International resident curators explore ‘object’ and ‘letter’, and informal publishing in contemporary art A public presentation and seminar with resident…

My Grandad’s Car My Grandad’s Car is the story of two friends who set out to explore their heritage and…

Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora artists confronting issues of sustainable community and cultural practice will be discussed as part of a…

he Migration Museum Project and Iniva join forces to explore Migration and Architecture. How have migrants shaped Britain’s built environment…

The Stuart Hall Library Research Network is a forum for postgraduate researchers to introduce an aspect of their work, followed…

Dr. Kalyan Kundu is a founder member of The Tagore Centre, UK. He has co-edited several books on Tagore: Rabindranath…

What is internationalism as a set of practices in relation to contemporary art? If globalisation has produced a paradigm shift…

This event will take place in PS1 gallery space amongst Anna Boghiguian’s artworks for installation A Play to Play. Ansuman…

Reading group A chance to discuss the issues surrounding participation, engagement, collaboration and social practice through a dynamic walking reading…

A performance by Goshka Macuga in collaboration with Ansuman Biswas as part of the exhibition Tagore’s Universal Allegories. Working with…

Artist Amina Menia and art historian Anthony Downey in conversation. Amina Menia was born in 1976 in Algiers, where she…

The Stuart Hall Library Research Network is a forum for postgraduate researchers to introduce an aspect of their work, followed…

Shanay Jhaveri is the author of the recently published book, Western Artists and India. The book identifies the cross-cultural exchanges…

Interested in developing your creative skills? Want to delve deeper into ideas and cultural debates? Iniva is offering an exciting…

Exhibition tour with Tagore’s Universal Allegories curator Grant Watson. Find out more about Tagore, Santiniketan and the exhibiting artists Anna…

The exhibition Reflexive Disclosure brings together talented and promising photographers, young people and adults from the London Borough of Lambeth….

Co-curator Teresa Cisneros leads a tour of Scat, introducing Sonia Boyce’s work and her use of the building. Booking This…

The Black Bottom originated in New Orleans during the 1900s, reaching popularity during the mid-late 1920s, competing with its close…

Sound artist Ain Bailey, who colloborated with Sonia Boyce on Oh Adelaide performs two recent works. Ode To No. 6,…

Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Charlotte Prodger with Fatima Hellberg and Irene Revell from Electra Through conversation and selected sound-based and…

This symposium with presentations on the theme ‘The Trouble with Research’ is a celebration of the success of the recently…

Mikhail Karikis, co-collaborator on the work For you, only you, explores his work as a sound artist through performance, film…

Artist Sonia Boyce gives a lecture on her own practice and long-term interest in sound in the context of her…

In relation to the Keywords exhibition and part of the Family display, Iniva presents Lyn French (A Space Director) in…

This event, programmed by The Otolith Collective featuring Penny Stempel’s seminal film co-directed by Chris Rushton In the National Interest?…

In relation to the Keywords exhibition and as part of the Family display, Iniva presents Exploring Family in One-to-One Art…

Art critic and cultural theorist Geeta Kapur talks about ‘Practice’ in relation to her long experience of writing about modern…

The Stuart Hall Library reading group is open to everyone, whether you are in formal education, academia, engaged in artistic…

Theorist and writer on art , literature, film and psychoanalysis, Leo Bersani, considers the keyword, Sex, in particular the obsolescence…

Curators Grant Watson and Gavin Delahunty lead a tour of the Keywords exhibition, expanding on the concept and content of…

Interested in developing your creative skills? Want to delve deeper into ideas and cultural debates but don’t know how? From…

Keyword Lecture: Douglas Crimp discusses Theory “…from fw theoria, lL, theoria, Gk-contemplation, spectacle, mental conception (from theoros, Gk-spectator, rw thea,…

Artist John Dugger and art historian Guy Brett have worked together since 1967. Dugger created participatory art events in London,…

Sabine El Chamaa is a Lebanese filmmaker currently in the finishing stages of an Audio Visual PhD at Goldsmiths, University…

