalova. Yau's artworks employ the aesthetics of global conflict, historical narratives, and social tensions. Trained in lens-based media, he now works with materials found from a research-intensive process that are then collaged or montaged in the mediums of works on paper and moving image. Interested in the historical as a means to understand present... --- - Published: 2020-04-09 - Modified: 2022-02-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-artists-residency-2020/ - Project Types: residency Iniva and Stuart Hall Foundation are delighted to announce that artist, writer and educator Rosa-Johan Uddoh has been selected for the fourth Stuart Hall Library Artist’s Residency – a funded opportunity that builds on Professor Stuart Hall’s unique contribution to intellectual and cultural life. The residency will focus on research that underpins Uddoh’s work to understand and engage people in cultural issues around black performance in ‘postcolonial’ spaces. Selected through an impressively competitive open call, the artist will begin her residency in May 2020. The jurors selected Uddoh for her ongoing interest in her practice concerning the construction of the performative act and characterisation in popular culture that produces the black or British subjectivity. Uddoh’s previous work has drawn on popular figures such as Moira Stuart, Hercule Poirot, Venus Williams, Una Marson. During this time, Uddoh will focus on researching Stuart Hall's lectures and other archival material available online. Uddoh explains that she will be “using the library resources to contextualise his charismatic presentations with performance art of the time. " She plans "to study Hall’s Open University lectures as performances for late-night television and his published papers as scripts. Exploring Hall as both performance theorist and performer himself, this research will culminate in a pantomime. ” Through this research, Uddoh will explore Hall's commitment to disseminating knowledge through different media channels, which acquires a renewed sense of urgency in the context of the current global situation. A public event will be presented towards the end of the year. The... --- - Published: 2020-04-02 - Modified: 2020-12-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/chatting-in-the-stacks/ - Project Types: Podcast If you’re missing the library, you can feel connected through our new podcast Chatting in the Stacks. Over the last few months, our library volunteers have been breaking the number one library rule – silence – and joining our curatorial trainee Chloe Austin for some quality conversations in the Stuart Hall Library. If you’ve ever wanted to know more about the library, now is the perfect chance to hear from our volunteers who know it best. Every few weeks a new volunteer will be sharing their favourite finds from the collection and discussing how the library supports their research interests. (more... ) --- - Published: 2020-01-30 - Modified: 2025-03-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-research-network-global-re-visions/ - Project Types: Research Network, Talk This year’s Research Network, selected through open call, will reignite debate and reflect on the concept of globalisation and new internationalism. Expanding on Iniva’s founding ideas articulated in its first symposium ‘A New Internationalism’ held at Tate Britain in 1994 and the essays published in the accompanying publication, 'Global Visions: Towards a New Internationalism in the Visual Arts', this public programme will alternate between artist-led presentations and open reading groups, where attendees can begin to consider how the discourse around these ideas has developed over the years. Join us at the Stuart Hall Library for the public programme and continue the conversation on our Research Network Facebook page. You can find the reading list here. Iniva Public Programme 22 April 2020 Reading Group: On Non-Aligned Narratives In light of our current global crisis we come back to thinking through the terms ‘globalisation’ and ‘new internationalism’, revisiting transnational routes of solidarity through Françoise Vergès’ “Martinska/Martinique. Aimé Césaire’s Return to my Native Land“. Together we take a look at the history of the Non-Aligned Movement through excerpts from Bojana Piškur’s “Southern Constellations: Other Histories, Other Modernities”. 18 June 2020 On the Legacy of the Non-Aligned Movement Art historian, curator and journalist Leila Mehulić and artist and writer Naeem Mohaiemen will present a lecture on the history and legacy of the Non-Aligned Movement. Leila will combine her research with her own childhood experiences of growing up next to a Sudanese community in former Yugoslavia. Leila Mehulić believes that in today’s tumultuous political climate,... --- - Published: 2019-12-03 - Modified: 2020-05-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/jade-montserrat/ - Project Types: Exhibition - Event types: Exhibition Preview: 12 December 2019, 6-8pm Iniva is delighted to present the second exhibition in its new space on John Islip Street, showcasing works on paper by artist and writer Jade Montserrat. Combining quotations with her own writing, Montserrat refers to her watercolours and drawings as dissemination tools. Sometimes the words and fragments point towards a specific reference, other times they are brief traces of a conversation or experience. What they all have in common is they are instances in Montserrat’s ongoing exploration of building spaces of belonging and care. They sit alongside other strands of her manifold practice, informed by the interplay of art and activism and the literary traditions of the Black Atlantic. The series of watercolours and drawings are in dialogue with the context of the Stuart Hall Library, which in turn amplifies the multitude of voices in a perpetual, generative reverberation. The exhibition will be accompanied by a reading list and publication display responding to Jade Montserrat’s work. With thanks to Contemporary Art Society and York Art Gallery (York Museums Trust). Biography Jade Montserrat is a research-led artist and writer who studied the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art and Drawing (2003) and at Norwich University of the Arts (2010). Montserrat works at the intersection of art and activism through drawing, painting, performance, film, installation, sculpture, print and text. The artist interrogates these mediums with the aim to expose gaps in our visual and linguistic habits. She is the recipient of the Stuart Hall... --- - Published: 2019-10-01 - Modified: 2022-09-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/contemporary-art-space-project/ - Event types: Iniva Creative Learning The Contemporary Art Space Project is a two-year programme of art-making and community engagement. The project reflects the RSA Academies' (Royal Society of the Arts Academies) Commitment to Arts, Culture and Creativity and Iniva's ambition to develop their learning and education strand nationally. View Artist videos including the latest artwork to come from the project: Amerah Saleh: My Language Download our resources including our CAS Emotional Learning Cards and Activities for ages 7 and up via the links below: resources to inspire, provoke and support exploration of each of the artworks created so far. Skip to Project Update At a point in time in which the study of arts and creative subjects are progressively marginalised from curricula, we would like to explore whether this project could prove to be an accessible, sustainable model to increase whole-school engagement in the arts and cultural learning. This project aims to establish three outdoor contemporary art spaces in three RSA schools in the West Midlands through a collaborative process with pupils and their teachers. The schools involved are: - Abbeywood First School (Reception - Year 4) in Redditch - Arrow Vale RSA Academy (Year 9-13) in Redditch - Holyhead School (Year 7-13) in Handsworth, Birmingham The project is designed to develop young people's sense of identity and explore what it means to be human through co-commissioning new artworks in response to social issues they identify as being important. The artworks will help schools develop and articulate their collective sense of mission and purpose and... --- - Published: 2019-08-29 - Modified: 2019-12-12 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/corvus-a-painting-installation-by-matthew-krishanu/ - Project Types: Exhibition - Event types: Exhibition Crows, rooks, jackdaws and ravens: corvid, corvus, and corvidae. They are considered to be cosmopolitan creatures endowed with a preternatural intelligence. Over 120 species exist and the genus Corvus makes up over a third of the entire family. They are legion and amongst us every single day. Matthew Krishanu’s crows could be described as relatives of sorts, sharing similarities of pose and abstracted form, always painted singly and never in flight. Standing on twin legs gives them an anthropomorphic quality, looking directly at the viewer or stepping awkwardly away. Krishanu has been documenting London crows for over seven years and painting their intimate portraits in oil on canvas board. He has captured the minutiae of their lives – perching, feeding, pacing or standing – that only a sustained period of observation could reveal. In the space of the Stuart Hall Library, systems of classification, taxonomy and assemblage come into focus. The crows emerge between shelves and bask alongside books, populating the collection with their delicate, comical and eerie presence. Painted in rich tones of black, blue and brown, often against a pale background, this cast of distinctive magical birds has flocked to the library seeking refuge from the outside for a while. When we look up and around, the sometimes-solitary practice of reading is suspended by their curious companionship. Biography Matthew Krishanu (b. 1980) was born in Bradford and is based in London. He completed an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2009. Exhibitions include: House of... --- - Published: 2019-07-18 - Modified: 2020-09-22 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/syllabus/ Now in its fifth year, Syllabus provides a learning programme for artists over a ten-month period and is supported using public funding from Arts Council England. Syllabus is developed collaboratively with the participating artists, the partner institutions and the artistic advisors. Beginning at Wysing in September, Syllabus artists will come together to share their work and co-produce the year’s syllabus alongside the partners and artistic advisors. Meeting throughout the year, the cohort will invite guest artists, curators, writers and other practitioners to deliver intensive sessions hosted by each of the partners. Previous contributors have included Barby Asante, Ruth Beale, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Céline Condorelli, Nav Haq, Anthea Hamilton, Andy Holden, Evan Ifekoya, Mark Leckey, Trevor Mathison, Katrina Palmer, Imran Perretta, Richard Wentworth and Rehana Zaman. The full list of alumni and sessions from previous years of The Syllabus are available at http://www. wysingartscentre. org/archive/retreats Resulting collaborations and opportunities have included #WePortal a live-stream event at the V a week-long residency and group exhibition The Opposite of Now and Syllabus Mix a performance and screening evening, both held at Yinka Shonibare’s Guest Projects space in London; contributions to more of an avalanche, a group exhibition at Wysing Arts Centre; and solo exhibitions at Grand Union and Eastside Projects in Birmingham. --- - Published: 2019-07-02 - Modified: 2024-05-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/future-collect/ Future Collect is a three-year programme designed to create a dynamic new model to transform the culture of commissioning and collecting within museums to reflect the diversity of Britain. Each year the project will partner with a national/ regional museum and gallery to commission artists of African and/or Asian descent, British born or based. Crucially these commissions give an opportunity for an artist to be collected and exhibited by a major British institution – as well as contributing to a wider public debate on collections and whose heritage is being preserved. In addition to the commissions and public programme, the project also supports significant curatorial development. Each year a curatorial traineeship will be based primarily at the partner organisation and a curatorial secondment from the partner organisation ensures a unique professional development research opportunity. Further professional development and sector learning opportunities stem from a curatorial network, Future Collective. Future Collect provides a vital long-term platform to ask questions about power, representation and the civic role of public museums and galleries in the 21st century. This initiative will be pivotal in shaping the future direction of the way public collections, displays and acquisitions are used for maximum public benefit. The project is funded by Art Fund, Arts Council England & the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. Future Collect, Commission 1 (2020-21): iniva / Manchester Art Gallery & Jade Montserrat iniva and Manchester Art Gallery name Jade Montserrat as the first artist to be commissioned for Future Collect – a dynamic new partnership to... --- - Published: 2019-06-18 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/mywestminster-zines-and-beats/ - Project Types: Workshop - Event types: Workshop Over the last year Iniva Creative Learning has been delivering a series of artist led workshops using materials from the Stuart Hall Library collection that aim to celebrate cohesion, build pride in the community and help people, young, old and everything in between to realise their potential. Excitingly for Iniva this programme is enabling us to develop new community relations and partners by welcoming new groups and individuals to the library. Workshop Details On Monday 10 February 2020 artist Aleesha Nandhra and Iniva welcomed 8 students from Pimlico Academy into the library to create Zines linked to their final A Level exam pieces. Using the Stuart Hall Library collection as source material and working with paper folding, collage and drawing, the students explored, broadened and developed their ideas around the theme of 'Change / Stability' 19 December 2019 A group of 12 ESOL students took part in a workshop led by artist Bhajan Hunjan. Facilitated by Hassan Vawda, the students used Iniva's Emotional Learning Cards to open up conversations, broaden vocabulary and explore contemporary art. The group used collage and drawing to create booklets that spoke about something important to them. This was a fantastic opportunity to welcome a new group into the library and inspired in depth, important conversations. 11 June 2019 We were very pleased to welcome members of Open Age to the library for a special tour and discussion on the collection. Open Age support those over 50 to sustain active mental and physical health through workshops... --- - Published: 2019-03-19 - Modified: 2025-03-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/art-night-2019/ - Project Types: Commission - Event types: Screening Image: Shiraz Bayjoo, ‘Ile de France’ (2015), HD video still. Please note this event will take place at: Empire Cinema, 267 High St, Walthamstow, London E17 7FD, UK. Shiraz Bayjoo’s commission Pran Kouraz (take courage), 2019, explores notions of migration and displacement through a 13 minute, 16mm film made with pupils from Mission Grove primary school, Walthamstow. Bayjoo asked the children to consider their rights as young people alongside their own experiences of courage and overcoming adversity. Together they interrogated the myriad experiences of trans-migratory groups today, bringing together their understandings of displacement, loss and courage and voicing the importance of personal agency in the world they will inherit. Bayjoo places these against his own experience of flight and resistance from Mauritius, once known as the Maroon republic. The story of the enslaved Maroon becomes a wider metaphor for journeys of escape, overcoming and the transformation of self. This new work includes sculptural costumes inspired and worn by the children and a performance devised in collaboration with Mauritian dramaturg David Furlong. Co-commissioned with Iniva and Art Night. The work with young people has been facilitated through Iniva Creative Learning (ICL) which encourages emotional literacy. ICL evolved out of a long standing partnership between Iniva and A Space, an arts and therapies service. Curated by Helen Nisbet — her first edition as Art Night’s Artistic Director — the all-night programme will take place on 22 June 2019, beginning at 5. 00pm in King’s Cross and 7. 00pm in Walthamstow. Art Night... --- - Published: 2019-03-15 - Modified: 2020-05-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-artists-residency-2019/ - Project Types: residency Image: My Friend’s Job, video still, Alicja Rogalska & Komunitas Pengamen Jalanan, 2016-17 Iniva and the Stuart Hall Foundation are delighted to announce that Alicja Rogalska has been awarded the third Stuart Hall Library Artist’s Residency, a funded opportunity that builds on Professor Stuart Hall’s unique contribution to intellectual and cultural life. Selected through a hugely popular open call, Alicja Rogalska will be in residence at Iniva’s Stuart Hall Library from April to July 2019. Rogalska’s proposed research project explores Stuart Hall's ideas of citizenship through his writings on classification as fundamental to human culture and, simultaneously, as a system of power. The research will situate Stuart Hall’s work within the contemporary context of immigration law and global citizenship discourse utilising the Stuart Hall Library, itself, as a site of classification. The Stuart Hall Library Artist’s Residency is an annual funded opportunity established in partnership between Iniva and the Stuart Hall Foundation. Building on the distinct connections between both organisations, the three-month residency allows a visual artist the space to think about some of the key themes related to the work of Iniva and the Foundation, including the language of the diaspora, culture, identity and archiving. About Alicja Rogalska Alicja Rogalska is an artist living in London and working internationally. Her practice is research-led, interdisciplinary and focuses on social structures and the political subtext of the everyday. She mostly works in specific contexts making situations, performances, videos and installations in collaboration with other people. Her projects are attempts to practise... --- - Published: 2019-03-07 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-research-network-more-than-human-care/ - Project Types: In Conversation, Performance, Reading Group, Research Network This year’s Research Network, selected through open call, will expand on the previous series Duties of Self-Care with artists looking deeper into the complexities of our relationship with ourselves, each other and the earth. Knowledge and affect are spun between humans and non-humans, resources flow and power is abused. We exist in relation to each other, ancestors, elements, spirits, computers, bacteria, planets and plants. Self-care necessitates collective care. More-than-Human Care challenges structural oppressions and enables us to understand our intersecting existences. Join us at the Stuart Hall Library for the public programme and continue the conversation on our Research Network Facebook page. Iniva Public Programme (more... ) --- - Published: 2019-01-23 - Modified: 2019-01-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/creating-interference-making-art-developing-methods-re-imagining-histories-memories/ - Project Types: In Conversation The aim of Creating Interference is to develop, explore and identify creative strategies to disrupt knowledge conventions and dominant discourses of the past. Creative works are seen as catalysts for change to knowledge about the past for justice and transformation in the present. To this end, we prioritise a de-colonial approach that necessitates a differently configured relationship with the past which overturns and decentres European hegemonic discourses of knowledge. We invite you to join the network as a way to debate, develop methodologies, publish and explore a range of artistic and scholarly works that challenges, asks questions and informs. In June 2018, we launched the Network by hosting a film screening at Regent Street Cinema. This was followed by a day long symposium: Creating Interference: making art, developing methods, re-imagining histories/memories at the University of Westminster. Creating Interference is in association with the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster and Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts). Creating Interference Planning Team includes Barby Asante, Melanie Keen, Roshini Kempadoo, Lucy Reynolds, Ashwani Sharma, and A’Ishah Waheed. --- - Published: 2019-01-07 - Modified: 2019-12-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/london-art-fair-2019/ - Project Types: Exhibition Iniva is delighted to announce its participation in London Art Fair 2019 within the Art Projects section and as a fair partner in two public talks and tours. This year, Iniva will exhibit works on paper by Beverley Bennett and Jade Montserrat, with a presentation that focuses on the power and fragility of mark making in contemporary art. The stand will explore drawing and performance through intimate and radical gestures. Aspects of erasure and permanence, typical to mark making and drawing, create sympathetic conditions to express ideas around unspoken, invisible histories. Jade Montserrat operates at the intersection of art and activism through drawing, painting, performance, film, installation, sculpture, print and text, while Beverley Bennett explores the interactions between drawing and sound, also working with film and performance. Both artists employ distinct processes of mark making and have an interest in translating drawing into other mediums. BIOGRAPHIES Beverley Bennett is an artist-filmmaker. She graduated from Middlesex University in 2009 and University of Central England in 2004. She makes monochrome, abstract drawings where layers of pigment and repetitive mark making add a sense of power and energy to the surface of the paper. Her artworks have been described as having an almost audible quality which inspired Bennet to explore how her drawings can influence and transform into other mediums such as sound. Bennett’s work has been shown nationally and internationally; venues include the National Gallery of Jamaica in Kingston, Encounters Short Film Festival in Bristol, Metal Liverpool and New Art Exchange in... --- - Published: 2018-06-01 - Modified: 2019-07-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-workshops-for-young-people/ We are developing a series of explorative workshops aimed at engaging young people aged 16 to 24 with all that the Stuart Hall Library has to offer. The first workshop invited Digify group at youth-led creative network Livity to explore the collection, developing ideas for future campaigns and programmes for their peers. For the second workshop, musician, sound designer and poet Xana, introduced participants to the Stuart Hall Library collection, searching through artist and exhibition archives and ephemera, zines, publications and books. The third workshop will be dedicated to Iniva’s extensive VHS video tape archive. Co-curated by participants of our previous workshop, they will be picking and watching a selection of rare recorded artist performances, films to discussions and debates from the 1990s onwards and more. There are more workshops to follow, so please get in touch with Susan Ibreck sibreck@iniva. org for more information or if you have any questions. These workshops are made possible through generous funding from Cockayne Grants for the Arts, a donor-advised fund of the London Community Foundation. --- - Published: 2018-03-01 - Modified: 2019-12-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/london-art-fair-2018/ - Project Types: Exhibition Iniva is delighted to announce its participation in London Art Fair 2018 within the Art Projects section and as a fair partner in two public talks and tours. Iniva’s 2018 Art Projects stand focuses on the work of British artist Donald Rodney (1961-1998) with a selection of pieces, some never before seen in public, which capture the breadth of his remarkable practice. Rodney illustrated his versatility utilizing a range of mediums from painting, installation and photography to robotics, film and digital. He chose to incorporate his medical condition of sickle cell anemia, an illness he had been living with his whole life. He used this as a metaphor for black emasculation, racial stereotyping and wider socio-political concerns in contemporary society. Rodney was born in Smethwick, West Midlands in 1961 to Jamaican parents. In 1981, Rodney studied BA Fine Art at Trent Polytechnic in Nottingham, where he was profoundly affected by encounters with artists such as Keith Piper, Eddie Chambers, Marlene Smith and Claudette Johnson, who were re-examining social and historical narratives from a black perspective. Rodney became a prominent member of the Blk Arts Group. He had 6 solo exhibitions between 1985-1997, including at Chisenhale Gallery (1989), Rochdale Art Gallery (1990) Camerawork (1991) and South London Gallery (1997). He also showed and participated in numerous other exhibitions and residencies across this period. In 1996, he was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Sculpture and Installation. Download press release. Watch Professor Mike Phillips discuss Donald Rodney's work. Public Talks Programme... --- - Published: 2018-02-28 - Modified: 2018-06-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/the-stuart-hall-library-saturday-reading-group/ - Project Types: Reading Group Join us in the Stuart Hall Library for our monthly Saturday Reading Group facilitated by Senior Library Assistant Lexi Frost. Readings are selected from requests and suggestions made in advance by attendees, and draw upon the rich, wide-ranging collections of the Stuart Hall Library, which holds a unique collection of diasporic material and postcolonial writings from all over the globe. We will be exploring texts from books on non-western critical theory with a political and international focus, as well as articles, short essays and zines on contemporary art and visual culture. This is an informal event where reading takes place together, so you don’t need to read anything in advance. We usually meet on the third Saturday of the month, between 15:00 and 17:00 in the library. Please see the individual event pages for booking details. The reading group is free and open to all. The reading group list is below, including past and future reading material. We welcome new suggestions. Email library@iniva. org if you would like to make a recommendation for reading. James Baldwin, ‘Autobiographical notes’ from Notes of a Native Son and Octavia Butler, ‘Positive obsession’, from Blood Child (Saturday 17th February reading group) Angela Davis, ‘Women, Race & Class’ from The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: a working class perspective and Zadie Smith, 'Joy' from Feel Free (Saturday 24th March reading group) Mark Dery, excerpt from ‘Black to the future’ including an interview with Afrofuturist science fiction writer Samuel Delaney, in Flame Wars : the discourse of... --- - Published: 2018-02-27 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-research-network-duties-of-self-care/ - Project Types: Research Network This year’s Research Network, selected through open call, will revolve around how artists attend to self-care in an economic climate of austerity and instability. It will address tactics for reclaiming control and responsibility as a way of rejecting institutional exploitation, when financial, mental and physical precarity is the accepted state of being for artists. This public programme will alternate between artist-led presentations and open reading groups, where attendees can begin to develop/explore the possibilities of structures for support and self-care. Iniva Public Programme at the Stuart Hall Library March 29 2018 Artist Ada Xiaoyu Hao presents The Mask of Sanity, with curator Annie Jael Kwan as respondent. This performance lecture will explore the self-care mechanism developed by the artist after migrating to the UK. Hao will investigate the impact of language barriers upon the body and how their restrictions play out in the form of bodily trauma. April 19 2018 Stuart Hall Research Network Reading Group, Thinking with Care. This new series of reading groups will critically engage with issues underpinning the 'Duties of Self-Care' Research Network programme. This first session will read and discuss 'Thinking with Care', chapter 2 of Maria Puig de la Bellacasa's Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds. May 31 2018 Research collective Fresh New Anxieties present their long-term project, Luxury. This presentation and discussion will explore their practice attempting to design sustainable self-care and professional frameworks in relations to chronic health conditions, disability and neurodiversity in the face of austerity and... --- - Published: 2018-02-24 - Modified: 2018-03-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-research-network-virtualities/ - Project Types: In Conversation, Research Network Gary Zhexi Zhang, The Kernel Process This season of the Stuart Hall Research Network, selected from an open call for presentations of recent artistic or activist research, revolves around the theme of Virtualities. The series broadly explores the thesis that contemporary art may produce the conditions for decolonisation, which relate to virtuality in the Deleuzian sense of an emergent potentiality. Audio recordings are available to listen to on most of the event web pages (follow the links from each event title). Iniva Public Programme at the Stuart Hall Library, Rivington Place March 30 2017: Decolonial Aesthetics A conversation between South and diasporic women sharing their specific experiences and practices: Simmi Dullay‘s visual and intellectual practice embodied in Black Consciousness radical feminist praxis and Oana Pârvan‘s work around political theory and practice, chaired by Gitanjali Pyndiah, who brings her research on residues of colonisation in the postcolony to the exchange. May 25 2017: aPOCalypso Afrofuturism has reached a functional and conceptual obsolescence, requiring the development of a new terminology to describe emergent speculative, futurist and technocultural Afro-diasporic aesthetics, from Europe and the Caribbean as well as the USA. How do we begin to describe a Black future that encompasses a greater diversity of diasporic influence and reference, as a means of decolonising the future imaginary? Artist Sonya Dyer proposes the term aPOCalypso. June 29 2017: Erotics of the Interface Gary Zhexi Zhang presents research from his current project, Erotics of the Interface, which explores the emergent politics of distributed systems, including... --- - Published: 2017-12-01 - Modified: 2020-05-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-artists-residency-2018/ - Project Types: residency Iniva and the Stuart Hall Foundation are delighted to announce that collective Squirrel Nation has been awarded the second Stuart Hall Library Artist’s Residency, a funded opportunity that builds on Professor Stuart Hall’s unique contribution to intellectual and cultural life. Selected through a hugely popular open call, the collective Squirrel Nation will be in residence at Iniva’s Stuart Hall Library from February to April 2018. The three members of the collective – filmmaker Erinma Ochu, visual artist Caroline Ward and curator Bianca Manu – will explore the evolution of diasporic identities and how a sense of belonging or isolation is shaped in the context of cultural and social locations, and technology. Taking the archival material as a starting point, Squirrel Nation will use social media and modern technologies to develop a forward-looking approach to explore how individual experiences of diasporic communities today relate to the experiences of previous generations. By finding cultural ‘touchpoints’ between the generations, Squirrel Nation will create an artistic intervention to rethink the politics of blackness, diversity and inclusion. The Stuart Hall Library Artist’s Residency is an annual funded opportunity established in partnership between Iniva and the Stuart Hall Foundation. Building on the distinct connections between both organisations, the three-month residency allows a visual artist the space to think about some of the key themes related to the work of Iniva and the Foundation, including: the language of the diaspora, culture, identity and archiving. About Squirrel Nation Squirrel Nation is an international collective comprised of visual artists,... --- - Published: 2017-06-20 - Modified: 2017-07-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/public-programme-the-place-is-here/ - Project Types: Live Art, Workshop Image: A selection of magazines from the Stuart Hall Library Collection. Iniva has devised a public programme for The Place is Here that explores ideas around history as a fragile construction where ‘lessons’ of the past, present and future have collapsed one into the other. By focusing on artistic practice, the historical and contemporary critiques of the work, this collision of time and space attempts, in this moment, to reset what is known and how we come to know it. Curated in collaboration with curators Adelaide Bannerman and Annie Jael Kwan. --- - Published: 2017-04-26 - Modified: 2025-03-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/alien-nation/ - Project Types: Exhibition Alien Nation is an ambitious and thought-provoking touring exhibition that explores the complex relationship between science fiction, race and contemporary art. Inspired by the connection between sci-fi cinema of the 1950s and ‘60s and the Cold War period, Alien Nation is curated by John Gill, Jens Hoffmann and Gilane Tawadros and presents the work of twelve contemporary international artists who all explore themes of ‘otherness' and ‘difference' through the language and iconography of science fiction. Featuring newly commissioned works by David Huffman, Hew Locke, Kori Newkirk, Eric Wesley and Mario Ybarra among others, these witty and provocative artworks expose a disturbing contemporary narrative in which the media perpetuate the terror of ‘invasion' from immigrants, asylum seekers (indeed any racial, cultural or ethnic ‘other') and position such ‘outsiders' as the dominant threat to both family and national stability. Alien Nation is co-produced by the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) and the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA) and is supported by Arts Council England and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. --- - Published: 2017-04-20 - Modified: 2025-03-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/ansuman-biswas-gnomon/ - Project Types: Commission Light boxes incorporate kinetic elements which echo the lines and angles of the building and bookshelves. The work responds to the unique architecture of the building and sits nestled within the library's window alcoves. Here, shadow forms subtly respond to the breath and heat of the readers who animate the space. These absences of light make visible the flow of information which is the life of the building. The artist has imagined the building as an observatory. Many of the first buildings were tools for understanding the cosmos; Stonehenge, Jantar Mantar and Macchu Picchu were designed to locate oneself in the heavens. They stood amongst constantly changing angles of light, caught in the intersection of the human and the more-than-human environment. Similarly, Rivington Place was designed in relation to the sun. This commission is funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Opening times are the same as those of the Library, Tuesday - Friday 10am-1pm, 2-5pm. --- - Published: 2017-04-19 - Modified: 2025-03-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/art-lab/ - Project Types: Learning - Event types: Workshop Iniva Creative Learning believes that contemporary art can stimulate our understanding of the world around and within us. A partnership between Iniva and A Space, Iniva Creative Learning produces resources to support teachers and therapists in facilitating important conversations and deepening emotional insight. --- - Published: 2017-03-30 - Modified: 2017-03-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/dislocation-central-st-martins-students-respond/ - Project Types: Learning Phil Alcock, Keshav Anand, Sofia Bracamontes,Nicole Coson, Sarah J Hamilton, Roshanak Khakban, Louisa Macnamara, Faun Nash, Tosin Ogunsanya, Delphine Simeao, Zac Underwood, Jade Wilford In response to the Keywords exhibition and in partnership with Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, Iniva presents Dislocation. The focus of this exhibition is to discursively and performatively explore the role of dislocation in culture, society and contemporary art practices. What happens when we take the work of an artist, or a cultural artifact out of its original context and place it in another time or place? How and to whom does the work speak? Students from Central Saint Martins School of Art have been looking at technologies of distanciation and dislocation: that of the museum and the cinematic, special-effects device of the green screen. Dislocation presents their investigations into these systems through a curatorial frame. As such, the exhibition should be regarded as a testing ground, in which the group audition the potentials of these terms, and the strategies they engender, for their own practices. --- - Published: 2017-03-13 - Modified: 2017-03-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/iniva-student-research-lab-supporting-art-studies/ - Project Types: Learning The Iniva Student Research Lab is a pilot project to support the studies of local students undertaking their A/AS Levels in Art & Design. Iniva is ideally placed to offer this opportunity/project because of its location in Hackney as well as its specialist interest in working with contemporary global and contemporary art. Iniva Learning in collaboration with the Iniva Library has designed a series of workshops for students to participate in where they will learn new skills in research, critical thinking and portfolio development. These workshops will take place in the gallery, library and local education spaces. The Research Lab has been created at Iniva specifically to provide local students with access to a professional specialist art library, professional librarians and experienced educators. Students will be encouraged to access the gallery with guided tours led by an art educator to support (and build? ) their portfolios. A dedicated research lab blog has been set up to support students in sharing their ideas and artwork. Through this resource teachers and Iniva professionals will feed back to students. The blog also acts as a depository for Iniva staff to share links and related information which will support the A/AS Level studies. Over a period of several months through visits, workshops and the blog the Research Lab will become a space for students to network through their creative practices. If you are a teacher or student and want to find out more please contact our Education Curator Teresa Cisneros. --- - Published: 2017-03-13 - Modified: 2017-03-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/hackney-live-see-the-arts-differently/ - Project Types: Learning Iniva contributes to a new initiative showcasing emerging creatives through online profiling of the arts and creative industries with Hackney Council on Hackney Live. Hackney Live is being piloted to explore the online opportunities for arts and culture in the borough. It will test the appetite for audiences wanting to access the arts online in Hackney for free. The site will showcase dance, music and contemporary visual arts. On February 27 Iniva's contribution of the series 'Artist in the studio' pre-recorded videos begin to go live over 4 weeks. The videos showcase artsits Larry Achiampong, Aya Haider, Christa Holka and the Stööki collective. The videos provide viewers with an insight into how artists work and pathways to careers in contemporary arts. Along with the 4 indepth artist videos, Iniva has also contributed 10 short videos exploring professions in the arts which can be accessed at anytime on the Hackney Live website. Hackney Live combines live streaming events with East London Dance and music with Rising Tide, with Invia contributing on-demand material. The desire is for audiences to engage in live conversation via social media during and post events. Iniva would like to thank researcher Yolanda Hanson, editor Jess Harrington and arts professionals Adealide Bannerman, Beddows & Battini, Cassius Coleman, Carnaby Book Exchange, Sew-Ling Chew, Jem Doulton, Denzil Forrester, Karen Muhl, Morgan Quaintance, Tot Taylor and Jen Wu. --- - Published: 2017-03-13 - Modified: 2017-03-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/family-a-space-and-stoke-newington-secondary-school/ - Project Types: Learning Yara El Sherbini, Mother & Child Exhibition in the Education Space at Rivington Place from 2-23 May 2013. Working with A Space and Stoke Newington Secondary School, Iniva explores the term 'Family' as part of our extended Keywords exhibition and related events programme. Over time, Western notions of what constitutes 'family' have consciously or unconsciously privileged a stereotyped description of a permanent unit comprising mother and father living with their two or three birth children. Government policies (often with their own agendas in mind), popular media and idealised representations of family in the wider culture as a whole have frequently promoted this model despite the inherent problems in holding onto what, for many, is unrealistic or unachievable. Some perceive this model as limiting - or even seriously flawed - as it carries the potential for reinforcing unhelpful gender-based parental roles and for judging alternative arrangements as inferior or even ‘damaging'. We know that families take many different forms however the idealised traditional unit still has a powerful hold on society's psyche. To contribute to the contemporary discourse on this subject, Iniva is working in collaboration with A Space and Stoke Newington Secondary School. Workshops are being held with pupils which will contribute to an exhibition and two public events. The theme of 'Families' will be explored from a number of perspectives, addressing key questions such as ‘What influences have shaped our society's past and present notions of family? What are the different shapes families take today? How have parental roles... --- - Published: 2017-03-13 - Modified: 2017-03-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/emotional-learning-workshop-series/ - Project Types: Learning Workshop Series Following the success of our summer Emotional Learning Card workshops, Iniva developed a series of evening courses for personal and professional development, using Iniva's Emotional Learning cards as a point of departure for exploring art therapy and art education. Taught by art therapist Lyn French* and artist Matthew Krishanu*, these courses have been designed to provide individuals with an insight into contemporary international art and artists, their contexts and concerns. Participants will be given handouts including suggestions for practical activities and discussion points to take away Workshop Facilitators *Lyn French, A Space Director and art therapist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist (HPCP, UKCP, BACP), has over 15 year's experience in delivering and supervising school-based therapy provision with previous experience in NHS psychiatric services. She has co-edited two books: Therapeutic Practice in Schools, Vol 1: Working with the Child Within (Routledge, 2012) and Therapeutic Practice in Schools, Vol 2: The Contemporary Adolescent (Routledge; September 2014) and is on the staff team of the MSc in Counselling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has worked with Iniva to create the Emotional Learning Cards. Follow her blog on www. inivacreativelearning. org. Visit www. aspaceinhackney. org for information on A Space. *Matthew Krishanu is an artist based in London. