# iniva > institute of international visual arts ## Pages - [Library Volunteer Opportunity](https://iniva.org/about/vacancies/library-volunteer-opportunity/): iniva is looking to recruit several in-person volunteers to support our Stuart Hall Library, archives and wider programmes. This is... - [Accessibility](https://iniva.org/library/access-visiting/accessibility/): iniva is committed to providing an accessible environment for all visitors. We ask that you contact the library ahead of... - [Policies](https://iniva.org/policies/): Introduction Our policies outline the behaviours we expect of each other at iniva. Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) is... - [Archive Collection](https://iniva.org/library/archive-collection/): Explore iniva’s history in art education, exhibition-making, publications, and previous projects centred around Black British art history from 1994 onwards.... - [Library Collection](https://iniva.org/library/library-collection/): Stuart Hall Library is a specialist reference library that holds iniva’s collections and research. The library supports the work of... - [Archive Volunteer Opportunities at iniva](https://iniva.org/about/vacancies/archive-volunteer/): The Institute of International Visual Arts (iniva) is seeking enthusiastic volunteers to support the care, preservation, research, and interpretation of... - [Contemporary Art Space Project Year 2](https://iniva.org/learning/contemporary-art-space-project-year-2/): We are very pleased to announce the newly appointed artists for Year 2 of the Contemporary Art Space project: Haseebah... - [Reflections on Identity and Difference](https://iniva.org/continuing-reflections-on-identity-exploring-difference/): Identity manifests through personal, interpersonal and social experiences. To explore this dynamic interplay, Iniva Creative Learning is pleased to offer... - [Contemporary Art Space Project](https://iniva.org/learning/contemporary-art-space-project/): The Contemporary Art Space Project is a two-year programme of art-making and community engagement. 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Without their input and generous permission we wouldn’t be able... - [Programme](https://iniva.org/programme/) - [Creative Mapping](https://iniva.org/learning/creative-mapping/): The Iniva Creative Mapping Project considers how and why contemporary artists from across the globe are opening up the concept... - [Learning Projects and Events](https://iniva.org/learning/learning-projects-and-events/) - [Learning Resources](https://iniva.org/learning/learning-resources-2/): This is the learning resources. - [ArtLab](https://iniva.org/learning/artlab/): ArtLab was an Iniva Creative Learning initiative developed in partnership with the Opossum Federation and formed the basis of Iniva’s... - [Emotional Learning Cards](https://iniva.org/learning/emotional-learning-cards/): Iniva’s Emotional Learning Cards occupy a leading position in the growing fields of emotional learning and psychological therapies. Our cards... - [Partnerships](https://iniva.org/about/partnerships/): Current and recent partnerships include: Our contribution to Black Artists and Modernism, an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded research... - [iniva Team & Board](https://iniva.org/staff-and-trustees/) - [Blog](https://iniva.org/about/news/) - [About the Collections](https://iniva.org/library/library-and-archive-collection/): iniva’s Stuart Hall Library acts as a critical and creative hub for iniva’s work. It houses unique and rare collections... - [Donate a book](https://iniva.org/library/book-donations/): The Stuart Hall Library welcomes donations of artist monographs, zines, exhibition catalogues and theoretical text to our collections, subject to... - [University Partnerships](https://iniva.org/library/university-partnerships/): Iniva is embarking on a new series of projects working with Higher Education groups in order to actively support the... - [Visit the library](https://iniva.org/library/access-visiting/): Directions By Tube Pimlico Underground Station or Vauxhall Underground Station on the Victoria Line. By Bus Bus number 88, C10,... - [FAQs](https://iniva.org/library/faqs/): Frequently Asked