Archive 2019-20
Barby Asante
- Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
- Start: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 17:15:00 GMT
- End: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:30:00 GMT
Barby Asante’s work creates situations and spaces for conversation, collective thinking, ritual and re-enactment. Her projects are centred in performative actions, research and togetherness to think about contemporary geographies, race, gender and social justice; to articulate perspectives that critically reflect on the legacies of slavery and colonialism and to discuss how histories also inform the present.
Asante's recent projects include: The South London Black Archive (Peckham Platform/ Tate Modern) a collecting project mapping black music and memories in South London; Baldwin’s Nigger RELOADED (Iniva, Nottingham Contemporary, Framer Framed/ Art Rotterdam) with the London based collective sorryyoufeeluncomfortable, which uses Horace Ove’s 1968 film Ba 20 ldwin's Nigger as a start for a contemporary reading of Baldwin's provocation.