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and has undertaken commissions for Whitechapel Gallery, Camden Arts Centre, Iniva and Gasworks. Matthew has extensive experience working in participatory settings, including leading sessions at Tate Modern, National Portrait Gallery, Camden Arts... --- - Published: 2017-03-13 - Modified: 2017-03-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/spooling-the-ethnographic/ - Project Types: Learning The Spooling the Ethnographic course will take as a starting point Hal Foster's 1996 essay The Artist as Ethnographer, which looks at a turn to ethnography / anthropology within artistic practice. This project will consist of a series of readings, film screening and discussions, which will explore this shift and its implications. Students will be working with Iniva as both a location for an exhibition of work produced, but also as a research resource. Iniva's project The Social Archive was produced collaboratively with individuals from Shoreditch to produce a body of social knowledge about their neighborhood. This course will use this particular project as a research tool to think through a collective approach to creating a ‘social document collaboratively. ' The course has been developed by tutor Erika Tan with Teresa Cisneros, Iniva's Education Curator. Oucomes of the course include: working closely with Iniva's resources, learning directly from arts professionals, developing a collective artwork and producing an exhibition of the work created during the course. --- - Published: 2017-03-13 - Modified: 2017-03-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/its-all-lies/ - Project Types: Learning Photography exhibition It's All Lies is part of a scheme created by Iniva to provide professional guidance and support to the next generation of emerging artists. The University of East London is the first of three selected institutions that Iniva will be working with in 2014. The works on display at Rivington Place have been developed through each artist's research and approach to the photographic image. UEL Students collaborated to produce an exhibition exploring ideas of what constitutes a lie. Perceptions of what a lie might entail are revealed through each work, and each piece is influenced by the individual photographers' experiences, culture and lifestyle. The artworks range from conceptual to documentary, and artists include Rusty Fox, Nate Hilton, Naomi James, Tomas Januska, Grace Lee, Nichola Lowry and Charles Woodward. Please follow the Media link on the right to view the artworks and artist statements. lie2 /lʌɪ/ noun: lie; plural noun: lies 1. an intentionally false statement. "they hint rather than tell outright lies" synonyms: untruth, falsehood, fib, fabrication, deception, made-up story, trumped-up story, invention, piece of fiction, fiction, falsification, falsity, fairy story/tale, cock and bull story, barefaced lie; More antonyms: truth, fact used with reference to a situation involving deception or founded on a mistaken impression. "all their married life she had been living a lie" verb verb: lie; 3rd person present: lies; past tense: lied; past participle: lied; gerund or present participle: lying 1. tell a lie or lies. "why had Ashenden lied about his visit to London?... --- - Published: 2017-03-13 - Modified: 2017-06-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/on-borrowed-times/ - Project Types: Learning Basil Al-Rawi, Façade (2/14), 2012, C-Type Print, 60x50cm On Borrowed Time(s) showcases the work of students and alumni from MA Photographic Studies, University of Westminster. The University of Westminster is one of three selected academic institutions Iniva will be working with for the year 2014. On Borrowed Time(s) responds to Turkish artist Burak Delier’s exhibition, Freedom Has No Script also showing at the gallery. Through a diversity of critical practices the exhibition explores the paradoxical and contradictory logic of capitalism as manifest in the art world, corporate and consumer cultures. The artworks represented engage in a dialogue between capitalism's alluring façade and the record of broken promises ranging from economic collapse to environmental degradation. Curated in collaboration with Layal Ftouni. Artists include: Basil Al-Rawi, Xiaobo Fu, William Eckersley, Paula Gortázar, Wilf Speller, Jan Stradtmann and Maria Tzili. Preview: 25 March, from 6. 30pm. Exhibition continues until 12 April and is open on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. A talk drawing on themes from the exhibiton, Disruptions: On Capitalism and Photography, takes place on 10 April, 6. 30pm, free. Booking advised. --- - Published: 2017-03-13 - Modified: 2017-03-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/becoming-the-other/ - Project Types: Learning Becoming the Other is a contemporary art exhibition with works by students from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Using Hal Fosters 1996 essay ‘The Artist as Ethnographer' as a starting point and engaging with Iniva as a research resource, students examined a turn to ethnography/anthropology within artistic practice. Working around issues of participation, representation and interpretation, the works are a result of pseudo-ethnographic research workshops around the artists themselves as the subject. Tackling themes of nationalism, social media, personal identity and belonging, the exhibition functions as a fluid space where social representational norms are stripped away for the sake of open conversations. Though the work takes on different forms - sculpture, film, participation - they are united by a search of how to occupy the (un)familiar territory of the Other. This exhibition is part of Iniva's partnership work with univerisities and professional development programme for students. The exhibition will be open from 8 - 17 May 2014. --- - Published: 2017-03-13 - Modified: 2017-03-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/a-place-for-conversation/ - Project Types: Learning Newport Primary School, A Space and Iniva have developed a 6 month collaborative art making project working with parents, teachers and students to create a collective quilt exploring heritage, storyteling and sense of belonging. With Artist Aya Haidar. About the project A Place for Conversation project was created with Newport Primary School to make a space for parents, teachers and students to reflect on where they feel they belong in terms of culture, identity, heritage and home. Through art making workshops and discussions, parents were initially asked to think about one story they would like to pass on to their children. These stories were then visually represented through textile fabrics and made into samplers (quilt squares). Students and teachers were also asked to create samplers which explore heritage through an event like the World Cup. Through this process both groups have made represenative flags, which have been added to the parents samplers to create a large school collective quilt. To see the results visit our on-line gallery of the collabortive works made as seen at an exhibition at Rivington Place in July 2014. --- - Published: 2017-03-13 - Modified: 2017-06-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/occupied-spaces-a-political-gif-project/ - Project Types: Learning Occupied Spaces Manifesto, 2015 Saturday 28 February 2-6pm Special Viewing with the curator of the project Teresa Cisneros. Occupied Spaces is a project designed by Education Curator Teresa Cisneros to facilitate critical thinking about the space young people occupy and to activate their imagination. It offered students the opportunity to take on the role of makers, thinkers, doers or activists in a creative environment, in and outside of the classroom. Between October 2014 and January 2015, Iniva worked with artists Barby Asante and Fawzia Afifi, engaging with over 200 secondary schools students from Brittons Academy, Hall Mead School, Liberty Boys School and Sacred Heart of Mary Girls' School in the borough of Havering. Teachers were invited to spend time with the artists to learn more about the concepts and how artists utilise themes and actions from real life protests or in acts of resistance as part of their work. All the students were invited to visit Rivington Place to see the current exhibitions, followed by an introduction with the artists exploring their own political thinking. The students were given time to consider what they felt passionate about and with this in mind, they were required to undertake research in the Stuart Hall Library. Using their research they presented their findings and started thinking about their own creative digital GIFs (graphic interchange format) which they would be making in their classrooms. The artists collaborated with the students to develop and deepen the graphics which were then converted to GIFs. The resulting... --- - Published: 2017-03-13 - Modified: 2017-06-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/one-other-superheroes/ - Project Types: Learning Superheroes, 2010 Young people from Brooks Community School have collaborated with artist Larry Achiampong, with assistance from artist Barbara Lambert, to research and create artwork inspired by music that is shared culturally, as part of the One & Other project. Participants explored what a superhero is? How they came into being? And who can be a superhero? Superheroes were researched in relation to each participants' culture and personal superheroes. They created their own superhero, developing a comic story and sketching out their likeness. The superhero character was then made into a 3D clay model. From conversations and shared experiences participants recorded the superheroes' stories, creating a short animation. They visited Iniva's Stuart Hall Library to find out more and get an idea of where their work would be exhibited. They have designed an animation, contributed to a sound work and made 3D superheoes in clay. The results of their collaborative research and imaginations will be on show in the One and Other exhibition at Rivington Place from 22 April - 1 May 2010. Brooks Community School is one of four schools participating in the One & Other project funded by A New Direction as part of Creative Partnerships. The project took place from January to April 2010 --- - Published: 2017-03-13 - Modified: 2017-03-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/one-other-how-do-you-hear-culture/ - Project Types: Learning How do you hear culture? 2010 Young people from St. Scholastica's Primary School have collaborated with artist Larry Achiampong to research and create artwork inspired by music that is shared and part of their culture, as part of the One & Other project. Participants explored which countries are represented in Hackney and the kinds of sounds, music and texts that reflect these diverse identities. The project started with a question posed by artist Achiampong - how do you hear culture? Initially, participants researched the countries represented amongst the group looking at personal histories, important figures from these cultures, and why and how people migrate to other countries. Participants then grouped together based on physical attributes relating to the countries from where their heritage stemmed. Through their individual experiences they compared and contrasted commonalities and differences. In small musical groups they then created and recorded sound pieces. Some noted the weather as being hot, others the similarities in music styles. Following a visit to a photographic studio where they took self-portraits, these were made into a film which was scored by the song compositions using digital music software. The results of their collaborative research and imaginations will be on show in the One and Other exhibition at Rivington Place from 22 April - 1 May 2010. St. Scholastica's Primary School is one of four schools participating in the One & Other project funded by A New Direction as part of Creative Partnerships. The project took place from January to April 2010. --- - Published: 2017-03-13 - Modified: 2017-03-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/one-other-food-of-champions/ - Project Types: Learning Food of Champions, 2010 Young people from Shacklewell Primary School have collaborated with artist Agnes Poitevin-Navarre to research and create artwork inspired by food, relating this to their personal heritage and experiences, as part of the One and Other project. Participants investigated how people define themselves through food and how food can ground people historically, economically, emotionally and geographically. The ritual of choosing, preparing and eating food reveals our tastes and backgrounds. Some food can be read as symbols of a historical power struggle eg potato, coffee, banana. Others hold memories of great moments. Food offers a point of commonality that crosses many cultural, social and racial boundaries. Initially participants talked about food and took a research journey related to their personal experiences. They tasted food, then located countries geographically on world maps. In groups, they created food poems based on food that is associated with particular countries. A food diary was kept in order to share where their diets crossed over or not. The next stage was to design a personal 'Food of Champions' ceramic plate, first on paper plates then visiting a ceramics studio. This whole 5 week process allowed each participant to explore their own culture, and better understand how cultures within a single classroom are linked. The results of their collaborative research and imaginations will be on show in the One and Other exhibition at Rivington Place from 22 April - 1 May 2010. Shacklewell Primary School is one of four schools participating in the One... --- - Published: 2017-03-13 - Modified: 2017-05-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/one-other-hybrid-of-tales/ - Project Types: Learning Dia Batal, 2010 Young people from Sebright Primary School have collaborated with artist Dia Batal to research and create artwork inspired by domestic architecture, relating this to their personal heritage and experiences, as part of the One and Other project. Participants investigated different architectural characteristics of their families' countries of origin. They collected stories from family members, and constructed a drawing or collage based on those descriptions to form visual mind maps. They then looked at their own domestic spaces specially focusing on the exploration of cultural objects/artefacts of their choice and the context in which that object is used. Through personal journeys of discovery, participants made collective imaginary objects using found objects from their homes which have a certain cultural significance. The results of their collaborative research and imaginations will be on show in the One and Other exhibition at Rivington Place. Sebright Primary School is one of four schools participating in the One and Other project funded by A New Direction as part of Creative Partnerships. The project took place from January to April 2010. --- - Published: 2017-03-13 - Modified: 2017-03-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/mapping-shoreditch-with-shoot-experience/ - Project Types: Learning Rivington Place was the setting for an interactive photo safari on 3 July 2010. Teams of budding photographers took pictures revealing the hidden stories and character of Shoreditch. In an interactive twist they mapped out their journeys while creatively documenting their experiences. Photos from the day are showcased here - find out how these groups captured the character of Shoreditch. Have a look at all the winning images mapped out around the Shoreditch area on this interactive google map. --- - Published: 2017-03-13 - Modified: 2017-07-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/the-strange-world-of-roderick-wood/ - Project Types: Learning Education Space, 2 June - 24 July 2010 Thursday 12-9pm, Friday & Saturday 12-6pm "Don't trust your ego", you will read this on a post-it note in the front of Rod's car, his mobile office a small plastic container with post-it notes, estimates and a toothbrush with toothpaste placed on the back seat. This film and documentation by Damian and Delaine Le Bas consists of a ‘fly on the wall' documentary and other documentation mapping the physical and mental journeys in the life of Rod, a builder and project manager from Worthing who travels at least 100 miles every day in his car covering Sussex, Surrey and London. His day starts at 5am and revolves around the house of his mother Veronica who has lived in the same house for 48 years which is on a local council estate. She moved to Worthing from Austria after the 2nd World War and has lived there ever since. Rod has another life outside that of the builder/project manager as he often appears in TV shows and was part of the scandal involving Carol Caplin who was Cherie Blaire's style guru. He has a very unique way of seeing the world and this is often at odds with the world that he works within - the extraordinary within the ordinary. As Rod would say "I am ready" are you? The film has been commissioned as an artists' response to the 'Whose Map is it? ' exhibition and is screened in the Education Space. --- - Published: 2017-03-13 - Modified: 2017-03-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/one-other-exhibition/ - Project Types: Learning Young people from four schools in the Borough of Hackney showcase artwork produced from the One & Other project exploring communalities in culture. Many of us no longer identify ourselves with one country, and the internet means that we are more likely to have contact with people in different parts of the world. Artists Larry Achiampong, Dia Batal and Agnes Poitevin-Navarre use sound, video, ceramic and painting - asking what does it mean to be part of an international community? They focus on the familiarity of culture that gives us a sense of belonging. Stories are created around, for example, food as a metaphor with its historical associations, personal memories, and rituals; the characteristics of domestic architecture from different countries, and objects found at home which may have been passed on from grandparents. Years 5 and 6 (aged 10-11 year olds) from Shacklewell, Sebright, Saint Scholasticas and Brook Community schools are taking part in the project. Organised by Iniva in collaboration with A Space. The One and Other project is funded by A New Direction with gudiance from the Learning Trust - Hackney. Open Thursday 12 - 9pm and Friday, Saturday 12 - 6pm. --- - Published: 2017-03-13 - Modified: 2017-07-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/cart%c2%b7og%c2%b7ra%c2%b7phy-the-unfolding-of-mobile-narratives/ - Project Types: Learning Education Space 2 June - 24 July 2010 Thursdays 12-9pm, Fridays & Saturdays 12-6pm Artist Dia Batal's commission Cart-og-ra-phy: the unfolding of mobile narratives explores the lives of a group of women living in East London around Boundary Estate. A mobile cart becomes a repository for the experiences of those often unable to cross social boundaries. The collaboration with St Hilda's Community Centre follows the journeys of women living a five-minute walk from Rivington Place and in one of Europe's most creative neighbourhoods. The object of the cart hosts the stories, photographs and memories of the women who have come to London from around the world, giving them an often neglected voice. Batal has developed a process of exchange, sharing and intimate storytelling to form the mobile archive, which will be pushed around Shoreditch. She also collects stories from transient workers and tourists to the areas. This project has been inspired by the work Batal has undertaken in refugee camps in Lebanon where borders and boundaries are faced in everyday life. Dia Batal was born in Lebanon and lives and works in London. Ideas and work from the artist's project will be on display in the Education Space Thursdays 12-9pm, Fridays & Saturdays 12-6pm from 2 June - 24 July 2010. Organised to complement the Whose Map is it? exhibition. Cart-og-ra-phy is part of Discovering Places, the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad campaign to inspire communities across the UK to discover their local environment - with all its hidden places, extraordinary... --- - Published: 2017-03-13 - Modified: 2017-06-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/document-image-memory-treasures-from-the-iniva-archive-2/ - Project Types: Learning Audio cassette recordings of New Internationalism Symposium at Tate Gallery, 1994. Iniva's Archive is a fascinating resource containing audio-visual material, unique artistic ephemera and historical documents related to the creation of the organisation. It tells the history of Iniva and charts the emergence of artistic practice and theoretical developments responding to cultural shifts and identity politics over the last 17 years. For this two-week exhibition, Iniva staff members have selected items from the archive which they regard as significant to the organisation's contributions to contemporary international art and art history. The items selected go on display for the first time for public viewing as a curated body of historical material. The archive contains a wealth of objects from the original recordings from Global Visions: Towards a New Internationalism in the Visual Arts, 1994, a symposium held at Tate Gallery which discussed topics such as 'recoding the international' and 'international exhibitions'. You can also find a 1976 interview between Stuart Hall and CLR James from the BBC in the archive. This presentation gives a sampling of the rich cultural heritage that Iniva has to share and is part of longer-term project to open up its Archives to the public for future engagement. Along with the display of materials in the Education Space, we will host a conversation exploring the 'institutionalisation' of art and the role of the archive in documenting recent art histories on Tuesday 8 February 2011. --- - Published: 2017-03-13 - Modified: 2017-03-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/maths-matters-millfields-community-school/ - Project Types: Learning Cardboard Houses, Years 2-4 Millfields Community School Students. Photo: Christa Holka, 2011 Pupils from years 2 to 4 at Millfields Community School in the London Borough of Hackney worked with artist Dia Batal and art therapist Jo Evans over several weeks to explore how maths informs our everyday life. Gallery visit The artist explored how architecture, design, food and poetry all have a relationship with mathematics. The workshop series began with a visit to Rivington Place to see Iniva's Sheela Gowda exhibition. Pupils also went on a tour of the building to explore its architecture and design elements and then investigated related themes through looking at books from the Iniva collection featuring innovative architecture. This process shaped the pupils' plans for a cityscape and helped them to consider what makes up a city. Places such as ice cream shops, play areas and cinemas as well as London landmarks all formed part of the large collage they created comprising their own line drawings set against a photographic background and mounted on the gallery wall. Workshops Following this, in workshops at their school, students explored recipes for dishes from around the world. The discussion and related activities highlighted the direct link between maths and food preparation. Students brought recipes from home to share with each other and followed this by making their own paper mache kitchenware and measuring implements painted in bright colourful patterns. After researching food, the group then shifted its focus to architecture. Each pupil designed their ideal home and... --- - Published: 2017-03-12 - Modified: 2017-07-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/creative-mapping-year-1/ - Project Types: Learning The Iniva Creative Mapping Project considers how and why contemporary artists from across the globe are opening up the concept of mapping in imaginative and unexpected ways. It is an opportunity to explore the potential of new cartographic languages to deepen our understanding of identity, place and power and to reflect on the multiple spaces we inhabit: ourselves, our bodies, our communities, our cities, our nations, our earth. At the beginning of the 21st century, geographic information technologies show us extraordinary levels of detail about the physical world we inhabit. However, their objective authority can distract us from their subjective limitations; satellite-based maps mask racial, linguistic or religious concerns, and show us little about the social, emotional and political worlds we inhabit. The Iniva Creative Mapping Project asks how we can begin to map these worlds. Artists work with different groups to create new maps, maps that reflect something of our daily lives. Previous mapping projects have considered 'how can we map our senses? ', 'who makes up my personal cartography? ', while others create ways to tag the world with 'geograffiti'. Each project provides a unique reconsideration of mapping as well as a different world to think about how we look at the world we live in. --- - Published: 2017-03-12 - Modified: 2017-07-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/creative-mapping-year-2/ - Project Types: Learning This is the second year of the 3-year learning initiative exploring the politics, ethics and aesthetics of map-making through the lens of contemporary artistic practice. Over the past year, students in schools and colleges in East London have been collaborating with artists Yara El-Sherbini, Gayle Chong Kwan, Agnes Poitevin-Navarre, Susan Stockwell and Jeremy Wood. In workshops, they explored mapping and ideas about identity and place. Come and see the results in a series of exhibitions in the Education Space at Rivington Place between June and July 2008. The Mapping Beyond exhibitions are part of Iniva's ongoing Creative Mapping project with schools in the East London area. Exhibitions: 4-7 June: Journey maps Year 9 Students from St Paul's Way Community School with artists Susan Stockwell and Jeremy Wood. 11-14 June: Sensus Shoreditch Year 9 students from Newham with artist Gayle Chong Kwan. 18 - 21 June: Personal cartographies Year 7 students from Stoke Newington School: Media Arts & Science College with artists Agnes Poitevin-Navarre and Jeremy Wood. 25 - 28 June: How language locates us Newham Sixth Form College with BTEC First Diploma in Art & Design students, and artists Yara El-Sherbini and Jeremy Wood. 2 - 5 July: Mapping language Hackney Community College with Art Foundation students and artists Yara El-Sherbini and Agnes Poitevin-Navarre. The Creative Mapping programme and Mapping Beyond exhibition series are generously supported by Bloomberg. --- - Published: 2017-03-12 - Modified: 2017-03-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/at-the-intersection-art-economies/ - Project Types: Learning Why economics through art? When we talk of economics we are often lead to think about the financial crisis, banking, markets and the movements of capital, yet the reach of economic effects extends far beyond this relatively small realm of activity. Economic thinking governs the decisions about the sharing of resources, the division of land and labour, terms of ownership whether that be public or private and the dissemination of wealth and commodities in a world that often denies many the rights to the most basic of life's needs. During the recent financial crisis some of the stark and unjust effects of the subtle dominance of economics underpinning our lives became very clear. As the increasing regularity of news stories detail the consequent effects of the weather, of transport and international relationships on the economy we are lead to believe that economics determine our way of life. However we rarely focus on the workings or functions of this quiet ruler or consider the decisions that create such a complex system, a system which for many is inaccessible. At the Intersection: Art and Economies is a three year project in which Iniva will innovate a range of artistic and creative approaches to explore the complex topic of economies. Working with artists, professionals from a range of fields to people with a range of experiences we hope to unpick this subject through dialogues and creative experiments. --- - Published: 2017-03-12 - Modified: 2017-04-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/joining-the-dots/ - Project Types: Learning Artist Maria Amidu and multimedia designer Michael Uwemedimo have created an interactive web-based work, which innovatively evaluates and archives inIVA's five-year collaboration with Acland Burghley School. Taking the architecture of the school as a starting point and the notion of dialogue as a central theme, Joining the Dots reveals a variety of personal responses to the artists' residencies that have taken place at the school. The Schools Programme emphasises the value of artistic practice as a tool for teaching and learning across the curriculum. Joining the Dots will be launched at Acland Burghley School in the autumn term. With financial support from London Arts under the Year of the Artist programme and the Arts Council of England (Artists in Sites for Learning). --- - Published: 2017-03-12 - Modified: 2017-05-22 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/touchstones/ - Project Types: Learning What are the resonances of architecture and space to the communities that use them? What happens when that space is reconfigured? Following the imminent closure of Kingsland School in Hackney, the new Mossbourne Community Academy opens in September 2004. The first intake of pupils will work with artists and architects to explore such questions and relate them to their own re-siting. As the first 'city academy' in Hackney, Mossbourne will focus on quality, accessible learning, urban regeneration and community aspirations in a flagship building. Students from Shacklewell, Colvestone, Princess May and Amherst primary schools, recent Kingsland secondary students, local Kingsland community elders and past Hackney Downs students trace their social and spatial displacements and connections in celebration of their neighbourhood. The project was created in collaboration with A Space for creative learning and support. --- - Published: 2017-03-12 - Modified: 2017-03-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/threshold/ - Project Types: Learning Threshold, a new light and sound installation by Faisal Abdu'Allah and Charlie Dark mediates between the architecture of memory and the archaeology of personal experience. Light and sound transform into a tangible presence through the play of shadow and whispers, luminosity and vibration. Threshold signifies how emotional experiences can be imprinted into our physical environment, subsequently changing our spatial understanding and demonstrating that 'even space can be poetry'. Threshold emerged from a project in collaboration with Year 6 students from Shacklewell Primary School, Hackney. It is part of the tripartite Limina schools programme charting the transition of students from primary to secondary education. It was created in collaboration with A Space for creative learning and support. --- - Published: 2017-03-12 - Modified: 2017-03-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/another-country/ - Project Types: Learning Another Country is a year-long residency programme situated in the village of Great Alne, Warwickshire culminating in a series of new solo and collaborative commissions. Inspired by the region's landscape and its diverse rural communities, artists Charlie Dark, Perveen Chohan and Trevor Mathison challenge perceptions of public and participatory arts within the changing face of the English countryside. Programme highlights include an installation by Charlie Dark at Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, an exhibition by Trevor Mathison at the Royal Show and a special performance at The Bridge House Theatre, Warwick School as part of the Warwickshire County Council's Festival of Shakespeare's Complete Works for the RSC. In partnership with Artists in Warwickshire Education and Rugby Art Gallery & Museum. --- - Published: 2017-03-12 - Modified: 2017-03-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/inspire-network/ - Project Types: Learning From November 2006 - April 2007, Iniva and independent cultural producer Colin Prescod developed and implemented the Inspire Network Course. The Inspire Network engaged over 40 culturally diverse aspiring curators from across London and the UK. The network provided a course along with opportunities to meet curators, practising artists and specialists in the arts field. The course took place in museums such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate Modern, British Museum, ICA and National Maritime Museum. Participants were supported through classroom-style learning and intensive practical workshops, which also enabled them to engage with theory around curating. The range of guests included curator Kit Hammonds from South London Gallery, Zoe Whitley from the V & A, assistant curator Ann Coxon from Tate Modern, director Sandy Narine from the National Portrait Gallery, artist Sonia Boyce, critic Marcus Verhagen, digital director Emma Quinn, and artist Keith Piper. --- --- ## Reading Lists --- ## ICL Resources --- ## Directory - Published: 2025-08-27 - Modified: 2025-08-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/matanda-abondance - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: M Abondance Matanda is an arts and culture writer and poet. Being based in London proper informs her subject matters and subversive, colloquial voice. Language, girlhood, class, and blackness are the themes she notices and dissects more time, as well as other ideas about identity. Her influences range from Ms Dynamite to Toni Cade Bambara to Congolese music videos from the 90s. --- - Published: 2025-08-27 - Modified: 2025-08-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/bbz - Occupations: Collective - Alphabetical: B BBZ (Burgeoning Brazen Zamis or Babes) is a creative duo that consists of filmmaker Nadine Davis and photographer Tia Simon-Campbell, who draw on the creative output of south London. They run a club night self-described as “a monthly exhibition/turn up for the fam, exploring the worlds of queer, non binary women of colour”, which brings together artists of colour who identify as female to exhibit and sell their work. From recreating a Caribbean living room at gal-dem’s V&A takeover, to setting up a queer Valentine’s pottery class, to teaming up with Peckham-based radio station Balamii and south London’s most-loved chicken shop branch Morley’s for a party, BBZ’s creative collaborations are as diverse as their audiences. --- - Published: 2025-08-08 - Modified: 2025-08-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/moran-stephanie - Occupations: Researcher - Alphabetical: M Stephanie Moran is an artist and researcher, studying for a 3D3-funded PhD with Plymouth University’s interdisciplinary digital research group, Transtechnology Research. Stephanie is also an Associate Partner at design and tech research agency Etic Lab. She is currently experimenting with the use of interspecies bots, algorithmically-generated scripts, nonlinear hypertext, and computational modeling from the animals’ perspective. Her avatar, @alien_ontology is an interspecies Twitter bot currently trying to be a bat. Recent papers presented include KRAKEN? : AI, Octopuses and Alien Intelligence for Goldsmiths, Visual Cultures department; Alien Holobiontology for Digital Ecologies II: Fiction Machines conference at Bath Spa University; Visual Democratisation at EVA London 2019; Future Ghosts and Biosemiotic Chronotopes for Haunted Geologies symposium at the University of Plymouth 2019; and Coding the Digital Occult: the Binary pagan and Vodun Ontologies of Cyberspace, for the Occulture conference, Berlin 2018. --- - Published: 2025-08-08 - Modified: 2025-08-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/k/keiken - Occupations: Collective - Alphabetical: K Keiken, Japanese for experience, is a cross-dimensional collaborative practice based in London and Berlin and founded in 2015 by artists Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori, and Isabel Ramos. Through an intersection of moving-image, new media installation, virtual/augmented reality, and gamified performance they test-drive impending futures. Recent projects include Behind this Screen I am on the Real Earth for Transmediale, HKW, Berlin (2020), Feel(s) 360 for Image Behaviour at London’s ICA and Feel My Metaverse (with long-term collaborator George Jasper Stone) for Jerwood Art's Collaborate! , London (2019) and Transmediale (2020). Keiken have shown work at IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht; LUX Moving Image; Space Art + Technology, London; MIRA Festival, Barcelona (2018); and Tate St Ives (2017). --- - Published: 2025-06-19 - Modified: 2025-06-19 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/mitra-rinku - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: M Rinku Mitra has over 15 years’ experience in the cultural, heritage and voluntary sector with extensive knowledge of the formal education sector. Formally a teacher, she has previously created learning programmes at the Commonwealth Institute, Royal Geographical Society and ActionAid. She has since worked on audience development, community engagement and learning and participation strategies for a wide range of organisations. She has experience in audience research, analysis and evaluation, meeting clients’ needs and strategic objectives. She is skilled in facilitation and consultation providing creative approaches and visioning sessions to connect audiences with culture, heritage and the environment. She has expertise in project management; ensuring stakeholder engagement, robust monitoring and evaluation, rigorous financial management and reflective practice. She is a trustee of the South Asian Diaspora Arts Archive (SADAA) based at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and a member of GEM (Group for Education in Museums). Recent articles include Race, Identity and Diversity in Geography, Royal Geographical Society. Rinku was one of the consultants on the Living Legacies: Collaboration, Community and Radicality project. --- - Published: 2025-06-19 - Modified: 2025-06-19 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/dymond-susan - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: D Susan Dymond has extensive experience of planning and delivering high-quality, audience-focused heritage interpretation at a range of venues. She collaborates on exhibitions and displays of all sizes, offering interpretation planning, text writing and editing, project management, graphic sign-off and AV commissioning. She is fully committed to improving accessibility, diversity and representation within displays. Susan has a degree in history from Warwick University and her first role in the heritage sector was at the British Museum. From 2005 she moved to the British Library, becoming Senior Interpretation Manager with responsibility for interpretation across exhibitions and permanent displays. Her role included scoping and messaging for exhibitions, managing content development, working closely with curators, designers and marketing teams, and commissioning digital and other interpretation elements. In 2023 Susan became a freelance interpretation consultant and has subsequently worked with a variety of clients to plan and deliver interpretation projects for organisations including the Ashmolean Museum, Senate House Library, the Design Museum, the Horniman Museum, the Young V&A and the National Gallery, as well as the British Library and British Museum. Susan was one of the consultants on the Living Legacies: Collaboration, Community and Radicality project. --- - Published: 2025-06-19 - Modified: 2025-06-19 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/s/sohal-neena - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: S Neena Sohal has over 20 years’ experience in the arts and heritage sector specialising in strategic development, project management, evaluation, fundraising, audience development and community engagement. She has held senior management level positions in local authorities including the Head of Arts and Culture for the London Borough of Ealing. She has experience of developing heritage skills training and co-ordinating community-led exhibitions. Neena is committed to widening participation in heritage and culture and as a freelance consultant has established a number of sustainable partnerships between the public and voluntary sector, following robust evaluation of projects, engaging diverse communities across the country. Neena served as a committee member on the London & South region of the National Heritage Lottery Fund for six years until March 2024. She is a trustee of the South Asian Diaspora Arts Archive (SADAA) based at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and a founding Director of the RAH Foundation (Rethinking Asian History) promoting academic research to the wider community. Neena was one of the consultants on the Living Legacies: Collaboration, Community and Radicality project. --- - Published: 2025-06-19 - Modified: 2025-06-19 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/r/rutherford-ananda - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: R Ananda Rutherford is an experienced researcher and museum collections manager. Her research and professional practice focus is on ethical and equitable collections information, the history and role of collections documentation and the digitisation of collections. Her recent work addresses structural racism in cataloguing, the potential applications for machine learning with object information, and ethics in practice at the intersection of research, collections and technological innovation. Ananda has worked in collections and documentation roles in a number of museums including the Museum of the Home, Crafts Council, Sir John Soane’s Museum and the V&A. More recently, she was research associate on the AHRC/Towards a National Collection Foundation Project Provisional Semantics at Tate. She is currently a research fellow on the Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage project and based at University of Arts London, with the Decolonising Arts Institute. Ananda was one of the consultants on the Living Legacies: Collaboration, Community and Radicality project. --- - Published: 2025-06-19 - Modified: 2025-06-19 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/c/cusimano-amanda - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: C Amanda Cusimano has over 16 years’ experience in working data, research, evaluation and strategies development within the arts and cultural sector. She is currently working