Questions Below - [Privacy Policy](https://iniva.org/shop/privacy-and-returns-policy/): Introduction Iniva is committed to protecting your personal information. We also want to maintain the trust and confidence of every... - [Inivators](https://iniva.org/learning/inivators/) - [Supporting Iniva](https://iniva.org/support/supporting-iniva/) - [Institute of International Visual Arts](https://iniva.org/about/institute-of-international-visual-arts/): The Institute of International Visual Arts (iniva) is a charity based in Pimlico, London. Founded to challenge inequalities in the... - [Support](https://iniva.org/support/): Become a Friend of iniva iniva is a registered charity and we depend on donations from trusts, foundations and individuals... - [About](https://iniva.org/about/): Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) Iniva is an evolving, radical visual arts organisation dedicated to developing an artistic programme... - [Iniva Creative Learning](https://iniva.org/learning/): View our current projects and resources below. Iniva Creative Learning (ICL) reflects the belief that contemporary art can stimulate and... - [Stuart Hall Library](https://iniva.org/library/): Due to unforeseen events, Stuart Hall Library will be closed this week. Chelsea Space remains open for visitors wishing to... - [Opportunities](https://iniva.org/about/vacancies/): Volunteering Programmes We have an integrated volunteers programme to support our library and archive work, which recruits twice a year... - [Funders](https://iniva.org/about/funders/) - [My Account](https://iniva.org/shop/my-account/) - [Checkout](https://iniva.org/shop/checkout/) - [Cart](https://iniva.org/shop/cart/): Welcome to the iniva shop. Please be aware when placing orders that we are a small team and items will... - [Shop](https://iniva.org/shop/): Every purchase of iniva’s editions and publications directly supports our work as a charity. For organisational orders of iniva titles... - [Home](https://iniva.org/) ## Posts - [Creative Mapping: Listening, Disorientation and Radical Care](https://iniva.org/creative-mapping-listening-disorientation-and-radical-care/): Tavian Hunter reflects on the Art Educators Lab event from 30 November 2024 The Creative Mapping: Art Educators Lab felt... - [Introducing the selected writers for The Message Is in the Pattern ](https://iniva.org/introducing-the-selected-writers-for-the-message-is-in-the-pattern/): We are delighted to announce the writers selected to develop new texts as part of the next phase of The... - [Addressing Belonging, Identity, and Inclusion in Art Education by Imrana Khanum](https://iniva.org/addressing-belonging-identity-and-inclusion-in-art-education-by-imrana-khanum/): After twenty-eight years teaching Art in secondary schools with an MA in Museums and Education, I semi-retired to work part-time... - [Muslim women thinking further than the end of the world: A Reading List by Surah ya Salaam](https://iniva.org/muslim-women-thinking-further-than-the-end-of-the-world-a-reading-list-by-surah-ya-salaam/): Within the Euro-American imagination, the Muslim woman artist is always looking back. They are maternally preserving. Their art reconciles pasts... - [How to Create a Tradition – Chapter 1: the party is everywhere by Rose Afefé](https://iniva.org/how-to-create-a-tradition/): Rose Afefé How to Create a Tradition – Chapter 1: the party is everywhere (2026) In How to Create a... - [Unhatanhat no more, no longer Upashitapashi उन्हातान्हात नो मॉर, नो लॉगर उपाशीतापाशी by Rajyashri Goody](https://iniva.org/unhatanhat-no-more-no-longer-upashitapashi-rajyashri-goody/): Rajyashri Goody Unhatanhat no more, no longer Upashitapashi उन्हातान्हात नो मॉर, नो लॉगर उपाशीतापाशी (2026) Rajyashri Goody’s Unhatanhat no more,... - [Spun Yarn by Anya Painstil](https://iniva.org/spun-yarn-anya-paintsil/): Anya Paintsil Spun Yarn (2026) Anya Paintsil’s Spun Yarn begins from a question of how connection is sustained in places... - [A Leaf of Moving Image by Maddie Black](https://iniva.org/a-leaf-of-moving-image-by-maddie-black/): Our archive volunteer Maddie Black reflects on working with iniva’s Moving Image Collection. Feeling a bit estranged from art and... - [Notes on Return