Afterall (2024)

03/09/2024

🎂 Staff Picks: Camille Crichlow 📖

For our 25th anniversary, we are inviting current and past members of Afterall’s staff to select their favourite articles or chapters across our publications. Throughout the course of the year, we will republish and make public several texts from our journal and book series!

This month, we have invited our project coordinator Camille Crichlow to share her favourite text. Outside of her work at Afterall, Camille is pursuing a PhD in Race, Ethnicity, and Postcolonial Studies at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation at University College London.

👉 ‘Holding Hands with Ghosts: A Conversation with Paul Gilroy’, originally published for Afterall ArtSchool’s Black Atlantic Museum project

In this interview, Camille interviews her PhD supervisor Paul Gilory, on the 30th anniversary of his seminal book, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. In the interview, they discuss how The Black Atlantic has been remobilised, appropriated, and repurposed for the demands of contemporary life, and explore the potentialities of its future.

🔗 in the bio to read Camille’s pick!

[Photo: Portrait of Paul Gilroy.]
Image: Photograph by Eddie Otchere/The Observer

28/08/2024

🛍️ Order a copy of MARG1N!

is an independent Southeast Asian film magazine that celebrates and bridges together passionate writers, artists, and filmmakers through the lenses of marginalised cinema.

We have several copies of their first issue on hand in our office. This issue collates conversations between friends on piracy raised the ethical dilemmas of stealing, saving, and sharing.

📩 Email Adeena at [email protected] to buy your copy!

21/08/2024

💬 BLACK ATLANTIC MUSEUM — An interview with Jean-François Manicom

Last year, Afterall met with senior curator of Museum of London Docklands Jean-François Manicom. Manicom’s work is rooted in his personal connection to the legacies of slavery and colonialism, stemming from his mixed heritage of Indian, West African, and slave-owner ancestry in Guadeloupe. This conversation touches upon his work on slavery museums in Guadeloupe, Liverpool, and London.

🔗 in the bio to read!

[Photo: Excerpt from our conversation with Jean-François Manicom]

06/08/2024

📘 ONLINE: Applied Art? Feryal Matar and Art Education at the Sharjah Women’s Association by Melissa Gronlund

On the occasion of the publication of Afterall Journal 55-56: Out of Place, we have made available, for free on our website, five articles from the issue. This essay focuses on the work produced over the course of six decades by the Palestinian-Emirati artist Feryal Matar. In looking at Matar, we see not only a tradition of art-making emblematic of its time, but also a window into the other reasons for visual production – affirmation, empowerment, community – that are often left out of its stories, particularly those among women.

Visit our website to read our other open-access articles: ‘Emergence of a New Congolese Art’ by Célestin Badibanga ne Mwine, ‘Settlement: Rosana Paulino and Black Women’s Insubordinate Geohistories’ by Lorraine Leu, ‘Working with the Lack: A conversation with Lotus L. Kang’ by Chloe Ting, and ‘Melek – Mashaa’’ by Marwa Arsanios.

🔗 in the bio to read!

[Photo: Painting of the Al-Aqsa Mosque]
Image: Feryal Matar, الاقصى (Al-Aqsa), 2000, oil and mixed media on board, 81.5 x 121cm.

30/07/2024

🎂 Staff Picks: Adeena Mey 📖

For our 25th anniversary, we are inviting current and past members of Afterall’s staff to select their favourite articles or chapters across our publications. Throughout the course of the year, we will republish and make public several texts from our journal and book series!

This month, we have invited our associate director to share his favourite text. Adeena is the managing editor of the journal.

👉 ‘Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Premises for Burmese Contemporary Art with Po Po, Tun Win Aung, Wah Nu and Min Thein Sung’ by Yin Ker, originally published in Afterall Journal 46

In this essay, Yin Ker discusses the internal complexities of the Burmese contemporary art scene.

🔗 in the bio to read Adeena’s pick!