Ex-politician, activist and businesswoman Linda Bellos discusses the keyword ‘Equality’. Her talk will set out the history of current equality…

This event exploring the question of public policy is presented by the Centre for Cultural Studies Research in association with…

The conventional political terrain in South Africa appears to be stalling on delivering the fruits of a democratic process. However,…

Providing a context for the Peter Clarke exhibition, a panel including independent curator Christine Eyene, share their knowledge of recent…

In partnership with Iniva, the Institute of International Visual Arts, sixteen international art students from the University of East London´s…

Author, playwright and memoirist, Gillian Slovo in conversation with Tamar Garb, University College London, about how she has drawn upon…

Tessa Jackson, Iniva’s Chief Executive and co-curator of Wind Blowing on the Cape Flats leads a tour of Peter Clarke’s…

Inspired by the history of printmaking from the Mexican Revolution to the recent Occupy Wall Street movement, this 5 session…

‘You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town’ Internationally acclaimed writer Zoe Wicomb reads from her work – short stories and…

Hans Ulrich Obrist with Peter Clarke Co-Director of the Serpentine Gallery, Hans Ulrich Obrist continues his on-going Conversation Series (1996-…

As a pre-Christmas event, join Sonia Hope (Library Manager) and Roshini Kempadoo (Media Artist, Photographer, Stuart Hall Library Animateur 2012)…

Looking for last minute gifts? Come to the gallery at Rivington Place and browse our one-day pop-up shop for art…

In this talk, Chilean born artist Alfredo Jaar discusses how he generates debate through public intervention. Alfredo Jaar is an…

Memory Styx is a one-day drawing masterclass open to young people between 16-24. This is a unique opportunity for young people to…

Black and British The Reading Group will discuss an extract from the author Andrea Stuart’s critically acclaimed personal history that…

Screening and discussion A screening of two films directed by Manuel Faria de Almeida: Catembe Seven Days in Lorenzo Marques…

Keywords is a lecture series evaluating keywords in art, culture and society. It takes its title from Raymond Williams’ seminal…

Kimathi Donkor Join artist Kimathi Donkor for a tour and talk about his paintings on display at Rivington Place –…

Back to front histories and the ‘return’ of the little known This is the fourth lecture in a series of…

Visual artist Othello De’Souza-Hartley leads a fun and interactive family session for adults and children to explore and create together. Aimed…

Curated by Grant Watson, Senior Curator and Research Fellow This lecture series brings together a series of artists, curators, writers,…

Imitation, gesture, enunciation, or how to behave like a movie This is the third lecture in a series of four…

The New Opinions tour of the Queens of the Undead exhibition is led by two young arts professionals who have a keen…

Nana Adusei-Poku Nana Adusei-Poku holds a master’s degree in Media and Communications from Goldsmiths’ College, London with a dissertation project…

It never rains but it pours – history as sympathetic magic This is the second lecture in a series of…

Author Pat Thomas doesn’t do the ‘traditional’ book reading. He plays albums of the Black Power Movement era, (rock, jazz,…

Considering Queens of the Undead Text Jenny Sharpe, ‘The Rebels Old Obeah Woman: history as Spirit Possession’, in Ghosts of…

Please note: This event is now sold out. We will not be releasing tickets on the door. The lecture-performance, Aida,…

How short is a sound, or how long does it take to think? Rifkin takes up Jaques Ranciere’s notion of…

Stuart Hall Library hosts an exhibition of zines from the Stuart Hall Library collection curated by Fliss Collier of the…

As Animateur for the Stuart Hall Library, Roshini Kempadoo aims to expand the use and development of the Library and…

‘… a masterclass in inventive external expression.’ Awarded RIBA ‘Award for London’ in 2008 Rivington Place opened in October 2007…

First tour of Queens of the Undead Join John Sealey, filmmaker as he leads a group through the exhibition of paintings Queens…

Join artists Undocumentary and all the Social Archive Two partcipants as well as those featured in the films for an evening of…

