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“BOYCOTT THE HUMAN ZOO!” – A public demonstration opposing the Barbican Centre’s endorsement of Brett Bailey’s ‘Exhibit B’ in London
I was pleased to show solidarity with a small but vociferous group of anti-racist arts activists who turned out in central London to call for a boycott of Brett Bailey’s ‘Exhibit B – Human Zoo’ installation project today. Followers of this blog who’ve already read my earlier post about the Barbican Centre’s endorsement of this controversial…
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Black Portraitures II: Imaging the Black Body and Re-Staging Histories (Florence – 28-31 May, 2015)
Black Portraitures II: Imaging the Black Body and Re-Staging Histories (Florence, Italy, 28-31 May 2015) is the sixth in a series of highly successful conferences staged by New York University (NYU) in collaboration with Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research. “This conference will bring together artists and scholars from an assortment of disciplines…
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Placing the Museum: Towards Museum Geography (AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago – April 2015)
Advance notice and call for papers, re. the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Chicago, USA (April 21-25, 2015) Geographers are increasingly contributing to understanding the multiple functions museums serve, much like their colleagues in history, anthropology, and museum studies. In her 2010 article “Museum Geography: Exploring Museums, Collections and Museum Practice in the…
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Kinshasa: a ‘site of dreams’ for contemporary visual artists
“It is a site of dreams, where dreams encounter each other and become a single body. However, on the level of our own experience of that urban environment, once one plunges into the life of the city and participates in it, it inevitably diversifies and becomes multiple.” – Extract from an interview with Vincent Lombume Kalimasi…
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Across the Indian Ocean: ‘Imagining a Museum of Intangible Culture’
Professor Françoise Vergès and Dr Shihan de Silva will be speaking at a forthcoming ICS symposium on Wednesday 29th October 2014 (9.30am-6pm) at Senate House (Room 349, 3rd Floor), University of London. This FREE event – titled, ‘Across the Indian Ocean’ – is being organised by the Race in the Americas (RITA) Group, in partnership with Kavyta…