as a freelance consultant providing research, evaluation and planning development services to a variety of clients including the Art Fund, Bricks, Bedford Creative Arts, The Line and the Working Class Movement Library; the majority of these projects are evaluation of community engagement projects funded by The National Lottery Community Fund with a particular focus on young people. During her time with BOP Consulting, she has focused on strategy and evaluation projects that supported clients to plan, articulate and report on their social impacts. She has worked with mixed research methods for the development of evaluations methodologies for clients including the Art Fund, the Liverpool Biennial, the BFI, DCMS and the British Council. She has led on a variety of large-scale impact assessments involving a multitude of partners and stakeholders, exploring creative and engaging tools to get the best out of audiences’ groups including young and or vulnerable people. Previously as Head of Data & Insight Frieze, Amanda led on business intelligence which included developing data tools (new CRM and other data platforms) and processes supporting audience development, evaluation and innovations for major international projects, products and events and commissioned audience and economic impact research to inform decision- making. At the Barbican, Amanda was responsible for embedding evaluation across the organisation by improving information and knowledge management and developing an evaluation framework supported by practical tools,... --- - Published: 2025-06-18 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/hunjan-bhajan - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: H Bhajan Hunjan is a UK-based artist-educator who creates commissions for the public realm and built environment. She also works collaboratively with schools and community groups to co-create both temporary and permanent installations that celebrate collective creativity and shared experience. Her practice explores ideas through drawings, paper works, acrylic cut-outs, paintings and prints. --- - Published: 2025-06-18 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/hunter-tavian - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: H Tavian Hunter is a librarian, programme coordinator and editorial publishing manager. Since 2018, she has been Library and Archive Manager of the Stuart Hall Library at iniva, developing collections on radical and emergent contemporary artistic practice centring Global Majority, African, Asian & Caribbean diaspora perspectives. She is also the Project Manager for Living Legacies (2024-25), an ambitious National Lottery Heritage Fund project to develop community engagement and outreach around the heritage of iniva’s institutional visuals art archive with a team of consultants. Tavian has an MA in Library and Information Studies from University College London (2015) and a keen interest in developing diverse library collections, best practices in community archiving and mentoring new informational professionals. Tavian was previously a consultant on the Equity Steering Group Committee for ARLIS (2021). She currently volunteers as Chair of the Professional Development Committee at Arts Libraries Society UK & Ireland (2019-present), a member of the Educational Academic Achievement Committee at The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers (2022-present) and The University of Arts London, Archives, Museums and Special Collections Board (2024). Tavian has runs Stuart Hall Library Research Network and Artist in Residency programmes and been responsible for a number of projects at iniva. --- - Published: 2025-03-10 - Modified: 2025-03-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/w/wong-carmen - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: W Carmen Wong is an artist-researcher, a curiously hungry migrant, and a recovering academic with student debt. Her practice often experiments with deep listening, and food for convivial collectivism. She is a co-animator of JarSquad, a project growing a solidarity economy of communally made jam and preserves that cannot be transacted with money. She also grounds-keep the (at-present-fallowing) Care-as-Commons reading/doing group comprising artists, researchers, and carers. Carmen is an ever-beginner in qi-going, and growing a practice in healing justice via nonviolent communication. --- - Published: 2025-03-10 - Modified: 2025-03-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/r/resolve-collective - Occupations: Artist, Collective - Alphabetical: R RESOLVE is an interdisciplinary design collective that combines architecture, engineering, technology and art to address social challenges. They have delivered numerous projects, workshops, publications, and talks in the UK and across Europe, all of which look toward realising just and equitable visions of change in our built environment. Much of RESOLVE’s work aims to provide platforms for the production of new knowledge and ideas. An integral part of this way of working means designing with and for young people and under-represented groups in society. Here, ‘design’ encompasses both physical and systemic intervention, exploring ways of using a project’s site as a resource and working with different communities as stakeholders in the short and long-term management of projects. In this way, design carries more than aesthetic value; it is also a mechanism for political and socio-economic change. RESOLVE's project portfolio ranges from architecture/urban design projects to community support work, from artist installations to research publications. They have worked critically with numerous art institutions including S1 Gallery (Sheffield), Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam), Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt & SAAVY Contemporary (Berlin), Kunstverein Braunschweig (Braunschweig), Wellcome Collection, V&A Museum, The Barbican Centre, Tate Modern & Mosaic Rooms (London); a variety of public sector clients such as the London boroughs of Croydon, Ealing, and Greenwich; and other fellow community-focused organisations such as SADACCA (Sheffield), Skin Deep (London), MAIA (Birmingham), and Mansions of the Future (Lincoln). They also lead an undergraduate unit at the Architectural Association, were Research Fellows at the Het Niuewe Instituut in... --- - Published: 2025-03-10 - Modified: 2025-03-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/bare-minimum-collective - Occupations: Collective - Alphabetical: B bare minimum collective bare minimum is six-person interdisciplinary anti-work arts collective. We believe in doing nothing or at the very least, as little as is required of us. We hate working, hustling, neoliberal self-improvement, wage labour, private property; most importantly, how work eats into our time, our love and our ability to make things in earnest. Read our manifesto here --- - Published: 2025-03-10 - Modified: 2025-03-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/bryce-shanice - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: B Shanice Bryce is an artist and movement teacher based in London. She is the founder of OOM, which explores the interconnection of food, art, and design. Shanice is interested in how food can serve as a catalyst for connection. She has contributed to discussions on the challenges of urban food planning and has also written about the trajectory of Black British food. --- - Published: 2025-03-10 - Modified: 2025-03-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/n/nwaby-ekeoma-victory - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: N Victory Nwabu-Ekeoma is an Igbo-Irish zine-maker, writer, storyteller, content designer and the founder and editor of Bia! Zine – an independent publication that explores the immigrant experience in Ireland through food. --- - Published: 2025-03-10 - Modified: 2025-03-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/f/francois-janine - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: F Janine Francois is a Black British feminist writer, academic and cultural producer. Janine’s research focuses on ethics of care, Black feminism, indigenous African cosmology and knowledge in relation to ecological thinking and artistic practices. Janine has curated work at Barbican, Lethaby Gallery, 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, Tate Britain and Autograph to name but a few. Janine was the former Course Leader for BA Culture, Criticism and Curation at Central Saint Martins and has worked as a consultant supporting cultural organisations like the Wellcome Trust, Centre for Culture Value, Birmingham Museum Trust and Tyne & Ware Archives and Museums around decolonisation and anti-racism. Janine is now the Associate Professor (Climate Justice) with The Bartlett School of Architecture at the University College of London. She is currently working on her debut book, exploring the Atlantic Ocean as an ontological site between the African continent and its diaspora via climate injustice. --- - Published: 2025-03-10 - Modified: 2025-03-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/axel-kacoutie-lou-mensah - Occupations: Artist, Collective, Writer - Alphabetical: A Lou Mensah founded Shade Podcast to create a space for Black artists and creative practitioners to talk about their work in their own way. Shade has featured interviews with artists, critics, writers and visionaries including John Akomfrah, Ming Smith and Amy Sherald. Lou's work has expanded into creating audio for organisations including the British Council, Hauser and Wirth, Frieze, Tate, Bloomberg, Freelands Foundation, The Runnymede Trust and South London Gallery. She is a visiting lecturer in audio at Central St Martins, Shade has been named Best Art Podcast in the British Podcast Awards and Most Loved Podcast by Apple Podcasts. Axel Kacoutié is an Audio Artist and poet who's been crafting sound, music, and words to challenge the familiar and revive a magic in the mundane. Previously the Creative Director of Sound at the Guardian, their work has featured on BBC airwaves, Spotify, and in physical spaces such as the Tate Modern (2023) and Sundance Film Festival (2022). Recent collaborations include Falling Tree Productions as Series Curator and Producer and Empire City as the Series Composer, Mixer and Sound Designer. They have won a number of awards, including Best Documentary at the Third Coast International Audio Festival, Gold for the Sarah Lawrence Audio Fiction Awards, Best Sound Designer at the Audio Production Awards, Prix Marulić Grand Prix award and many, many more. In 2024 Axel & Lou were named Producer Team of the Year by the UK Audio Network. a --- - Published: 2025-03-10 - Modified: 2025-03-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/dennis-angela - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: D Angela Dennis is a visual artist and registered somatic movement educator accredited by the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association. Based in Nottingham UK, they work with individuals and groups to support mental health through dance, meditation, breath-work and therapeutic arts practice. Angela’s movement background includes street dance, contemporary, 5Rhythms, contact improvisation, judo and yoga. Her work is informed by decolonial approaches, indigenous spiritual practice and African philosophy (Ubuntu). A former photography professional working in London for over a decade, Angela has a keen technical eye and an interest in visual language. Angela has been using the arts to engage and support teenagers and young adults since 2013, before recently bringing an embodied and trauma-informed creative practice into secondary schools and wellbeing spaces. Angela completed a foundation course in Dance Movement Psychotherapy (Goldsmiths, 2019) and a Masters degree in Dance & Somatic Wellbeing: Connections to the Living Body (University of Central Lancashire, 2021). Angela has since been working regularly with Micro Rainbow - a charity that supports LGBTQ+ asylum seekers with housing, asylum application and wellbeing, through their body and movement programme, and creative project intensives. Angela has also led workshops for Redhill Academy Trust and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and has recently been awarded a grant by New Art Exchange to program a series of somatic dance workshops for women coming in Autumn/Winter 24-25. Angela is also interested in writing and research. ‘Movement Matters: Moving together in the first 1001 days of life’ (2022) was... --- - Published: 2025-03-10 - Modified: 2025-03-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/i/ifekoya-evan-2 - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: I Evan Ifekoya is an interdisciplinary artist working in community organising, installation, performance, sound, text and video, whose practice is an extension of their calling as a spiritual practitioner. They view art as a site where resources can be both redistributed and renegotiated, whilst challenging the implicit rules and hierarchies of public and social space. Through archival and sonic investigations, they speculate on blackness in abundance. Strategies of space holding through architectural interventions, ritual, sonic installations and workshops enable them to make a practice of living in order not to turn to despair. They established the collectively run and QTIBPOC (queer, trans, intersex, black and people of colour) led Black Obsidian Sound System (B. O. S. S. ) in 2018. They were awarded the Paul Hamlyn bursary in 2021, the Kleinwort Hambros Emerging Artists Prize in 2019 and the Arts Foundation Award for Live Art sponsored by the Yoma Sasberg Estate in 2017. * They have presented exhibitions, moving image and performances across UK, Europe and Internationally, most recently: ‘Stranieri Ovunque –Foreigners Everywhere’ 60th Venice Biennial, ‘The Ocean in the Forest’ Wanås Konst Sculpture Park Sweden, ‘Traces of Ecstasy’ ICA VCU Richmond Virginia and Lagos Biennial (2024), ARoS Denmark and Guest Artist Space Lagos (2023), ‘~Resonant Frequencies’, Migros Museum, Zurich and a moving image commission with LUX in collaboration with University of Reading (2022); Herbert Art Gallery and Museum as nominees of the Turner Prize (with B. O. S. S. 2021). Their works are held in a number of public collections... --- - Published: 2025-03-10 - Modified: 2025-03-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/o/osajivbe-williams-danielle - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: O Danielle DZA Ifakemi Osajivbe-Williams is an integrative counsellor and psychotherapist, consultant, author (‘Race is complicated: a toolkit for psychological therapies training'), trainee priestess of Isese (African Traditional Religion) and performing artist who plants seeds for liberation via wellness technologies of past/present/future. Dwelling in the realms of embodiment, movement and spiritual arts, she is concerned with the sensual, the spiritual and the ancestral, as the lens from which to make sense of experience, and is the founder of This Is Dream Roots and co-founder of Routes Therapeutic Consultancy. Danielle is intent on bridging the gap between western psychology and traditional West African and ancestral healing practices as a decolonial, regenerative and practical resolve of the timeline we currently find ourselves in. For Danielle, our wellness and liberation is linked to the ability to trust our being and move from a place of awareness (of self and other), resource (resilience) and activation of personal power (àṣẹ). With values concerning healing justice, she supports environmental work and those with marginalised experiences through academia, performing arts, spirituality, consultancy, and therapy. Based between London and Lagos, she works internationally and has consulted across the UK, Europe, and West Africa. Their background is in youth and community work, and they have over 10 years’ experience working with charitable organisations and activist spaces. --- - Published: 2025-03-10 - Modified: 2025-03-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/broomes-mele - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: B Mele Broomes is an award winning artist and director. She has a multidisciplinary practice in dance, movement, choreographer and vocal experimentation. Her most recent work through warm temperatures opened the 20th anniversary of Edinburgh Art Festival, the UK’s largest annual festival of Visual Art. Mele’s live work and video work has been presented at venues and festivals such as Battersea Art Centre London, Theatre Centre Canada, Cultura Inglesa Festival Brazil, The Place London, Take Me Somewhere, White Chapel Gallery, Daughter of Cups, Festival del Silenzio Milan, Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh Art Festival, Art Night, Dance International Glasgow, Re:Generations, Fest en Fest, CONTACT Manchester, Dundee Rep Theatre. Mele is co-founder-director of Project X Dance (2017-2021), founder and director of Body Remedy. --- - Published: 2025-03-10 - Modified: 2025-03-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/g/goh-joon-lynn - Occupations: Artist, Writer - Alphabetical: G Joon-Lynn is a cultural organiser working at the intersections of art, infrastructure, and social justice. They embrace organising as a practice of science fiction, where migrant and global majority communities become the protagonists of change. In this vision, infrastructure, organisation, and business are creative experiments in stewardship and world-building. Joon-Lynn is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Migrants in Culture CIC, a migrant-led design agency offering visual design services to social movements, building creative organising skills and capacities, and fostering migrant knowledge and leadership. With an award-winning, track record in community organising, organisational development, strategic programming, and arts curation, Joon-Lynn continues to contribute meaningfully to these fields. --- - Published: 2025-03-10 - Modified: 2025-03-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/a-n - Occupations: Collective - Alphabetical: A We are the artists’ advocate. Guided by our members and advised by our Artists Council, we campaign on crucial issues, from fair pay to intellectual property, ensuring that artists’ voices are heard and shaping policy at the highest level. Open to every artist, our inclusive, open-minded community connects members to the services and opportunities they need to thrive, empowering them to make change for the better. We are outspoken champions of the value of artists to society because we believe artists see things differently, offering much-needed perspectives that connect us, enrich our lives and create wonder for the world. --- - Published: 2025-03-10 - Modified: 2025-03-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/n/natalegawa-dhiyandra - Occupations: Curator, Writer - Alphabetical: N Dhiyandra Natalegawa (b. 1991) is an Indonesian Creative Educator and Producer born and raised in Brent, London. Throughout the last decade, she has devoted herself to the practice of Art Education as a vehicle for transformation. Rooted in the praxis of creative pedagogy and emergent strategy, she has developed creative programmes with young people, families, and schools with organisations like Somerset House, Art Night, Artangel, and the Museum of London. She is currently the Programme Producer for the Adobe Creative Residency programme at V&A. --- - Published: 2025-03-10 - Modified: 2025-03-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/muir-evie - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: M Evie Muir (she/they) is a nature writer and founder of Peaks of Colour – a Peak District based nature-for-healing community group, by and for people of colour. As a Northern writer and organiser, their work sits on the intersections of gendered, racial and land justice, and seeks to nurture survivors’ joy, rest, hope and imagination as abolitionist praxis. Their debut book: ‘Radical Rest: Notes on Burnout, Healing and Hopeful Futures’, was published in 2024 and explores Black Feminist, abolitionist and nature allied approaches to activist burnout. --- - Published: 2025-03-10 - Modified: 2025-03-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/e/earthchild-remedies - Occupations: Artist, Collective - Alphabetical: E Earthchild Remedies is a company, founded in 2022 by Rebekah Williams that explores wellness through practices that seek to re-connect Global Majority and Queer communities back to the land. However sessions are open to all. In the UK, our communities are affected the most by mental health related issues whilst having the least access to services and practices that could change this. Earthchild Remedies is about creating accessible spaces, sharing knowledge and bringing people together to allow individuals of all ages, genders, sexualities and faiths to have autonomy over their health and wellbeing. This currently takes the form of meditative urban foraging, sacred moon circles, sound bathing and natural medicine making workshops. Bekah is an urban forager, trainee Maroon herbalist, community wellness builder, facilitator, cultural events producer and sociopolitical photographer. Bekah is a huge advocate for assisting and inspiring Black, Brown and other Global Majority and Queer communities to return to nature, reclaim ancestral plant knowledge ad ethically forage as a way to manage mental, physical and spiritual health in communion with others. Earthchild Remedies is anti racist, decolonial, trans-inclusive, queer friendly, inter-faith, culturally appreciative and age inclusive. --- - Published: 2024-07-26 - Modified: 2024-07-26 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/dhaliwal-suzanne - Occupations: Critic, Writer - Alphabetical: D Suzanne Dhaliwal is a Climate Justice Creative, Campaigner, Researcher, Lecturer in Environmental Justice and Trainer in Creative Strategies for Decolonisation. Voted one of London's most influential people in Environment 2018 by the Evening Standard. In 2009 she co-founded the UK Tar Sands Network, which challenged BP and Shell investments in the Canadian tar sands in solidarity with frontline Indigenous communities, spurring the internationalisation of the fossil fuel divestment movement. Suzanne has led campaigns and artistic interventions to challenge fossil fuel investments in the Arctic and Nigeria that violate the rights of Indigenous peoples, and of those seeking justice in the wake of the BP Gulf of Mexico disaster. Her corporate and financial campaigning spans over a decade. In 2017 she spearheaded a European coalition to challenge the insurance industry on their underwriting of highly polluting coal and tar sands projects. Suzanne has worked as a media consultant to support the Indigenous Environmental Network in securing international media during the COP21 and COP23 climate negotiations and continues to work as a media consultant to centre frontline Indigenous voices in the climate movement. She completed a Research Fellowship at the Centre for Research in Spatial Environmental and Cultural Politics at the University of Brighton, researching the role of media and representation in climate justice organising. Suzanne was practice tutor in Ecology Futures at the St. Joost School of Art and Design and lectures at universities globally on climate and creative practice. Last year she exhibited 'Sunkissed: Reimagining Redistribution' her first solo show... --- - Published: 2024-07-26 - Modified: 2024-07-26 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/maxwell-yvonne - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: M Yvonne Maxwell is a Saint Lucian-Nigerian self-taught documentary photographer whose work explores issues surrounding migration, collective and individual memory, community and identity. Maxwell uses a range of photographic practices, words and moving image to communicate and visualise critiques on society and state, looking to the past, present and imagined futures to shape these mediums. Maxwell is a winner of the 2023 Portrait of Britain Award, and has worked with The Wellcome Collection, Vittles, The British Library, SUITCASE Magazine, Open City, Level Up, Something Curated, among others. --- - Published: 2024-07-05 - Modified: 2024-07-05 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/w/whitley-zoe - Occupations: Curator - Alphabetical: W Dr. Zoé Whitley is Director of the non-profit Chisenhale Gallery in London. She co-curated the acclaimed Tate Modern exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power and its subsequent international tour (2017-2020). Whitley has distinguished herself as a curator working in UK institutions on exhibitions, collections research and public programming (as curator of the British Council's 2019 British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale; 2014-2019 Tate Modern; 2013-2015 Tate Britain; 2003-2013 V&A). Alongside exhibition catalogues and artist monographs, Zoé writes for all reading ages including children's titles Meet the Artist: Frank Bowling; Meet the Artist: Sophie Taeuber-Arp; and serving as consultant for the award-winning Black Artists Shaping the World (Thames & Hudson). Zoé is the editor of the major monograph on Barkley L. Hendricks, solid! (Skira, 2023) and the Alserkal Arts Foundation's public art commission curator (2024). She serves as a Trustee of the Teiger Foundation and Sir John Soane's Museum. Whitley is also a member of the London Mayor's Commission on Diversity in the Public Realm. --- - Published: 2024-07-05 - Modified: 2024-07-05 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/henry-joseph - Occupations: Curator - Alphabetical: H Joseph Henry is a designer, urbanist, and curator whose practice advocates for a more equitable built environment through policy and cultural production. His unique multi-disciplinary practice works to develop public infrastructure through public service and culture. He has written for Tank Magazine, Dezeen, Casabella, and the Architectural Review. Joseph is currently the 2024 ArtLab Loeb Fellow at Harvard University. In 2022, the British Council selected Joseph to co-curate the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 alongside Jayden Ali, Meneesha Kellay and Sumitra Upham. Their pavilion, 'Dancing Before the Moon,' explores the need for architecture to look beyond buildings and economic structures and towards everyday social practices, customs, and traditions to meaningfully reflect how people use and occupy space. Joseph worked for the Mayor of London in the Culture & Creative Industries Unit, delivering new cultural infrastructure for London. Joseph worked on the New London Museum, East Bank and the Thames Estuary Production Corridor. He co-founded the social enterprise platform Sound Advice alongside Pooja Agrawal to explore new forms of spatial practice through music. In 2020 they published the book NOW YOU KNOW. He is a trustee of UD Music, a charity that empowers and harnesses opportunities for young people through Black music culture. He also holds positions as a board member of the Russell Maliphant Dance Company and an associate lecturer on the MArch course and Central Saint Martins. and an advisor to Theatrum Mundi. --- - Published: 2024-07-05 - Modified: 2024-07-05 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/k/kailey-deep-k - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: K Deep K Kailey is an artistic director and cultural narrator. The former Condé Nast fashion director went from styling iconic global figures to demystifying the understanding of the mind to contemporary audiences around the UK. Dedicated to breaking down barriers, forging connections, and building pathways to self-understanding, Deep founded the arts organisation Without Shape Without Form, bringing together art, spirituality and mind wellbeing. Deep's work is a testament to the power of creativity, and its ability to connect people and inspire self-discovery in our increasingly uncertain and fragmented world. She works with a network of partners nationally and internationally, most recently on collaborations at Arnolfini, Ikon Gallery, New Art Exchange, Tramway and V&A. --- - Published: 2024-07-05 - Modified: 2024-07-05 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/t/tajudeen-bolanle - Occupations: Curator - Alphabetical: T Bolanle Tajudeen is the founder of Black Blossoms, an art school and curatorial platform dedicated to amplifying the practices of artists of colour. Her research delves deeply into the contemporary and historical artistic practices of Black women and non-binary people, with a strong emphasis on the complex intersections of gender, race, and class. She has also devised and taught the course "Art in the Age of Black Girl Magic" at Tate, which examined the paucity of Black women in cultural institutions and explores how they have creatively challenged this through radical interventions and DIY approaches. Additionally, Bolanle serves as the Public Art Curator for the Bristol Legacy Foundation. In partnership with Bristol City Council, she is commissioning a permanent commemorative artwork to honour the legacy of the Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans. --- - Published: 2024-07-05 - Modified: 2024-07-05 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/harris-ashanti - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: H Ashanti Harris is a multi-disciplinary artist, researcher and lecturer exploring ways of disrupting historical narratives and re-imagining them from a Caribbean diasporic perspective. Ashanti originally trained in sculpture and so, engaging with materials and physical making processes is an important part of her work. Alongside this, she is drawn to the expanded ways an artwork can be experienced and this has led her to work with performance, movement and dance as elements within her multidisciplinary art practice. She works with both sculpture and performance as processes which embody cultures, ancestral legacies and human lived experience; physically embodying histories, through the act of making. Recent commissions and exhibitions include Walking With The Ancestors in Joy and Healing, Performance Now Commission for Take Me Somewhere Festival, Glasgow (2023); Crafted Selves: The Unfinished Conversation, Fife Contemporary Arts, (2023/24); You Are a Memory I am Your Shadow, The Reid Gallery, Glasgow (2023); A Carnival Of Overlapping Histories, Platform, Glasgow (2023); Black Gold, commission for Fringe of Colour film festival, Edinburgh, (2023); Jerwood Staging Series 2022, Jerwood Arts, London (2022); Dancing a Peripheral Quadrille, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh (2022) --- - Published: 2024-07-05 - Modified: 2024-07-05 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/barton-camille - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: B Camille Sapara Barton is a Social Imagineer, multi-disciplinary artist and somatic practitioner, dedicated to creating networks of care and liveable futures. Rooted in Black feminism, ecology and harm reduction, Camille uses creativity, alongside embodied practices, to create culture change in fields ranging from psychedelic assisted therapy to arts education. Their debut book Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community, was published in April 2024 by North Atlantic Books. Based in Amsterdam, Camille designed and directed Ecologies of Transformation (2021 - 2023), a masters programme exploring socially engaged art making with a focus on creating change through the body into the world. They curate events and offer consultancy combining trauma informed practice, experiential learning and their studies in political science. --- - Published: 2024-07-05 - Modified: 2024-07-05 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/t/taylor-foluke - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: T Foluke writes, teaches, practices therapeutics, and sometimes referring to herself as writer*therapist (with an asterisk* signalling Black feminist modes of becoming through which these practices connect). She is co-founder of Protect Black Women—a Community Interest Company supporting access to free and low-cost counselling for Black women—and teaches at the Metanoia Institute in London. Foluke is a doctoral researcher in the Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies Department at Goldsmiths University of London where her research focuses on writing in Black feminist contexts, creative social practice. and abolitionist therapeutics. She spent a decade living in The Gambia (doing some adult growing up) before returning to London where she is currently based. She is author of How the Hiding Seek (2018) and Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room published in 2023 by W. W. Norton in New York and London. --- - Published: 2024-07-05 - Modified: 2024-07-05 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/arefin-maymana - Occupations: Artist, Writer - Alphabetical: A Maymana Arefin (she/they) is an artist, community organiser and writer based in London. Through leading nature immersions, plant and fungi walks, her work centres deep rest, care work and restoring communion with our more-than-human kin. In 2020, Maymana founded @fungi. futures, a space to map radical alternative futures guided by the wisdom of mycelium. Maymana's current practice responds to themes of ecological grief, embodiment and the power of collective imagining. --- - Published: 2024-06-12 - Modified: 2024-06-12 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/n/neagu-simina - Alphabetical: N Simina Neagu was Programme and Operations Coordinator at iniva from 2017 to 2022. She has previously worked with various arts organisations and artists including Chisenhale Gallery, Céline Condorelli and Aleksandra Mir and as a commissioned writer for Gothenburg Museum of Art, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, and The Project Biennial of Contemporary Art, D-0 ARK Underground. She curated group, solo exhibitions and screenings at Gallery S O (London, 2017), Suprainfinit Gallery (Bucharest, 2016), Knoll Galerie (Vienna and Budapest, 2012-2013), Centre for Visual Introspection (Bucharest, 2011-2012) and Pavilion Unicredit (Bucharest, 2011) among others. Her writing was published in springerin, 3AM Magazine, Revista ARTA, and Kajet Journal among others. She graduated with a BA in Art History from University of Bucharest and an MA in Aesthetics & Art Theory from CRMEP, Kingston University London. Her research and writing is concerned with notions of translation, identity, diaspora and migration particularly in a post-socialist context, while her curatorial work, often in collaboration with curator Valentina Bin, encompasses experimenting with exhibition formats, art writing, and alternative art education. At iniva Simina assisted in coordinating a number of programmes includes Syllabus, Research Network and Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm. --- - Published: 2024-05-17 - Modified: 2024-05-17 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/malik-tarini - Occupations: Curator - Alphabetical: M Tarini Malik (b. 1988, New Delhi, India) is the Shane Ackroyd Associate Curator of the British Pavilion at the 2024 edition of Venice Biennale working with artist John Akomfrah. She is currently Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Royal Academy of Arts. Previously, she was a curator at the Whitechapel Gallery and responsible for the planning of artistic programmes, and at the Hayward Gallery where she organised a series of landmark group exhibitions, as well as the first solo presentations in the UK of several international artists whose practices deal with themes of post-colonialism and identity politics. From 2013-2017, Malik was Head of Exhibitions for artist Isaac Julien and Research Curator with Mark Nash on several major touring international exhibitions. In 2015, she was Research Curator for the main exhibition at the Venice Biennale curated by Okwui Enwezor, entitled "All The Worlds Futures". Malik has also held curatorial posts at Fiorucci Art Trust, Frieze Projects and Serpentine Galleries. She has published her writing in various magazines and journals and lectured widely on cultural studies and curating. --- - Published: 2024-05-09 - Modified: 2024-05-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/g/givanni-june - Occupations: Curator - Alphabetical: G Dr June Givanni is a pioneering international film curator who has considerable experience in film and broadcasting for over 30 years and she is regarded as a resource for African and African diaspora cinema. The development of the Pan African Cinema Archive is based on her collections from years of working in the field of cinema. Her motivation for the archive is to make this valuable heritage collection as widely accessible as possible. In the early 1980s she was involved in bringing Third Eye London's first Festival of Third World Cinema, to London and she worked as a film programmer at the Greater London Council's Ethnic Minorities Unit, at a key development stage for Black British Independent cinema, and Black British art and culture generally. June ran the African Caribbean Film Unit and edited the quarterly Black Film Bulletin; and the book Symbolic Narratives: Africa Cinema at the British Film Institute. She also programmed Planet Africa at The Toronto International Film Festival over 4 years. She has worked as a film curator with festivals on 5 continents - including India - and has been involved in key moments in the development of Pan African cinema on these continents, and the development of the links between them. June has worked closely with many of the key filmmakers, critics and theorists involved with 'Black British Cinema'; 'African Cinema; Third Cinema'; 'Caribbean Cinema'; Black Cinema from Europe; and African American Independent Cinema. --- - Published: 2024-05-09 - Modified: 2024-05-13 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/harvey-james - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: H Dr James Harvey is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Media at the University of Hertfordshire. His research is preoccupied with the politics and aesthetics of film and screen media, with an emphasis on documentary, artists' moving image and art cinema. He is especially interested in themes of race, coloniality and nation. James is the author of John Akomfrah (BFI Publishing/Bloomsbury, 2023), Jacques Rancière and the Politics of Art Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and the editor of Nationalism in Contemporary Western European Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). --- - Published: 2024-05-09 - Modified: 2025-03-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/adelekun-seyi - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: A Seyi Adelekun is a London-based multidisciplinary artist of Yoruba-Nigerian heritage. Their practice employs installation, performance, and sound as storytelling devices to archive and disseminate indigenous knowledge and ecological wisdom. Seyi’s work examines the critical role of ecospirituality within environmental justice and stewardship, using regenerative design principles to collectively world-build alternative realities. Rooted in ecosomatics, their workshops integrate ritual, craft, embodied movement and land-based practices to cultivate liberative spaces that foster play and interconnectedness within community. Seyi has exhibited at South London Gallery, London Festival of Architecture, Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, and London Design Festival. They have facilitated workshops for the Barbican Centre, Idle Women and A New Direction. As a producer, Seyi worked on the production of the dreamachine and House of Annetta for Assemble Studio, and Steve McQueen Year 3 for Artangel. Seyi is a residency fellow at G. A. S. Foundation. --- - Published: 2024-05-09 - Modified: 2024-05-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/berhane-misgane - Alphabetical: B Misgana Berhane is an accredited person-centred therapist and a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Her 18 years of experience includes, working for the NHS running CBT based workshops on anxiety and depression for adults; counselling young people at YMCA and working with Sexual Assault Referral Centres. Over the years she has specialised in Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR). This is a powerful and NICE approved therapy designed to help people recover from traumatic events in their lives including: anxiety, anger, depression, loss and grief, racial trauma, childhood abuse and neglect. She is also a clinical supervisor and qualified trainer and intergenerational family mediator. --- - Published: 2024-05-09 - Modified: 2024-05-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/w/watson-anne-marie - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: W Anne-Marie Watson is an artist, arts facilitator, curator and project manager specialising in creative arts and wellbeing. She has worked with different organisations, with a range of groups including children and young people, people with mental health issues, adult carers, people seeking refuge and children and adults with complex needs. Organisations include Arts on Prescription, Culture Shift, Devonshire Collective, Hastings Community of Sanctuary, Project Art Works and Towner Art Gallery. She was artist in residence at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery in 2023. She is chair of Women’s Voice a charity which aims to empower and support women, trans and nonbinary folk in Hastings and St Leonards and is studying counselling skills to strengthen her work with groups. --- - Published: 2024-05-07 - Modified: 2024-05-07 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/addae-yaa - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: A Yaa Addae (she/they) is a writer, researcher, and participatory curator who is committed to imagining ways of being outside of the colonial structures we have inherited and holding space for collectively designing alternative systems to support this work. They are currently investigating structural barriers to loving through Open Heart Clinic, a social design incubator for imagining future care infrastructure. Previously, Yaa founded A-KRA Studio which housed Decolonize The Art World, an anticolonial art history platform and The Imaginarium, a virtual residency program for Ghanaian digital artists. She also was the curatorial assistant for Ano Institute‘s travelling Kiosk museum, an experiment in creating exhibition architecture informed by locality. Alongside their cultural work, Yaa works in healthcare as a design researcher. --- - Published: 2024-05-07 - Modified: 2024-05-07 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/t/teyie-alexis-g - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: T Alexis G. Teyie is a poet, data scientist, curator, and publisher. Teyie was one of the co-founders of Enkare Review, and currently works with Down River Road (DRR) https://downriverroad. org/ and Karara Community Library. Previous books include a poetry chapbook, Clay Plates: Broken Records of Kiswahili Proverbs, and a children's book, Shortcut. Teyie also leads research and advisory for nonprofits, startups, and impact investors. --- - Published: 2024-04-12 - Modified: 2024-04-12 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/q/qualmann-clare - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: Q Clare Qualmann (she/her) is an artist/researcher whose work focuses on socially engaged, site specific, and experimental modes of contemporary creative practice, often using walking. She is Associate Professor at The University of East London where her teaching and research explore the interconnections between art, activism and the