Translation from one language into another is not an automatic process, just as a hybrid does not act as simple…

Future Collect artist Jade Montserrat invites fellow creative practitioners Jack Tan and Amy Lawrence to join her in a conversation…

To deepen our understanding of the Caribbean as a pivotal place in shaping ‘global societies’ elsewhere, we will examine the…

Identity manifests through personal, interpersonal and social experiences. To explore this dynamic interplay, Iniva Creative Learning is pleased to offer…

Join us for an artist talk with Deniz Sözen and Sarat Maharaj, departing from Deniz’s practice-based research ‘The Art of…

For this Research Network event, curator Jessica Taylor will present a reading of artist Helen Cammock’s 2016 video work There’s…

We are excited to announce an open call for expressions of interest from national and regional museums and galleries to…

Join curator Annie Jael Kwan and artistic and curatorial collaboration Languid Hands for a reading group and discussion that addresses…

Thursday 30 July 6 – 7.30pm (via Zoom) The second in our series of Exploring Identity online workshops is accessible…

Join us for a lecture with artist Katy Shahandeh and Maria Kheirkhah on the iconography of the veil in the…

Join art historian, curator and journalist Leila Mehulić and artist and writer Naeem Mohaiemen who will respond to Leila’s lecture…

Join artist Ben Yau in conversation and curator Benjamin Cook, Founder Director of LUX, who will discuss Yau’s practice and…

Iniva Creative Learning’s Exploring Identity workshops provide a supported space in which to explore how class, culture, gender and race all work…

Taking inspiration from the Stuart Hall Library, a critical and creative hub for issues of cultural identity, this conversation centres…

“I was taught another cartography, the cartography of struggles, of time and space that were not those of the North/South…

OPEN TO ALLIniva Creative Learning are pleased to revisit our Exploring Identity programme with a new evening workshop facilitated by…

With our human gift of reasoning, we have tried to control or overcome the emergent processes that are our own…

Opening: 20 March, 6-8pm Following the series of workshops organised by Meera Shakti Osborne at the Stuart Hall Library, Making…

Expanding on the essay, ‘Rock, Riots and Racism’, Iniva invites you to a free interactive evening with Cheraine Donalea Scott….

For the final reading group in our More-Than-Human Care Research Network series, we will be building on the ideas presented…

WOCI Reading Group is currently organised and facilitated by co-founder, director: Samia Malik and co-assistant Alaa Kassim. WOCI is a…

Delving into Iniva’s archive, the Stuart Hall Library will host a new Saturday series that investigates our collection of short…

Join us for the closing event of the Jade Montserrat solo show where the artist will discuss the series of…

For session two of Iniva x The Laundry Arts reading together society, we will read Martin Herbert’s essay on conceptual…

Scientists have been incorporating more and more attributes based on animal perception and behaviour into media, a process that has…

Wysing Arts Centre, Eastside Projects, Iniva, Spike Island and Studio Voltaire invite applications from artists for Syllabus VI; a collaboratively…

Expanding on the essay, ‘Acknowledging the Body in Online Art’, join us for a free lunchtime talk exploring Donald Rodney’s…

Soil is the stuff of life, and it is made up of our residues – it transforms them into humus,…

“I want to hold up counterculture not as utopia but simply another mode of relations, just like all the other…

For nearly four decades, Denzil Forrester has evolved as a painter who experiments with light, colour and gesture, creating works…

Join us for the closing event of Corvus where artist Matthew Krishanu will discuss the series of paintings exhibited in…

This November we are focusing on the theme of identity, community and diasporic histories with a show and tell of…

Images of environmental disaster and degradation have become part of our everyday media diet. This visual culture focusing on environmental…

Join 2019 Stuart Hall Library Artist-in-Residence Alicja Rogalska for a screening and discussion about her work developed during the residency…

Join us as curator and journalist, Ali Nobil Ahmad presents research into historic and contemporary filmmaking practices and ecological struggles…

Join us as multi-disciplinary artist Bones Tan Jones presents “Optimystic Dystopia” a performative talk in conversation with artist and writer…

Iniva is pleased to announce a launch event to celebrate two new submissions to the Stuart Hall Library collection. The…

Iniva is very grateful to the support of Arts Council England which has enabled Saturday Openings in 2019/20. From Saturday…

“Today we confront an … urgent challenge – either a near future of climate catastrophe, or one of just transition,…