by Sepake Angiama](https://iniva.org/notes-on-return/): Have you ever looked at the word ‘return’? I mean, really looked at it. When you break it down, the... - [Living Legacies: iniva Unveils a Transformative Four‑Year Project to Reimagine Access to Global Majority Art Heritage](https://iniva.org/living-legacies-project-announcement/): Discover how iniva’s Living Legacies project is transforming access to Global Majority art heritage through community co‑creation, apprenticeships, and new exhibitions supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. - [Notes on Resistance by Azieb Pool](https://iniva.org/notes-on-resistance/): As the year draws to a close, I find myself reflecting on the many forms resistance can take. For some,... - [Calling Designers: iniva Leaflet Commission](https://iniva.org/calling-designers-iniva-leaflet-commission/): iniva is inviting designers to create a bold new leaflet that celebrates our work in radical art, culture, and community.... - [New Stuart Hall Library Membership Card Commission](https://iniva.org/new-stuart-hall-library-membership-card-commission/): We’re pleased to invite the public to join the Stuart Hall Library, one of the UK’s most important collections on... - [Living Legacies Pilot: Connecting Archives, Artists and Communities](https://iniva.org/living-legacies-pilot-connecting-archives-artists-and-communities/): Living Legacies Project Manager Tavian Hunter reflects on the pilot programme connecting and engaging iniva’s archive in creative ways as... - [Visualising Contemporary Art Histories — iniva's Moving Image Collections](https://iniva.org/visualising-contemporary-art-histories-inivas-moving-image-collections/): iniva is thrilled to announce our new project, Visualising Contemporary Art Histories — iniva’s Moving Image Collections which is supported... - [The coloniality of climate change](https://iniva.org/the-coloniality-of-climate-change/): This blog post is a slightly amended version of a presentation delivered by Jessica Brown in May 2025. ‘Climate justice,... - [On Repetitiveness of Archival Labour by Billy Tong](https://iniva.org/on-repetitiveness-of-archival-labour-by-billy-tong/): In February 2024, during the third year of my PhD study at UCL, I began volunteering at iniva. My first... - [A Black Feminist Manifesto for Radical Rest by Evie Muir & The Gathering 2024 Participants](https://iniva.org/a-black-feminist-manifesto-for-radical-rest/): This collective poem, created by participants of The Gathering 2024 and curated by Evie Muir, serves as a manifesto for... - [Stuart Hall Library’s New Vinyl Collection](https://iniva.org/stuart-hall-librarys-new-vinyl-collection/): iniva is pleased to announce it is launching an exciting new vinyl collection at the Stuart Hall Library that explores... - [Interludes: Sound Ritual Workshop Recording](https://iniva.org/interludes-sound-ritual-workshop-recording/): A sonic memory of the meditative workshop facilitated by Axel Kacoutié & Lou Mensah to encourage reflection and healing through... - [Salvage: Repair: Repeat – Archival Research Trip – Ghana – Part 2](https://iniva.org/salvage-repair-repeat-archival-research-trip-ghana-part-2/): Last Summer Archivist and Engagement Producer Kaitlene Koranteng travelled to Accra and Tamale in Ghana, to archiving and collecting practice.... - [The Visiting Arts Archive: A Legacy of Cultural Connection ](https://iniva.org/the-visiting-arts-archive-a-legacy-of-cultural-connection/): At iniva, we are thrilled to announce the accessioning and scoping of the Visiting Arts Archive—a collection of material chronicling... - [Meet Our Living Legacies Project Consultants ](https://iniva.org/meet-our-living-legacies-project-consultants/): iniva (The Institute of International Visual Arts) is delighted to introduce our project team to support the initial phase of... - [Salvage: Repair: Repeat - Archival Research Trip - Ghana - Part 1](https://iniva.org/salvage-repair-repeat-archival-research-trip-accra-and-tamale/): Last Summer Archivist and Engagement Producer Kaitlene Koranteng travelled to Accra and Tamale in Ghana, to archiving and collecting practice.... - [A Note on Rest](https://iniva.org/a-note-on-rest/): It’s that time of