radical potentials of participation. Clare first edited wikipedia at an Art+Feminism event in 2016 and has since organised a series of wikipedia edit-a-thons. --- - Published: 2024-04-12 - Modified: 2024-04-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/bhattacharyya-gargi - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: B Gargi Bhattacharyya (they/them) is Professor of Anti/Post/Decolonial Theory and Praxis at UAL Decolonising Arts Institute and recently worked as Professor of Sociology at University of East London. Their work focuses on questions of systemic inequality and injustice and processes of imagination and collaboration that seek to navigate, bypass and overturn such structures. Gargi is the author of Empire’s Endgame (Pluto, 2021), We, the heartbroken (Hajar, 2023), The Futures of Racial Capitalism (Polity, 2023), Rethinking Racial Capitalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), Dangerous Brown Men (Zed, 2008) and Traffick (Pluto, 2005). --- - Published: 2024-04-04 - Modified: 2024-04-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/c/clarke-cassia - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: C Cassia Clarke is a Luton-born British-Caribbean self-taught archivist, researcher and facilitator. She uses an autoethnographic and co-curatorial approach to engage greater knowledge democracy and collective intervention to better our accessibility to institutionally held knowledge. Cassia's project, ‘Take My Word For It’ aims to confront a gap in the knowledge and material exchange between GLAM institutions (Gallery, Library, Archive, Museum) and the community to assist the preservation of physical photographic archives within the home. --- - Published: 2024-04-04 - Modified: 2024-04-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/w/woolford-joshua - Alphabetical: W Joshua Woolford is the 2023/24 Research and Interpretation artist in residence at Tate Britain and will be producing a series of sound pieces in response to selected works in the Tate Britain rehang. --- - Published: 2024-03-13 - Modified: 2024-05-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/j/jay-priya - Occupations: Curator - Alphabetical: J Priya Jay is a writer and faciliator. Her practice is led by questions of literacies, embodiment, sustenance and liberation: through the body, the page, the land and the archive. Her work comes together as printed matter, objects, meals and grief gatherings. With iniva, Priya has co-ordinated the Future Commons project (2021-23), developed the More-than-Human Care Research Network (2019), led reading groups and edited several publications. She was the co-editor of Floating Margins, along with Amrita Dhallu - the first publication to emerge from STUART, the communal design platform established by Rose Nordin. Priya has worked in curatorial, writing and facilitation capacities with organisations such as Arts Catalyst, Metroland Cultures, Serpentine, The Common Guild, Camden Art Centre, Wellcome Collection, Barbican, Auto Italia, Glasgow Zine Library, MAIA Group and Fevered Sleep. --- - Published: 2024-03-13 - Modified: 2024-03-13 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/dhallu-amrita - Occupations: Curator - Alphabetical: D Amrita Dhallu is a curator and researcher based in London. She provides support structures for emerging British artists through commissioning, editorial projects, creating artistic networks, and intergenerational learning spaces. She is always thinking about diasporic feminist practice and the ways in which it reveals the systems of compliance and complicity within the British cultural institutional space. To counter this and encourage more balance in her life, she is becoming an amateur birdwatcher and fungi enthusiast. Amrita holds the post of Assistant Curator, International Art at Tate Modern, London, where she co-curated Lubaina Himid’s monographic exhibition (2021-2) and worked on projects such as Rasheed Araeen’s Zero to Infinity (2023) and Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life (2023). She has previously held curatorial roles at the Bluecoat, Chisenhale Gallery, iniva, and Barbican Art Gallery. She is on the board of a-n and Art Night and was also the lead artist of Camden Art Centre's 2018-19 PEER FORUM. Along with Priya Jay, she was the co-editor of Floating Margins, the first publication to emerge from STUART, the communal design and publishing platform established by Rose Nordin. --- - Published: 2024-03-08 - Modified: 2024-03-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/p/prempeh-charlene - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: P Charlene Prempeh is the founder of A Vibe Called Tech, a creative studio and art consultancy that is dedicated to approaching creativity through an intersectional lens. Charlene is also a Financial Times HTSI columnist and contributing editor who writes about design, travel, and culture. After studying PPE at Oxford University, she began a career in marketing and worked at some of the UK’s most prominent media platforms and art institutions including the BBC, The Guardian, and Frieze. Since its establishment in 2018, A Vibe Called Tech has worked with brands including Gucci, Stine Goya, Faber, Frieze, and institutions like Whitechapel Gallery, White Cube, RA, and V&A East to deliver ambitious creative output that nourishes communities. In 2022, the agency launched Turned A, a cultural merchandising project which seeks to amplify key messages of the creative agency’s projects and its Art Consultancy arm, established to help clients connect seamlessly with artists. Charlene currently consults for the Royal Academy of Arts on partnerships and development, is on the board for Tate Enterprise, and is Chair of the Frieze 91 committee. Charlene’s debut book, Now You See Me: 100 Years of Black Design was published by Prestel in 2023. --- - Published: 2024-03-08 - Modified: 2024-07-26 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/agbetu-nate - Occupations: Curator - Alphabetical: A Nate Agbetu is the founder of Free Form, a cultural curator and educator who highlights emergent thinking through research, art and speculative design. Their practice exists in the liminal space between culture and social innovation, manifesting in the form of everything from community gardens to films, lectures and arts programming - imagining new futures through creativity and knowledge exchange. --- - Published: 2024-03-08 - Modified: 2024-03-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/biamah-ofosu-nana - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: B Nana Biamah-Ofosu is an architect, writer and director of YAA Projects, an architecture, design and research practice dedicated to exploring counter-histories, material and diasporic culture, through making, speaking and writing architecture. YAA Projects engages in intelligent and contextually rich projects, centring peripheral identities to create a more inclusive, holistic understanding of the built environment. Recent projects include Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Power in West Africa at the 18th Venice Biennale which was selected as part of ArchDaily’s ‘Top 2023 Pavilions and Installations Interrogating Architecture of the Global South’, the ArchiAfrika Pavilion and Althea McNish: Colour is Mine, which was included in The Guardian’s ‘Best Designs and Designers of 2023’. As part of Curator’s research team at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia , Nana contributed to the articulation of the main exhibition and Pinpoint, an archive of African and African Diaspora practitioners focused on decarbonisation and decolonisation. Nana has lectured widely in U. K and internationally, including at the inaugural Venice Biennale College Architettura, Kingston University and currently at the Architectural Association. She has been a critic at Harvard Graduate School of Design and an invited speaker at Princeton University. She has served on the juries of several awards including the RIBA Silver Medal award and currently holds advisory roles in architecture institutions. Her practice explores identity, geography, communality and diasporic culture through the lens of building, dwelling and material cultures. She has been researching African compound housing as a building, spatial and material typology which... --- - Published: 2024-03-07 - Modified: 2024-03-07 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/s/shah-arpita - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: S Arpita Shah is a photographic artist and educator based in Eastbourne, UK. She works between photography and film, exploring the fields where culture and identity meet. As an India-born artist, Shah spent an earlier part of her life living between India, Ireland and the Middle East before settling in the UK. This migratory experience is reflected in her practice, which focuses on the notion of home, belonging and shifting cultural identities. Shah’s work has been exhibited across the UK and internationally, including at the Detroit Center of Contemporary Photography (2013); Tramway in Glasgow (2014); Chobi Mela IX in Dhaka, Bangladesh (2017); Autograph APB in London (2018) Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow (2019) and Impressions Gallery in Bradford (2020). She is the recipient of the 2019 Light Work + Autograph ABP Artist-in-Residence programme in Syracuse NY and her work is held at the National Galleries of Scotland and Birmingham Museum’s Trust. Her previous commissions include Creative Scotland (2014) to develop new work for the Commonwealth Games collaborating with culturally diverse families across Scotland, An Lanntair (2017) on her project ‘Copan Chai’ which explored the oral histories of Asian Hebrideans in the Isle of Lewis and Harris, and GRAIN (2019) for her project ‘Modern Muse’ which is a series of portraits exploring British Asian female identity across the West Midlands. Shah is also co-founder of Fòcas Scotland and a member of the board of trustees for Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow. --- - Published: 2024-02-29 - Modified: 2024-02-29 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/c/charles-kaia - Occupations: Curator - Alphabetical: C Kaia Charles is a Cultural projects commissioner and curator whose work is rooted in contemporary art practice. Charles has commissioned projects that explore urbanism, digital and cross-cultural visual culture. Before joining Greenwich Peninsula’s cultural team in 2014, she worked with the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Contemporary Programmes section, curating a variety of arts commissions. In 2021, she joined the Design Council’s professional network as a design specialist and is a trustee and chair of the Board of Public Arts charity Up Projects. Charles co-curates NOW Gallery, including the Future Space Award and Human Stories exhibition strands, featuring artists such as Hattie Stewart, Sarah Shakeel, Manjit Thapp, Stephen Tayo and Joy Yamusangie. In 2024 Charles curates Like a Melody: Myths, Memories and Fantasy by painter and sculptor, Charlotte Mei. Charles believes art and culture should be inclusive and is crucial to adding a creative dimension to community; and works to embed pioneering cultural events, exhibitions and public art in creative neighbourhoods. Her work for Greenwich Peninsula involves fostering creative partnerships, bringing the work of emerging designers and artists who establish links with local communities in creative ways. Charles also commissions site–specific art and architectural interventions for the public realm such as Hundreds and Thousands by Liz West, Promise Me Memories by Yinka Ilori, Conrad Shawcross’ Optic Cloak, Siblings by Morag Myerscough, Quick Tide by Felipe Pantone, Rangoli Mirrored Cosmos by Murugiah, and the 33 Pavilion by Studio Weave. She has also judged the 2019 and 2022 Creative Review Photo Annuals. --- - Published: 2024-02-26 - Modified: 2024-02-26 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/u/uambembe-helena - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: U Helena Uambembe, born in 1994 in Pomfret, South Africa, is an artist of Angolan descent whose work is heavily influenced by her heritage and experiences. Her parents fled the civil war in Angola and her father was a soldier in the 32nd Battalion of the South African Defence Force. Uambembe's artistic practice explores themes of the 32nd Military Battalion and her Angolan heritage. She obtained her Btech in 2018 from Tshwane University of Technology in South Africa and is a member of the collective Kutala Chopeto. In 2019, Uambembe won the David Koloane Award and completed a two-month residency at the Bag Factory in Johannesburg. She has exhibited at Art Basel Statement where she was awarded the Baloise Art Prize in 2022. In 2023, Uambembe was awarded the DAAD Visual Arts Fellowship in Berlin, Germany, which supports international artists to develop their work through a residency program. With a unique artistic voice rooted in her personal experience and heritage, Helena Uambembe continues to explore and push the boundaries of contemporary art. --- - Published: 2024-02-26 - Modified: 2024-02-26 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/s/sahmland-susi - Alphabetical: S Susi Sahmland looks after educational outreach for the Frank Bowling Studio. She works closely with schools, galleries and museums and has written (with a colleague from Goldsmiths) a unit of work on Frank’s paintings. Susi taught KS1 to KS5 in central London schools for 22 years before doing an MA in Leadership in Education at the Institute of Education in 2013 and is now Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. Susi regularly speaks at conferences, workshops and network meetings in the UK and Germany. --- - Published: 2024-02-26 - Modified: 2024-02-26 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/p/petersen-leanne - Occupations: Curator - Alphabetical: P Leanne Petersen is a curator, creative producer and freelance writer. She has curated and produced several projects for organisations including the second iteration of the Hackney Windrush Art Commission by Thomas J Price entitled ‘Warm Shores’ 2022. Her experience previously held posts at Hauser & Wirth (London), David Zwirner Gallery (London/New York) and Autograph ABP (London) where she co-organised solo artists commissions by Phoebe Boswell: The Space Between Things (2019), Arpita Shah: The Scared Cloth (2018) and Omar Victor Diop: Liberty/Diaspora (2018). Her research and writing practice centres around Black British history focusing on oral and written histories, lived experiences and introspection surrounding identity and representation. She has been published online and in print for publications including Frieze and Art Monthly. --- - Published: 2024-02-24 - Modified: 2024-02-24 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/p/paintsil-anya - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: P Anya Paintsil, London-based textile artist of Welsh and Ghanaian heritage. Her practice combines traditional hand rug making techniques with afro hair styling methods to explore identity, gendered labour seeking to promote artistic practices historically devalued due to their associations with femininity and other marginalised groups. Recent acquisitions of her work include Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The National Museum of Wales, The Whitworth Gallery, Manchester and The Women’s Art Collection at Cambridge University. She was awarded the prestigious Wakelin Award in 2020. Her work is featured at exhibitions at The Whitworth Gallery Manchester, The Craft Council Gallery, London and at Arnolfini, Bristol. --- - Published: 2024-02-23 - Modified: 2024-02-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/w/wan-jessica - Occupations: Curator - Alphabetical: W Jessica Wan is a curator and writer who works to rethink access from the perspectives of transnationalism, migration and feminist thought. Dedicated to exploring how knowledge and inhabitation is produced through fugitivity and entanglement, her research focuses on radical pedagogies and artistic practices that reflect on ecology, diaspora and collective study. She has lectured and facilitated workshops at the Chelsea College of Arts, Tate, iniva and TrAIN. --- - Published: 2024-02-23 - Modified: 2024-02-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/r/ruddock-shamica - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: R Shamica Ruddock is an artist often found working between sound and moving image. Shamica’s current research concerns sound cultures and Black sonic modalities. Approaching sound as a site for knowledge production, she considers the ways Afro-diasporas emerge through sound. She is particularly interested in how Black technosonic production functions as a form of narrativising and worldmaking. Maroon histories, fugitivity and Black temporal entanglements have also proved resonant departure points. Selected presentations include the Barbican Centre (UK), Treasure Hill Artist Village (TW), Tate Britain (UK), and Aesthetica Short Film Festival (UK). In 2022 Shamica had a solo show with the South London Gallery titled Deciphering a Broken Syntax, producing a 4 track vinyl record of the same name. Residencies include Amant Foundation (US), Black Cultural Archives (UK), Somerset House (UK) and QO2 (BE). In 2021 Shamica was a British Library Eccles Centre Visiting Fellow researching Maroon sound cultures. Image credit: Photo courtesy of Dawid Laskowski. --- - Published: 2024-02-23 - Modified: 2024-02-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/c/camp-ibiye - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: C Ibiye is a British Nigerian multidisciplinary artist. Her work engages with technology, trade and material within the African Diaspora. Ibiye’s work utilises architectural tools to create sound and video, textiles, accompanied by augmented reality and 3D objects, and highlights the biases and conflicts inherent to technology and postcolonial subjects. Her past projects in Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Ethiopia investigated the dynamics of technology as a means to explore the glitches and tensions between digital infrastructure and the landscape. Ibiye Camp holds an MA in Architecture from the Royal College of Art, and BA (Hons) in Fine Art, from the University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins. Ibiye’s Thesis project titled Data: The New Black Gold was awarded the School of Architectures Dean’s Prize and was nominated for the RIBA Silver Medal Award. Ibiye previously tutored at the Royal College of Art in the School of Architecture from 2020-2023. She tutored in Media Studies and Architecture Design Studio 2 with Dele Adeyemo and Dámaso Randulfe. Ibiye co-founded Xcessive Aesthetics, an interdisciplinary design collective exploring data through immersive technologies and public installations. With Co-Tutors Rhiarna Dhaliwal and Emmy Bacharach, Ibiye runs a BA Studio titled Digital Native at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Ibiye’s artwork has been presented at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2016), the Porto Design Biennale (2019) Sharjah Architecture Triennial (2019), Triennale Milano (2020), 5th Istanbul Design Biennial (2020) and 13th Shanghai Biennale (2021), ICA (2022), Deptford X London (2022) The 18th International Architecture Exhibition, (2023). --- - Published: 2024-02-23 - Modified: 2024-02-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/mboya-renee-akitelek - Occupations: Curator - Alphabetical: M Renée Akitelek Mboya is a writer, curator and filmmaker. Her custom relies on biography and storytelling as a form of research and production. Renée is presently preoccupied with looking and speaking about images and how they are produced but especially how they have come to play a critical role as evidence of white paranoia, and as aesthetic idioms of racial violence. Mboya works between Kigali and Nairobi and is a collaborative editor with the Wali Chafu Collective. --- - Published: 2024-02-23 - Modified: 2024-02-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/dennis-nolan-oswald - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: D Nolan Oswald Dennis is a para-disciplinary artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Their practice explores ‘a black consciousness of space’ - the material and metaphysical conditions of decolonization - questioning histories of space and time through system-specific interventions. They hold a Bachelor's degree in Architecture from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits 2012) and a Science Master’s degree in Art, Culture and Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT 2018). They work within and against a grammar of world-making: using indexical, analytic and educational devices (drawings, diagrams, maps, models, etc) as ambiguous tools for rehearsing possible meanings rather than forms of instruction. Their practice recombines social, technical, political and spiritual systems grounded in a planetary condition of landlessness and guided by the overlapping theories and practices of black, indigenous and queer liberation. Their work has been featured in exhibitions at the Goodman Gallery (Johannesburg, Cape Town, London), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Van Abbemuseum, the Seoul Mediacity Biennial, Young Congo Biennale (Kinshasa), FRONT triennial (Columbus), Shanghai Biennial, Videobrazil, Liverpool Biennial and the Lagos Biennial among others. They are a founding member of artist group NTU, a research associate at the VIAD research centre at the University of Johannesburg, and a member of the Index Literacy Program. --- - Published: 2024-02-23 - Modified: 2024-02-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/k/kalichini-gladys - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: K Gladys Kalichini is a contemporary visual artist and researcher from Lusaka, Zambia. Her work centres around notions of erasure, memory, and representations and visibilities of women primarily in colonial resistance histories. She completed her Master of Fine Art degree in 2018 from Rhodes University and later graduated in 2023 with a doctorate in Art History. Kalichini is a member of the Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme, supported by the Andrew. W. Mellon foundation and the National Research Fund. She is the 2022 main prize winner for the Henrike Grohs Art Award and a recipient of the Prince Claus Seed Award. She has participated in the revolving art school known as Àsìkò in 2015 when it was hosted in Mozambique. She has participated in projects such as the second iteration of the “Women On Aeroplanes” project in Lagos, Nigeria in 2018 themed “Search Research: Looking for Collete Omogbai”. Selected residencies that she has participated in include the Fountainhead Residency in Miami, USA in 2017, Künstlerhaus Bethanien international studio programme in Berlin, Germany in 2019/2020, supported by the KFW – Stiftung and a fellowship at the Victoria College of Arts (Melbourne University) in Australia in 2024. --- - Published: 2024-02-19 - Modified: 2024-02-19 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/l/ling-wessie - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: L Wessie Ling, Ph. D. , a Professor of Transcultural Arts and Design at London Metropolitan University where she directs The Research Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement (CREATURE). She is interested in cultural production and economy of fashion, in particular, the expression of an identity when producing fashion, its relation to the transcultural locality and the tension within and outside of the fashion system in which it is produced. She has co-edited the book Fashion in Multiple Chinas: Chinese Styles in the Transglobal Landscape, and the special issues on Italianerie: Transculturality, co-creation and transforming identities between Italy and Asia for Modern Italy, Global Fashion for Zone Moda Journal, and Global China for Fashion Theory. --- - Published: 2024-02-19 - Modified: 2025-01-29 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/brown-nicholas - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: B Nicholas Brown, a librarian and doctoral candidate researching Black British artists and print culture, with particular attention to independent magazine publishing. His research examines how magazines produced by and about Black artists and writers in the 20th century functioned as key sites of contestation, fostering new positions and understandings of how visual arts intersect with issues of race, class, gender, sexuality and the legacies of colonialism. He has previously managed libraries and archives including the Stuart Hall Library at iniva. --- - Published: 2024-02-19 - Modified: 2024-02-20 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/brenha-renata - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: B Renata Brenha, a London-based Brazilian womenswear designer with an MA in fashion from the Royal College of Art (2018) and a postgraduate diploma from Central Saint Martins (2016). Founded in 2019, her eponymous brand reframes the place of women and Latin America in contemporary fashion, based on a sustainability proposal and the reuse of resources with a strong artisanal vein. Her brand is sold in luxury stores globally, in countries such as the United Kingdom, Italy, the United States, Japan and South Korea. She is the semi-finalist for the Latin American Fashion Awards 2023 in the emerging talent category. --- - Published: 2024-02-19 - Modified: 2024-02-19 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/o/oshin-peju - Occupations: Curator - Alphabetical: O Péjú Oshin, a British-Nigerian curator, writer, and lecturer working with young and emerging visual artists from the African diaspora. Sitting at the intersection of art, style, and culture, her work shows a keen interest in liminal theory and diasporic narratives. She is associate director at Gagosian, London, and curator of Rites of Passage the exhibition featuring work by nineteen contemporary artists who shared a history of migration. Her book, Between Words & Space (2021), a collection of poetry and prose, was shortlisted for the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list. --- - Published: 2024-02-19 - Modified: 2024-02-19 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/t/tay-anushka - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: T Anushka Tay, a London-based artist and researcher interested in the ways that bodies move through space. Her research examines the ways in which clothing and dress impact the formation of diasporan ethnic and cultural identity, using a range of qualitative research methods. She is in the final year of a Techne-AHRC doctoral study on the role of dress in the articulation of British Chinese identity. She is an associate lecturer at London College of Fashion. --- - Published: 2024-01-22 - Modified: 2024-01-22 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/k/kellay-meneesha - Occupations: Curator - Alphabetical: K Meneesha Kellay is a curator working across art, architecture, design, and performance. Currently the Senior Curator, Contemporary Programme at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), she supports emerging creative practice through commissioning displays, installations, performances, and events. Meneesha is also co-curator of the British Pavilion at the International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2023 which received a Special Mention Award. Previously she was Public Programmes Curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Assistant Director of the AA Night School at the Architectural Association and led Open House London. She has worked on projects for the Africa Architecture Awards and the Baltic Pavilion at the International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2016 --- - Published: 2024-01-22 - Modified: 2024-01-22 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/duah-lauren-lois - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: D Lauren-Loïs Duah is a cross-disciplinary artist, writer and spatial-designer whose work focuses on the ways in which creativity, craft, and design can be used as dynamic liberatory tools for social justice and to build positive community practices. Since graduating with a Masters in Architecture from the Royal College of Art in 2022, Lauren-Loïs is currently expanding her creative approach to practice as part of RESOLVE Collective. Notably, Lauren-Loïs' research work, 'Obroni Wa'awu: Cross-Continental Clothescapes' was selected for the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale. She has also debuted her drawings in a solo art exhibition at Spiral Galleries (2022), shared her poetry at the Tate Britain for Lynette Yiadom Boakye's 'Fly in League with the Night', and labels her on-going creative explorations as 'Works in Progress' or 'WIP'. --- - Published: 2023-12-06 - Modified: 2023-12-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/douglas-stan - Alphabetical: D STAN DOUGLAS (b. 1960, Vancouver, CA) Since the late 1980s, Stan Douglas has created films and photographs—and more recently theatre productions and other multidisciplinary projects—that investigate the parameters of their medium. His ongoing inquiry into technology’s role in image-making, and how those mediations infiltrate and shape collective memory, has resulted in works that are at once specific in their historical and cultural references and broadly accessible. The artist’s work was featured in the Venice Biennale in 1990, 2001, 2005, and 2019, and in documenta in 1992, 1997, and 2002. At the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019, Douglas debuted his video installation Doppelgänger and also presented a selection of photographs from his 2017 series Blackout. The artist has been selected to represent Canada at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. --- - Published: 2023-12-06 - Modified: 2023-12-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/k/kihara-yuki - Alphabetical: K YUKI KIHARA (b. 1975, Sāmoa) is an interdisciplinary artist of Japanese and Sāmoan descent whose work seeks to challenge dominant and singular historical narratives by exploring the intersectionality between identity politics, decolonization and ecology through visual arts, dance, and curatorial practice. In 2008, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York presented a solo exhibition of Kihara’s work entitled ‘Living Photographs’ followed by an acquisition of her works by the museum for their permanent collection. Kihara’s works have been presented at the Asia Pacific Triennial (2002 & 2015); Auckland Triennial (2009); Sakahàn Quinquennial (2013); Daegu Photo Biennale (2014); Honolulu Biennale (2017); Bangkok Art Biennale (2018); Venice Biennale (New Zealand Pavilion 2022) and Aichi Triennale (2022). Kihara is a research fellow at the National Museum of World Cultures in The Netherlands. Kihara lives and works in Sāmoa, where she has been based over the past 11 years. --- - Published: 2023-11-28 - Modified: 2023-11-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/k/khaireh-hudda - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: K Hudda Khaireh is an independent researcher and artist with a background in Public International Law whose practice focuses on the position of Black people globally. Hudda has shared work at Houston’s Project Row Houses, London’s Chisenhale Gallery, Tate Exchange Tate Modern and Uncommon Space at Tate Britain, Printroom Rotterdam, and DIY Cultures. Hudda is also the Project Manager at Numbi Arts, a Somali originated, globally focused cross arts organisation in Tower Hamlets, is member of the Black Feminist artist collective Thick/er Black Lines, as well as an associate of OOMK Zine --- - Published: 2023-11-06 - Modified: 2023-11-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/dhlamini-karen - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: D Karen Dhlamini, MBPsS, MBACP, BSc (Hons) in Psychology, and MSc in Integrative Counselling, is a dedicated Counsellor, Coach, Mental Health Advisor, and Training Consultant. She thrives in her role as an Integrative Counsellor, which allows her to harness a diverse set of tools to support her clients. In her Private Practice, she offers flexibility in her approach to assist individuals facing a wide range of challenges, including relationship breakdown, anxiety, depression, bereavement, domestic abuse, suicide ideation, self-harm, disordered eating, and various other life struggles. Karen feels honored to have the opportunity to collaborate across diverse industries, delivering invaluable well-being and coaching support. With an extensive educational background encompassing Training and Development, a BSc (Hons) in Psychology, and an MSc in Integrative Counselling, she brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to her practice. Her professional journey has seen her gain valuable insights through work experiences in various fields, including customer service, management, training, youth work, and project coordination. A significant part of her work involves designing and developing workshops and training events tailored to the unique needs of the organizations she partners with. Karen is dedicated to working with organizations that engage with different community groups, delving into critical aspects such as mental health, general well-being, family dynamics, art, and leadership. These organizations share a common goal of making a positive impact on communities by providing support where it is needed most. In recent years, she has embraced her creative side, exploring various forms of expression, including writing and other... --- - Published: 2023-11-06 - Modified: 2023-11-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/borner-susanne - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: B Dr Susanne Börner (she/her) is Assistant Professor in Human Geography at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on youth everyday agency, mental health, and urban well-being in the context of interconnected urban crises and climate change. Susanne is particularly interested in the experiences of those growing up and living ‘at the margins’, such as children and young people as well as multi-generational contexts of knowledge generation. Her Marie Curie Global Fellowship (2019-2023) explored how young people in Sao Paulo’s urban periphery adapt to contexts of resource scarcity and disaster risk. Susanne has an interest in applied and impact-oriented research to identify pathways for integrating youth knowledge into public policies for a sustainable and healthy urban development. She particularly aims to learn from community-based knowledge, practices and relationships to generate positive change. --- - Published: 2023-11-06 - Modified: 2025-03-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/c/crooks-exodus - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: C Exodus Crooks is a British-Jamaican, multidisciplinary artist, and educator, interested in self-determination and how it is steered by religion and spirituality. Informed by a fractious domestic life, their practice is auto ethnographical and exists in the orbit of their educational role where they work to reimagine Western pedagogy. Their art is research focused and follows the lead of the many radical Caribbean writers and thinkers advocating for indigenous ways of living. Exodus is currently experimenting with gardening, text, filmmaking, and installation to better understand indigenous thought and tend to the breaks that occur in the human experience. Exodus serves on a regional arts advisory board and a national artists council that advocates for the development and protection of artists and has previously exhibited and worked with Ikon Gallery, the International Curators Forum, iniva, Freelands Foundation, LUX Scotland and the National Gallery in London. They are proud to be based in heart of the Midland’s vibrant art community, working closely with local galleries and organisations such as Grand Union, Vivid Projects, The New Art Gallery Walsall, and Wolverhampton Art Gallery. --- - Published: 2023-11-06 - Modified: 2023-11-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/n/nembhard-candice - Occupations: Artist, Curator - Alphabetical: N Candice Nembhard (they/them), also known as okcandice, is a writer, artist-curator, archivist, and musician between Birmingham and Berlin. They are a Jerwood Arts Curatorial Fellow and Obsidian Foundation Fellow. Candice is a co-founding member of the collective poet & prophetess and co-director of the non-profit Bredryn CIC. In 2019, they founded all fruits ripe — an independent series for queer, Black/Global Majority filmmakers. Forthcoming is Portals — a digital archive documenting British West Indian customs in the domestic. --- - Published: 2023-10-09 - Modified: 2023-10-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/douglas-hollie - Occupations: Curator - Alphabetical: D Hollie Douglas is a curatorial trainee currently working at the Towner Gallery Eastbourne, on Future Collect, an iniva project which is looking at changing the way institutions develop collections in the future. Her work is largely concerned with the representation of artists of colour in exhibitions and collections and how curatorial processes and activism can change this and embedding the narratives of overlooked artists of colour into art history. Hollie is also currently studying an MA in Material and Visual Culture at University College London. --- - Published: 2023-09-22 - Modified: 2023-10-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/p/paris-henrique-j - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: P Henrique J. Paris is an Angolan transdisciplinary artist, graduated in Philosophy with film at the University of Hertfordshire. His works cross examine ideas between spatial performativity and the bodily memory; posing questions concerned with visual culture, philosophy, and architecture. Henrique’s ongoing research gathers counter-colonial epistemologies to investigate prospects in world building, image making & knowledge production as disciplines -- often using mediums across design, multimedia installations, and moving-still-images. Past projects include LUSO|PHONIC HAPTICITIES at The Africa Centre, Tactility: Ethics of Cultural Heritage and Land at the V&A Museum in London, Registos Bantu w/ Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin, My Ontological Corporeality at Hangar in Lisbon and more. --- - Published: 2023-07-17 - Modified: 2023-11-24 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/malik-orsod - Occupations: Curator - Alphabetical: M Orsod Malik is a UK-based Sudani curator, writer, producer, and digital strategist. Orsod’s curatorial practice focuses on developing methods to explore cultural and political entanglements. He has worked as a Curator at the Stuart Hall Foundation since 2020. Since then, he has produced a range of programming including the Imagined Futures and Contextualising Climate Crisis writing series, the Locating Legacies podcast series, and has worked to orient the SHF’s programming towards thinking through contemporary urgencies through dialogue. Orsod is also the Curator and Digital Strategist at the International Curators Forum (ICF). He produced ICF’s new website and digital archive, and curated the first iteration of the Shifting the Centre project entitled Grenada as Reference at Black Cultural Archives. Orsod is currently working on the second iteration of Shifting the Centre taking place at Iniva this Autumn. Orsod also produced the Living Archives podcast, a series of intergenerational conversations between artists set to release in August. Orsod was the 2021 Archivist-in-Resident at the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD). He is the founder of @code__switch an archive/continuum of radical internationalism dedicated to drawing links between anticolonial struggles and thought across space and time. --- - Published: 2023-07-17 - Modified: 2023-07-17 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/s/sadiq-lamya - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: S Lamya Sadiq works across social histories, sonic and visual worlds and psychoanalytic theory to locate tools for other-world making. Her enquiries attempt to highlight the ambivalences of the present, searching for ruptures, portals and spectral hauntings that tells us these other worlds always exist/are possible. Lamya is from Dhaka, Bangladesh. Lamya works at MayDay Rooms Archive and is a wellbeing worker for Hopscotch Women’s Center. She is also a member of Red Therapy, an abolitionist collective attempting to think beyond existing psychiatric and psychotherapeutic systems and practices. --- - Published: 2023-07-12 - Modified: 2023-07-12 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/hussayni-evar - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: H Êvar Hussayni is an artist whose work focuses on Kurdish genealogies, colonial violence in archives and their relationship with the trajectory of Kurdish feminism and Kurdish womanhood. In her analysis of archives, she investigates the psychological impact of the archived material; how might archives perpetuate violent histories? What role does archiving play in shaping freedom – specifically that of occupied people and lands? How far does the current archive privilege particular narratives and create bias in the collective memory? Through broadening the range of methodologies she employs in her work, Êvar’s endeavour is to assess the implications of archival structures for Kurdish women’s identity formation. Êvar also runs The West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library (WANAWAL), a publicly accessible archive built to collect and exhibit artwork, curatorial projects, and publications by practitioners from West Asia and North Africa. Its purpose is to develop and experiment with different archiving methods, and research how geopolitical identities intersect and function within the current collective conception of documentation. --- - Published: 2023-06-14 - Modified: 2023-06-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/l/languid-hands - Occupations: Collective - Alphabetical: L Languid Hands is a London-based artistic and curatorial collaboration between Rabz Lansiquot, a filmmaker, curator, and DJ, and Imani Robinson, writer, live art practitioner, and prison abolitionist. Their work is informed by ongoing explorations in Black and queer studies, Black creative practice, Black liberatory praxis and queer methodologies. --- - Published: 2023-06-14 - Modified: 2023-06-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/adusei-poku-nana - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: A Nana Adusei-Poku is an Assistant Professor in the History or Art and African American Studies Department at Yale University. She was prior Assistant Professor in African Diasporic Art History in the Department of History of Art at the University of California Berkeley. She was previously Associate Professor and Luma Foundation Fellow at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (2019-2022), and Visiting Professor in Art History of the African Diaspora at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City (2018-2019). The question “What are the conditions of our existence”, which Stuart Hall asked, remains core to her journey and inspires her to embody and develop an engaged pedagogical approach and to explore the performativity of nothingness and life “in the hold”. Her research on Cultural Shifts and how they articulate themselves through the intersections of Art, Politics, and Popular Culture; Artistic productions from the Black Diasporas, and curatorial practice as a research tool to shape art historical discourses. --- - Published: 2023-06-13 - Modified: 2023-06-13 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/l/lin-april - Alphabetical: L April Lin 林森 (b. 1996, Stockholm — they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and independent curator investigating image-making and world-building as sites for the construction, sustenance, and dissemination of co-existent yet conflicting truths. They interweave moving image, performance, creative computing and installation in a commitment to centring oppressed knowledges, building an ethics of collaboration around reciprocal care, and exploring the linkages between history, memory, and interpersonal and structural trauma. Their work has been shown at the Museum of the Moving Image New York, Sheffield DocFest, LA Filmforum, and NOWNESS Asia. --- - Published: 2023-06-13 - Modified: 2023-06-13 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/g/gill-nikita - Occupations: Artist, Curator - Alphabetical: G Nikita Gill is an Afro-Caribbean artist and curator at Manchester Art Gallery. She received her MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies from the University of Manchester in 2019. Her previous work includes support of the exhibition and development of Excavating the Reno, Portraits of Recovery with David Hoyle and Mark Prest, Bodies of Colour, and Joy Forever at the Whitworth Art Gallery. She has developed and supported performances for Block Universe, Jade Montserrat and Glasgow International. Nikita is interested in decolonial practices within performance and new media, centred on care within the context of art gallery collections. Nikita was working on Future Collect, supporting Jade Montserrat’s commission by iniva. Nikita is a recipient of the 2021 UK New Artists Future Producers Grant and is joint creative producer for PROFORMA Desire Lines project (2021 – 22). Nikita is a member of the Black Curators Collective. --- - Published: 2023-06-13 - Modified: 2023-06-13 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/moussawi-sally - Alphabetical: M Sally Moussawi (she/they) is committed to building sustainable anti-capitalist infrastructures for organisations. She is currently part of Barefoot 5. 