[Photo: The artist Nyein Chan Su performing on a sidewalk in Yangon.]
Image: Nyein Chan Su (NCS), On the Road, 1997, performance, Yangon, Myanmar. Courtesy the artist

11/07/2024

🎉 We are looking forward to meeting our participants at Dambaul, Phnom Penh next week for our writing workshop!

Our 2024–5 workshop ‘Art Writing and Publishing in Southeast Asia: Sustainable Ecosystems and Infrastructures’ re-engages with the participants of our 2021 programme to develop new convivialities, research ecosystems and infrastructures for sustainable art and research cultures.

This workshop is supported by the British Academy Writing Workshop Alumni Grant.

🔗 in the bio to read about the participants!

[Images (L-R):

1. First row: Danielle Khleang, Dini Adanurani, Dominic Zinampan; Second row: Ibrahim Soetomo, lara acuin, Hung Duong; Third row: Nuttamon Pramsumran, Meta Moeng, Phoo Myat Thwe

2. First row: Prapan Jangkitchai, Roma Estrada, Sheau Yun Lim; Second row: Van Do, Tam Nguyen, Vincent Ardidon; Third row: Lyra Garcellano, Akmalia Rizqita (Chita), Ariane Sutthavong]

03/07/2024

🎂 Staff Picks: Elisa Adami 📖

For our 25th anniversary, we are inviting current and past members of Afterall’s staff to select their favourite articles or chapters across our publications. Throughout the course of the year, we will republish and make public several texts from our journal and book series!

This month, we have invited our reseach fellow and editor Elisa Adami to share her favourite texts. Elisa is the managing editor of our One Work and Two Works series, as well as an editor on the journal.

👉 ‘The Kind of Pictures She Would Have Taken: Jo Spence’ by Anne Boyer, originally published in Afterall Journal 42.

In this short but powerful essay, poet Anne Boyer reflects on the challenges that illness – particularly when terminal – poses to emancipatory politics and political art. In Jo Spence’s Final Project, she discovers not an end point to politics, but a politics beyond representation – one in which the ‘erasure of social inscription’ gives way to a ‘post-identitarian democracy of the dead.’

👉 ‘To Speak Shadow’ by Tony Chakar, originally published in Afterall Journal 35

As Israel’s war on Gaza continues unabated and images of unspeakable brutality are streamed daily on our phones, it is worth revisiting Tony Chakar’s searing essay on the act of witnessing in the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil wars. How do we speak the shadows of the past and the present? How do we redeem the images that flit by in endless scrolls of violence? Chakar’s questions are as relevant as ever.

🔗 in the bio to read Elisa’s picks!

[Photo: The artist Jo Spence in a swimsuit floating in water, superimposed onto a field.]
Image: Jo Spence, The Final Project, 1991–92, photograph

26/06/2024

📘 ONLINE: Melek – Mashaa’ by Marwa Arsanios

On the occasion of the publication of Afterall Journal 55-56: Out of Place, we have made available, for free on our website, five articles from the issue. This contribution is an artist insert by Marwa Arsanios, which departs from a study of the Arabic word Melek (property).

Visit our website to read our other open-access articles: ‘Emergence of a New Congolese Art’ by Célestin Badibanga ne Mwine, ‘Settlement: Rosana Paulino and Black Women’s Insubordinate Geohistories’ by Lorraine Leu, ‘Working with the Lack: A conversation with Lotus L. Kang’ by Chloe Ting, and ‘Applied Art? Feryal Matar and Art Education at the Sharjah Women’s Association’ by Melissa Gronlund.

🔗 in the bio to read!

Images: Marwa Arsanios, Untitled textile piece (detail), silkscreen, 2 x 4m, 2023.

18/06/2024

📖 NoteBook: Elvira García on Candice Lin’s exhibition ‘The Animal Husband’ at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh

In ‘Oh My Flesh Lump,’ MRes Art: Exhibition Studies 2022 graduate Elvira García writes about Candice Lin’s recent exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery through the lens of the exhibitionary – an umbrella term for institutions born out of Western colonial modernity that drew new divides between the epistemology of objects and the shaping of subjects.