year when you start to reflect, look back, and look at the plans for the coming... - [Green Libraries Week: Connecting with the Land](https://iniva.org/green-libraries-week-connecting-with-the-land/): For Green Libraries Week 2024 (7-13 October 2024), we’re highlighting some of the books and zines that were featured in... - [Global Resiliencies: Activist Zines from 2010 to 2022 Reading List](https://iniva.org/global-resiliencies-activist-zines-from-2010-to-2022-reading-list/): Global Resiliencies is a project centred on activist zines produced between 2010 and 2022. It asks how grassroots publications can... - [Notes on Home: Resources](https://iniva.org/notes-on-home-resources/): ” Where do we find the words and actions to continually fight racism, Islamophobia and fascism? How can we collectively... - [Notes on Home](https://iniva.org/notes-on-home/): They say, home is where the heart is or home is where you lay your head or your hat. It’s... - [Review of The Rock Throwers by Chloe Tayali](https://iniva.org/review-of-the-rock-throwers-by-chloe-tayali/): The following post is a review of our recently catalogued tape The Rock Throwers by our previous volunteer Chloe Tayali.... - [Reflecting on Michael McMillan's practice by Cassia Clarke](https://iniva.org/reflecting-on-michael-mcmillans-practice-by-cassia-clarke/): Our recent archive volunteer Cassia Clarke reflects on the practice of Michael McMillan and the connection with her Caribbean heritage.... - [Current Journal Subscriptions (June 2024)](https://iniva.org/current-journal-subscriptions/): Stuart Hall Library journals collection contains over 400 titles including many rare items important to the UK Black Arts Movement,... - [Creative Mapping: Design and Architecture Lab by Charlene Prempeh](https://iniva.org/creative-mapping-design-and-architecture-lab-by-charlene-prempeh/): Introduction When we gathered in early March, it was ostensibly a moment to explore the resource needs of a community... - [Announcing DRIFT – Stuart Papers Publication](https://iniva.org/announcing-drift-stuart-papers-publication/): Originally printed in 2022, iniva is excited to announce the reprint of our publication, DRIFT – Stuart Papers. This special... - [Stories Told and Untold by Lyn French](https://iniva.org/stories-told-and-untold-by-lyn-french/): Introducing two new resources: A Return to Breath featuring a watercolour series by Jade de Montserrat and Making that remembers...... - [Our newest publication, Contested Sites](https://iniva.org/our-newest-publication-contested-sites/): iniva is excited to announce our newest publication Contested Sites is now available at Stuart Hall Library. This publication documents... - [Future Collect Film](https://iniva.org/future-collect-film/): As the third and final Future Collect commission prepares for opening at Towner Eastbourne, we are delighted to share this... - [Notes on Ageing](https://iniva.org/notes-on-ageing/): How do we mark the passing of time? Ageing or getting older is a privilege as it gives us the... - [Artists, Writers and Activists on Palestine](https://iniva.org/artists-writers-and-activists-on-palestine/): “What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you... - [Notes on Silence](https://iniva.org/notes-on-silence/): 4’33 In commemoration of the dead. Audre Lorde tells us, “your silence will not protect you”. iniva will no longer... - [The DRIFT Podcast](https://iniva.org/the-drift-podcast/): The DRIFT podcast is part of iniva’s postnational digital pavilion reflecting on the entanglement between land, water, movement and m/otherlands.... - [The Sound I Sea - Shenece Oretha](https://iniva.org/the-sound-i-sea-shenece-oretha/): iniva is pleased to share the recent soundscape ‘The Sound I Sea’ by artist Shenece Oretha in collaboration with Open... - [iniva Launches Online Archive Catalogue](https://iniva.org/iniva-launches-online-archive-catalogue/): iniva is delighted to announce a significant milestone in its journey as it approaches its 30-year anniversary. In alignment with... - [Chinese Artists Beyond China, 1989-2008: A journey through the ‘spotlight’ and ‘shadow’ of archive collections by Yang