0 co-op and community development training programme. They also work as a treasurer at filmmakers coop not/nowhere and finance & operations manager at Cubitt Artists. --- - Published: 2023-05-24 - Modified: 2023-05-24 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/p/prowse-jamila - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: P Jamila Prowse is an artist, writer, researcher and lecturer who employs art making as a methodology for articulating and processing her lived experience as a disabled, mixed race person of black heritage. Presently, Jamila is an artist on UAL Decolonising Institute’s 20/20 programme and Sussex University’s Full Stack Feminism Project, where she will be making artistic visualisations of her ongoing research into disability inclusivity and cripping the art world. In 2023 Jamila will continue to work across moving image, textiles and programming, plus experimenting with new mediums of painting, sculpture and photography, while journeying towards her first solo exhibition at Quench Gallery, Margate in September. Previous exhibitions and screenings include Studio Voltaire (London, UK), Hordaland Kunstsenter (Bergen, Norway), Obsidian Coast (Bradford, UK) and South London Gallery (London, UK). --- - Published: 2023-05-02 - Modified: 2023-05-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/c/craig-lauren - Occupations: Artist, Curator - Alphabetical: C Lauren Craig (she/her/hers) is a social-media shy, internet- curious cultural futurist based in London. Her practice intentionally moves slowly between curation, performance, installation, art writing, moving images and auto- ethnographic photography. Through collaborative live engagement, systems thinking and social archival histories, Lauren elevates lived experience as a tool for reframing past and present underexposed narratives. --- - Published: 2023-05-02 - Modified: 2023-05-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/akaunu-amber - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: A Amber Akaunu is a Liverpool born Nigerian-German filmmaker working in cinema and art to document and explore Black culture, identity, and history. Amber is a BAFTA scholar and recent MA film graduate who is currently residing in South London. Her creative practice extends to her role as co-founder and editor of ROOT-ed Zine where she works to support Black, Asian and PoC artists in the North West of England through publishing, workshops, guest lectures, curating, and producing. --- - Published: 2023-05-02 - Modified: 2023-05-24 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/hameed-sadia-pineda - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: H Sadia Pineda Hameed is a Filipina Pakistani artist and writer based in the Ebbw Valley, Wales. She works in film, installation, text and performance to explore collective and inherited trauma; in particular, the latent ways we speak about this through dreaming, telepathic communion and secrets as an anti-colonial strategy inherent to us. Sadia received the Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Artists 2021. She often works with Beau W Beakhouse as a collaborative duo. Together they are on the g39 Fellowship 2022-24, and run small press and radio project LUMIN. --- - Published: 2023-05-02 - Modified: 2023-05-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/t/taylor-dharma - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: T Dharma Taylor is a multidisciplinary designer and maker with a background specialising in menswear and textiles. She graduated from Rochester University for the creative arts with a BA in Fashion Design and the London College of Fashion with an MA in Menswear. She has developed her practice and explored working with new material, Dharma’s way of combining textiles with woodwork produces works of great beauty and deceptive simplicity. Over the past few years through research-based projects, she has sought to observe aspects of the society and systems in which we exist. Inspired by diverse sources, from technology and poetry to ancient civilisations and cultural plurality. As an artist of dual heritage, she draws on her Caribbean and European lineage, creating work that allows her to explore her position within the Diaspora and contemporary British society. This perspective has long been the impetus behind her narrative-rich, design-driven, art methodology for making new work. Since graduating she has worked on various artistic projects; they’ve been shown by a variety of national and international organisations and galleries including the Benaki Museum in Athens, the V&A and Tate Britain. She is currently a Lecturer in Fashion and Textiles at Central Saint Martins and splits her time between teaching and developing her practice. In an exciting development from her use of textiles, Dharma has approached working with wood in an organic way expressed through careful observation and respect of the natural material, paired with traditional carpentry techniques. The woodwork pieces are crafted in memory of... --- - Published: 2023-04-28 - Modified: 2023-04-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/e/emejulu-akwugo - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: E Akwugo Emejulu is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Her research interests include the political sociology of race, class and gender and women of colour's grassroots activism in Europe and the United States. She is the author of several books including Precarious Solidarity (forthcoming, Manchester University Press) and Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (Policy Press, 2017). She is co-editor of To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe (Pluto Press, 2019). --- - Published: 2023-03-24 - Modified: 2023-03-24 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/bellebono-june - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: B June Bellebono is a London-based writer, cultural producer and facilitator. They are the founder of oestrogeneration, a magazine platform highlighting transfeminine voices in the UK, and of Queer Good Grief, a peer support group by and for bereaved LGBTQ+ people. They have written for gal-dem, HUCK and Novara Media, and have organised events for Somerset House, Autograph ABP, QUEERCIRCLE and Museum of the Home. @junebellebabe --- - Published: 2023-03-24 - Modified: 2023-03-24 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/hart-tamara - Occupations: Artist - Alphabetical: H Tamara Hart is a visual anthropologist based in London. Their research adopts visual caretaking as a mode to explore identity formation and social remapping within mental health structures, with a focus on queer practices of care. They have written for various publications such as Frieze, Spike Magazine, Gruppe and Sleek Mag. They are currently a contributing editor for the LGBTQI+ artist support network and curatorial platform Queerdirect. @cyber_fem --- - Published: 2023-03-22 - Modified: 2023-03-22 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/adegbite-princess-arinola - Occupations: Writer - Alphabetical: A Princess Arinola Adegbite (she/her) or "P. A. Bitez" is a Jamaican-born Nigerian poet, songwriter, filmmaker, and student based in Manchester. Born in 2000 Bitez has appeared in the Young Writers Anthologies and has received multiple Young Writers Awards. In 2017 she won Slambassadors, a national poetry competition and published her debut poetry collection 'Soft Tortures' which deals with heartbreak, loss, existence and mental illness from an adolescent point of view. In 2020, she was one of six finalists of BBC Words First 2020, a talent scheme searching for the Best Spoken Word Poets in the UK. She is a member of Young Identity. --- - Published: 2023-03-22 - Modified: 2023-03-22 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/r/rae-mandla - Occupations: Artist, Writer - Alphabetical: R mandla rae (they/them) is a writer and performer from Zimbabwe, raised in London and now based in Manchester. mandla’s first solo show, as british as a watermelon, premiered at Contact Theatre in October 2021 and is currently touring the UK. In May 2022, the show was at Bristol Old Vic with Mayfest and it had its Scottish premier at the Edinburgh International Festival in August 2022. mandla’s writing has been published in Gay Times, Nov 2020 issue and New Landscapes Anthology 2019 from Ohio based Lungs Project. --- --- ## Events - Published: 2025-08-18 - Modified: 2025-08-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/reading-cycles/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Reading Group - Event types: Reading Group Reading Cycles Wednesdays in September 2025 5:30–7:30pm Stuart Hall Library, iniva Join us for a series of reading cycles expanding on the themes of Dub Encyclopaedia, a multimedia installation by Antonio José Guzman and Iva Jankovic. Through indigo-dyed textiles, archival materials, and sonic traces, the artists explore diasporic memory, colonial legacy, and radical tradition of dub. These reading sessions invite guest facilitators Linett Kamala, Julian Henriques, and Lynnée Denise to lead collective reflections and discussions grounded in the exhibition’s key themes. Drawing from the Stuart Hall Library’s collection and wider references, each session offers an open space to listen, read aloud, and think together about resonance, language, resistance, and the poetics of sound. Dates: Session 1, led by Linett Kamala – Wednesday 10 September Book this session Session 2, led by Julian Henriques – Wednesday 17 September Book this session Session 3, led by Lynnée Denise – Wednesday 24 September Book this session Time: 5:30–7:30pm Location: Stuart Hall Library, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU Free and open to all. Refreshments provided. About facilitators Linett Kamala is an interdisciplinary creative on a mission to amplify wellness through her offerings which include: DJ, Artist, Academic, Community Organiser, Creative Producer & Founding Director of LIN KAM ART. She is known as the Notting Hill Carnival ‘Sound System Queen’, being credited as one of the first female DJs to perform on a sound system in the mid 1980s at the event and is now one of the organisers, serving as Board Director.... --- - Published: 2025-06-18 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/zine-making-with-open-age/ - Venues: St Margaret's Centre - Event types: Workshop A pilot zine-making workshop with Open Age Westminster facilitated by artist Bhajan Hunjan, exploring the theme of home and belonging with diverse older adults from South Westminster. This workshop provided the opportunity to find out more of Hunjan’s artistic practice and develop creative skills. About the artist Bhajan Hunjan is a UK-based artist-educator who creates commissions for the public realm and built environment. She also works collaboratively with schools and community groups to co-create both temporary and permanent installations that celebrate collective creativity and shared experience. Her practice explores ideas through drawings, paper works, acrylic cut-outs, paintings and prints. About Open Age A charity with over 4000 registered members and works across the boroughs of Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham providing a wide range of activities for people aged 50+. Membership is free and the focus is to provide activities that help strengthen a sense of community, rediscover old hobbies, develop new interests, have fun and socialise. --- - Published: 2025-06-18 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/zine-making-with-mozart-community-champions/ - Event types: Workshop This pilot zine-making workshop with Mozart Community Champions was facilitated by artist Bhajan Hunjan. It explored the theme of home and belonging with participants from global majority communities living in sheltered housing. The session offered a creative space to reflect on the meaning of home, share memories of local and international places lived in, and express those reflections through zine-making. About the artist Bhajan Hunjan is a UK-based artist-educator who creates commissions for the public realm and built environment. She also works collaboratively with schools and community groups to co-create both temporary and permanent installations that celebrate collective creativity and shared experience. Her practice explores ideas through drawings, paper works, acrylic cut-outs, paintings and prints. About Mozart Community Champions Mozart Community Champions (MCC) are a group of local volunteers recruited and trained to support local people through a wide range of activities. They also signpost people to specialist services, support local activities and events. The Community Champion scheme operates across 4 areas in Westminster through the Paddington Development Trust. A key area of focus is to develop programmes that combat loneliness and isolation and improve the health of older people. --- - Published: 2025-06-18 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/garden-of-feelings/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Workshop Rich in representation and symbolism, gardens are powerful metaphors frequently featured in literature and art. Often interpreted as spaces of refuge, growth and renewal, they reflect the journey of self-discovery and self-realisation. As such, the garden provides an ideal therapeutic space for pausing and engaging in reflective practice. This free, experiential workshop offered ten early-career therapists—working with children and adolescents in schools, the NHS and community organisations—an opportunity to explore new approaches to art making using Emotional Learning Cards. Led by Nathalie Roset, an art psychotherapist from A-Space, the session took place at Stuart Hall Library and had the following aims: Encourage reflection on themes relevant to participants’ own experiences Explore subject matter that may be introduced in work with client groups Include an art-making task that participants may adapt for use with children and adolescents, tailored to different ages and abilities The morning began with a guided tour of the Stuart Hall Library and concluded with a half-hour evaluation, offering space to reflect on the experience and consider the development of future workshops. About A-Space A Space is a Hackney based charity which works as a local provider offering psychotherapy services to students and staff in a select number of east London schools and uses provision as a form of practice-based research. --- - Published: 2025-06-18 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/sound-and-music-workshop-with-etat/ - Project Types: Workshop - Event types: Workshop This pilot workshop reconnected ETAT participants with their previously recorded vinyl EP, which features spoken word, rap and wartime classics. Led by artist Shepherd Manyika, the group explored the use of sound and music as a source of inspiration for writing, drawing and painting. About the artist Shepherd Manyika is a London based artist who works with mixed media. He is interested in representations, drawing narratives from found images and the everyday. About ETAT Encouragement through the Arts and Talking (ETAT) is community-based charity which brings together lonely and isolated people for arts and crafts activities. Based at Thamesbank Centre in Turnpike Lane. --- - Published: 2025-06-18 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/garden-of-belonging/ - Event types: Workshop A workshop led by A-Space art psychotherapist Nathalie Roset with Young at Hearts group at the Abbey Centre exploring personal histories to understand themes related to belonging and un-belonging as a form of self-care. About the Abbey Centre The Abbey Centre runs a wide range of free and low-cost classes and community activities to promote healthy and cohesive communities in south Westminster. Also facilitates the South Westminster Action Network (SWAN) that brings community members and service providers together, in meetings held on a quarterly basis, to encourage joint working, better communication, improved services and quality of life for communities in south Westminster. About A-Space A Space is a Hackney based charity which works as a local provider offering psychotherapy services to students and staff in a select number of east London schools and uses provision as a form of practice-based research. --- - Published: 2025-06-18 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/introduction-to-iniva-stuart-hall-library-and-archiving-with-open-age/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library A welcoming and informative session introducing the Stuart Hall Library and iniva’s archive to older adults from Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea through Open Age. Facilitated by iniva’s Library and Archive Manager Tavian Hunter, and Project Archivist Kaitlene Koranteng, this workshop offered guidance on how to access the collections, as well as exploring how archives can prompt personal reflections and memories. Schedule 2. 00pm – Refreshments and reflections on zine-making 2. 30pm – Introduction to iniva and tour of the Stuart Hall Library collection 3. 00pm – An introduction to archiving with items from the collection About the Facilitators Kaitlene Koranteng is the Project Archivist at iniva for the Hauser & Wirth Institute Project Representation and Accessibility in Artist Files. Her work focuses on increasing access to archive materials and developing strategies to promote engagement with iniva’s archive. Tavian Hunter is the Library and Archive Manager at iniva. She oversees the development of the Stuart Hall Library and iniva’s archive and runs both the Research Network and the Artist-in-Residence programmes. Tavian advocates for the collections through social media and public speaking. She also manages iniva’s Living Legacies project, an ambitious initiative funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to make the archive accessible to a broad audience in Westminster, Lambeth and Southwark. About Open Age Open Age is a charity with over 4000 registered members and works across the boroughs of Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham providing a wide range of activities for people aged 50+. Membership is... --- - Published: 2025-06-18 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/archiving-and-photography-with-avenues-youth-project/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Workshop A creative and hands-on session exploring photography, storytelling and the art of archiving. Led by Cassia Clarke and Tavian Hunter, this workshop introduces young people to iniva’s archive and the Organisation of Visual Arts (OVA) collection through visual prompts, collage and photography. This is a space for young people to reflect on personal and collective memory, experiment with creative forms of archival care and begin building their own photography preservation kits. Through collage-making, polaroid photography and discussion, participants will explore how stories are constructed and preserved, both institutionally and at home. Each participant will leave with a mini starter kit for caring for photographs and an understanding of how archives help us shape the future by remembering the past. Schedule 10am - Arrival and Welcome 10. 30am - Introduction to iniva, the OVA archive and photography materials 11am - Collage activity and discussion 11. 30am - Photography activity and introduction to preservation kits 11. 50am - Reflections and Feedback About the Facilitators Tavian Hunter is the Library and Archive Manager at iniva. She oversees the development of the Stuart Hall Library and iniva’s archive and leads the Research Network and Artist-in-Residence programmes. Tavian is also the Project Manager of Living Legacies, a National Lottery Heritage Fund-supported initiative that expands access to iniva’s collections through public programming across Westminster, Lambeth, and Southwark. Cassia Clarke is a Luton-born British-Caribbean self-taught archivist, researcher and facilitator. She uses an autoethnographic and co-curatorial approach to engage greater knowledge democracy and collective intervention to better our... --- - Published: 2025-06-06 - Modified: 2025-06-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/open-call-artist-commission/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Open Call Deadline: Saturday 5 July 2025, 11:59pm Artist Fee: £3,750 Project Timeline: July 2025 – January 2026 Location: Stuart Hall Library, iniva, Westminster About the Project Present Land is a community art project exploring climate justice through intergenerational collaboration. Hosted at the Stuart Hall Library and supported by Westminster City Council, the project invites a London-based artist to work closely with a local community, connecting participants aged 16–25 and 65+ through four participatory workshops taking place between October and December 2025. The project culminates in a public Open Day in January 2026 and includes collaboration with members of Climate Reframe, a network of climate justice experts. This is a paid opportunity for an artist to spend time with a community in Westminster, build a relationship of trust and mutual learning, and shape a creative response to the climate crisis through intergenerational dialogue. The selected artist will work with iniva's Curator and members of the Climate Reframe network to create and lead the workshops. Once the artist has spent time getting to know the local community and their interests, we’ll work together to invite Climate Reframe contributors whose experience connects with the topics the group wants to explore. This means that each session will bring together creative and climate knowledge, helping participants learn from people who are directly involved in climate justice work. It’s a way of making sure the project grows from the ideas and priorities of the community, while building new connections and conversations along the way. Present Land is... --- - Published: 2025-06-02 - Modified: 2025-06-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/dub-encyclopaedia-opening-preview/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Exhibition BOOK HERE Join us for the exhibition opening preview of Dub Encyclopaedia! Dub Encyclopaedia is an immersive installation by artists Antonio José Guzman and Iva Jankovic, opening at the Stuart Hall Library on 13 June 2025 presented by iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts). Antonio Jose Guzman and Iva Jankovic are Netherlands-based artists whose collaborative practice weaves together indigo-dyed textiles, sound, and performance to explore colonial legacies, migration, and diasporic identity. Drawing on diverse musical traditions, including dub and punk, their immersive installations and live works evoke the emotional resonance of displacement and cultural memory. Through patterned fabrics inspired by DNA sequencing and vernacular motifs, Guzman and Jankovic map global connections across the Black Atlantic, using indigo as a symbolic material to examine the transatlantic slave trade and the movement of people, knowledge, and ritual. Drawing on the radical tradition of dub poetry, Dub Encyclopaedia maps diasporic journeys through textiles, sound, and archival traces. The centrepiece of the exhibition is a nomadic tent constructed from indigo ajrak fabrics and houses poems, books, soundscapes, and archival materials. Through this constellation of media, the artists explore storytelling, pedagogy, and resilience in the context of global migration and vernacular memory. Presented as part of the Concrete Roots series for the Liverpool Biennial 2025, Dub Encyclopaedia marks the artists’ first solo presentation in the UK. Following a performance at the Biennial, two hand-crafted dresses featured in the live piece will travel to London, forming part of the exhibition narrative at iniva’s Stuart Hall Library. --- - Published: 2025-04-17 - Modified: 2025-05-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/altars-of-planetary-healing/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Performance, residency - Event types: Performance BOOK HERE Join artist Seyi Adelekun for a participatory performance exploring how we might embody planetary healing in the face of systemic harm and injustice. Planetary healing is the collective act of restoring balance between people, land, and spirit by addressing the wounds of colonialism, environmental destruction, and cultural loss through care, ceremony, and justice. The event takes place at Stuart Hall Library, located in a building with a complex past. Once part of the Royal Army Medical College (1901–2005), which played a role in the British Empire’s use of racialised science and military medicine to exploit and control Black bodies and lands especially in Africa and the Caribbean. Its legacy echoes today in ongoing environmental racism, such as through oil spills in the Niger Delta. In response, Seyi will perform with Dembis Thioung an Ancestral African Rhythm Keeper. The performance will include healing rituals and embodied acts of resistance as a decolonial tool to transform architectures of harm into sites of healing emotionally, ancestrally, and ecologically. You’ll be invited to visit thematic altars of planetary healing set up inside and outside the library*. Each altar features a text as score that help us think about grief, care, and resilience. Participants are invited to take part by reading aloud, listening deeply, and engaging in activities such as herbal tea tasting and trying sensory craft. These experiences are designed to help us connect more deeply with ourselves, each other, and the environment. *Some parts of this event will take place outdoors,... --- - Published: 2025-03-31 - Modified: 2025-04-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/grow-your-collection/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Book Fair, Book Sale Support the Stuart Hall Library’s collection and build your own! Grow Your Collection at our Book Sale! Support the Stuart Hall Library’s collection and grow your own! Support our fundraising book sale and seize this meaningful opportunity to collect rare and out-of-print books on contemporary visual arts from around the world. From Wednesday 23 April to Wednesday 30 April 2025, we will be offering over 400 books from the Stuart Hall Library collections, duplicates, and closed stacks for you to purchase and bring home. iniva is a registered charity and your support will enable us to continue developing and sustaining international artistic research, education practices, and keeping the Stuart Hall Library and iniva’s Archive free to the public. Opening days and times 23 April 2025: 10 am - 8 pm 24 - 30 April 2025: 10 am - 6 pm 27 - 28 April 2025: Closed --- - Published: 2025-02-04 - Modified: 2025-02-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/detroit-techno/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Talk BOOK HERE FOR THE LUNCHTIME TALK From Fordism to Motown, from Kraftwerk to Afro-futurism and mythical Atlantics, Detroit Techno is both a musical genre that behind its simplified format of 4/4 beats and patchwork of digital samples, conceals a complex sense of history, time, and space. Emerging from an American city fragmented and abandoned by the ruinous trends of a protracted, post-industrial withdrawal, comes a new electronic genre that is at once speculative, non-anthropomorphic, hopeful, even. Amid these contradictions and fulfilments of Detroit techno, Iniva has chosen February to honour this ground-breaking sound first coming out of the 80’s, investigating its initial influences in a German band of electronic music outliers and post-Motown musical factory production lines, to how the sound found eventual form in the bedrooms of black music pioneers, before eventually finding its way to the dancefloors of the enthusiastic Berlin ravers who were just beginning to make sense of a Europe no longer under the shadow of the Soviet Union. Join Library Manager Jack Mulvaney to explore the sounds, literature and audio-visual material around the genre of Detroit techno and its great beyond, looking at the pioneers of the genre such as Robert Hood, Cybotron, and Jeff Mills. This will be followed a week later by a reading group featuring extracts from Kodwo Eshun and Der Klang Der Familie. ACCESSIBILITY It is free to attend this event and everyone is welcome. If you have accessibility requirements or questions please email library@iniva. org BIOGRAPHY Jack Mulvaney manages the... --- - Published: 2025-02-04 - Modified: 2025-04-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/detroit-techno-reading-group/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Reading Group - Event types: Reading Group BOOK HERE FOR THE READING GROUP From Fordism to Motown, from Kraftwerk to Afro-futurism and mythical Atlantics, Detroit Techno is both a musical genre that behind its simplified format of 4/4 beats and patchwork of digital samples, conceals a complex sense of history, time, and space. Emerging from an American city fragmented and abandoned by the ruinous trends of a protracted, post-industrial withdrawal, comes a new electronic genre that is at once speculative, non-anthropomorphic, hopeful, even. Amid these contradictions and fulfilments of Detroit techno, Iniva has chosen February to honour this ground-breaking sound first coming out of the 80’s, investigating its initial influences in a German band of electronic music outliers and post-Motown musical factory production lines, to how the sound found eventual form in the bedrooms of black music pioneers, before eventually finding its way to the dancefloors of the enthusiastic Berlin ravers who were just beginning to make sense of a Europe no longer under the shadow of the Soviet Union. Join Library Manager Jack Mulvaney in this reading group featuring extracts from Kodwo Eshun and Der Klang Der Familie. ACCESSIBILITY It is free to attend this event and everyone is welcome. If you have accessibility requirements or questions please email library@iniva. org BIOGRAPHY Jack Mulvaney manages the Stuart Hall Library and oversees the development of the collection. He facilitates library group visits, tours and manages library volunteering programmes. --- - Published: 2025-01-27 - Modified: 2025-01-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/against-witness/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Workshop - Event types: Workshop BOOK HERE iniva and down river road invite you to join us in a poetry gathering at Stuart Hall Library, facilitated by Brian Muraya. We invite you to take part in an opening of the ear. The workshop will include a reading of two poems, inviting participants to translate and disseminate them. “The title, ‘Against Witness’, is a two fold risk: on the one hand, it looks as if a bridge, an attempt to walk away from the available and seemingly seamless song of ‘witness’ — a word so coded in ‘our’ failing, faltering, filtering rhetorics; on the other hand, what it may be is the gruff of getting even more closer, so much so that we may be against the things once believed to absolute, necessary, in the assembly of our tongues, in our sentences. ” Against Witness is part of Braiding Sessions, a partnership programme between Stuart Hall Library, iniva and Karara Community Library, down river road. The project explores the various practices that cultural workers, curators, librarians, and administrators engage in their communities to promote engagement with their knowledge resources and safeguard against memory loss and historical revisionism. Welcome. Karibuni. The project is supported by the British Council through the UK/Kenya Season 2025 Catalyst Grant. --- - Published: 2025-01-10 - Modified: 2025-08-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/restorative-practices/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Talk - Event types: Talk BOOK HERE Join us for a lunchtime sharing session where we will explore the books and zines surrounding the topic of rest that informed our seminal programme last year, The Gathering 2024. The Gathering offered a space for artists and cultural workers to convene in exploration of restorative practices to build frameworks for a more sustainable arts ecology. Utilising the five pillars of the programme – Practice, Environment, Nourishment, Mind, and Embodiment – as anchor points, this reading list is an entryway to encourage rest in our own creative practices. This informal session will include an introduction to iniva and the Stuart Hall Library, our programme, and also the books that are featured in the reading list. ACCESSIBILITY It is free to attend this event and everyone is welcome. If you have accessibility requirements or questions please email library@iniva. org BIOGRAPHY Jack Mulvaney manages the Stuart Hall Library and oversees the development of the collection. He facilitates library group visits, tours and manages library volunteering programmes. Charlotte Mui assists with the running of Stuart Hall Library. She manages the journal collections, oversees library appointments and enquiries, and currently runs the On Our Table programme. She also contributes to running the library volunteering programme and student placements. Charlotte is also the Communications Coordinator. She manages iniva’s social media accounts and website, and is responsible for the organisation’s monthly newsletter. --- - Published: 2025-01-08 - Modified: 2025-02-17 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/when-will-we-be-good-enough/ - Venues: Chelsea College of Arts, Lecture Theatre - Project Types: Talk - Event types: Talk Join interdisciplinary artist Osman Yousefzada and writer and curator, Ekow Eshun in a conversation exploring Yousefzada's sculptural installation 'When will we be good enough? ' alongside the broader context of his process and practice. In the conversation, they will discuss relevant themes of power, colonialism, class, race, and examine how contemporary art addresses the pressing issues of our time. Book here for tickets. Biography Osman Yousefzada is a British born, internationally recognised interdisciplinary artist and writer who describes his practice as auto ethnographic, where personal stories become political. His South Asian heritage is a strong influence in his craft-inspired, sculptural practice. Born into the diaspora communities of Birmingham, he creates work that reflects and questions the injustices he saw first-hand during his childhood, and which still pervade in the world today. South Asian influences are what many might first see when they encounter but his work, but it is far broader and unravels global histories that remain relevant today. They are explored through moving image, installations, text works, sculpture, garment making and performance. Yousefzada is a research practitioner at the Royal College of Art, London and a visiting fellow at Cambridge University. His exhibition at The Box follows three significant solo exhibitions during the last 12 months at Charleston in Firle, Cartwright Hall in Bradford and Palazzo Franchetti in conjunction with the 60th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale. Ekow Eshun is a writer and curator. He is Chairman of the Fourth Plinth, overseeing Britain’s foremost public art programme, and the... --- - Published: 2024-11-19 - Modified: 2024-11-19 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/creative-mapping-art-educators-lab/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library The Creative Mapping: Art Educators Lab will gather art educators working in traditional and untraditional settings to connect and discuss what it means to think radically about arts education. This Lab is also an opportunity for educators to access our library and archive material from the Stuart Hall Library’s collection and help shape our future programming according to their needs and ambitions. The lab is an opportunity to engage with the work of artists and educators Exodus Crooks and Meera Chauda, who will each lead a workshop presenting on their practices engaging with arts education. We will also have a session focused on library and archive resources and think about how they may be used to support art educators. Agenda Introduction to iniva’s Creative Mapping by Sepake Angiama - Led by iniva’s Artistic Director Sepake Angiama, explore the vision behind this gathering. Introduction workshop by Kaitlene Koranteng - Led by iniva's Archivist and Engagement Producer Lunch break - lunch will be provided Exploring radical pedagogy workshop led Meera Chauda - Meera Chauda will lead a workshop explore her own artistic and education practice in relation to the topic of radical pedagogy. Exploring radical pedagogy workshop led Exodus Crooks - Exodus lead a workshop explore their own artistic and education practice in relation to the topic of radical pedagogy. Closing Reflections RSVP Admission is free but we have very limited spaces for this event. If you’d like to join, please email Kaitlene Koranteng kkoranteng@iniva. org About the contributors Meera Chauda Meera... --- - Published: 2024-09-26 - Modified: 2025-08-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/on-our-table-magickal-practices/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Talk - Event types: Talk BOOK HERE Join us for a lunchtime sharing session where we will showcase books, journals, and articles featuring the use and practice of spirituality, magic, mythologies, and witchcraft in art practices to navigate issues related to othering, racism, bigotry, and more. In this discussion, Library Manager Jack Mulvaney and Assistant Librarian Charlotte Mui will guide you through the diverse contexts and social depths included in the Stuart Hall Library collections. Some of the featured material will include recent Turner Prize nominee Delaine Le Bas’ catalogue Witch Hunt; An Ongoing-Offcoming Tale edited by Yaniya Lee, Chiara Figone and Aiman Rizvi; and Public Art: Witchcraft Periodical. ACCESSIBILITY It is free to attend this event and everyone is welcome. If you have accessibility requirements or questions please email library@iniva. org BIOGRAPHY Jack Mulvaney manages the Stuart Hall Library and oversees the development of the collection. He facilitates library group visits, tours and manages library volunteering programmes. Charlotte Mui assists with the running of Stuart Hall Library. She manages the journal collections, oversees library appointments and enquiries, and currently runs the On Our Table programme. She also contributes to running the library volunteering programme and student placements. Charlotte is also the Communications Coordinator. She manages iniva’s social media accounts and website, and is responsible for the organisation’s monthly newsletter. --- - Published: 2024-09-05 - Modified: 2024-10-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/global-resiliences-open-call-for-zines/ - Project Types: Open Call - Event types: Open Call iniva is looking for protest and activist zines which focus on documenting, investigating, and holding space for global social and political movements between 2010-2022 to fill gaps in the Stuart Hall Library Zine collection. Selected zines from this open call will be featured in the evolving showcase, Global Resiliencies, at Stuart Hall Library from October 2, 2024 to February 28, 2025. Global Resiliencies is a project centred on activist zines produced between 2010 and 2022. It asks how grassroots publications can reflect and shape political movements and collective action across different geopolitical contexts around the globe. At its core, this project seeks to explore how zines—those self-published, often ephemeral documents of resistance—offer unique insights into the methods people resist, build communities, and foster solidarity across borders. How to submit Submit your zine(s) via the form below by Friday 27 September 2024 at 10 am (BST). Submission Form Accessibility If you have any accessibility needs, or questions, feel free to email Charlotte Mui at charlotte@iniva. org - Global Resiliencies is curated by Beatriz Lobo and Charlotte Mui --- - Published: 2024-09-04 - Modified: 2024-10-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/autumn-book-fair/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Book Fair, Book Sale - Event types: Book Sale The iniva bookshop is a destination for books on art, identity & social justice and we stock items from Afterall, Silver Press and The Toe Rag. For a few days only, over 40 of iniva’s publications will be reduced by 50% or more, with prices from £1 to £30! This is the best opportunity to not only browse our publications but also buy our limited edition artist prints. You can also sign up to our library and get your hands on duplicates from the library collection. iniva is a registered charity and all of our publications' income supports the work we do in developing & sustaining international artistic, research and education praxis and keeping the Stuart Hall Library free to the public. This is in-person book fair and does not include online sales but if you would like to support our work you can donate to us. --- - Published: 2024-07-30 - Modified: 2025-08-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/on-our-table-connecting-with-the-land/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Talk Join us for a lunchtime sharing session where we will showcase books, journals, and articles which champion and highlight indigenous artists from across the globe; document climate activism and our relationship with land and nature; explore ecological art practices; and how these tie in with various decolonial struggles that many people continue to face today. In this discussion, Assistant Librarian Charlotte Mui will guide you through the diverse contexts and social depths included in the Stuart Hall Library collections. Some of the featured material will include ATE Journal of Māori Art, Rasheed Araeen’s Art Beyond Art: Ecoaesthetics: A Manifesto for the 21st Century, and Indigenous Histories, edited by Adriano Pedrosa and Guilherme Giufrida. ACCESSIBILITY It is free to attend this event and everyone is welcome. If you have accessibility requirements or questions please email library@iniva. org BIOGRAPHY Charlotte Mui assists with the running of Stuart Hall Library. She manages the journal collections, oversees library appointments and enquiries, and currently runs the On Our Table programme. She also contributes to running the library volunteering programme and student placements. Charlotte is also the Communications Coordinator. She manages iniva’s social media accounts and website, and is responsible for the organisation’s monthly newsletter. --- - Published: 2024-07-26 - Modified: 2024-09-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/the-gathering-2024-open-call-for-participants/ - Venues: 180 Studios - Project Types: Open Call, Workshop - Event types: Open Call Initiated by iniva (Institute of International of Visual Arts), The Gathering 2024 offers a unique space centring Global Majority UK-based artists and cultural workers to convene in exploration of restorative practices and build frameworks for stronger relationships and more sustainable arts ecologies. The Gathering will run from the 26th to the 27th October 2024. This two-day gathering will focus on how we practise rest. Expanding holistically through our five programme pillars – Practice, Mind, Somatic, Environment, and Nourishment – we centre our attention on different forms of rest. Criteria Following the aims of The Gathering 2024, we will select applicants based on the following criteria: Participants who meet the target audience: Global Majority practitioners working in arts and culture. Preference will be given to the ones who identify with more than one protected characteristic. Participants who are able to demonstrate how The Gathering 2024 will support them in their practice. Participants who are willing to share tools and learnings from The Gathering 2024 with their communities. How to apply Submit your application via the form below by Friday 16 August 2024 at 12 pm (BST). We strongly encourage you to carefully read the project brief before applying. Application Form Accessibility If you have any accessibility requirements, please get in touch with iniva's Curator Beatriz Lobo - beatriz@iniva. org - The Gathering 2024 is produced with Free Form. The Gathering 2024 is supported by Freelands Foundation. --- - Published: 2024-07-18 - Modified: 2024-07-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/1111-x-iniva-residency/ - Project Types: Open Call, residency - Event types: Open Call Open Call for 11:11 London residency, in November 2024 (duration 4 weeks) in collaboration with Iniva’s specialist collections library: Stuart Hall Library 11:11 and iniva a partnering to offer a research residency commencing in November to a practitioner with a strong interest in special collections, artists archives and archival practices. 