NoteBook is a collection of writings by students and graduates of Central Saint Martins who want to nurture and develop their writing practice. They are written, recorded observations and descriptions that form a foundational part of the writers’ own research. Sometimes they are in the form of interviews or review of current exhibitions.

🔗 in the bio to read!

[Photo: Engraved illustration of a four-legged animal. Three hands touch its side. Above the illustration reads “RUB ME”.]
Image: Candice Lin, wall drawing devised in situ for The Animal Husband, 2024

04/06/2024

🎂 Staff Picks: Arianna Mercado 📖

For our 25th anniversary, we are inviting current and past members of Afterall’s staff to select their favourite articles or chapters across our publications. Throughout the course of the year, we will republish and make public several texts from our journal and book series!

This month, we have invited our project coordinator and editor Arianna Mercado to share her favourite text. Arianna manages all our communications and is an editor on our Exhibition Histories books!

👉 ‘In Defence of Skhole’ by Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga, originally published in ArtSchool 2020

In this text, Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga writes on anarchist pedagogies and education as free time through the lens of Adelita Husni-Bey’s Postcards from the Desert Island (2010–11). Husni-Bey’s project seems rather simple from the outset: a group of schoolchildren at the École Vitruve in Paris, aged seven to eleven, are proposed a three-week undirected workshop in which they have to imagine and organise life from scratch in a desert island.

🔗 in the bio to read Arianna’s pick!

[Photo: Still from Husni-Bey’s video. Two children are discussing, the subtitle reads: “Yes, I think we first should abolish the town hall.”]
Image: Adelita Husni-Bey, Postcards from the Desert Island, 2010-2011 (video stills). Courtesy of the artist, KADIST collection

30/05/2024

Afterall joins the strike in solidarity with Palestine this Friday 31 May. We demand for a ceasefire and end to this genocide. We encourage all UK and international arts and cultural colleagues to join us — to put pressure on your governments to call for ceasefire, cease arms sales to, and implement sanctions against Israel, and demand the end of the Israeli occupation.

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28/05/2024

📘 ONLINE: Working with the Lack: A conversation with Lotus L. Kang by Chloe Ting

On the occasion of the publication of Afterall Journal 55-56: Out of Place, we have made available, for free on our website, five articles from the issue. In this text, Afterall Editor Chloe Ting and artist Lotus L. Kang discuss ideas around personal-political embodied archives, practice-based research, and the sensory experience of art.

Visit our website to read our other open-access articles: ‘Emergence of a New Congolese Art’ by Célestin Badibanga ne Mwine, ‘Settlement: Rosana Paulino and Black Women’s Insubordinate Geohistories’ by Lorraine Leu, ‘Applied Art? Feryal Matar and Art Education at the Sharjah Women’s Association’ by Melissa Gronlund, and ‘Melek – Mashaa’’ by Marwa Arsanios.

🔗 in the bio to read!

Image: Lotus L. Kang, In Cascades, 2023. Installation view, Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2 June – 30 July 2023. Photograph: Andy Keate

22/05/2024

📝 We are excited to announce that we received support to continue our Southeast Asia writing and publishing workshops into a new phase in 2024–5!

Our 2021 workshop ‘Terms and Conditions of Writing and Publishing Art in Southeast Asia’ aimed to facilitate peer learning and experiment with diverse or new forms of art writing and publishing among researchers, artists and writers across the region.

Our 2024–5 workshop ‘Art Writing and Publishing in Southeast Asia: Sustainable Ecosystems and Infrastructures’ re-engages with the participants of the 2021 programme to develop new convivialities, research ecosystems and infrastructures for sustainable art and research cultures.

May–June 2024 (online)
July 2024 (Dambaul, Phnom Penh)

The 19 participants include lara acuin, Dini Adanurani, Vincent Ardidon, Van Do, Hung Duong, Roma Estrada, Lyra Teresa A. Garcellano, Prapan Jangkitchai, Danielle Khleang, Sheau Yun Lim, Tengku Intan Maimunah Binti Tengku Sabri, Moeng Meta, Tam Nguyen, Nuttamon Pramsumran, Akmalia Rizqita ‘Chita’, Ibrahim Soetomo, Ariane Sutthavong, Phoo Myat Thwe, Dominic Zinampan.