Join workshops led by Undocumentally (artists Shiraz Bayjoo and Jessica Harrington) as you take on the role of social historian…

Stuart Hall Library is making available the complete published works of Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The collection was donated…

Join workshops led by Undocumentally (artists Shiraz Bayjoo and Jessica Harrington) as you take on the role of social historian to participate…

Join workshops led by Undocumentary (artists Shiraz Bayjoo and Jessica Harrington) as you take on the role of social historian to participate…

Artist Gayle Chong Kwan and Emily Druiff, Director of Peckham Space, will be in conversation with Tessa Jackson OBE, Chief Executive…

The Cybermohalla experiment has been engaged in rethinking urban life, and reimagining and reanimating the infrastructure of cultural and intellectual…

Panel discussion led by Handel Kashope Wright, with respondents Mica Nava, Roshini Kempadoo and Ashwani Sharma. Handel Wright will analyse…

Carte Blanche to the Cinémathèque de Tanger A selection of short films made before the revolutions that shook the Arab world…

Frankie Dymon’s Death May be Your Santa Claus (1969), arguably Britain’s first and only example of a ‘black power’ movie,…

Panel Discussion and launch of a new book, Timed Out: Art and the Transnational Caribbean (Manchester University Press), by Dr…

In this lecture psychoanalyst, cultural critic and curator Suely Rolnik will present her concept Out in the Open, conceived for the Sao…

In Liliana Cavani’s The Night Porter (1974) a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) and her tormentor (Dirk Bogarde) act out their…

Tamar Garb, in discussion with Adrian Rifkin, will think through the varieties and styles of Rosen’s work and examine the…

Find out more about Roee Rosen: Vile, Evil Veil at Rivington Place with writer and curator David Dibosa. Vile, Evil Veil is…

In support of the International Conference at the University of East London London- City of Paradox, Iniva is screening a programme…

Ron Athey & Dominic Johnson in conversation Ron Athey will screen two short videos of his performance work and in…

Roee Rosen discusses his work past and present with curator Hila Peleg. Roee Rosen lives and works in Israel. He received…

How do textiles affect the way we think about art, society and politics? The Social Fabric symposium invites contemporary artists, art…

Starting at the ‘Social Fabric’ exhibition, the history of the textile trade unfolds through the streets of Spitalfields and concludes…

Iniva’s Senior Curator and Research Associate Grant Watson gives insights into the Social Fabric exhibition. In the Social Fabric exhibition…

Get hands on with labour and human rights issues in this workshop and discussion with activist and urban researcher Neera…

In this lecture activist and urban researcher  Neera Adarkar will explore the term ‘union’. Keywords takes its title from Raymond Williams’ seminal…

Exhibiting artist Alice Creischer and curators Andreas Siekmann and Max Jorge Hinderer discuss their seminal exhibition The Potosi Principle on…

Keywords takes its title from Raymond Williams’ seminal book Keywords: a Vocabulary of Culture and Society first published in 1976,…

Library Manager Sonia will give a short talk introducing Iniva’s special Library collection. A display will include exhibition catalogues, journals, monographs, zines…

If you’re still looking for Christmas presents, why not come and visit us on the last Thursday before Christmas? This…

The Reading Group returns to discuss Raqs Media Collective. ‘X notes on practice: stubborn structures and insistent seepage in a…

NB. There is a change of speakers for this event Malian artist Abdoulaye Konaté merges political commentary and traditional craftsmanship…

Ziauddin Sardar discusses ‘Reform’ with Robin Yassin-Kassab in this keywords lecture, a series evaluating keywords in art, culture and society. Ziauddin Sardar…

Ros Gray introduces Margaret Dickinson’s Behind the Lines, 1971 followed by an in conversation with the director, and a Q&A…

Luís Trinidade, Lecturer in Portuguese Modern Studies, University of London, introduces Robert Kramer’s Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal, 1977 Robert…

Iniva and A Space have published a second set of Emotional Learning Cards, Who are you? Where are you going?,…

Nicole Brenez to present a selection of films by director René Vautier, followed by a discussion and Q&A. Afrique 50 –…

Film screening: José Filipe Costa’s Red Line, a documentary about the making of 1975 film Torre Bela by Thomas Harlan….