Li](https://iniva.org/chinese-artists-beyond-china-1989-2008-a-journey-through-the-spotlight-and-shadow-of-archive-collections-by-yang-li/): Our archive volunteer Yang Li reflects on her research into Chinese artists beyond China through her volunteering work in iniva’s... - [A review of INDEX Exhibition Workshop: Sharing memories over Kurdish cuisine by Yasmine Mattoussi](https://iniva.org/a-review-of-index-exhibition-workshop-sharing-memories-over-kurdish-cuisine-by-yasmine-mattoussi/): Our recent library volunteer Yasmine Mattoussi reviews INDEX Exhibition Workshop ‘Sharing memories over Kurdish cuisine’ as part of exhibition “Untitled,... - [A Living Archive – Research Progress by Dharma Taylor](https://iniva.org/a-living-archive-research-progress-by-dharma-taylor/): ‘Part of The Furniture’ Stuart Hall Artist Residency Pausing half-way through her artist residency at Stuart Hall Library, Dharma Taylor... - [Reflections on Prafulla Mohanti: Indian Village Tales](https://iniva.org/reflections-on-prafulla-mohanti-indian-village-tales/): Our recent archive volunteer Sondliwe Pamisa offers reflections on the publication, Prafulla Mohanti: Indian Village Tales. It’s funny how the... - [Behind the Display: Fashion within the Fabric of Identity](https://iniva.org/behind-the-display-fashion-within-the-fabric-of-identity/): Our recent placement student Tanya Srivarodom reflects on her research project focused on fashion resources at Stuart Hall Library. Growing... - [Future Commons publication](https://iniva.org/future-commons-publication/): iniva is proud to share a new publication by Future Commons. Future Commons is a peer-led network that has been... - [Artist Kitchen Salon Zine – Publication Launch ](https://iniva.org/artist-kitchen-salon-zine-publication-launch/): iniva is excited to launch a new publication, The Artist Kitchen Salon Zine. The Artist Kitchen Salon Zine documents a... - [Reflections at Stuart Hall Library by Stefano Cacaveri](https://iniva.org/reflections-at-stuart-hall-library-by-stefano-cacaveri/): Stefano Cacaveri reflects on his time volunteering at Stuart Hall Library to retrain as a librarian and learn about librarianship.... - [Review of Zine - Mine: an anthology of women’s choices](https://iniva.org/review-of-zine-mine-by-meredith-stern/): Our recent volunteer Hannah Dunsmore reflects on the zine Mine: An Anthology of Women’s Choices by Meredith Stern, found in... - [Final Future Collect artist commission announced](https://iniva.org/final-future-collect-artist-commission-announced/): We are delighted to announce that the third and final Future Collect commission has been awarded to artist Maria Amidu.... - [CVAN x INIVA Report on Anti-Racism and Equity in the Visual Arts](https://iniva.org/cvan-iniva-report-on-anti-racism-and-equity-in-the-visual-arts/): A report published today, sets out a new approach to tackling racism and inequity in the visual arts sector, and... - [Prafulla Mohanti: Village Letters — A Reflective Review by Shalmali Shetty](https://iniva.org/prafulla-mohanti-village-letters-a-reflective-review-by-shalmali-shetty/): Independent Writer and Curator Shalmali Shetty reviews Prafulla Mohanti’s artistic practice, influenced by his lived experiences between India and the... - [Game of Two Halves by Devaan Feese](https://iniva.org/game-of-two-halves-by-devaan-feese/): Devaan Feese explores questions of nationhood and representation through researching Offside! Contemporary Artists & Football exhibition in iniva’s archive and... - [Short reflections from Loophole of Retreat](https://iniva.org/short-reflections-from-loophole-of-retreat/): Within the etymology of the word retreat is the idea of drawing back, withdrawing or calling back. What does it... - [Youth Rising Creative Mapping Research Survey](https://iniva.org/youth-rising-creative-mapping-research-survey/): We are excited to announce that this month, iniva and Nowadays On Earth have partnered together to launch our Youth... - [A writer encountering an archive by Indra Tincoca](https://iniva.org/a-writer-encountering-an-archive-by-indra-tincoca/): Indra Tincoca reflects on her placement in Stuart Hall Library as part of the Writer in Residence Project for her... - [Into the archive: a powerful repository of