This project is supported by a British Academy Writing Workshop Alumni Grant. We are hosting the programme with our friends Thanavi Chotpradit, Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez, Tram Luong, Brigitta Isabella and Lyno Vuth.

Stay tuned for updates on our future events!

21/05/2024

📚 BLACK ATLANTIC MUSEUM — A luta continua: A conversation with Michael La Rose

Last year, Afterall met Michael La Rose to discuss New Beacon Books for Black Atlantic Museum. Founded by his father John La Rose, New Beacon is rooted in the work of Caribbean intellectuals challenging the legacies of slavery and colonialism. The bookshop’s origins are closely tied to the Black supplementary school movement in the UK, which addressed educational gaps and institutional racism. As a bookshop, New Beacon is committed to children’s literature and representation, navigating the complexities of class within Black communities. Today, it remains a crucial resource for education and activism.

🔗 in the bio to read!

[Photos:
1. Excerpt from our conversation with Michael La Rose
2. Façade of New Beacon Books]
Image: New Beacon Books, 76 Stroud Green Rd, Finsbury Park, London N4 3EN

16/05/2024

📘 ONLINE: Settlement: Rosana Paulino and Black Women’s Insubordinate Geohistories by Lorraine Leu

On the occasion of the publication of Afterall Journal 55-56: Out of Place, we have made available, for free on our website, five articles from the issue. In this text, Lorraine Leu writes about Rosana Paulino’s 2013 installation ‘Assentamento’ to think through Black geohistories: life, death and sociocultural re-invention in the Americas.

Visit our website to read our other open-access articles: ‘Emergence of a New Congolese Art’ by Célestin Badibanga ne Mwine, ‘Working with the Lack: A conversation with Lotus L. Kang’ by Chloe Ting, ‘Applied Art? Feryal Matar and Art Education at the Sharjah Women’s Association’ by Melissa Gronlund, and ‘Melek – Mashaa’’ by Marwa Arsanios.

[Photo: An excerpt of Rosana Paulino’s artist book. The page is composed of a collage of three reproductions of archival portraits of enslaved and Indigenous people with their faces removed. The woman in the centre is flanked by two portraits of the same man. Behind these figures is an image of a slave ship. Text above the collage reads ‘As Gentes’ (’People’). ]
Image: Rosana Paulino, História Natural? (Natural History?), 2016. Courtesy the artist

02/05/2024

🎂 Staff Picks: Chloe Ting 📖

For our 25th anniversary, we are inviting current and past members of Afterall’s staff to select their favourite articles or chapters across our publications. Throughout the course of the year, we will republish and make public several texts from our journal and book series!

This month, we have invited our associate director Chloe Ting to share her favourite text. Chloe works across all our projects and publications and takes care of the Afterall team.

👉 ‘And My Shrine Is My Mother’s Salon: On Ahlam Shibli’s Death’ by Yazid Anani, originally published in Afterall Journal 32

The article reflects on the impact of Ahlam Shibli’s work, particularly focusing on the intimate and political dimensions of her photography serving as a poignant reflection on personal and collective narratives, highlighting the intersection of domesticity and resistance in Palestinian contexts.

🔗 in the bio to read Chloe’s pick!

[Photo: Al-Am’ari Refugee Camp, region of Ramallah, 18 October 2011. Picture of Wafa Idris in her family’s living room. The picture hangs underneath a framed piece of embroidery reading, ‘Trust in God’, which is surrounded by a photo of Idris graduating as a paramedic and a photograph of her brother Khalil, an activist against the occupation who spent eight years in Israeli prisons. Wafa Idris was the first woman to carry out a martyrdom operation in Israel. The al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, but subsequently different explanations for Idris’s action circulated.]
Image: Ahlam Shibli, Untitled (Death, no.20), 2011—12, Palestine, chromogenic colour print, 38 × 57cm

23/04/2024

📚 Preorder now! Isa Genzken: F**k the Bauhaus by André Rottmann!