Exhibition tour of Entanglement: the Ambivalence of Identity with Artists Anthony Key and Nina Mangalanayagam. Anthony Key’s sculptures use food…

The Reading Group returns to discuss the text ‘Listening with the eye’, from ‘The Art of Listening’ by Les Back,…

Roshini Kempadoo discusses key debates around identity politics as seen through Iniva’s Archives with Karen Alexander, Nina Mangalanayagam and Ashwani Sharma….

In this evening of panel discussions chaired by David A Bailey, leading figures from the African visual art diaspora will…

Art historian T J Clark discusses ‘The Left’ in this keywords lecture, a series evaluating keywords in art, culture and…

In this talk Yinka Shonibare MBE talks about his work and the cultural legacy of post-colonial Britain with cultural leader…

Exhibition tour of Entanglement: the Ambivalence of Identity with Curator Tessa Jackson. Entanglement: the Ambivalence of Identity includes work by some…

The Reading Group returns to discuss Sara Ahmed’s Melancholic migrants in The promise of happiness, Duke University Press, 2010. The…

Anti-fascist self-learning workshop, through the Bishopsgate Institute’s archive with the Aesthetics of Resistance reading group. This is a self-learning workshop,…

Anti-fascist Footprints guided walking tour, led by David Rosenberg, teacher and educationalist Anti-fascist Footprints is a guided walking tour through…

Ash Amin’s presentation will cover the turn to xenophobia in Europe and it will articulate an alternative politics of being European,…

Emory Douglas, ex-Minister of Culture for the Black Panthers, talks about his life and work with cultural commentator Ekow Eshun….

Gayle Chong Kwan, a London-based artist, and Jo Evans, a creative therapist from A Space, explore practical and creative ways…

This session takes its cue from the book in preparation by Dr Imogen Tyler and Dr Katarzyna Marciniak, Immigrant Protest: Politics,…

Film Programme – Cinenova presents: Sari Red by Pratibha Parmar, UK, 1988, 11 mins A video poem of remembrance made…

Join regular tours of this award winning building Did you know that when designing Rivington Place, architect David Adjaye found…

Talk and workshop: Who are the Migrant Workers Today? (mapping precarious labour) with Dr Faiza Shaheen, economist, Kevin Ward, Professor of Human Geography,…

What is contemporary art all about? On this 1-day course led by curator Yasmina Reggad the group will visit cutting edge East London galleries…

Join artist Shiraz Bajoo and all the Social Archive One partcipants for an evening of sharing filmmaking experiences, watching the…

Iniva are pleased to be participating in Shoreditch Festival again in 2011. We’ll be manning the Rivington Place stall on Sunday 17…

Street Photography Photowalk with David Gibson Join street photographer David Gibson for this appreciation of street photography and photowalk around…

This evening of screenings and discussion reflects on the complexities of the contemporary Emirati experience. Iniva (Institute of International Visual…

The recent financial crisis, public spending cuts, the 2011 Budget – economics affect us all but who benefits and what…

The recent financial crisis, public spending cuts, the 2011 Budget – economics affect us all but who benefits and what…

Iniva presents two evenings of film and debate with key cultural voices exploring recent events in the Middle East. These…

The recent financial crisis, public spending cuts, the 2011 Budget – economics affect us all but who benefits and what…

In the third in a series of talks organised by Calvert 22 and The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum,…

Iniva and A Space have published a second set of Emotional Learning Cards, Who are you? Where are you going?,…

This month’s text for discussion is Frances Dyson’s ‘Atmospheres‘ which can be found in Sounding new media: immersion and embodiment…

Et La Neige N’etait Plus (And the snow was gone) by Ababacar Samb Makharam, 1965, Senegal, 22 minutes. After winning…