Nine artists have been selected for Syllabus V, a national, collaboratively-produced alternative learning programme, delivered by Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge;…

“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body” – Margaret Sanger in Birth Control…

“Are these images evidence of mental colonization or did they serve to challenge prevailing images of ˈThe Africanˈ in the…

Join us as artist and researcher Dr Luiza Prado presents a performance-lecture “The Weeds Became Long Graceful Grasses”, with writer…

First published in 1997, Annotations assembled art and ideas that have existed previously in a different context in multiple short…

Ten artists have been selected for Syllabus IV, a national, collaboratively-produced alternative learning programme, jointly delivered by Wysing Arts Centre,…

To mark the recent move of Iniva to John Islip Street, Chelsea College of Arts (UAL), Iniva and Tate will…

“The belief that ‘progress’ and ‘civilisation’ are correlated with the human capacity to transcend the limitations of nature is a…

Join us for our first Research Network event in the More-than-Human Care series. Angela Chan / Worm will present research on communicating climate…

Wysing Arts Centre, Eastside Projects, Iniva, The NewBridge Project, S1 Artspace and Spike Island invite applications from artists for Syllabus…

During our final Research network event, as part of the Duties of Self-Care programme, artist Helen Benigson will give a…

During this Research Network event, part of the Duties of Self Care programme, artist Anna Walker will present her research…

Trauma has no boundaries. It can manifest itself though sexual, gender, religious or racial oppression, socio-economic status, physical ability and…

Please note the event will take place at Chelsea College of Arts, Billiards Room, 45 Millbank, SW1P 4RQ. If you have…

“We resist digging up or reclaiming colonial heritage, instead, facing forward to curate alternative, nomadic gestures, landscapes for the 21st…

Who are Eastern Europeans? In the media, they are a perpetual danger to the economy and cultural cohesion. In certain…

As part of the Duties of Self-Care public programme, we will be screening Rehana Zaman’s Sharla Shabana Sojourner Selena (2016) and 2…

Did you know that the categories under which you search in your library are defined and set by the Library…

Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and the Stuart Hall Foundation are pleased to announce the third Stuart Hall Library…

2 Week Evening Course / £60 per person Thursdays 4th and 11th October, 6-8pm Shoreditch Trust Healthy Living Centre, 170 Pitfield…

To deepen our understandings of what we mean we talk about care within wider historical and economic structures, we turn to…

Join us for the latest in our Young People’s series of workshops, in collaboration with NTS Radio and George Padmore Institute and come help…

Join us for a reading group exploring female Muslim identities expressed through contemporary dress, fashion and photography in London. All…

Due to unforeseen circumstances this event will be rescheduled at a later date. We apologise for any inconvenience and we…

Artists and art therapists share an interest in mapping the emotionally charged and historically potent psycho-geography of everyday life. Bringing…

  Seeing the growth in my liver on the CAT scan, doing a face-off with death, again. Not again, just…

Ten artists have been selected for Syllabus III, a national, alternative peer led learning programme, jointly delivered by Wysing Arts…

Join us for a reading group focusing on the politics of home, housing and migration through Michael McMillan’s essay ‘The “West Indian”…

Join us as we dig through Iniva’s extensive VHS tape archive. We’ll be picking and watching a selection of rare…

In this presentation, collective Fresh New Anxieties will discuss their practice of designing sustainable self-care and professional frameworks in relations…

Join us for a reading group focusing on Nikesh Shukla’s essay ‘Namaste’ from The Good Immigrant and ‘Who’s Doin’ the…

The Commonwealth Games Federation claims that it is ‘Uniting the Commonwealth Federation through Sport’. Whilst the relevance, legacy and leadership…

This will be the first Stuart Hall Library Research Network Reading Group. Each reading group session will look at a text…

Wysing Arts Centre, Eastside Projects, Iniva, S1 Artspace, Spike Island and Studio Voltaire, invite applications from artists for Syllabus IV;…

Ada Xiaoyu Hao, Le visage humain: On ethics of care (work in progress), performance and installation, 2018. The first Research…

  Join us for a reading group focusing on Angela Davis‘ essay ‘The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: a Working Class Perspective’, from…

Three week evening course delivered by art psychotherapist Georgina Evans Held at the Shoreditch Trust Healthy Living Centre, 170 Pitfield…

For the second reading group we will read articles by Octavia Butler and James Baldwin exploring the experiences and obsessions…