The latest title in our One Work series explores Isa Genzken’s F**k the Bauhaus (2000), a series of audacious architectural models for future high-rise buildings in Manhattan that marks a poetic and provocative shift in the artist’s oeuvre. Drawing on theories of assemblage, André Rottmann offers an original reading of Genzken’s move towards merging sculptural and architectural morphologies. Rather than a return to (neo-)avant-garde traditions, Genzken’s ‘late style’ powerfully reimagines them for our contemporary moment.

🔗 in the bio to get your own copy!

26/03/2024

🎂 Staff Picks: Wing Chan 📖

For our 25th anniversary, we are inviting current and past members of Afterall’s staff to select their favourite articles or chapters across our publications. Throughout the course of the year, we will republish and make public several texts from our journal and book series!

This month, we have invited our editor Wing Chan to share her favourite text. Wing is an editor of titles in our Exhibition Histories, One Work, and Two Works series.

👉 ‘Museum as Preface: Walid Raad’s History of Art in the Arab World’ by Elisa Adami, originally published in Afterall Journal 53

Looking at three of Raad’s works, part of the larger, multi-volume project Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World, this article considers the (im)possibilities of writing an alternative history of art within the already defined frames of museums – institutions encompassing both the sedimentation of cultural practices stemming from colonial legacies and the stratifications of new formations of political and economic power.

🔗 in the bio to read Wing’s pick!

[Photo: A 15th century jade wine cup from Iran superimposed with a 12th-13th century sculpture of a bust from the same country. The lower half of the face takes the shape of the cup.]
Image: Walid Raad, Preface to the third edition_ Coupe II, 2012, archival colour inkjet print, 20 x 15in (50.8 x 38.1cm), © Walid Raad. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

21/02/2024

🎂 Staff Picks: David Morris 📖

For our 25th anniversary, we are inviting current and past members of Afterall’s staff to select their favourite articles or chapters across our publications. Throughout the course of the year, we will republish and make public several texts from our journal and book series!

This month, we have invited our editor and research fellow David Morris to share his favourites. David is the editor of our Exhibition Histories books and teaches on the MRes: Exhibition Studies course at Central Saint Martins.

👉 ‘Ground Provisions’ by Stefano Harney & Tonika Sealy Thompson, originally published in Afterall Journal 45

In this article, Tonika Sealy Thompson and Stefano Harney discuss black metaphysics and the politics of reading together. Access this text here.

👉 ‘Lubaina Himid: Revisions’ by Hannah Black, originally published in Afterall Journal 43

Hannah Black explores the patterns of personal lives and transnational histories that are weaved in Lubaina Himid’s work, and the multiplicity of their political dimension. Access this article here.

🔗 in the bio to read David’s choices!

[Photo: Detail of Lubaina Himid’s standee installation. The colourfully dressed figures are drummers.]
Image: Lubaina Himid, Naming the Money, 2004. Installation view, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle. Photograph: Mark Pinder. Courtesy Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University (Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums)

14/02/2024

📘 Afterall Issue 55-56: Out of Place is available now!

Issue 55–56 aims to provide an Out of Placeness by looking beyond Western-centricity, to a transnational, pluralist horizon, exploring the new imaginaries created by artists and thinkers from the Global South, from Brazil to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Our double issue features Filipa Ramos and Nav Haq on Jonathas de Andrade, Elvira Espejo Ayca on the Mutual Nurturing of the Arts, Lorraine Leu and Jareh Das on Rosana Paulino, Charles Stankievech on Clarice Lispector and Lygia Clark, Hyunjin Kim and Chloe Ting on Lotus L. Kang, Corina L. Apostol on the Coloniality of Botanical Entanglements, Felix Kalmenson on the Gutta-Percha Trade, Artist Inserts by Marwa Arsanios, and Sinzo Aanza, Maxa Zoller on the Habib Gorghi Workshop, Melissa Gronlund on Feryal Matar, Mi You on Ashkat Akhmedyarov, Baudouin Bikoko on Congolese Photography, Célestin Badibanga ne Mwine on the Emergence of a New Congolese Art, Lotte Arndt on the 7th Lubumbashi Biennale, Ailton Krenak on Ideas to Postpone the End of the World, Interview with Richard Mosse, Ala Roushan and Charles Stankievech on Shaping Atmospheres, Stephanie Bailey on Sin Wai Kin.