knowledge](https://iniva.org/into-the-archive-a-powerful-repository-of-knowledge/): Our recent archive volunteer Teloni Thandiwe reflects on her time volunteering in iniva’s archives and the development of her approach... - [Shifting Hegemonies: the politics of nationalism at the Venice Biennale](https://iniva.org/shifting-hegemonies-the-politics-of-nationalism-at-the-venice-biennale/): Based on her recent master’s thesis, Stuart Hall Library volunteer Kirsty Flockhart reviews the politics of nationalism in the current... - [Interview with Rohan Ayinde](https://iniva.org/interview-with-rohan-ayinde/): As part of the Stuart Hall Library Artist-in-Residence 2021, Curatorial Trainee Tobi Alexandra Falade conducted a short interview with Rohan... - [Lift these ashes into your mouth by Sophie J Williamson](https://iniva.org/lift-these-ashes-into-your-mouth-by-sophie-j-williamson/): On 14th July 2022 we organised Approaching the Scar, a study day which took the form of an excursion to... - [iniva announce their Archives Revealed Cataloguing Grant](https://iniva.org/iniva-announce-their-archives-revealed-cataloguing-grant/): iniva is excited to announce that we have received an Archives Revealed Cataloguing Grant. Archives Revealed is a partnership programme... - [Pear Nuallak - reflections on ‘Contained Terrain’](https://iniva.org/pear-nuallak-reflections-on-contained-terrain/): On 16th May 2022 we organised the study day Contained Terrain: conversations about collecting natural histories, at the Stuart Hall... - [Volunteer reflections by Esther Cawte](https://iniva.org/volunteer-reflections-by-esther-cawte/): Our recent volunteer Esther Cawte reflects on her time volunteering in the Stuart Hall Library to learn more about art... - [Creole atlantic: in the rubble of what is still falling apart](https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-creole-atlantic-in-the-rubble-of-what-is-still-falling-apart/): Stuart Hall Library volunteer ines silva reflects on Angolan artist Délio Jasse’s careful reframing of family photographs from Portugal’s colonial... - [Reading to encounter](https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-reading-to-encounter/): Stuart Hall library volunteer Loulwah Kutbi reflects on her experience of migration, sharing her thoughts about the library space and... - [iniva announce Towner Eastbourne as partner for Year 3 of Future Collect](https://iniva.org/iniva-announce-towner-eastbourne-as-partner-for-year-3-of-future-collect/): iniva is pleased to announce that it has selected Towner Eastbourne as its partner for the third year of Future... - [Behind the display: Punk Zines](https://iniva.org/behind-the-display-punk-zines/): This essay is a transcript of a presentation given by Naomi Hart highlighting a selection of punk zines in Stuart... - [Emotional dimension of Stuart Hall Library](https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-emotional-dimension-of-stuart-hall-library-by-leda-yang/): Leda Yang is a current MA in Migration and Diaspora studies Student at SOAS who has completed her placement at... - [Artistic representations of Stuart Hall’s notion of the ‘familiar stranger’](https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-artistic-representations-of-stuart-halls-notion-of-the-familiar-stranger/): Agnes Perotto-Wills, a Stuart Hall Library volunteer, explores Stuart Hall’s term ‘familiar stranger’ in relation to the migration of Caribbean... - [My time at Stuart Hall Library ](https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-my-time-at-stuart-hall-library/): Yasmin Smith reflects on her time volunteering at the Stuart Hall Library and how this has developed her confidence to... - [Searching for the ‘Queer Caribbean’](https://iniva.org/guest-post-searching-for-the-queer-caribbean/): Zachary Myers, Stuart Hall Library volunteer, reflects personally on the resources in the library’s collections on the ‘Queer Caribbean’ Content... - [Disengagement with my own heritage](https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-disengagement-with-my-own-heritage/): Yasmin Smith reflects on the impact of classification, disengagement with heritage and what it means to be at the forefront... - [News from the North by Emii