The Shanzhai Lyric is a body of research focusing on radical logistics and linguistics through the prism of technological aberration and…

New Eastenders: The Prequel This lecture performance by Anahita Razmi considers and broods on the launch and structure of a…

We hope that you will join us to celebrate the poignant and beautiful work by this year’s Art Lab pupils…

Welcome to the first Saturday Afternoon Reading Group, hosted by Iniva at the Stuart Hall Library. Acting as an accompaniment…

Join us for a night of performances, as artist Ebony Francis alongside duo Alexandrina Hemsley & Seke Chimuntenwende explore and…

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it” –  Zora Neale Hurston Join artist Joy Miessi…

Join us for an evening with filmmaker Susan Thomson and respondent, artist and curator Sunil Gupta, pioneering documenter of LGTBQ…

Shy Radicals are the Black Panther Party of the introvert class. Drawing together communiqués, covert interviews, oral and underground history…

3 Week Evening Course delivered by Art Psychotherapist Georgina Evans Thursday 28 Sept, 5 & 12 October 2017, 6-8pm Held at…

The artist duo, FRAUD, will lead a performance-led inquiry into the multiple layers of power and violence that flow through…

In this two-part event, join artist Rochelle White in conversation with writer Abondance Matanda, discussing her practice and influences as…

Performances by Libita Clayton and Larry Achiampong which take their cue from the idea that the archive can be fluid…

A day of workshops and discussions at the Clore Studio, South London Gallery led by Patchwork Archivists, GLC Story and…

Christopher Lutterodt-Quarcoo, Forces at Work, 2017. Digital image. Image courtesy the artist. Christopher Lutterodt-Quarcoo introduces Unmaterialised, an archive that explores ancient…

A two-part course and workshop curated by Adelaide Bannerman in association with Iniva offering insights on artistic practices and black British…

Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and the Stuart Hall Foundation are pleased to announce the second  Stuart Hall Library…

In 2012 Cuban artist Tania Bruguera wrote her Manifesto on Artists’ Rights where she stated: ‘Art is not a luxury….

Image: Shiraz Bayjoo, Democracy. Lithographic print from original acrylic watercolour on paper with photographic image. © Shiraz Bayjoo On Thursday…

Gary Zhexi Zhang, The Kernel Process, 2016. Film still. Image courtesy the artist. Gary Zhexi Zhang will present research from…

Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and Stuart Hall Foundation are delighted to announce the launch of On the Desert…

Iniva and the Stuart Hall Foundation are delighted to launch a new artwork by Ting-Ting Cheng entitled On the Desert Island. Offering…

Sonya Dyer, ‘aPOCalypsonian Aesthetics: The …And Beyond Institute for Future Research’ (2016). Image courtesy: SAIC Performance Afrofuturism has reached a…

Cover of Black Phoenix magazine no. 2, Summer 1978 Drawing on the unique holdings of Iniva’s Stuart Hall Library, new…

This conversation between Salote Tawale and Laura Castagnini is the final in a series of three dialogues between artists and…

Eastside Projects, Iniva, New Contemporaries, S1 Artspace, Spike Island, Studio Voltaire and Wysing Arts Centre invite applications from artists for…

Image: Gitanjali Pyndiah and Oana Pârvan, Time-machine, 2014, ‘Forging Folklore Disrupting Archives’ Exhibition, Constance Howard Gallery. Video stills. Courtesy and…

Image: Ima-Abasi Okon, #########################, 2014. Video still. Image courtesy the artist. This conversation between Ima-Abasi Okon and Hansi Momodu-Gordon is the second in a…

Keith Piper‘s work over the past 30 years responds to specific social and political issues, historical relationships and geographical sites….

Image: Keith Piper, Reviewing the Future in Broken English, 2016. Screen print 42 x 59.4 cm, edition of 50. Iniva…

You are invited to the book launch of artist Leo Asemota‘s AFTER WALTER: 10th anniversary edition. The artist’s book is…

Creole in the Archive: Imagery, Presence and the Location of the Caribbean Figure published by Rowman & Littlefield International, part of…

Focused on artist Li Yuan Chia, this Study Day aimed to generate new readings of the artist’s work, invite personal…

Rehana Zaman, Tell me the story Of all these things, 2016, video still. Image courtesy the artist and Tenderpixel. This…

From left: Mary Evans, Do Not Bend No. 5, 2016. Image courtesy the artist. Joy Gregory, Bridge of Miracles, 2001….