We have made five articles freely accessible on our website. 🔗 in the bio for more information!

07/02/2024

🍉 Visit our website to access our Reading List: Publishers for Palestine ✊

In solidarity with Palestine and as part of the campaign Publishers for Palestine, we are making available, for free on our website, articles on Palestinian artists, by Palestinian authors and on the decolonisation of Palestine more broadly which we published over the years.

This is a growing repository of resources, including articles from Afterall’s catalogue, as well as resources that other publishers and cultural organisations have made available. In the coming weeks, we will continue uploading past articles as well as newly commissioned pieces.

🔗 in the bio for more information!

[Photo: A child on a bike. In the background, a wall mural depicts the Palestinian flag.]
Image: Rosalind Nashashibi, Dahiet Al Bareed (District of the Post Office), 2002, 16mm, colour, sound, 7min, stills. Courtesy the artist and LUX, London

25/01/2024

🗣️ Join us for Lumbung Methodologies with Iswanto Hartono and Reza Afisina at CSM!

Date: Tuesday, January 30
Time: 1.30pm
Venue: Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins

As part of CSM's Lethaby Gallery's ongoing exhibition Sideshow, Iswanto Hartono and Reza Afisina of Jakarta-based collective will lead this hybrid open conversation-workshop with David Morris, Wing Chan and MRes Art: Exhibition Studies students. 'Lumbung' is the Indonesian word for a communal rice-barn, where the surplus harvest is stored for the community, and was the core idea for ruangrupa's organisation of documenta 15 (2022).

Registration is not required. ➡️ Visit for more information about the exhibition!

23/01/2024

🎙️ Listen to our ArtSchool podcast episodes now on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!

We’re excited to announce that we’ve published our Afterall ArtSchool podcast episodes on Apple Podcasts and Spotify! This project was done as part of the Kunstverein in Hamburg’s exhibition THE EDUCATIONAL WEB, which ran last year.

For this project, Afterall ArtSchool initiated a series of online conversations with artists, scholars, and collectives examining artistic practice and the educational epistemologies which underpin it. Emphasising the pedagogic qualities of dialogue and exchange, these conversations involved practitioners thinking through and across three different strands: problematising the decolonial institution, education as learning together, and studying in the shadows.

Check out our episodes and listen to our conversations with Rinaldo Walcott, KUNCI Study Forum & Collective, A Particular Reality, Zach Blas, and Johanna Palmeyro!

🔗 in the bio for more information!

17/01/2024

🎉 Afterall turns 25 this year!

To commemorate our 25 years in print, we will be organising a series of programmes and announcements that celebrate and look back on our publications and its many forms. We are excited to share more news about our upcoming books, projects, and republications for 2024.

We look forward to celebrating with you!

05/12/2023

🗣 Join us this Friday at Seoul Museum of Art for The Part In The Story Where Our Accumulating Dust Becomes A Mountain!

Date: 8 December 2023
Time: 17:00–19:00
Location: Lobby, Seoul Museum of Art

Our associate directors Adeena Mey and Chloe Ting are working on a 3-year collection project ‘Communicating Convening Commoning’ with the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Singapore Art Museum (SAM), and Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). This Friday, they will be at SeMA to moderate a public meeting between Gahee Park (SeMA), Ong Puay Khim (SAM), and Reuben Keehan (QAGOMA) as part of the exhibition ‘The Part In The Story Where Our Accumulating Dust Becomes A Mountain’.

