known knowns and known unknowns
Past Events – Aylwyn Walshriffing off of Donald Rumsfeld questions that arise on watching Helle Stenum’s documentary film We Carry it Through Us:Audience responses touch on whose pain is represented, and to what audience.In answer to how contested histories may be understood by the oppressor, the Archivist answers: ‘it depends what you ask of the
Memory, performance and the future: A different conversation
The interdisciplinary conference ‘Memory & Performance in African-Atlantic Futures’ brings together artists, curators, academics and activists to discuss current trends in performance practices in the African diaspora, including Britain. More specifically, the three days of discussions will focus on the ways in which contemporary performance practices in Britain and the African diaspora at large are
Memory & Performance: Creativity and Critique
By Liam WilbyAcross the three days of the conference it has seemed to me that there has been a common thread that has run throughout – the necessity of performance engaging with both critique and creativity.This is my observation and is far from exhaustive of the multiple insights of the conference. This combination of critique
‘The Natural World’, Cincinnati Art Museum
Past Events I’ve been honoured to collaborate with curator Nathaniel Stein and photographers David Hartt and John Edmonds on the exhibition ‘The Natural World’, on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum until January 2023. ‘The Natural World’ surfaces questions around what is natural about the world as we know it and interrogates dominant ideas about
Hutchinson Heinemann (Penguin Books) have acquired my creative nonfiction book Scanning the Bush!
Past Events My debut prose book is part memoir, part history, part auto-ethnography, and 100% storytelling. It’s about my people’s relationship to land, and examines ways of living with plants, herbs, trees, and the earth. The story uses my own life as a way of understanding my people’s relationship with land and thereby moves between
Live Blogging African-Atlantic Futures
Past Events The conference is being documented via live blogging by playwright and poet Zodwa Nyoni and scholar/ theatre practitioner Dr Aylwyn Walsh. Together, we will be in conversation with the speakers in a call and response form. Feel free to contribute on Twitter using the hashtag ♯afrofuturesZodwa: She is UK based, with production Ode
Nouvel article sur le théâtre en Haïti
À partir de la mise en scène et de l’interprétation de Miracson Saint-Val au quatorzième Festival Quatre Chemins, Pòtoprens, Ayiti, novembre 2017.L’article fait ressortir les traits majeurs du texte Chemin de fer, pièce de théâtre écrite par le Congolais Julian Mabiala Bissila, à savoir le traitement de la thématique de la guerre civile au Congo-Brazzaville
across and between
Past Events questions that cut across times across and betweenaround and throughloss and recuperationCall and responsePets and pestsHero and victimOur story or theirsArchive and repertoirebodies in/as resistanceImage: Fenia Kotsopoulou Recent Posts
Conference round-up
@ Lubaina Himid. From the ‘Le Rodeur’ series.The interdisciplinary conference ‘Memory & Performance in African-Atlantic Futures’ was held at the University of Leeds from 31 August to 2 September, 2018. The symposium brought together artists, curators, academics and activists to discuss current trends in performance practices in the African diaspora, including Britain. The three days
performing utopia
Cruising Utopia – performed by Ministry of Untold Stories Pic by Fenia KotsopoulouPerformanceAllows thinking through and with the bodyBrings feeling into the archiveMakes as/ifMove from potential to representedIndexes here and there, now and thenFor Diana Taylor, performance is defined as ‘simultaneously connoting a process, a praxis, an episteme, a mode of transmission, an accomplishment, and