Itinerant Imaginaries: Creating Interference 2021

Itinerant Imaginaries: An online seminar series presented by Creating Interference in association with CREAM and BAN.

A Creating Interference is association with CREAM and British Art Network (BAN) present the two-day online seminar series Itinerant Imaginaries, 7-8 June 2021.

How can archival experimentation help us contend with, question and interrogate the narrative the nation tells about itself through the work of black artists and artists of colour in Britain?

These online gatherings hosted by Creating Interference, aim to address the impasse we are currently facing by applying non-linear, collective and fragmentary methodologies to the work of black artists and artists of colour situated in Britain and the diaspora. They will address critical questions relating to intertwined histories of empire, memory, forgetting, radical collecting practices and the process of unsettling national archives.

Join us for all three seminars. Please book your free place here.

In the first of the three events (7 June, 18.00–20.00), keynote speaker Françoise Vergès (public educator, writer and activist) will talk about activist approaches to knowledge work, decolonial feminism and archives, and anti-racist strategies urgently needed for our future.

In the second event (8 June, 14.00–16.00), Sepake Angiama (Artistic Director, Iniva) and Rose Nordin (graphic designer and illustrator) will critically engage with artistic practices that challenge national institutional frameworks and introduce DIY cultures.

In the final event (8 June, 18.00–20.00), Roshini Kempadoo (media artist, photographer and scholar) will chair a discussion between Annie Jael Kwan (curator, researcher and co-founder of Asia-Art-Activism), Bisan Abu Eisheh (artist and researcher) and Chandra Frank (curator, writer and researcher) about how artists/activists with relationships to the Global South speak back to and/or evade national formations.

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 Bisan Abu Eisheh, Barby Asante, Melanie Keen, Matthias Kispert, Roshini Kempadoo, Lola Olufemi, Lucy Reynolds, Lucy Rogers, Ashwani Sharma, and A’Ishah Waheed.