🔗 in the bio for more information!

[Photo: Six people sitting around a circular table cleaning beansprouts and chatting.]
Image: Amanda Heng, Let’s Chat, 1996–ongoing. Courtesy Seoul Museum of Art | SeMA

30/11/2023

📚 Now available! Alfredo Jaar: Studies in Happiness by Edward A. Vazquez!

The latest title in our One Work series is on Alfredo Jaar's Studies on Happiness (1979–81), a seven-phase project which, through the deceptively simple question: ‘Are you happy?’, addressed a furtive and fearful population living under Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship. Fifty years after the military coup, Edward A. Vazquez revisits Studies on Happiness and situates Jaar's early work within the Chilean art world, thus reinstating the project's historical embeddedness and the deep political stakes of its sociality.We are excited to announce the latest title in our Exhibition Histories book series! Artists for Democracy formed in London in 1974 to give ‘material and cultural support to liberation movements worldwide’. Precarious Solidarities addresses the far-reaching actions of this group of cultural workers – whose personal/artistic trajectories span Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas – and the entanglement of artistic practice with transnational solidarities shaped by migration and political mobilisation.

🔗 in the bio to get your own copy!

28/11/2023

🔥 Join us for a silent disco dance party held in collaboration with CSM MA Narrative Environments’ featuring a set by Philippines-based DJ !

Date: 8 December 2023
Time: 17:00–19:00
Location: The Street (North side), Central St. Martins, London / Online via spatialradio.live
Event is free and open to staff/students of UAL. There are limited slots for the general public. Registration is essential!

This term, ArtSchool has partnered with MA Narrative Environments’ Spatial Radio to organise a live broadcast and silent dance party on The Street. This broadcast will be operated and run by MA Narrative Environments students featuring the work of Philippines-based DJ Teya Logos.

Afterall ArtSchool’s programme Hiding in Plain Sight explores alternative approaches to study conceived in the shadows. Drawing from Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s conceptualisation of the ‘undercommons’, this programme invites arts practitioners, theorists, and students to orient their practice outside the mould of institutional apparatuses. Attentive to the theoretical parallels between the ontological condition of Blackness and planetary dark matter as ‘invisible and unknowable, yet somehow still there’ invoked by Black studies and surveillance studies scholar Simone Browne, this project emphasises darkness and shadows as grounds for speculation, contestation, and possibility.

Teya Logos (b. Dec 3, 2003) is a militanteng transpinay and artist-activist screaming and producing violent club music from Quezon City, Philippines. Fixated on her struggle as a q***r, imperialized, and colonized woman, she cites her biggest inspirations are hardcore club music, her people, and her faith.

This event is open to both University of the Arts staff/students and the wider public. If you can’t make it to CSM, you can tune into the broadcast at home via spatialradio.live!

🔗 in the bio to register!

[Photo:
1. Teya Logos poster
2. Teya Logos]
Both images courtesy Teya Logos

23/11/2023

💥 Our last two book fairs of the year this weekend! Find us at in Manchester and in Sharjah!

Bound Art Book Fair
The Whitworth Gallery, Manchester

Saturday, 25 November | 11:00–17:00
Sunday, 26 November | 10:00–16:30

Focal Point Art Book Fair
Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Sharjah Arts Square

Friday, 24 November | 16:00–22:00
Saturday, 25 November | 16:00–22:00
Sunday, 26 November | 16:00–22:00

21/11/2023

📚 Now available! Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy 1974–77!

We are excited to announce the latest title in our Exhibition Histories book series! Artists for Democracy formed in London in 1974 to give ‘material and cultural support to liberation movements worldwide’. Precarious Solidarities addresses the far-reaching actions of this group of cultural workers – whose personal/artistic trajectories span Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas – and the entanglement of artistic practice with transnational solidarities shaped by migration and political mobilisation.

Each copy comes with a set of stickers to personalise your cover. Collect them all!

🔗 in the bio to get your own copy!

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