11:11’s London residency is a one-month residency set in Residency 11:11 founders Alex Bell and Giulia Shah’s home in London. For a duration of one month, the residency aims to connect its guests to the city’s artistic landscape, encouraging practitioners to explore local discourses and collaborations. The residency is housed in an informal and homely shared flat with Residency 11:11 founders Alex and Giulia. The residency does not offer studio space, but rather time to reflect and research. Residency 11:11 supports art practitioners by opening up our network, curatorial guidance and offering the opportunity to host a public presentation and gain feedback on their practice. By creating transnational connections, we are interested in diverse practices that question the role of art and how this can differ across borders, histories and economies. Collections: The practitioner would be invited to engage with iniva’s Artist File Collection, which documents radical and emergent contemporary artistic practice centering Global Majority, African, Asian, and Caribbean diaspora perspectives between 1994–2005. The collection primarily contains various amounts of ephemera in the form of gallery invitations, press releases, 35mm slides, biographies, press clippings and much more. With Stuart Hall Library being a specialist library that centres art and theory... --- - Published: 2024-07-02 - Modified: 2024-07-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/salvage-repair-repeat-a-research-presentation/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Talk BOOK HERE Join Archivist and Engagement Producer Kaitlene Koranteng she as presents reflections developed during a research trip to Ghana funded by the Art Fund’s Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial grant. While in Ghana she visited and spoke to organisations who capture nontraditional forms of memory such as drumming, dancing, traditional rites and the ordinary object. The name of the research refers to the processes often enacted in working in material culture and memory. The colons separating the three words are symbolic of transition through said processes. In her exploration of cultural organisations in Accra and Tamale she delved into several themes of Black Archival Practice, including stewardship as care, celebration of life as archival practice and embodied/living archives. In her presentation she aims to highlight, showcasing methods that honor and celebrate life and culture in ways traditional archives often overlook and how they would apply to her own work as an archivist. Biography Kaitlene is responsible for overseeing the collecting, cataloguing, and digitising of iniva’s archive collections, and engagement with those collections by the public. She assists with running the archive volunteering programme. Kaitlene is also the Project Archivist for Hauser & Wirth Institute Project ‘Representation and Accessibility in Artist Files’ and advises on the Transforming the Collections Project with UAL Decolonising the Arts Institute as former Project Archivist --- - Published: 2024-05-20 - Modified: 2024-06-05 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/resonant-journeys-a-listening-circle/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library SIGN-UP HERE How can we link sounds with our cultural identities? Where do those links exist? Join us for an interactive listening circle with Yasmine Mattoussi to explore how memories of sound and music exist through time to challenge and analyse notions of identity, belonging, and collective memory. As part of the facilitation, participants are requested to contribute publicly accessible music, sounds or speeches that they find integral to their identity prior to the event. Several pieces will be selected to be played out loud within the space. Attendees will be given time to write out the feelings that the sounds and music evoke and pair up to discuss topics of memory and belonging with other participants. The responses will be made into a visual graphic to develop Yasmine’s research question into how memory and identity can be stored within sound. The section will also seek to explore the following questions: How do you identify within your community through songs? How did this song influence you and your journey to finding your identity? How can sounds be experienced differently? How can some music be misunderstood/ ignored in some capacities, and then celebrated in others? How does this make us reflect on our own identity journeys and concepts of collective memory? There are 15 spaces available for this event. Please sign up by 21 June 2024 to ensure your space. Accessibility If you have any access requirements, please email us in advance at info@iniva. org and we will do our best... --- - Published: 2024-05-10 - Modified: 2024-07-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/listening-party-canto-ix-after-listening-all-night-to-the-rain/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library BOOK HERE Event Schedule: 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM: Opening Playlist Join us for a curated selection of music with refreshments. 6:00 PM - 7:05 PM: Discussion Part 1 We will present selected audio material accompanied by prepared reflections. This segment includes facilitated discussions, encouraging participants to share their immediate reactions and feelings. We will explore parallels and distinctions between the audio pieces with guided prompts to enrich the conversation. 7:05 PM - 7:30 PM: Participant Contributions To conclude, we invite attendees to share their own references and contributions to the discussion. This is an open space for everyone to add their voice and perspectives to the conversation. We invite audience members to bring along their own sound references. This could be a song or audio piece, in vinyl or digital format. - This listening party is proposed as an informal study session - convened in consideration and in contrast to an accepted hegemonic aural regime. Canto IX (after Listening All Night To The Rain) proposes an exploration of sound as an entry point into a diverse decolonial temporality. Departing from dominant narratives and sonic landscapes that reinforce colonial power frameworks, Canto IX (after Listening All Night To The Rain) expands on disrupting and subverting these norms by inviting participants to engage with a multiplicity of voices, rhythms, and sonic textures. Through curated listening sessions, discussions, and interactive experiences, Canto IX aims to unveil the complexities of decolonial sonic expressions and their potential to challenge, reimagine, and transform our understanding... --- - Published: 2024-05-10 - Modified: 2024-11-07 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/reading-sessions-in-collaboration-with-down-river-road-ddr/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library iniva and Down River Road invite you to be ear to ear with voices that will not respond to you, people you will not see, and sounds you may overhear or underhear. A gathering will take place at Down River Road / Karara Library & Community Archive (Nairobi), and its discussions, conversations, and sounds will be live-streamed at the Stuart Hall Library, iniva (London). Materials — issues published by Down River Road — will be available for reading at the library corresponding to the gathering. Overturning the asymmetries of distance and difference, by providing the gift of our gathering, we will be guests always becoming exactly so that we may disappear and leave you (gracious ear, astute listener) to your sweet reckoning. There will also be a radio show after, ‘The Clearing’ that we invite you to tune into. Karibuni; welcome to it, all. Listen to the livestream and radio here Livestream of the gathering: Date: 21 November 2024 Time: 2 pm to 6 pm EAT / 11 am to 3 pm GMT Location: Stuart Hall Library + online The Clearing radio show: Date: 21 November 2024 Time: 7 pm EAT / 4 pm GMT Location: online Unseen Guests and associated events are supported by the British Council. Biographies down river road is an online and print journal that publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry and ideas. They are interested in the margins, in the shifting centres and the new spaces that exist in what we’ve come to call the alternative. They... --- - Published: 2024-05-10 - Modified: 2024-09-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/whya-a-listening-exercise/ - Venues: Online, Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Performance whya (a listening exercise) invites listeners to be guided through an auditory journey into the digital artwork 'whya' by Nolan Oswald Dennis. The session features a guest selector who, using a set of listening protocols provided by the artist, will lead an exploration of 'whya'. The selector will determine what to listen to, when to pause, and what to repeat, allowing the audience to experience the artwork's fluid nature and interpretive possibilities in real-time. 'whya' is a digital memory server that reimagines fragments of oral history from the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO), a revolutionary school in Mazimbu, Tanzania, established for freedom fighters in the armed struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. Through an ongoing project of interviews with former students, teachers, and residents of SOMAFCO, Dennis has created a speculative choreography of remembering. This hybrid event is an opportunity to engage with 'whya' as it unfolds, embracing an ethical approach to memory that avoids clear-cut histories or private recollections. Instead, 'whya' offers an open-ended exploration of memory as an interactive process where sound and image fragments are rearranged and collaged to evoke new meanings. In this collective listening exercise, memory is not merely recalled but actively reconstructed. - Free, booking required. This is a hybrid event. TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE - If you have any accessibility requirements, please contact Beatriz Lobo, Curator - beatriz@iniva. org - About the artist Nolan Oswald Dennis is a para-disciplinary artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Their practice explores ‘a black consciousness of space’ –... --- - Published: 2024-05-09 - Modified: 2024-05-13 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/locating-absence/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Panel Discussion - Event types: Talk BOOK NOW Join us for an evening panel discussion focusing on the artistic practice of John Akomfrah, exploring themes such as climate justice, anticolonial methodologies, Pan-African thinking, and archival research inherent in his practice. The panel consists of film curator June Givanni, artist Evan Ifekoya, and Ashwani Sharma (Senior Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies), with moderation by James Harvey (Senior Lecturer in Film and Media), who will do an introduction to his latest book ‘John Akomfrah’ (2023). Each panelist will share reflections on the concept of 'Unseen Guests' within their own creative practices, followed by a discussion on how these themes intersect with Akomfrah’s work and beyond. About the book James Harvey’s John Akomfrah is the first comprehensive analytic engagement with these films, offering sustained close engagement with the artist’s core thematic preoccupations and aesthetic tendencies. His analysis negotiates the contextual and theoretical layers of Akomfrah’s rich and complex films, from the intermedial diaspora aesthetics of Handsworth Songs (1986) to the intersectional spatial ecopolitics of Purple (2017). Positioning Akomfrah in the burgeoning black British arts and cultural scene of the 1980s as a member of Black Audio Film Collective, Harvey traces the evolution of a critical relationship with the postcolonial archive in his early films, through analysis of documentaries made for television in the 1990s and up to more recent film installations in museums and galleries. Locating Absence is supported by University of Hertfordshire and Sonic Screen Lab (London College of Communications, UAL). - As part of the British... --- - Published: 2024-05-07 - Modified: 2025-08-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/global-resiliences/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Talk - Event types: Talk BOOK HERE Join us for this brief lunchtime session titled “On Our Table: Global Resiliences”. This talk showcases zines, books, and journals which document political conflicts, wars, and liberation struggles across the globe, including Palestine, Kurdistan, Syria, Hong Kong, Eastern Europe, and more. Spotlighting materials from Stuart Hall Library, we examine in parallel, the role of publications in documenting and sharing histories, resilience tactics, and resources over the last two decades. In this discussion, Assistant Librarian Charlotte Mui will guide you through the diverse contexts and social depths encapsulated within the Stuart Hall Library collections. ACCESSIBILITY It is free to attend this event and everyone is welcome. If you have accessibility requirements or questions please email library@iniva. org BIOGRAPHY Charlotte Mui assists with running Stuart Hall Library, managing the journal collections and overseeing library appointments and enquiries. She contributes to running the library volunteering programme and student placements as well. --- - Published: 2024-05-06 - Modified: 2024-05-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/study-day-anticolonial-thinking-on-archives-water-and-climate-justice/ - Venues: Ca’ Foscari (University of Venice) - Project Types: Study Day - Event types: Study Day RSVP NOW As part of the public programme for the British Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, iniva presents Unseen Guests, a commission of eight artists based in the UK and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) working across new media, audiovisual and writing, with the aim to create new works in dialogue with the films of artist John Akomfrah. Developing new commissions are the artists Ibiye Camp, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Gladys Kalichini, Rodrigo Nava Ramirez, Shamica Ruddock and Helena Uambembe, alongside writers Yaa Addae and Alexis G. Tayie. They will be joined for the day by Matteo Stocco of the Metagoon project, and Maria Madeira, featured artist of the inaugural pavilion for Timor-Leste. - The Unseen Guests Study Day in Venice will bring together iniva’s commissioned artists and Venice’s scholarly and visual arts community. It will facilitate a shared exploration of climate justice and anticolonial thinking, putting particular emphasis on diverse forms of archival research with relevance to the theme of water. The Unseen Guests group of artists and writers have been working together with Pan-African cultural archives throughout the UK and SSA, investigating documentations of anticolonial events and testimonies of climate change. By bridging conversations that depart from diverse perspectives, the Study Day will become a catalyst for forging lasting connections and networks while fostering future collaborations within and beyond the event. It is designed to allow for collaborative reflections and investigations of John Akomfrah’s contribution to the British Pavilion, while approaching the wider context and themes of the Venice Biennale.... --- - Published: 2024-04-12 - Modified: 2024-05-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/artfeminism-x-iniva-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-on-palestine/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Workshop BOOK A SLOT “Wikipedia matters because it is a go-to source of information, the tenth most visited site in the world. People assume that if information is not on Wikipedia it doesn’t exist. Editing Wikipedia and creating new content is a vital tool for ensuring that histories are not erased”. Join us at iniva on Monday 20 May from 1pm – 7pm for an Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon with a focus on Palestine in partnership with UAL Decolonising Arts Institute. In light of the current obliteration of universities, galleries, cultural centres, archives, artists, playwrights, writers, photographers and poets in Palestine, we will edit and create Wikipedia content on Palestinian artists, cultural organisations and heritage. We will use material from Stuart Hall Library, as well as online resources, articles, books and any other sources you may wish to bring. Please feel free to come for the whole day or drop in for an hour. This event will be co-hosted by Clare Qualmann (Associate Professor at The University of East London) and Gargi Bhattacharyya (Professor of Anti/Post/Decolonial Theory and Praxis at UAL Decolonising Arts Institute), who will give an introduction at the start of the session. This will be repeated at 3pm and 5. 30pm, but there will be people on hand to support you and help you get started whenever you arrive. No previous Wikipedia experience is needed but it’s essential to bring your laptop, power cord, and make sure to create a Wikipedia account before the event. If you want to... --- - Published: 2024-04-04 - Modified: 2024-04-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/prim-x-iniva-navigating-violent-terrains/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Reading Group BOOK HERE Together with PRIM and iniva, Joshua Woolford will be hosting a reading group around themes and topics Ingrid Pollard has explored through her piece The Cost of the English Landscape. We will be discussing photography as a practice, as well as a form of evidencing and archiving how Black and queer people navigate oppressive structures. Themes of cost and value in relation to identity (cultural, sexual, racial, gender, class, ability, age... ). Accessibility, migration, humans in/as nature will also be up for discussion through archival material made available for the session. To round off we will head across the road to Tate Britain to look at the piece and discuss the work with the added insight and context offered through the archive. This session will be documented (audio and visual). Attending this session means that you give permission for these recordings to become part of the Tate archive, used online and for segments of audio to be used in Joshua’s soundscape. If you have any questions or concerns please do send us a message. Accessibility If you have any access requirements, please email us in advance at info@iniva. org and we will do our best to accommodate. Biography Joshua Woolford is the 2023/24 Research and Interpretation artist in residence at Tate Britain and will be producing a series of sound pieces in response to selected works in the Tate Britain rehang. PRIM is a digital platform for storytelling. Born out of not seeing enough queer Black stories and stories,... --- - Published: 2024-04-04 - Modified: 2024-04-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/honour-thy-archiving-to-remember/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Workshop BOOK HERE "Had her name been scribbled on the back of the albumen print, there would be at least one fact I could convey with a measure of certainty, one detail I would not have to guess, one less obstacle in retracing the girl's path through the streets of the city. " - Saidiya Hartman; Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (2021); A Minor Figure, pg. 13-14 Join us at iniva for a session with facilitator Cassia Clarke as we explore the value of personal photographic archives and learn how to care for and preserve them. This workshop draws on Cassia’s project, ‘Take My Word For It’, which aims to confront a gap in the knowledge and material exchange between GLAM institutions (Gallery, Library, Archive, Museum) and the community to assist the preservation of physical photographic archives within the home. ‘Take My Word For It’ explores retelling of cultural and family history in African-Caribbean communities are predominantly dependent on word of mouth. Our ‘relatives–cum–archivists’, coined by Abondance Matanda in her 2017 ‘The First Galleries I Knew Were Black Homes’ essay, were simply point-and-shoot photographers who documented intimate and historical moments that captured everything but sometimes nothing at the same time. While Cassia was conversing with her grandmother, Joyce, about her collated archive she unveiled her regret of relying too heavily on oral history. Cassia noted that Joyce could only remember moments in her mind's eye but struggled to share them with her. Facilitator Cassia Clarke is a Luton-born British-Caribbean self-taught archivist, researcher... --- - Published: 2024-04-04 - Modified: 2024-05-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/out-of-margin-a-transnational-perspective-practice/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Workshop BOOK HERE "I wanted to make stories for my kids and other black kids to see a future in which kids that look like them are travelling to space. - Larry Achiampong, Eurogamer, 2023. Join us to collectively listen, read and discuss texts that delve into Sanko-time*, fiction and world-building with artist Larry Achiampong. What happens when sound and music take you unknown? In what ways could video games build radical spaces of imagination? How can we create new histories and subjectivities? Through these themes and questions, we will explore liberating forces for foraging narratives and imagined worlds that, might be pitched against our present. This reading group also involve a story-telling excerise. Participants are invited to bring an object that holds meaning to you and share the story related to this with others at the beginning of the session. *The concept of 'Sanko-time' coined by Achiampong relates to the Ghanaian Twi word Sankofa, which roughly translates as ‘to go back for what has been left behind’ and alludes to using the past to prepare for the future. Reading materials will be shared with registered participants by email. Advance reading is not compulsory but highly encouraged to inspire our discussions. Accessibility If you have any access requirements, please email us in advance at info@iniva. org and we will do our best to accommodate. Extracts of the texts will be provided on the day. Biography Larry Achiampong (b. 1984, London) works in film, sculpture, installation, sound, collage, music and performance. Achiampong’s... --- - Published: 2024-03-15 - Modified: 2024-04-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/in-the-perpetual-back-and-forth/ - Venues: Towner Eastbourne - Project Types: Exhibition - Event types: Exhibition Maria Amidu is the third artist in iniva’s Future Collect Commission partnership programme. Her exhibition, in the perpetual back and forth (4 May - 8 September 2024) opens at the Towner Eastbourne. The exhibition curated by Hollie Douglas with curatorial support from Sara Cooper and Rohini Malik-Okon. The exhibition centres around 26,778,780 minutes, a new paper and text-based installation and accompanying sound piece which explores the dialogue between paper and writing. Featuring over 1000 sheets of laser-etched handmade abaca fibre paper, the work evokes a sense of absence and longing, considering the nuanced meanings of the term ‘desire lines. ' Once a week, on Sunday afternoon, air blown into the gallery will cause the prints to momentarily move outside their designated location. Once each print has settled to the floor after this activation, audiences will be asked to put them back in place. In what Maria describes as a ‘soft performative role’ public involvement becomes part of the work, provoking questions about how we relate and respond to a fragile artwork in a public gallery, through a gesture of tenderness and collective care. The exhibition includes a complete installation of episode(s). The artist has also selected three paintings from Towner Eastbourne's collection to show alongside the new work. Accompanying the exhibition is a publication also titled in the perpetual back and forth which includes a commissioned essay by Gilane Tawadros. About the artist Maria Amidu’s artistic concerns are influenced by the complexities of the relational – between people, and between... --- - Published: 2024-03-07 - Modified: 2024-05-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/colab-eastbourne/ - Venues: Eastbourne Academy - Project Types: Commission, Workshop Aiming to extend the legacy of Future Collect, in 2023-24 CoLab takes place in Eastbourne, led by artist Arpita Shah with the support of therapist Misgana Berhane and project manager Anne-Marie Watson. The artist was invited to reflect on Future Collect’s objectives and Maria Amidu’s practice, and develop a series of six workshops for young people at Eastbourne Academy. The workshops explore the themes of colour, identity and memory - particularly focussing on Maria Amidu’s use of blue and indigo and its connection to the sea, childhood, notions of home and memory. Using the cyanotype process, students explore their own connections and interpretations to the colour blue using portraiture photography, still life and written text, which they are encouraged to experiment with through juxtaposition. The workshops sessions combine elements of photography, creative writing, creating and washing cyanotypes. Students co-create an autobiographical print with Arpita, which wee permanently kept at the school. The works also integrate a publication, available at the Stuart Hall Library. Download the zine: Blue Portal Image credit. Artwork by Eastbourne Academy student Jess Evenden --- - Published: 2024-03-06 - Modified: 2024-04-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/stuart-hall-library-contested-sites-publication-launch/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Research Network BOOK HERE iniva invites you to join us in celebrating our upcoming publication Contested Sites in our newly refurbished space. Over the last six months we have opened up the Stuart Hall Library to our members, networks and the public through the support of Cockayne - Grants for the Arts and the London Community Foundation. Through their support we have been able to make a welcoming space for this year’s Research Network Programme: Contested Sites. This grant has improved the artwork storage in the archive and supported a dedicated computer workstation to access our catalogues. The publication Contested Sites document reflections, research, thoughts and engagement from the programme. Continuing Stuart Hall’s ideas around re-affirming existence, this publication reflects on multiple ways in which histories hold multiple contested narratives within archives, bodies, institutions and geographies, whether material or digital, as sites for future histories. Designed by Rose Nordin and edited by Priya Jay, Contested Sites includes contributions from research associates Orsod Malik, Meera Shakti Osborne, Lamya Sadiq, Gary Stewart, Dharma Taylor and artist Fawziyah Rahman. This publication was made possible through funds from Freelands Foundation. Image credit: Books in Stuart Hall Library from Contested Sites Reading list, 2024. --- - Published: 2024-03-05 - Modified: 2025-08-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/on-our-table-art-pedagogy/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Talk BOOK HERE This brief session, titled 'On Our Table: Art Pedagogy,' aims to delve into the role of books in art education and pedagogy. We will spotlight materials from the Stuart Hall Library and Iniva's archive, examining how books and resources can act as aids for educational practices and artistic expression. Educator and Engagement Producer Kaitlene Koranteng, alongside Assistant Librarian Charlotte Mui, will guide you through the diverse contexts and social depths encapsulated within our collections. Our discussion will highlight significant materials that speak to the connections between art, education and pedagogy, including audio-visual material, specially developed resource packs and much more! ACCESSIBILITY It is free to attend this event and everyone is welcome. If you have accessibility requirements or questions please email library@iniva. org BIOGRAPHIES 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. Charlotte Mui assists with the running of Stuart Hall Library. She manages the journal collections and oversees library appointments and enquiries. She contributes to running the library volunteering programme and student placements. --- - Published: 2024-02-27 - Modified: 2024-03-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/open-call-for-writers/ - Project Types: Open Call - Event types: Open Call iniva is pleased to announce an open call for writing commissions as part of Unseen Guests - Post-National Digital Pavilion. This opportunity is open to writers based in the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The panel will select two writers - one writer based in the UK and one writer based in SSA. Selected writers will develop a writing piece which will be hosted on the Digital Pavilion alongside other audio and film commissions, and engage in the digital public programme curated by Renée Akitelek Mboya. We are particularly interested in working with writers whose practices are informed by anticolonial methodologies, Pan-African thinking, climate justice, and archival research, and who are willing to work in collaboration with others. Project Brief Unseen Guests is the second edition of iniva's Post-National Digital Pavilion Programme. The Pavilion is a series of radical re-imaginings of nationhood, reflecting on the entanglement between land and water, movement and m/otherlands, in the forging of new identities and subjectivities. Between April and November 2024, Unseen Guests proposes investigations alongside Pan-African cultural archives across the UK and SSA, focusing on documentations of anticolonial events and testimonies of climate change. Unseen Guests will commission eight artists based in the UK and SSA, working across new media, audiovisual and writing to create new works in response to the work of filmmaker and artist John Akomfrah, representing Great Britain at the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale. The project draws inspiration from recurring themes in John Akomfrah’s practice. Four commissioned short films... --- - Published: 2024-02-27 - Modified: 2024-04-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/out-of-margin-a-transnational-perspective-theory/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Reading Group - Event types: Reading Group BOOK HERE Identity is not as transparent or unproblematic as we think. Perhaps instead of thinking of identity as an already accomplished fact, which the new cultural practices then represent, we should think, instead, of identity as a 'production', which is never complete, always in process, and always constituted within, not outside, representation. — Stuart Hall, Cultural Identity and Diaspora, 1997. Join us to collectively read and discuss texts that think through practices in relation to 'Identity, Migration and Diaspora' in the transnational world. At a time of globalised conflicts, environmental changes, and economic disparities propelling vast populations across borders, what are the roles of imaginative rediscovery and hidden stories in reshaping the narratives of our cultural identity? How do we find belongings and rebuild communities from the ruins of war and the struggles of exile? This reading group delves into the rich tapestry of diasporic experiences as an empowering and creative force to emergent forms of representation among resilient communities and groups across the globe. Reading materials will be shared with registered participants by email. Advance reading is not compulsory but highly encouraged to inspire our discussions. Selected extracts 'Art & Black Consciousness', by Rasheed Araeen, 1982. ‘What is a Theorist? ’, Irit Rogoff, 1994. 'Diaspora Aesthetics: Black British Storytelling through Photographic slides' by Kaitlene Koranteng, 2023. Accessibility If you have any access requirements, please email us in advance at info@iniva. org and we will do our best to accommodate. Extracts of the texts will be provided on the... --- - Published: 2024-02-26 - Modified: 2024-02-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/the-local-and-global-in-the-art-of-frank-bowling/ - Event types: Talk Join us for a creative and interactive afternoon exploring the work of artist Frank Bowling as part of Hauser & Wirth London presentation ‘FRANK AT 90. ’ Delve into a stellar artistic career of Frank Bowling spanning over 50 years with guest speakers Susi Sahmland, artist Rohan Ayinde and curator Beatriz Lobo Britto. Schedule • 2 pm: Welcome and Introductions • 2. 05 pm: Susi Sahmland introduces Frank Bowling and the current presentation • 2. 30 pm: Personal creative reflections activity • 2. 45 pm: Refreshment break • 3 pm: Rohan Ayinde responds to the work and practice of Frank Bowling • 3. 30 pm: Summative creative activity facilitated by Rohan Ayinde Tickets are free, however, please ensure to book in advance by emailing hwlondonlearning@hauserwirth. com by Monday 11 March. Please note this event is for students of art and young people interested in art and design. About ‘FRANK AT 90’ Sir Frank Bowling OBE RA celebrates his 90th birthday with a presentation at Hauser & Wirth London of two monumental works, ‘Hello Rosa New York’ (1973) and ‘Thanks to Water’ (2023-24) in response. The presentation is on view at Hauser & Wirth London through Saturday 16 March. Speakers Susi Sahmland looks after educational outreach for the Frank Bowling Studio. She works closely with schools, galleries and museums and has written (with a colleague from Goldsmiths) a unit of work on Frank’s paintings. Susi taught KS1 to KS5 in central London schools for 22 years before doing an MA in... --- - Published: 2024-02-23 - Modified: 2024-03-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/out-of-margin-a-transnational-perspective/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Reading Group BOOK HERE Identity is not as transparent or unproblematic as we think. Perhaps instead of thinking of identity as an already accomplished fact, which the new cultural practices then represent, we should think, instead, of identity as a 'production', which is never complete, always in process, and always constituted within, not outside, representation. — Stuart Hall, Cultural Identity and Diaspora, 1997. At a time of globalised conflicts, environmental changes, and economic disparities propelling vast populations across borders, what are the roles of imaginative rediscovery and hidden stories in reshaping the narratives of our cultural identity? How do we find belongings and rebuild communities from the ruins of war and the struggles of exile? This reading group delves into the rich tapestry of diasporic experiences as an empowering and creative force to emergent forms of representation among resilient communities and groups across the globe. Join us to collectively read and discuss texts that think through practices in relation to 'Identity, Migration and Diaspora' in the transnational world. Advance reading is not compulsory but highly encouraged to inspire our discussions. You are welcome to contribute relevant materials or practices to the session. Reading materials will be shared with registered participants by email. Advance reading is not compulsory but highly encouraged to inspire our discussions. Selected extracts ‘’The Living Archive’ by African and Asian Artists’ Archive, Third Text, 2001. ‘Constituting an Archive’ by Stuart Hall, pg. 89-92. ‘Final Report’ by The Institute of New International Visual Arts: INIVA, Dec 1991. ‘New Internationalism: An... --- - Published: 2024-02-19 - Modified: 2024-05-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/entangled-threads-revisiting-the-clothes-cloth-culture-group/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Reading Group "Entangled Threads: Revisiting the Clothes, Cloth & Culture Group," draws on the legacy of the CCCG, reinterpreting Stuart Hall’s writings in the context of contemporary fashion, textiles, and fibre arts studies. BOOK HERE 2024 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Clothes, Cloth and Culture Group at the Stuart Hall Library. "Entangled Threads: Revisiting the Clothes, Cloth & Culture Group," a collaboration between iniva, the V&A, and CREATURE (The Research Centre for Creature Arts, Cultures, and Engagement) at London Metropolitan University, draws on the legacy of the CCCG, reinterpreting Stuart Hall’s writings in the context of contemporary fashion, textiles, and fibre arts studies. "Entangled Threads" asks: how are today’s cross-cultural entanglements and intersectional identities explored, performed, and interpreted through clothes and cloth? How might we understand Hall's notion of ‘becoming,’ as outlined in the essay "Cultural Identity and Diaspora," post-2020? How is this notion being expressed through clothes and cloth? The reading group will commence with invited speakers introducing their perspectives to enrich our collective reflection on how these questions might unfold in the present context. Renata Brenha (Designer) Michael McMillan (Writer) Anya Paintsil (Artist) Péjú Oshin (Curator) Anushka Tay (Artist) This will be followed by discussions revisiting the framework of Hall’s notion of identity as a process of becoming in the context of clothes and cloth. In preparation of the event, participants are encouraged to read in advance Stuart Hall’s (1997) Cultural Identity and Diaspora. This reading group takes place during the exhibition Materials Speak, which is on display in Stuart Hall Library until 26 April 2024. # Agenda 5. 30-5. 40pm: Welcome and Introduction by Sepake Angiama, Christine Checinska and Wessie Ling. 5. 40-6. 