Iniva and A Space have published a second set of Emotional Learning Cards, Who are you? Where are you going?,…

The text to be discussed is Transcultural encounters in contemporary art: gender, genre and history by Siobhan Shilton, in Comparing…

The fourth in a lecture series evaluating keywords in art, culture and society. Artist and writer Coco Fusco and Sara Ahmed,…

How do art practices re-inscribe ‘being’ and ‘becoming’ in spatial terms where history, meanings, and narratives are not privileged over…

Possible Damage The first of the student protests here in London, at Millbank, we realised that something had happened, something…

Panel discussion: artists Reem Charif and Samar Maakaron explore the question, ‘How can we operate outside politics and within the social…

Panel discussion on the politics of fiction and post civil-war memory culture in Lebanon, chaired by Dr T J Demos,…

The Inivators highlight some of the unseen, experiential elements of the Possible Damage archive through audio tours accompanied by an…

Join curator Francesco Bernardelli on a tour of Rabih Mroué’s exhibition. I, the Undersigned – The People are Demanding is…

Installation performance the first in a series of experiential events exploring the archive of Possible Damage with the Inivators. Possible…

Rabih Mroué discusses his work with curator Cosmin Costinas, presented with Afterall Magazine, followed by a new performance. I, the…

The Stuart Hall Library Reading Group is open to everyone, whether you are in formal education, academia, artistic practice, or have…

In the third of a lecture series evaluating keywords in art, culture and society, Cultural theorist and writer Stephen Wright and artist…

Concrete Colour Film program responding to Sheela Gowda’s ‘Therein & Besides’ – with introduction and post screening discussion. This selection…

Film screening curated and introduced by Shanay Jhaveri, art historian, in response to Sheela Gowda: Therein & Besides. Beyond the…

Film screenings curated and introduced by Shanay Jhaveri, art historian, in response to Sheela Gowda: Therein & Besides. Beyond the…

Ruth Noack leads a tour of Sheela Gowda exhibition Therein & Besides. Ruth Noack is curator of documenta 12, lecturer,…

The Stuart Hall Library Reading Group is open to everyone, whether you are in formal education, academia, artistic practice, or have…

A conversation exploring the ‘institutionalisation’ of art and the role of the archive in documenting recent art histories, with speakers Ashwani Sharma, Althea…

Part of a lecture series with guest speakers, Autumn 2010 – Spring 2011. This event is hosted by Amnesty International…

The Stuart Hall Library hosts an evening of presentations and discussions to launch the current issue of Race Revolt zine. Race…

Artist Sheela Gowda discusses her exhibition at Rivington Place, including new commission with Iniva’s Senior Curator Grant Watson. The artist is known…

The Stuart Hall Library Reading Group is open to everyone, whether you are in formal education, academia, artistic practice, or have…

The Stuart Hall Library Reading Group is open to everyone, whether you are in formal education, academia, artistic practice, or have…

Iniva is pleased to present a new commission by artist Nilbar Güres, for Rivington Place’s front window. This is the…

  Lecture series with guest speakers, Autumn 2010 – Spring 2011 In the first of a lecture series evaluating keywords…

Iniva and A Space publish the second set of Emotional Learning Cards, Who are you? Where are you going?, following…

Iniva and A Space publish the second set of Emotional Learning Cards, Who are you? Where are you going?, following…

The Stuart Hall Library Reading Group is open to everyone, whether you are in formal education, academia, artistic practice, or have…

Iniva and A Space publish the second set of Emotional Learning Cards, Who are you? Where are you going?, following…

This October, Iniva collaborates with Film and Video Umbrella to present a series of talks in which artists from London,…

This October, Iniva collaborates with Film and Video Umbrella to present a series of talks in which artists from London,…

This October, Iniva collaborates with Film and Video Umbrella to present a series of talks in which artists from London,…

As part of the expansion of its collections, the Stuart Hall Library is now establishing a zines and artists’ book…

Did you know that when designing Rivington Place, architect David Adjaye found inspiration in a Sowei mask from Sierra Leone?…