10pm: Performance and Presentations by Michael... --- - Published: 2024-01-23 - Modified: 2024-02-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/the-ghosts-will-not-give-up-on-us/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Talk In this talk, Lamya Sadiq will attempt to trace some of the characteristics and contours of ancestral wounds, using the experience and material of being ‘haunted’ as a means through which to make real the intergenerational and shared dimensions of trauma and loss. In the winter of 1978, artist Syed Raisul Haq was brutally murdered in Cologne at the age of 23. The investigation ceased after a year with no perpetrator or explanation. His family lived on with the horror and regret of letting their youngest go to a place where his life held a very different meaning. Raisul was my mother’s youngest Chaccha*, we call him Siraj. What little I know about Siraj comes from the sketches he left behind and a few inherited stories - and yet - the specter of his life and specifically his terrible end lies latent within me. I am certain his ghost has haunted me before, however it was only in December of last year that I began to pin this feeling down, the feeling of being wounded. Haunting is never accidental; in Bangladesh, when ghosts appear to us we summon the courage to pay attention. As people of the diaspora bear witness to the genocide of Palestinian people, it breaks open a specific, unnameable and historic wound. That I am being visited by Siraj now is no accident. In always occupying a state of being in-between, how can ghosts - of people, land, culture & future - help orient our relation to... --- - Published: 2024-01-22 - Modified: 2025-08-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/creative-mapping-design-and-architecture-lab/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Workshop iniva’s Creative Mapping: Design and Architecture Lab is a gathering dedicated to artists, designers and architects from the global majority. The lab is an opportunity for practitioners to access library and archival material from the Stuart Hall Library’s collection, and help shape iniva’s future programmes according to their needs and ambitions. Taking place in the context of Dharma Taylor's exhibition Materials Speak, this event is a continuation of our exploration initiated during the Stuart Hall Library Artists' Residency with the designer. Since then, we have been committed to making iniva's programme more interdisciplinary across visual practices and understanding how iniva can better serve and integrate design and architecture into its programme. Convened by Meneesha Kellay with contributions from Charlene Prempeh, Nate Agbetu and Nana Biamah-Ofosu. Agenda: Welcome to iniva’s Creative Mapping: Led by iniva’s Artistic Director Sepake Angiama, explore the vision behind this gathering and the journey from the Stuart Hall Residency to the present. Practice in Focus: introduction workshop session led by Nate Agbetu Lunch Break - lunch provided Readings for the Future: Led by Nana Biamah-Ofosu, this workshop session is an opportunity to explore materials and resources currently housed in the Stuart Hall Library and iniva’s archive. Utilising Stuart Hall's text 'Constituting an Archive' as a catalyst for discourse, participants will navigate through its ideas, prompting reflections on their own creative practices within the realm of design and architecture. Closing Remarks and Networking Reception: Reflect on the day, share insights from sessions, and connect with fellow participants over... --- - Published: 2024-01-22 - Modified: 2024-01-22 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/storytelling-through-objects/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Workshop Reflecting on the exhibition themes, the session with students from Millbank Academy will support young people to learn about the possibilities of building narratives and reflect on personal memories and histories embedded in objects, while exercising critical thinking through reflecting on the complexities of the object in itself - exploring production chain, material sources and afterlife. Led by artist Lauren-Loïs Duah, the students will be invited to explore objects that have significance for them and develop research skills in the library according to information extracted from the object. Students will also experiment with embroidery and weaving, and do a presentation of what they created for the final session. About the artist Lauren-Loïs Duah is a cross-disciplinary artist, writer and spatial-designer whose work focuses on the ways in which creativity, craft, and design can be used as dynamic liberatory tools for social justice and to build positive community practices. Since graduating with a Masters in Architecture from the Royal College of Art in 2022, Lauren-Loïs is currently expanding her creative approach to practice as part of RESOLVE Collective. Notably, Lauren-Loïs' research work, 'Obroni Wa'awu: Cross-Continental Clothescapes' was selected for the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale. She has also debuted her drawings in a solo art exhibition at Spiral Galleries (2022), shared her poetry at the Tate Britain for Lynette Yiadom Boakye's 'Fly in League with the Night', and labels her on-going creative explorations as 'Works in Progress' or 'WIP'. - Photo by Hydar Dewachi --- - Published: 2024-01-19 - Modified: 2024-05-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/artists-books/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Talk BOOK HERE This brief session, titled 'On Our Table: Artist Books,' aims to spotlight materials from the Stuart Hall Library and Iniva's archive, exploring the intersection of book, archive object, and artwork – commonly referred to as 'artists books. ' This term may be challenging to define precisely, but in simple terms, it refers to works of art may that utilise the book form. Archivist and Engagement Producer Kaitlene Koranteng, along with Assistant Librarian Charlotte Mui, will guide you through the diverse contexts and social depths encapsulated within our collections. Our discussion will showcase notable works in our collection, such as Shiraz Bajoo's visual interpretation of Treasure Island and anothermountainman's celebration of the iconic red-white-and-blue bags ubiquitous in Hong Kong. In the hands of an artist, books can assume various shapes and forms. Join us on our table as we challenge conventional notions of what defines a book, offering you a glimpse into the artistic exploration of this unique medium. ACCESSIBILITY It is free to attend this event and everyone is welcome. If you have accessibility requirements or questions please email library@iniva. org BIOGRAPHIES 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. Charlotte Mui assists with the running of Stuart Hall Library. She manages the journal collections and oversees library appointments and enquiries. She contributes to running the library volunteering programme and student placements. --- - Published: 2024-01-16 - Modified: 2024-01-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/kla-art-24-festival-residency/ - Project Types: Open Call - Event types: Open Call APPLY HERE iniva and 32° East Trust are pleased to announce a new partnership and opportunity through British Council’s Biennials Connect for an artist based in the UK to take part in KLA ART, Kampala’s longest running contemporary art festival. The selected artist will be in residence at 32° East in Kampala, Uganda over a three-month period from May to July 2024 and showcase in the festival in August this year. The theme for KLA ART '24 is Care Instructions and will invite artists and the public to look at cultural heritage through the lens of care. The Open Call for this artist residency and participation in the KLA ART ‘24 is an opportunity to develop a project for this supporting, nurturing and non-competitive environment in which you can develop your practice and expand your networks in East Africa. We invite you to follow the link to apply for consideration of the panel. The panel will be made up of the directors and staff from iniva and 32° East. The panel will shortlist and interview potential candidates in March and will be announced in April 2024. All inquiries including any accessibility requests to support the application process can be directed to info@ugandanartstrust. org This opportunity is part of this year's programme #iniva30 About 32° East | Uganda's Trust 32° East | Ugandan Arts Trust is an independent non-profit organisation, focused on the creation and exploration of contemporary art in Uganda. The multi-purpose resource centre is based in the capital city... --- - Published: 2023-12-21 - Modified: 2024-02-29 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/part-of-the-furniture/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Talk Join us for an in-conversation with Dharma Taylor and Kaia Charles where she’ll be sharing her journey as the sixth Stuart Hall Library artist in residence, making connections between readings, research, and networks and how it entangles design. Continuing her response on the residency to Stuart Hall’s paper ‘Constituting an archive’ (2001), Dharma will reflect on what the ‘living archive’ means to her now and how she will take her findings into the future development of her practice. This talk is part of the Stuart Hall Library Artist Residency, a funded research opportunity initiated by Stuart Hall Foundation and iniva. Accessibility If you have any access requirements, please email us in advance at info@iniva. org and we will do our best to accommodate. Biography Dharma Taylor is a multidisciplinary designer and maker with a background specialising in menswear and textiles. She graduated from Rochester University for the creative arts with a BA in Fashion Design and the London College of Fashion with an MA in Menswear. She has developed her practice and explored working with new material, Dharma’s way of combining textiles with woodwork produces works of great beauty and deceptive simplicity. Over the past few years through research-based projects, she has sought to observe aspects of the society and systems in which we exist. Inspired by diverse sources, from technology and poetry to ancient civilisations and cultural plurality. Kaia Charles is a Cultural projects commissioner and curator whose work is rooted in contemporary art practice. Charles has commissioned projects that... --- - Published: 2023-12-14 - Modified: 2024-02-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/policing-the-crisis/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Research Network - Event types: Talk 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 If you have any access requirements, please email us in advance at info@iniva. org and we will do our best to accommodate. 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... --- - Published: 2023-11-29 - Modified: 2024-02-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/insurgent-rituals-spectral-talismans/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Reading Group At a time when our unfreedoms are so pronounced; wars are raging and we are reminded safety is conditional. Pleasure, comfortable housing, time for loved ones or to be truly sad feel elusive or deferred. Yet it is in these moments that we become most ungovernable, our calls for abundant life and liberation loudest. The soul, the spirit, somehow evades capture. This reading group attempts to think through the practice of ‘believing’ as a serious political endeavor. How do we cultivate the beliefs which enable us to commit to the feeling of the ‘not-yet’, to the horizon? The present is haunted by the specters of what was, is and will be possible. When we relentlessly invoke a future known only through affect, glimmers, prayers and dreams, we become accustomed to a way of feeling and doing that refuses the fiction of liberal reasoning, capitalist time and nation-states. Every invocation towards freedom intercepts the present with new messages to confuse and disorder the deathly circuits intent on disciplining us. This is an opportunity to explore, acknowledge and ground ourselves in the rituals (some are not always known nor possible to articulate) that nourish and sustain our belief in something better (Free Palestine! ) - the ceremonies through which we call upon our ancestors, develop new architectures for listening and speaking, build relationships with ideas and each other, notice multidimensionally; lovingly reaching forward to the ‘what is to come’. We will collectively read and discuss texts in relation to our own existing... --- - Published: 2023-11-28 - Modified: 2023-11-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/transformation-of-silence-group-read-in/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Reading Group BOOK HERE Transformation of Silence into Words & Action is the title of an essay by poet, feminist, activist & educator Audre Lorde. Join us as we come together under this banner for a Group Read-In session at the Stuart Hall Library. Our library and archive team have put together an extensive selection of books, including a number of new purchases, which build understanding about the situation in Palestine and Israel through the works of artists, writers and other cultural producers. During this free session, we invite participants to read, share and discuss with the group ideas and thoughts arising from the books selected. --- - Published: 2023-11-28 - Modified: 2023-11-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/fugitive-feminism-reading-group-with-hudda-khaireh/ - Event types: Reading Group BOOK HERE Imagine you were never considered to be human. How would you perceive the world? What future is possible? Fugitive Feminism considers the ways in which Black women have been excluded from, struggled to achieve and opted to reject the category of ‘human’, drawing on the legacies of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis and others. This reading group continues Silver Press and iniva’s collaborative exploration of the ‘fugitive’ through collective reading and listening marking the publication of Fugitive Feminism by Akwugo Emejulu. Calling for a collective process of speculative dialogue, Fugitive Feminism is an invitation to consider the flight into the unknown: an uncertain and dangerous path, which remains an essential element of liberation. This reading group will be facilitated by Hudda Khaireh. About Hudda Hudda Khaireh is an independent researcher and artist with a background in Public International Law whose practice focuses on the position of Black people globally. Hudda has shared work at Houston’s Project Row Houses, London’s Chisenhale Gallery, Tate Exchange Tate Modern and Uncommon Space at Tate Britain, Printroom Rotterdam, and DIY Cultures. Hudda is also the Project Manager at Numbi Arts, a Somali originated, globally focused cross arts organisation in Tower Hamlets, is member of the Black Feminist artist collective Thick/er Black Lines, as well as an associate of OOMK Zine. Image: We Shape Ourselves. Courtesy of Silver Press --- - Published: 2023-11-17 - Modified: 2023-12-05 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/reflecting-on-family-archives/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Workshop As part of Shifting the Centre – Anticolonial Ways of Seeing‘s Public Programme, artist Beverley Bennett, supported by therapist Stephen Rudder, is inviting men of all ages and backgrounds to come together and reflect on history through their family's archives. Why is this call out only for men? Beverley has dedicated several years to working with women, notably through her project Simon Says/Dadda—a series of films exploring women's relationships with their fathers. This experience has led her to broaden her focus to include men, exploring their relationships with themselves and others. The decision to exclusively invite men, including a male therapist, is driven by the goal of establishing a secure and supportive environment. This space aims to encourage men to challenge colonial notions of masculinity and foster stronger connections with one another. The artist invites participants to bring a letter or text message of significance, fostering a space for reflection and connection. The session will consist of meditation, creative writing exercises, and group discussions led by the artist, and an exhibition tour will be led by the curators. The session is completely free, but booking is essential. As part of the booking process, we will ask you to share your intention in signing up for this session. Your answer will help us to shape the session. Refreshments will be served. Please get in touch if you have any allergies. We can also accommodate accessibility needs when informed in advance. Please contact iniva’s Curator Beatriz Lobo if you have any requests... --- - Published: 2023-11-06 - Modified: 2023-11-24 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/colab-birmingham/ - Venues: Holyhead School CoLab promotes interdisciplinary education and well-being practices through contemporary art. The Birmingham edition of CoLab is led by local artist Exodus Crooks, and climate expert Susanne Boerner from the University of Birmingham, with support from psychotherapist Karen Dhlamini, and project managed by Candice Nembhard. CoLab Birmingham aims to enable young people to understand and address the complex issues surrounding the climate crisis. CoLab’s aim is to provide durability and lasting impact to the climate crises in individuals and in the Holyhead School. Throughout the workshop sessions, students use sound, painting and sculpture to explore eco-anxiety and autonomy. During the sessions, students will experiment with environments to respond to themes such as nature and landscape preservation and food and water scarcity. The project will conclude with a printmaking experiment for students to create their own climate protest posters, inspired by the 1968-1971 Camden poster workshop. Workshop dates Monday, 19th June 2024 Monday, 3rd July 2024 Wednesday, 19th July 2024 Friday 21st, July 2024 This project is supported by Freelands and Saintbury Trust. Contributors Exodus Crooks (they/them) is a British-Jamaican multidisciplinary artist, educator, and writer whose practice centres the relationship with self. Observing the results of fractious domesticity, despair and passion, their art tends to appear as questions of self-actualisation and the role that religion & spirituality play in that journey to enlightenment. Candice Nembhard (okcandice) ((s)he/they) is a writer, artist-curator, archivist, and musician between Birmingham and Berlin. They are a Jerwood Arts Curatorial Fellow and Obsidian Foundation Fellow. Candice is a... --- - Published: 2023-10-24 - Modified: 2023-12-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/shifting-the-centre-anticolonial-ways-of-seeing-reading-session-one/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Reading Group - Event types: Reading Group BOOK HERE As part of our Shifting the Centre: Anticolonial Ways of Seeing exhibition, International Curators Forum (ICF) are hosting a Reading Group session at the Stuart Hall Library. This session aims to draw connections between what we read and our immediate political reality to think through what anticolonial ways of seeing may look like in practice. We invite you to bring in a single text, poem, quote, artwork, or excerpt which you associate with "Anticolonial Ways of Seeing" to share and discuss over two open and informal group discussions. If you would prefer not to bring your own text, we have included links to texts for attendees to help ground the discussion, and/or we encourage you to make use of the texts on display. We hope the session can generate collective consideration of the ways in which critical texts can act as important analytical tools for addressing urgent political realities, such as the colonial systems impacting peoples living in places like Palestine and the Congo, through historical readings of revolutions like the ones that took place in Haiti and Grenada. If you plan to bring your own texts, please email info@internationalcuratorsforum. org with the title so that it can potentially be added to Stuart Hall Library's collection. Supplementary Texts Grenada Revisited: An Interim Report by Audre Lorde (1984) Ronald Reagan Speech justifying US invasion of Lebanon and Grenada (1983) All the Devils Are Here’ – How the Visual History of the Haitian Revolution Misrepresents Black Suffering and Death by... --- - Published: 2023-10-24 - Modified: 2023-12-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/shifting-the-centre-anticolonial-ways-of-seeing-reading-session-two/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Reading Group - Event types: Reading Group BOOK HERE As part of our Shifting the Centre: Anticolonial Ways of Seeing exhibition, International Curators Forum (ICF) are hosting a Reading Group session at the Stuart Hall Library. This session aims to draw connections between what we read and our immediate political reality to think through what anticolonial ways of seeing may look like in practice. We invite you to bring in a single text, poem, quote, artwork, or excerpt which you associate with Anticolonial Ways of Seeing to share and discuss over two open and informal group discussions. If you would prefer not to bring your own text, we have included links to texts for attendees to help ground the discussion, and/or we encourage you to make use of the texts on display. We hope the session can generate collective consideration of the ways in which critical texts can act as important analytical tools for addressing urgent political realities, such as the colonial systems impacting peoples living in places like Palestine and the Congo, through historical readings of revolutions like the ones that took place in Haiti and Grenada. If you plan to bring your own texts, please email info@internationalcuratorsforum. org with the title so that it can potentially be added to the Stuart Hall Library's collection. Supplementary Texts Grenada Revisited: An Interim Report by Audre Lorde (1984) Ronald Reagan Speech justifying US invasion of Lebanon and Grenada (1983) All the Devils Are Here’ – How the Visual History of the Haitian Revolution Misrepresents Black Suffering and Death... --- - Published: 2023-10-24 - Modified: 2023-11-17 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/shifting-the-centre-anticolonial-ways-of-seeing-film-screening/ - Project Types: Screening - Event types: Screening BOOK HERE Join International Curators Forum (ICF) and iniva at the Stuart Hall Library for a special screening of Edward Said’s ‘The Idea of Empire’ (1993), of which an excerpt is being shown in the Shifting the Centre: Anticolonial Ways of Seeing exhibition. The film will play from 6pm-7pm followed by a 30-minute discussion at the end. We will consider how Edward Said’s work can help us make sense of Empire’s continuation and its contemporary articulations. This is an in-person event with limited spaces and registration is essential, but we will be live streaming the film and the Q&A. Accessibility It is free to attend and everyone is welcome. If you have any access requirements or questions, please contact us in advance by emailing Beatriz Lobo (Curator) beatriz@iniva. org and we will do our best to accommodate. 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. International Curators Forum (ICF) was founded by artists and curators in 2007 to offer a programme of commissions, exhibitions, projects, publications and events that respond to... --- - Published: 2023-10-17 - Modified: 2024-02-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/is-a-shared-history-possible/ - Venues: Online - Project Types: Research Network - Event types: Talk 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. Accessibility If you have any access requirements, please email us in advance at info@iniva. org and we will do our best to accommodate. 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... --- - Published: 2023-10-12 - Modified: 2024-02-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/livity/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Research Network - Event types: Reading Group Join us for an interactive reading and listening group with Dharma Taylor as we explore sociocultural vibes and the crowd's sensitivity to the sound system. In this session, we will collectively read a passage from the book Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sounds Systems, Performance Techniques and Ways of Knowing by Julian Henriques as well as watch archival video footage of dub dance sessions. We will discuss ideas of sociocultural vibrations that are embodied in the crowd's ways of doing and knowing with attitude, fashion and lifestyle (in Jamaica this is called 'livity'. ) This event is free and open to all! It is a supportive and peer-led space for thinking and learning together. It is a space for constructive disagreements and critical engagement that is always based on mutual respect, interest, and care. Extracts will be read together in the group. You don’t need to read them in advance. This reading group is part of iniva’s Research Network programme Contested Sites. It is supported by funding from Freelands Foundation. Accessibility If you have any access requirements, please email us in advance at info@iniva. org and we will do our best to accommodate. Extracts of the texts will be provided on the day. Biography Dharma Taylor is a multidisciplinary designer and maker with a background specialising in menswear and textiles. She graduated from Rochester University for the creative arts with a BA in Fashion Design and the London College of Fashion with an MA in Menswear. She has developed her practice and explored... --- - Published: 2023-10-10 - Modified: 2024-02-16 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/authenticity-and-dub/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Research Network - Event types: Reading Group Join us for an interactive reading group with Gary Stewart as we explore the authenticity of dubbing sound. Gary works at the intersection of sound, moving image and computational creativity. This reading will focus on sound culture, dub and transmutation and question what happens when a version has more authenticity than the original record. This event is free and open to all! It is a supportive and peer-led space for thinking and learning together. It is a space for constructive disagreements and critical engagement that is always based on mutual respect, interest, and care. Extracts will be read together in the group. You don’t need to read them in advance. This reading group is part of iniva’s Research Network programme Contested Sites. It is supported by funding from Freelands Foundation. Accessibility If you have any access requirements, please email us in advance at info@iniva. org and we will do our best to accommodate. Extracts of the texts will be provided on the day. Selected Text Sonic Bodies by Julien Henriques p. 147 The sound of culture: diaspora and black technopoetics by Louis Chude-Sokei p. 59 Stolen Life by Fred Moten p. 184 The Black Technical Object, In Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being by Ramon Amaro p. 55 An Individual Note by Daphne Oram p. 75 Phonographies, Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity by Alexander G. Weheliye p. 11 Bibliography The sound of culture: diaspora and black technopoetics / Louis Chude-Sokei. Walking with sound: race and the prosthetic ear / Louis... --- - Published: 2023-10-09 - Modified: 2023-11-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/slow-time-a-research-presentation/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Talk BOOK HERE Join Future Collect curatorial trainee Hollie Douglas as she presents on research developed over her traineeship with iniva and Towner Eastbourne. Slow Time (working title) is a research project inspired by initial investigations into memory, nostalgia and the archive. It has developed through conversations with artists to look at imagination and dreaming as an embodiment and expression of resistance and freedom. Slow time proposes an inconsistent way of looking at time, which permits a way of thinking about time that allows for dreams, radical imagination and memory to be nurtured. Hollie's research talk will include a presentation of her ideas and then an opportunity to explore these themes further in open discussion with attendees. The research looks at weaving together artistic practices that she has encountered and drawing from theories such as ‘Black radical imagination’ and ‘Black utopia’. Biography Hollie Douglas is a curatorial trainee currently working at the Towner gallery Eastbourne, on Future Collect, an iniva project which is looking at changing the way institutions develop collections in the future. Her work is largely concerned with the representation of artists of colour in exhibitions and collections and how curatorial processes and activism can change this and embedding the narratives of overlooked artists of colour into art history. Hollie is also currently studying an MA in Material and Visual Culture at University College London. --- - Published: 2023-10-02 - Modified: 2023-10-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/migration-memory-and-music-bringing-an-archive-of-songs-from-bengal-to-london/ - Event types: Performance Book tickets ‘Uncovering the Archive’ is thrilled to present Moushumi Bhowmik, a Calcutta (Kolkata)-based Bengali singer, composer and practice-led researcher who has been making and archiving field recordings from India, Bangladesh and London for over two decades. During this event Moushumi will talk about her archival practice and perform a selection of her songs rooted in Bengali folk and protest traditions. Her concert will be performed alongside longtime collaborators Ben Heartland and Oliver Weeks. Her main focus is on questions of home, homeland, borders and displacement and her main research methodology involves listening and telling/singing. She collaborates with artists, filmmakers and scholars across disciplines and continents. Moushumi is also a published author in English and Bengali. Her research, including the archive that comes out of her doctoral research, can be found at www. thetravellingarchive. org. Moushumi is handing over a set of her/The Travelling Archive's recordings relating to Bengali life in London and elsewhere in the UK, to help us study our histories of migration through sound. These include recordings made from 2006 in London and others made in and around London as well as in Kolkata/Calcutta for an exhibition held at Rich Mix in 2015 entitled The Travelling Archive in East London. Moushumi continues to make recordings of her friends in London every time she visits the city and copies of her recent work will be held at MayDay Rooms. While the event is open to all, participants between the ages of 18 - 25 will be given priority... --- - Published: 2023-10-02 - Modified: 2024-01-16 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/activating-inivas-archive-catalogue-launch/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library Book Free Ticket Join us on 25th October 2023 from 5. 30-7. 30pm to celebrate the launch of iniva's first online archive catalogue. For the past year Kaitlene Koranteng, iniva's Archive and Engagement Producer, and Niamh Glanville-Frayne, iniva's Cataloguing Archivist, have been developing the archive catalogue to activate the archive and make it widely accessible. Housed in the Stuart Hall Library, iniva's archive is an ever-growing collection which documents the history of iniva since its inception in 1994. It is an archive of iniva's history that spans across exhibitions, publication, education, research and event making, and maps the organisation's contributions to diversifying the visual arts sector. The archive holds a vast collection of artist files, global ephemera, and various donated collections from David A. Bailey, Isaac Julien and Sunil Gupta amongst many others. For the first time in iniva's history the archive is becoming activated. This launch event was made possible through the Archives Revealed programme funded by The National Archives, The Pilgrim Trust and The Wolfson Foundation, alongside Cockayne Grants for the Arts, who funded the refurbishment of Stuart Hall Library and iniva's archive in August 2023. Image credit: Archive material from Shifting the Centre: Anticolonial Was of Seeing Exhibition, 2023. Image courtesy of iniva and ICF, photographed by Jemima Yong. . --- - Published: 2023-10-02 - Modified: 2023-10-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/piecing-together-x-space/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Talk BOOK HERE This instalment of our show-and-tell series focuses on iniva’s X-Space collection. X-Space was iniva’s virtual gallery and online project space which ran from 1996 to 2002, and existed as a non-literal space trying to create and explore new possibilities in the digital realm. This talk will be facilitated by our Cataloguing Archivist Niamh Glanville-Frayne, who will commence by talking through X-Space and its various projects, and the process of cataloguing the narrative around an archive collection that has missing pieces. ACCESSIBILITY It is free to attend this event and everyone is welcome. If you have accessibility requirements or questions please email library@iniva. org. ABOUT NIAMH Niamh Glanville-Frayne is the Cataloguing Archivist at iniva. She is responsible for cataloguing key parts of iniva’s archive to facilitate the access and engagement of significant histories in diverse contemporary art. Niamh’s work is supported by the Archives Revealed Programme. Image: Archival material from iniva's 'X-Space' Collection, 2023. --- - Published: 2023-10-02 - Modified: 2023-12-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/auteurship/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Research Network - Event types: Talk BOOK HERE Join us for an interactive performance evening with Gary Stewart as we explore auteurship and how technological innovations can make desirable changes in an unjust society. In filmmaking, the idea of the `auteur' is used to describe when the director is viewed as a major influence in their films to the point where they rank as the ‘author’. Stuart Hall’s essay Constituting An Archive suggests/affirms that archives are not static or neutral and in cultural studies as well as media studies we can recontextualise and reassembly content to manipulate collective media memory. This performance is a gentle intervention into how we can inform institutions of the futures into how we experience contested pasts. Gary’s work is rooted within social justice and connecting his political activism, practice and articulation as an artist and the work of academia. Currently, Gary has been engaged in an ongoing investigation into the malleable nature of the archive in relation to generative theories, transmutation, augmented space, narrative mapping and the observer effect which occurs in quantum mechanics. This talk is part of iniva’s Research Network programme Contested Sites. It is supported by funding from Freelands Foundation. Accessibility If you have any access requirements, please email us in advance at info@iniva. org and we will do our best to accommodate. Biography Gary Stewart is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines social and political issues of identity, culture, and technology. Operating through a range of theoretical, fictional, and artistic frames he is part of a global network... --- - Published: 2023-10-02 - Modified: 2024-02-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/towards-a-shared-history/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Research Network - Event types: Reading Group Join us for an interactive reading group with Orsod Malik as we explore whether a shared history is possible, and what the creative and political implications for it might be. Whilst listening to the 1983 speech made by Maurice Bishop, leader of Grenada’s Peoples Revolutionary Government (PRG), at Hunter College, we will read the transcript from the speech in relation to the colonial situation in Palestine and beyond. This reading session will consider how Bishop posits a shared history, and whether the discursive tools he employs can be used to draw connections between different liberation struggles against colonisation today, and the obstacles standing in front of them today. This reading group is open to all; it is a supportive and peer-led space for thinking and learning together. It is a space for constructive disagreements and critical engagement that is always based on mutual respect, interest, and care. The transcript below will focus on the full Maurice Bishop speech which you can watch prior to the session but the transcript will be made available to you on the day. You do not need to read it in advance. This reading group is part of iniva’s Research Network programme Contested Sites. It is supported by funding from Freelands Foundation Accessibility If you have any access requirements, please email us in advance at info@iniva. org and we will do our best to accommodate. Extracts of the texts will be provided on the day. Biography Orsod Malik, International Curators Forum’s Curator and Digital Strategist, is a... --- - Published: 2023-09-22 - Modified: 2023-10-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/archive-focus-group-the-education-archive/ - Venues: Online - Event types: Workshop BOOK HERE Are you passionate about arts education and preserving history? Come along to our focus group session exploring iniva’s Education Archive. As we catalogue the documents and ephemera that capture a 30-year history of arts education and pedagogy we invite you to contribute to the future of this material. Iniva are on a mission to make our archives more accessible, and we want you to be part of it We’re looking for individuals who have a passion for arts education, whether or not you’ve used an archive before we want to hear from you. There are limited spaces available. If you sign up and can no longer attend, please let us know so we can make that space available to others. ACCESSIBILITY It is free to attend this event and everyone is welcome. If you have accessibility requirements or questions please email library@iniva. org. ABOUT KAITLENE 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. --- - Published: 2023-09-22 - Modified: 2023-12-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/body-as-a-testimony/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Research Network - Event types: Talk “... The whole apparatus of a history, key figures, and works, tendencies, shifts, breaks, ruptures, slips into place silently. ” – Stuart Hall (2001), Constituting an Archive Join us for an in-conversation between Dharma Taylor and Henrique J. Paris as we reflect on their shared research corresponding to Stuart Hall's ideas about testifying history and reaffirming existence. Looking through a paradigm that considers the body as a living archive in itself — they are questioning strategies and definitions in their artistic and design practices seeking new ways of approaching the 'body', bridging both of their knowledge from the different experiences working with imagery, furniture-making, tailoring, choreographing body movement, etc. Thinking relationships between objects, movement, social processes and cultural memories through open lenses that attend plural histories and possibilities. This talk is part of iniva’s Research Network programme Contested Sites. It is supported by funding from Freelands Foundation. Accessibility If you have any access requirements, please email us in advance at info@iniva. org and we will do our best to accommodate. Biography Dharma Taylor is a multidisciplinary designer and maker with a background specialising in menswear and textiles. She graduated from Rochester University for the creative arts with a BA in Fashion Design and the London College of Fashion with an MA in Menswear. She has developed her practice and explored working with new material, Dharma’s way of combining textiles with woodwork produces works of great beauty and deceptive simplicity. Over the past few years through research-based projects, she has sought to... --- > Join us for an interactive reading group with Meera Shakti Osborne as we explore questions about how we learn in spaces without authority and (re)searching for a common language in relation to youth resistance movements in London. - Published: 2023-09-20 - Modified: 2023-12-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/research/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Research Network - Event types: Reading Group When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner” - Ursula K. Le Guin, Bryn Mawr Commencement Address (1986) Join us for an interactive reading group with Meera Shakti Osborne as we explore questions about how we learn in spaces without authority and (re)searching for a common language in relation to youth resistance movements in London. Meera’s practice as a youth worker and artist is rooted in exploring how youth work can be expansive beyond the institutional structures, we operate in. They are interested in the process of learning, exploring if learning is an accumulation of information remembered and questioning how we process information and how it impacts how we exist in our everyday lives. Youth movements exist in different ways today than in the past. This reading group will focus on people’s lived experiences through watching Mustafa Abu Ali's film Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza (1973) and reading June Jordan's poetry Apologies to all the People in Lebanon (2005) alongside text by Ursula K. Le Guin and Skye Arundhati Thomas and the Newsreel Collective film Divide and Rule – Never! This reading group is designed to support uncertainty, questioning and feelings. It is a peer-led space for thinking and learning together. It is a space for constructive disagreements and critical engagement that is always based on mutual respect, interest, and care. It is open to all and expertise on... --- - Published: 2023-09-19 - Modified: 2023-10-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/book-launch-donald-rodney-autoicon/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Book Launch - Event types: Book Launch Buy Tickets on Eventbrite Book Free Ticket Join us on Monday 9 October 5. 30-7. 30pm for the launch of Afterall's newest One Works publication Donald Rodney: Autoicon by Richard Birkett at the Stuart Hall Library. The evening will include a reading by the author Richard Birkett who will be joined by interdisciplinary artist (and former Head of Multimedia at iniva) Gary Stewart, as well as a poetry reading inspired by Autoicon from artist and writer Amy Ching-Yan Lam. Donald Rodney: Autoicon is an illustrated examination of Donald Rodney’s last work, completed posthumously. First launched at iniva in 2000, the web and CD-ROM-based Autoicon was conceived by Donald Rodney in the mid-1990s but completed posthumously, after his sickle cell anaemia-related death, by a group of close friends and artists ironically named Donald Rodney plc. With the work's production overseen by Rodney's occasional collaborator Mike Phillips and his colleagues Adrian Ward and Geoff Cox at Science Technology Arts Research (STAR) at the University of Plymouth, alongside Gary Stewart at iniva, Donald Rodney plc included artists and writers Eddie Chambers, Richard Hylton, Virginia Nimarkoh, Keith Piper and Diane Symons. As an index of entangled social and material relations, Autoicon offers a form of dispersed memory that challenges stable parameters of subjectivity and authorship. Twenty-three years later, we reconvene at iniva to celebrate Autoicon through Birkett’s in-depth and generous study of a work brought to life by acts of communal and collective care. The publication will be available to buy alongside other Afterall... --- - Published: 2023-08-30 - Modified: 2023-09-19 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/revisiting-internationalism/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Talk BOOK HERE In April 1994 iniva held its founding symposium titled 'A New Internationalism' at the Tate Gallery, which brought together artists, curators, critics, historians and writers to debate about the value, role, and practice of the visual arts within the context of the then emerging concept of a 'new internationalism'. In the third instalment of our show and tell series we will revisit the symposium and the conversations it facilitated through the archive collection, contemplating how these topics have progressed since 1994. This talk will be facilitated by our Cataloguing Archivist Niamh Glanville-Frayne. It will take the form of an introduction to the archive collection followed by an open discussion reflecting on the symposium. ACCESSIBILITY It is free to attend this event and everyone is welcome. If you have accessibility requirements or questions please email library@iniva. org. ABOUT NIAMH Niamh Glanville-Frayne is the Cataloguing Archivist at iniva. She is responsible for cataloguing key parts of iniva’s archive to facilitate the access and engagement of significant histories in diverse contemporary art. Niamh’s work is supported by the Archives Revealed Programme. Image: Archival material from iniva's Founding Symposium 'A New Internationalism' collection, 2023. --- - Published: 2023-08-30 - Modified: 2024-01-05 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/on-our-table-anticolonial-ways-of-seeing/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Talk Short lunchtime tour on resources on the theme of anti-colonial thought from Stuart Hall Library and iniva archive. BOOK HERE This short session, entitled ‘On Our Table: Anticolonial Ways of Seeing ’aims to showcase materials from Stuart Hall Library and iniva’s archive that demonstrate anticolonialism - as a tradition of thought and action - can be applied to artistic, teaching and organising work today. Come and share with us on our table and gain a glimpse of the iniva’s Stuart Hall Library and archive collections. Archivist and Engagement Producer Kaitlene Koranteng will guide you through the rich contexts and social depths contained within our collections. Our talk will explore thinkers such as CLR James and Angela Davis whose writings focus on decoloniality as well artists represented in archive whose visual work that touches on similar topics. Join us and help us understand what it means to find your home, create and craft one in hostile land and go back to fetch what is at risk of being left behind. This talk will serve to compliment our upcoming exhibition Shifting the Centre: Anticolonial Ways of Seeing, which opens on the 27th September 2023. ACCESSIBILITY It is free to attend this event and everyone is welcome. If you have accessibility requirements or questions please email library@iniva. org. BIOGRAPHIES 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. --- - Published: 2023-08-21 - Modified: 2023-08-21 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/iniva-book-sale-2023/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Book Sale - Event types: Book Sale iniva is delighted to invite you to our annual book sale – a one week sales event at the Stuart Hall Library, that will feature a reduction of 50% or more on over 40 iniva titles with prices from £1! Every purchase comes with a free mystery publication while stocks last. iniva has been publishing since 1994 on subjects including identity politics, art history and monographs on artists from the Global Majority. Titles include the renowned Annotating Art Histories series edited by Kobena Mercer (normally £15. 