What’s contemporary art all about? On this 1-day course, organised by Iniva as part of Futureversity you’ll visit some of…

Curators of the Whose Map is it? exhibition, Teresa Cisneros and Christine Takengny, introduce the exhibition and discuss the themes explored…

Ursula Biemann’s Sahara Chronicle – videos on mobility and the politics of containment in the Sahara, offers diverse accounts of…

Paul Goodwin, curator and geographer, and Alex Vasudevan, University of Nottingham, will discuss their current research projects and collaborations. Paul Goodwin has collaborated with…

Rivington Place will become the setting for an interactive photo safari. Get creative with a camera as you and your…

Exhibiting artists Alexandra Handal and Susan Stockwell discuss work showing in the Whose Map is it? exhibition and recent projects….

Screening of films Travelling Amazonia, The Last Tour, and Ariana by Marine Hugonnier which investigate geography and politics, followed by…

Artist Heath Bunting will be in conversation with Geographer Dr. Harriet Hawkins exploring the socio-political and power structures that inform cartography and…

Artist Dia Batal takes her cart·og·ra·phy project around Shoreditch, mapping the personal narratives of women from the local area. Batal uses…

Introduction to the Whose Map is it? exhibition with the curators. Nine contemporary international artists question the underlying structures and hierarchies…

Exhibiting artists Otobong Nkanga, Milena Bonilla, Bouchra Khalili and Oraib Toukan discuss recent work and themes in the exhibition. The event…

Crossing Boundaries Symposium Presented by Iniva in collaboration with the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Artists, geographers, and theorists of…

Join a free tour of Counterpoints with the curator David Thorp, which includes Jia Aili’s first solo exhibition in Europe and…

Mad For Real (Cai Yuan & Jian Ju Xi) and poet Yang Lian create a live event incorporating performance, poetry…

A discussion on artists’ research and exchanges with China. Panelists include artist and writer A K Dolven, artist David Blandy…

How can play outside the gallery influence resources and activities for children and families in galleries and museums? This free evening…

Artists Lu Chunsheng and Jia Aili discuss recent projects and new work showing in the exhibition and film programme Counterpoints. The…

Working with students from Hackney Community College, artist Yara El-Sherbini explored the concept of mapping in relation to creating art. Maps…

  Working with students at Tower Hamlets College, artist Layla Curtis explored themes she utilises in her own work involving notions…

  The Newham Sensory Deprivation Map is the result of an intensive workshop with 36 art students from Newham Sixth…

Questionable Times: The Inivators (Iniva’s Youth Advisory Board) have created their own version of the popular BBC Question Time programme with…

In this project students explored personal geographies and journeys of identity, displacement and migration relevant to their creative and social development as…

This two-day workshop took place with year 8 pupils from St Paul’s Way Community School in Tower Hamlets, London. On…

The Stuart Hall Library invites you to attend a free all day event exploring the representation and misconceptions of librarians…

Pop-Up Court: Diversity on Trial is the staging of a court of law with the cultural sector on trial.  The…

It’s time to make some noise in the library as performance poet Joyful Noise explores the library and archive, creating…

This is an opportunity for young people to explore their hidden talents and make a film with artist Larry Achiampong. In this 2 day…

Oreet Ashery and Larissa Sansour’s Falafel Road Residency explores manifestations of the falafel as a diasporic food that has been…

Beyond the wealth of international biennales and in the context of a ‘globalised’ world, in what way does the ‘international’…

Naomi Kashiwagi’s performance involves improvising, drawing and sketching with a wind-up gramophone turntable and re-appropriated 78rpm records using electrical tape…

On Thursday 4 February at 6:30pm artist Ansuman Biswas introduced his new commission in the context of the architecture of Rivington…

Recent research has described the UK as being ‘superdiverse’, with over 300 languages spoken in London. Speakers consider questions such…

As part of Work in Progress and in response to the Progress Reports: art in an era of diversity exhibition, the…