95 / sale price from £5 each) and Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Market Place edited by Olu Oguibe and Okwui Enwezor (normally £20 / sale price £5). And alongside our own titles browse and buy our limited editions, sign up to our library and get your hands on our FREE library duplicates. This is the best opportunity to pick up a favourite title or gift from as little as £1, or chose a bundle for a further discount! Sales prices will be available in person only! iniva is a registered charity and all of our publications income supports the work we do in developing & sustaining International artistic, research and education praxis and keeping the Stuart Hall Library free to the public. For enquiries including overseas shipping or online sales contact Jenny Starr: jstarr@iniva. org --- - Published: 2023-07-12 - Modified: 2023-08-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/film-screening-by-the-wanawal-mayday-rooms-and-iniva/ - Project Types: Screening Book tickets The West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library presents a film screening and talk in collaboration with the project “Uncovering the Archive” by iniva and Mayday Rooms! On the 27th July at 7pm, we will be hosting a screening of 3 films by artists and researchers from the West Asian and North African (WANA) region, a talk between Kaitlene Koranteng, Lamya Sadiq and Êvar Hussayni as well as a display of archival material from all three libraries that visitors can interact with, all in relation to resistance movements and art practices originating from WANA. The films span from 2000 to 2023 and will take viewers through a journey of observation around the way political, historical and personal experiences can be portrayed and characterised through experimental filmmaking and video art, and how this contributes to forms of memory making and knowledge production. The talk will use this as a point of departure to discuss how archives influence filmmaking practices and whether film itself can be considered an alternative form of archiving. There will also be discourse around what archives are and who is usually found within them. We will be asking questions such as: Can alternative forms of archiving, specifically via film, unfold and encourage a re-imagination or a re-memory? And how can archives/libraries and practitioners create new modes of respect and care in the circulation of documentation and political, historical and personal information? The event is open to everyone but we highly encourage anyone under 25 to... --- - Published: 2023-06-19 - Modified: 2023-06-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/how-we-might-practice/ - Event types: Workshop BOOK HERE This workshop offers a space to consider y/our practices as an artist or art worker, as they are grounded and rooted in knowing-through-feeling and shaped by the structures we work in. It will centre reflection and action to create an embodied approach to working within the arts. We will undertake practical activities such as (re)drafting a value system for ourselves, whilst participating in discussions guided by the group’s desires/needs. Accessibility There will be a break and refreshments available throughout. If you have any specific access requirements to attend this workshop, please email Future Commons Coordinator, Priya Jay pjay@iniva. org. We will do our best to meet any requests within the time and budget we have. The workshop is limited to 15 people. If you sign up and can no longer attend please let us know so that we can make that space available to others. About the Facilitators ID. Y CIC is a sector leading support entity, advocating for and collaborating with creative practitioners most acutely impacted by sector inequality. Claricia Parinussa is a body-based artist, producer, facilitator and community organiser. Natasha Thembiso Ruwona is an artist, researcher, and curator-programmer-producer. --- - Published: 2023-06-16 - Modified: 2023-06-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/nanpur-experience-village-letters-publication-launch/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Book Launch - Event types: Book Launch An event to mark the launching of a publication by Meera Shakti Osborne, resulting from the Village Letters exhibition's public programme. This publication is a collaborative effort between artists Meera Shakti Osborne and Prafulla Mohanti. It showcases the artworks by workshop participants, including students from Paddington Academy and Millbank Academy. Book Now We are delighted to invite you to NANPUR EXPERIENCE, an event to mark the launching of a publication by Meera Shakti Osborne, resulting from the Village Letters exhibition's public programme. This publication is a collaborative effort between artists Meera Shakti Osborne and Prafulla Mohanti. It showcases the artworks by workshop participants, including students from Paddington Academy and Millbank Academy. As part of the programme, Meera Shakti Osborne took the lead in conducting an engaging series of workshops. These workshops offered an invitation to students, encouraging them to delve into the realm of 'village culture' and give voice to their ideas through the creation of a zine. Throughout the sessions, students embarked on a transformative journey of the mind, channelling their imagination to envision and map out their very own villages. In December 2022, Meera travelled to Nanpur, the cherished village of Prafulla Mohanti in India. It was there that Meera sought inspiration, weaving their artistic practices to produce captivating new works that found their rightful place within the forthcoming publication. This artistic endeavour served as a testament to the deep connection between artist and place, breathing life into the pages with each stroke of creativity. The NANPUR EXPERIENCE is an opportunity to unveil and celebrate the publication and we are looking forward to welcoming students and educators, alongside iniva's community. Alongside the publication, artworks made by students and a film made by Meera will be displayed. Refreshments served from 5:30pm Speeches at 6:30pm Booking Required! Free tickets with... --- - Published: 2023-06-16 - Modified: 2023-09-05 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/browsing-inivas-history/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Talk BOOK HERE Join this introductory show and tell tour of iniva's governance collection from the archive led by Cataloguing Archivist Niamh Glanville-Frayne. This archive collection holds records around the creation of iniva from 1991 - 1994, and of its organisational activity through to present day. This event will take the shape of a presentation of selected records which will span from early report papers which led to the concept of iniva to ephemeral records such as press cuttings from iniva's launch. The presentation will be followed by an interactive discussion. ACCESSIBILITY It is free to attend this event and everyone is welcome. If you have accessibility requirements or questions please email library@iniva. org. ABOUT NIAMH Niamh Glanville-Frayne is the Cataloguing Archivist at iniva. She is responsible for cataloguing key parts of iniva’s archive to facilitate the access and engagement of significant histories in diverse contemporary art. Niamh’s work is supported by the Archives Revealed Programme. Image: Archival material from iniva's Goverance collection, 2023. --- - Published: 2023-06-14 - Modified: 2023-06-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/financial-literacy-workshop/ - Venues: Online - Event types: Workshop In this financial literacy workshop we will focus on basic financial admin skills required for sustaining ourselves as individual practitioners and handling money as part of small groups and organisations. The session will include group discussions and interactive exercises to introduce 3x key concepts: income/expenditure, a budget and a cashflow forecast. Absolutely no experience necessary! People of all levels of comfort with finances are welcome to participate. This will be especially beneficial for those with fear of numbers and wounds around money. Accessibility If you have any specific access requirements to attend this workshop, please email Future Commons Coordinator, Priya Jay pjay@iniva. org We will do our best to meet any requests within the time and budget we have. The workshop is limited to 10 people. If you sign up and can no longer attend please let us know so that we can make that space available to others. About Sally Sally Moussawi is committed to building sustainable anti-capitalist infrastructures for organisations. She is currently part of Barefoot 5. 0 co-op and community development training programme. They also work as a treasurer at filmmakers coop not/nowhere and finance & operations manager at Cubitt Artists. --- - Published: 2023-06-05 - Modified: 2023-11-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/becoming-invisible-and-untranslatability-with-lauren-craig/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Reading Group Book Tickets Join us for an interactive reading group and discussion at Stuart Hall Library with the artist Lauren Craig. The reading group is inspired by the book Fugitive Feminism by Akwugo Emejulu and is a call for the collective process of speculative dialogue and a bold new model for action drawing on the legacies of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Sylvia Wynter and others to consider the ways in which Black women have been excluded from, struggled to achieve and opted to reject the category of ‘human’. This event is free and open to all! It is a supportive and peer-led space for thinking and learning together. It is a space for constructive disagreements and critical engagement that is always based on mutual respect, interest, and care. All texts are encouraged to be read together in the session, so you don’t need to read them in advance. Join us from 5pm in the iniva bookshop at Stuart Hall Library, where refreshments will be provided before and after the reading session with the chance to buy Fugitive Feminism alongside other iniva titles. The reading session will begin promptly at 5. 30pm, followed by a Q&A session. This reading group is supported by funding from Freelands Foundation. Facilitator Lauren Craig (she/her/hers) is a social-media shy, internet- curious cultural futurist based in London. Her practice intentionally moves slowly between curation, performance, installation, art writing, moving images and auto- para-ethno-therapeutic photography. Through collaborative live engagement, systems thinking and social archival histories, Lauren surfaces lived... --- - Published: 2023-05-30 - Modified: 2023-06-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/access-rider-workshop/ - Venues: Online - Event types: Workshop BOOK HERE In this workshop led by April Lin 林森, we discuss what an access rider is, and how to write one. This is an exercise in normalising conversations around care and support as an artist and/or arts worker. It is a practice in asking for care, and stating one's needs. This workshop is especially useful for people who are disabled, neurodivergent, or have a chronic illness, as well as people who have caring responsibilities. Accessibility If you have any specific access requirements to attend this workshop, please email Future Commons Coordinator, Priya Jay pjay@iniva. org We will do our best to meet any requests within the time and budget we have. The workshop is limited to 10 people. If you sign up and can no longer attend please let us know so that we can make that space available to others. About April Lin 林森 April Lin 林森 (b. 1996, Stockholm — they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and independent curator investigating image-making and world-building as sites for the construction, sustenance, and dissemination of co-existent yet conflicting truths. They interweave moving image, performance, creative computing and installation in a commitment to centring oppressed knowledges, building an ethics of collaboration around reciprocal care, and exploring the linkages between history, memory, and interpersonal and structural trauma. Their work has been shown at the Museum of the Moving Image New York, Sheffield DocFest, LA Filmforum, and NOWNESS Asia. Artist image credit: El Hardwic --- - Published: 2023-05-25 - Modified: 2023-06-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/iniva-x-afterall-bookshop-book-launch-reshaping-the-field-arts-of-the-african-diasporas-on-display/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Book Launch - Event types: Book Launch Book Tickets Join us on Thursday 15 June 5. 30-7. 30pm for the launch of Afterall's newest Exhibition Histories publication Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display at the Stuart Hall Library. There will be brief introductions to the texts from editor Nana Adusei-Poku and artist collective Languid Hands (Rabz Lansiquot & Imani Mason Jordan). The thirteenth title in the series, Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diaspora on Display explores key moments that have created ruptures in how Blackness has been framed through exhibitions, emphasising how Black artists have been viewed and African diasporic art histories have been shaped. The publication will be available to buy alongside other Afterall works and specially paired with iniva's publications for a special launch discount. Refreshments served from 5. 30pm and chance to see our current exhibition Can publications be porous? co-curated by Lauren Craig. For more information contact Jenny Starr, jstarr@iniva. org Speakers Languid Hands is a London-based artistic and curatorial collaboration between Rabz Lansiquot, a filmmaker, curator, and DJ, and Imani Robinson, writer, live art practitioner, and prison abolitionist. Their work is informed by ongoing explorations in Black and queer studies, Black creative practice, Black liberatory praxis and queer methodologies. Nana Adusei-Poku is an Assistant Professor in the History or Art and African American Studies Department at Yale University. She was prior Assistant Professor in African Diasporic Art History in the Department of History of Art at the University of California Berkeley. She was previously Associate Professor... --- - Published: 2023-05-23 - Modified: 2023-06-13 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/collecting-conversations/ - Venues: Towner Eastbourne - Project Types: Talk WATCH LIVE HERE Join Iniva on 12th June 2023 for a day of conversation on transforming the culture of commissioning and collecting in British galleries and museums as we reflect on three years of Future Collect alongside our project partners. Future Collect is a three-year programme initiated by iniva, which partnered with a different gallery each year to commission and collect works by artists of African or Asian descent, who are British-born or based. In the first year (2020), we partnered with Manchester Art Gallery to work with artist Jade Montserrat, in the second year (2021) with The Hepworth Wakefield to work with Emii Alrai, and in the third year (2022) with Towner Eastbourne to work with Maria Amidu. In addition to the commissions and public programming, the project has supported an early career curator at each of the institutions, as well as making space for Future Commons: a peer-led curatorial network. These commissions and public programmes have given our selected artists an opportunity to develop their practice and to be collected and exhibited by a major institution, as well as contributing to a wider public debate on collections and whose heritage is being preserved. The Event To mark the end of the project, we are hosting a gathering by the coast. Here, we will hold conversations with the curators, artists, and teams involved in creating the Future Collect commissions. Additionally, there will be panel discussions featuring other similar projects that aim to disrupt museum collections across the UK. Collecting... --- - Published: 2023-05-22 - Modified: 2023-06-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/works-in-process/ - Venues: Online - Event types: Workshop BOOK HERE As part of Future Commons’ series of public events responding to the needs and wants of art workers at large, this session led by artist Jamila Prowse is for anyone who would like to share ideas and works in progress to receive feedback and guidance. A ‘crit’ is a critical review of work, central to art education curriculums - a format we want to offer more widely for students and non-students alike, regardless of title, career stage or institutional affiliation. The session is limited to 6 people, where each person will have time to share their work and receive feedback. To make the most of the session, bring any examples of work and/or aspects you’d like feedback on or discussion around. Some of the mediums and areas Jamila works in are textiles, moving image, photography, painting, sculpture and around disability and mixed-race identity. Accessibility There will be a break with this session. If you have any specific access requirements please email Future Commons Coordinator, Priya Jay pjay@iniva. org. We will do our best to meet any requests within the time and budget we have. About Jamila Prowse Jamila Prowse is an artist, writer, researcher and lecturer who employs art making as a methodology for articulating and processing her lived experience as a disabled, mixed race person of black heritage. Presently, Jamila is an artist on UAL Decolonising Institute’s 20/20 programme and Sussex University’s Full Stack Feminism Project, where she will be making artistic visualisations of her ongoing research... --- - Published: 2023-05-16 - Modified: 2023-05-22 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/workshop-can-publications-be-porous/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Workshop Artist and cultural futurist Lauren Craig delivers a workshop to unpack her conceptual modality S:E:P:A:L:S BOOK HERE Can Publications Be Porous? explores the porosity of publishing with the visual responses of Sadia Pineda Hameed (LUMIN), Amber Akaunu and Fauziya Johnson (ROOT-ed Zine) to Lauren Craig’s score that emerged from the conceptual modality S:E:P:A:L:S - sustainability; experience/engagement; practice/presencing; action/attunement; learning/legacy; sensitivity - transforming the Stuart Hall Library into an experimental space to question the concepts through publishing. Under the scope of the exhibition, co-curator Lauren Craig, supported by Georgina Obaya Evans, invites the public to experiment with S:E:P:A:L:S cards as visual aids highlighting the themes explored through the project. Lauren proposes a conversation with participants to unpack the exhibition themes and invites them for a reading of her score, which informed the exhibition. Lauren will lead the workshop to explore chosen themes by using the S:E:P:A:L:S framework as a score, the participants then exercise auto-para/ethno-therapeutic writing and share with the group. The session will be followed by a Q&A. The workshop is open to all but booking is required. The event will be held at Stuart Hall Library. If you have any questions or any accessibility requirements please contact Beatriz Lobo (Curator) beatriz@iniva. org About the contributors Georgina Obaya Evans‘ work explores ‘sense of self and other’, and reflects on how we make meaning and find healing through interactions of the expressive body, creative arts and embodied psychological therapies. Her professional practices of visual art, art psychotherapy and yoga therapy are rooted in theories and practices of creative self-enquiry. Through these interdisciplinary portals, intersubjective relationship can... --- - Published: 2023-05-02 - Modified: 2023-05-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/iniva-at-offprint-2023/ - Venues: Tate Modern - Project Types: Book Fair - Event types: Book Sale iniva is pleased to announce its participation at Offprint, the annual book fair for independent experimental and socially engaged publishers in the fields of arts, architecture, design, humanities, and visual culture. iniva will be showcasing our newest publications including A Reimagining of Relations by Jade Montserrat, as well as exclusive fair discounts on our celebrated back catalogue of publications. Offprint is hosted within the turbine Hall at Tate Modern between Friday 12 - Sunday 14 May with free entry. We look forward to seeing you there! Opening Times: 12. 05. 2023 - 14:00 — 19:00 13. 05. 2023 - 10:00 — 18:00 14. 05. 2023 - 10:00 — 18:00 Offprint is produced by LUMA Arles find out more here. --- - Published: 2023-04-28 - Modified: 2023-05-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/between-starshine-and-clay/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Reading Group BOOK HERE Join us for an interactive reading group and discussion at Stuart Hall Library with the author of Fugitive Feminism, Akwugo Emejulu. Fugitive Feminism is a call for the collective process of speculative dialogue and a bold new model for action drawing on the legacies of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Sylvia Wynter and others to consider the ways in which Black women have been excluded from, struggled to achieve and opted to reject the category of ‘human’. In this reading group, we will explore the ‘fugitive’ through collective reading and listening from Emejulu’s book alongside texts such as Sylvia Wynter’s No Humans Involved: An Open Letter to My Colleagues and poems from Lucille Clifton, Rita Dove, Derek Walcott and Joshua Jennifer Espinoza. This event is free and open to all! It is a supportive and peer-led space for thinking and learning together. It is a space for constructive disagreements and critical engagement that is always based on mutual respect, interest, and care. All texts are encouraged to be read together in the session, so you don’t need to read them in advance. Join us from 5pm in the iniva bookshop at Stuart Hall Library, where refreshments will be provided before and after the reading session with the chance to buy Fugitive Feminism alongside other iniva titles. The reading session will begin promptly at 5. 30pm, followed by a Q&A session. This reading group is supported by funding from Freelands Foundation. Facilitator Akwugo Emejulu is Professor of Sociology at the... --- - Published: 2023-04-25 - Modified: 2023-06-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/finding-home/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Talk BOOK HERE This short session, entitled ‘On Our Table: Finding Home’ aims to showcase contemporary art histories around the concept of placemaking. Come and share with us on our table and gain a glimpse of the iniva’s Stuart Hall Library and archive collections. Archivist and Engagement Producer Kaitlene Koranteng will guide you through the rich contexts and social depths contained within our collections. Our talk will explore artists such as Michael McMillian, Vanley Burke and Rummana Hussain who have reflected on the home and all that comes with it in their artistic practice. Join us and help us understand what does it means to find your home, create and craft one in hostile land and go back to fetch what is at risk of being left behind. ACCESSIBILITY It is free to attend this event and everyone is welcome. If you have accessibility requirements or questions please email library@iniva. org. BIOGRAPHY 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. Image: Stuart Hall Library resources focusing on home and placemaking, 2023. --- - Published: 2023-04-14 - Modified: 2023-05-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/you-me-a-letter-and-an-envelope/ - Event types: Study Day In the anatomy of the human body and in the anatomy of the envelope the throat is the locus of uttered and unuttered correspondence. For this Study Day, Maria Amidu will be testing out an idea – something she is describing as a soft performative role in which she will invite the group to collectively insert a letter into an envelope. In conjunction with this action, Maria will attempt to describe the impetus for the letter, its contents, and the reasoning for her invitation to the group. The ‘performance’ will be followed by a conversation about the effect of the experience on those taking part. Join us for a day of thinking together, where we will hear from and work with Maria as well as artist and Art Therapist Georgina Evans who will act as a respondent to the day and help kick off discussions about the work. The Future Collect Study Days are envisaged as moments to come together and think through ideas collectively through gathering, reading, conversation, and workshops. This event is part of the Future Collect programme. See more information here. How to apply There are a limited number of spots for this event (15). This event is open and free to the public, however, due to the library’s low capacity and the nature of the day being research and conversation-led, we want to ensure that those who attend would find this beneficial to their thinking, research, and creative practice. Our definition of creative work here is... --- - Published: 2023-04-14 - Modified: 2023-05-05 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/desire-lines/ - Event types: Study Day BOOK HERE When Maria Amidu was working on her Future Collect expression of interest, she discovered during a conversation with fellow writer and artist Alinah Azadeh, that they had independently been thinking about the phrase ‘desire lines’ for new work. This serendipity and other parallels in their life stories are the genesis for Maria’s invitation to Alinah for this event. Join us for this Study Day, which will start as a walk along the East Sussex coast, and be followed by a discussion at Towner Eastbourne. Alinah Azadeh is Writer-in-Residence at Seven Sisters Country Park and along the Sussex Heritage Coast until October 2023. The Future Collect study days are envisaged as moments to come together and think through ideas collectively through gathering, reading, conversation, and workshops. This event is part of the Future Collect programme. See more information here. iniva will provide lunch and refreshments throughout the day. We have bursaries available for those who want to attend and may need to travel to Eastbourne to take part (please check the access note). How to apply There are a limited number of spots for this excursion (20). This event is open and free to the public, however, due to the nature of the day being research and conversation led, we want to ensure that those who attend would find this beneficial to their thinking, research, and creative practice. Our definition of creative work here is intentionally broad: this event is open to everyone who is thinking creatively about themes... --- - Published: 2023-04-05 - Modified: 2023-07-12 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/index-public-programme-sharing-memories-over-kurdish-cuisine/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Workshop Book tickets As part of the INDEX exhibition 'Untitled: an exhibition of works in progress' by Maria Amidu’s Public Programme, artist Êvar Hussayni will facilitate a workshop responding to the themes in the exhibition, such as belonging, communication, writing, memory and archive, and how these are evoked through food. This workshop is designed to engage people further in the exploration of Maria’s work, through the lens of Êvar’s own practice which is often focused on the archival process of Kurdish women, with a larger focus on the functionality of archives. Both Maria and Êvar share an interest in the archive and preservation of histories and memories of people and places. During this session participants will get the opportunity to first experience the exhibition and the work of Maria Amidu, followed by a sharing of traditional Kurdish food that Êvar grew up eating, alongside a freewriting activity to capture the memories that may be prompted by the food. Sharing food is often a process that provokes memory exchange. Food has the ability to create nostalgia and memory, it is particularly important culturally in acts of celebration and can allow for conversation and connection between strangers. The intention is that participants will share these memories with each other. This event is open to all, it will last for 1 hour and a half, and you are not required to bring anything with you. Please note that all the food served will be vegetarian, but please make us aware of any allergies that... --- - Published: 2023-03-24 - Modified: 2023-04-12 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/soft-weapons-finding-peers-in-archives/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library Join June Bellebono and Tamara Hart for a workshop that explores how to find peers in archives through zine-making. In this session, we'll craft pocket zines using material from iniva and MayDay Rooms archives —from a sailor moon-themed notebook to communist newspapers. Speaking to the experiences of our queer ancestors, our zines will touch on hidden radical histories and forms of peer support through storytelling. As zine-makers, we become fellow caretakers: exchanging tips, tools, tears and pain. As we document our experiences, we build soft weapons for political action. Our zines become the stories of distant suns, our archives the tissues of solidarity. Following the session, attendees are invited to photocopy their creations and archive them in iniva and Mayday Rooms, with the aim of crossing paths with, and becoming peers to future visitors. This workshop is intended for young people (16-25) from marginalised backgrounds, i. e. Black, QTI/people of the majority, working class, migrant, disabled. Limited places. Sign-up here. Facilitators June Bellebono is a London-based writer, cultural producer and facilitator. They are the founder of oestrogeneration, a magazine platform highlighting transfeminine voices in the UK, and of Queer Good Grief, a peer support group by and for bereaved LGBTQ+ people. They have written for gal-dem, HUCK and Novara Media, and have organised events for Somerset House, Autograph ABP, QUEERCIRCLE and Museum of the Home. @junebellebabe Tamara Hart is a visual anthropologist based in London. Their research adopts visual caretaking as a mode to explore identity formation and social remapping... --- - Published: 2023-03-22 - Modified: 2023-11-24 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/colab-barking-and-dagenham/ From October 2022, artist Holly Graham will deliver eight workshop sessions in Northbury Primary School and Eastbrook Secondary School in Barking and Dagenham. During the sessions, Holly will food as a prompt to discuss identity and migration. The workshops will be supported by A Space Therapist Nathalie Roset. Utilising iniva’s Emotional Learning Cards, they will focus on well-being exercises, reflections on belonging and ideas around their place in the world. The workshop sessions will serve as training for the students, who will act as leaders during the Young People Makerspace sessions on 10th November - an annual Baking and Dagenham event for 20 different schools within the borough, welcoming 200 children. As a result of the schools' workshops and Young People Makerspace sessions, Holly will create a publication titled Roots and Routes, which will be distributed to the students and available at Stuart Hall Library. Holly will speak about the experience and deliver a workshop session at the Barking and Dagenham’s Cultural Education Partnerships Conference on the 17th November 2022. Facilitators Holly Graham is a London-based artist, working predominantly with print and audio. Much of her work looks at ways in which memory and narrative shape collective histories. Holly holds a BFA from Oxford University and an MA in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art. Recent solo projects include commissions with Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow (2022); Skelf, Online (2022); TACO! , London (2021-22); Robert Young Antiques, London (2021); Gaada, Shetland (2020); Goldsmiths CCA, Online (2020); and Southwark Park Galleries,... --- - Published: 2023-03-22 - Modified: 2023-06-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/colab-manchester/ - Project Types: Project How do we use language to create shared spaces for healing? Can an exploration of the past lead us to a better future? What collective work can help us find a place of care with(in) the institution? CoLab Manchester is a project in Greater Manchester responding to iniva's Future Collect programme in collaboration with Short Supply featuring artists Fauziya Johnson and Kiara Mohamed. Supported by iniva, Short Supply will be working with the artists to deliver a series of school workshops and create an artwork in 2023. Fauziya and Kiara will work with young people at Salford City Academy in Greater Manchester to explore the themes of care and resistance. Continuing CoLab’s commitment to the well-being of participants and collaborators, the project is receiving support from with-you – an organisation providing advice on how to promote project participants' skills and expertise to offer each other peer support and encouraging conversations about well-being for ourselves and the people around us. About Short Supply Short Supply is an arts organisation based in the North West. Short Supply is a bridge between emerging artists and arts organisations, producing exhibitions, workshops and talks to create enriching environments that allow us to platform, connect and exchange knowledge alongside emerging artists in the north west and nationally. Being the change we want to see and all that. Notable projects include our graduate art prize MADE IT (exhibitions at HOME, Rogue Artists' Studios, Paradise Works), our Arts Council England funded tour around the north west Goin Places... --- - Published: 2023-03-22 - Modified: 2023-06-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/colab-wakefield/ - Project Types: Project CoLab Wakefield is a project working with artist Simone Yasmin, Creative Producer Boseda Olawoye, and Arts Psychotherapist Will Jones to deliver workshops and commission new artwork in collaboration with students from Castleford Academy. Reflecting on iniva’s programme Future Collect, the workshops explore accessibility to museum collections for students and imagine how art organisations could best reflect and serve local young people. The Hepworth Wakefield will be generously hosting the students in their studio spaces for creative activities and taking the students on gallery tours. Facilitators Boseda Olawoye (she/her) is a freelance creative engagement producer based in Nottingham. Her projects bring young people, communities and artists together to make art about a range of issues. Simone Yasmin (she/her) is a writer and spoken word artist born and based in Leeds, Both her written and vocal work raise awareness for many issues in all tenses. Will Jones (he/him) is an art psychotherapist based in Leeds. Will works in children and adult mental health helping individuals share their experiences and stories through art making. His professional practice helps support emotional and psychological development. You Can't Ignore Us Zine Read the about the zine and exhibition created by year 9 students at Castleford Academy, exploring how museums and galleries don't always represent the lives, passions and interests of local young people. --- - Published: 2023-03-21 - Modified: 2023-04-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/youth-workshop-16-25-with-the-bloom-collective/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library Following from our successful pilot session with Lola Olufemi, we are back with MayDay Rooms to bring you another archival collaboration with The Bloom Collective! Join nature practitioners Ali and Idman from the Bloom Collective in a two-hour workshop exploring the elements, senses and our relationships to the natural world. Through grounding practices, creative crafting, storytelling and collective reflection. They will be taking inspiration from iniva and MDR archives to encourage participants to respond to the question – how can the land help us create a sense of belonging? These workshops are intended for young people (16-25) from marginalised backgrounds, i. e. Black, QTI/people of the majority, working class, migrant, disabled. Facilitators The Bloom Collective is an iteration of the Bloom 2020 / 2021 nature programme which was a series of online and in-person events and workshops platforming the skills and expertise of Black women and femmes. Through sessions focusing on herbal remedies, natural dyeing, embodied movement practice, food justice, ancestral connection and play, Black and POC from London and beyond came together to connect with ourselves, each other and the natural world in community. Bloom is now an emergent black-led nature collective consisting of landworkers, artists, healers, community builders and dreamers based in London. List of resources and garden spaces Books Black Rice - Judith Ann Carney Farming While Black - Leah Penniman Healing Wisdom of Africa - Malidoma Patrice Some Garden projects in East London Tower Hamlets Cemetery Hackney City Farm Community Apothecary (East and North London) North... --- - Published: 2023-03-21 - Modified: 2023-03-24 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/introduction-to-archives-archiving-workshop-with-lola-olufemi/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library We are kicking off our archival collaborations with MayDay Rooms with a pilot session introducing archives & archiving. Getting to know participants, Kaitlene Koranteng (Archivist and Engagement Producer) and tiff webster (Public Engagement Coordinator) we will start with an introduction to iniva and MayDay Rooms archives as well as tour of Stuart Hall Library. This will be followed by a creative writing and thinking workshop facilitated by Lola Olufemi focusing on imaginative uses of the archive. These workshops are intended for young people (16-25) from marginalised backgrounds, i. e. Black, QTI/people of the majority, working class, migrant, Disabled. Facilitator Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and CREAM/Stuart Hall Foundation researcher who works and organises in London. Her work focuses on the uses of the feminist imagination and its relationship to cultural production, political demands and futurity. She is interested in the possibilities of the “anti-map” and manipulating temporal regime in order to critique linear progress narratives. Alongside writing, she facilitates reading groups, workshops and occasionally curates. In her roster of work is Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power (2020), Experiments in Imagining Otherwise, forthcoming from Hajar Press in 2021, A FLY Girl’s Guide to University: Being a Woman of Colour at Cambridge and Other Institutions of Power and Elitism (Verve Poetry Press, 2019) and Feminism Interrupted (Pluto Press, 2020). She is also a member of ‘bare minimum’, an interdisciplinary anti-work arts collective. Her latest short story, “Red” was shortlisted for the 2020 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing prize. Image: Created by... --- - Published: 2023-03-18 - Modified: 2023-04-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/veiling-consent/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Project Types: Talk - Event types: Talk This event is a show-and-tell event exploring the archive collection of Veil, a touring art exhibition with our Cataloguing Archivist Niamh Glanville-Frayne. Book tickets Following the 20-year anniversary since the exhibition Veil began touring in galleries across the UK and in Stockholm, we invite you to explore the archive collection of Veil in this show-and-tell tour with our Cataloguing Archivist Niamh Glanville-Frayne. In this event we will reflect on how the exhibition was received at the time and how it may be received if it were to happen now; we delve deeper into the curatorial process of the exhibition, and the archival process of cataloguing the collection, with a focus on ethics surrounding consent, representations of women’s bodies, and how to rebalance the narrative around archival subjectivities. ACCESSIBILITY It is free to attend this event and everyone is welcome. If you have accessibility requirements or questions please email library@iniva. org. FACILITATOR Niamh Glanville-Frayne is the Cataloguing Archivist at iniva. She is responsible for cataloguing key parts of iniva’s archive to facilitate the access and engagement of significant histories in diverse contemporary art. Niamh’s work is supported by the Archives Revealed Programme. Image credits: A newspaper clipping from The Times 13th January 2004, featuring an article on Veil titled 'PAST THE VEIL OF TEARS'. Shadafarin Ghadirian, Qajar Series 1998, photograph (left image) and Marc Garanger, Femme Algérienne 1960, photograph (right image). --- - Published: 2023-03-18 - Modified: 2023-03-22 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/events/art-strikes/ - Venues: Stuart Hall Library - Event types: Reading Group For session two of Iniva x The Laundry Arts reading together society, we will read Martin Herbert’s essay on conceptual American artist David Hammons (2016) alongside Kuba Szreder’s ‘Productive Withdrawals: Art Strikes, Art Worlds, and Art as a Practice of Freedom’ (2017) Herbert traces Hammons art career as one of emergence, withdrawal and return on his own terms from refusing major gallery circuits to taking his work to the streets and audiences the work is intended for, to also negotiating a 90/10 split on his White Cube show. Szreder’s essay considers how strikes within the art world can reconfigure infrastructural problems articulating productive withdrawal as the organization of an art strike, partaking in a boycott, or occupying art infrastructure that can be best understood as sustaining art as a practice of freedom. Join us as we continue our interest in considering written works that can help us determine strategies and tools for existing, working and surviving in the arts in 2020. Facilitator The Laundry Arts is a creative platform + studio engaging with the curious, visionary and creatively courageous. Their work is purpose-led, insightful and challenging. They are a growing network of creators and thinkers, leading in their fields, kicking down doors and refusing to be unseen. They curate exhibitions, produce installations, self-publish and collaborate with cultural organisations and brands in the production of experiential content, from dinners to parties and discussions. --- ---