Alrai](https://iniva.org/news-from-the-north-by-emii-alrai/): Future Collect artist Emii Alrai has been researching for her new commission across the UK. Here she tells us of... - [Future Collect Artist Year 2 Emii Alrai](https://iniva.org/future-collect-artist-year-2-emii-alrai/): iniva and The Hepworth Wakefield announce the second artist to be commissioned for Future Collect – a programme of contemporary... - [iniva seeks charity trustees/non-executive directors](https://iniva.org/iniva-seeks-charity-trustees-non-executive-directors/): iniva seeks charity trustees/non-executive directors As we emerge from an extraordinary year, Iniva is seeking new trustees to join our Board... - [The Caribbean Archipelago Display](https://iniva.org/the-caribbean-archipelago-display/): In celebration of Libraries Week (4-10 October 2021), our volunteer Zach Myers has curated a display in the Stuart Hall... - [Reflections on Library Placement](https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-reflections-on-library-placement/): Tessa Roynon reflects on her short placement in the Stuart Hall Library as part of her MA in Library and... - [Stuart Hall Library Artist-in-Residence 2021: Rohan Ayinde](https://iniva.org/stuart-hall-library-artist-in-residence-2021-rohan-ayinde/): iniva and Stuart Hall Foundation are thrilled to announce that artist and poet Rohan Ayinde has been selected for the... - [Black Feminist Artists, Writers and Collectives](https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-black-feminist-artists-writers-and-collectives/): Tammi Bello, a placement student from Birkbeck College exploring black feminist artists, writers and collectives in Stuart Hall Library with... - [iniva announce Gallery Partner for Year 2 of Future Collect](https://iniva.org/iniva-announce-gallery-partner-for-year-2-of-future-collect/): Iniva is pleased to announce that it has selected The Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire as its partner for the... - [ice cream over bronze](https://iniva.org/ice-cream-over-bronze/): By Harun Morrison Part 1 from your fleshy animate body consider static, polished ones consider your skin in relation to... - [Queen Britannia is a Mess and Kali Reigns Supreme at Tate Britain](https://iniva.org/queen-britannia-is-a-mess-and-kali-reigns-supreme-at-tate-britain/): By Hassan Vawda and Khaled Sofian Queen Britannia is ‘a mess' and Kali reigns supreme! The 123 year-old facade of... - [Uncover/ Discover/ Create](https://iniva.org/uncover-discover-create/): In the first of a new series of blog posts that coincide with our new monthly workshop series Ways of... - [Interview with Xiaoyi Nie and Bo Choy](https://iniva.org/interview-with-xiaoyi-nie-and-bo-choy/): As part of Research Network programme: Global Re-visions, Curatorial Trainee Chloe Austin conducted a short interview with Xiaoyi Nie and... - [Listing Iniva's Archives](https://iniva.org/listing-inivas-archives/): Iniva is excited to announce the creation of a new up-to-date listing of the Iniva Archive collection. In 2018, Iniva... - [Interview with Deniz Sözen](https://iniva.org/interview-with-deniz-sozen/): As part of Research Network programme: Global Re-visions, Curatorial Trainee Chloe Austin conducted a short interview with Deniz Sözen to... - [The Contemporary Art Space Project Year 2](https://iniva.org/the-contemporary-art-space-project-year-2/): We are very excited to announce the newly appointed artists for Year 2 of the Contemporary Art Space project 2020... - [Notes on standing](https://iniva.org/notes-on-standing/): There are many ways to stand. 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Perhaps instead of thinking of identity as an already accomplished... - [Materials Speak](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/materials-speak/): Opening: Thursday 25 January 2024, 5:30pm – 7:30pm BOOK HERE Materials Speak is a personal exploration of memory and narrative... - [Shifting the Centre: Anticolonial Ways of Seeing Exhibition](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/shifting-the-centre-anticolonial-ways-of-seeing-exhibition/): Opening Times Tuesday– Friday, 10am – 5pm Opening Event Monday 25 September 2023, 5:30pm – 7:30pm Shifting the Centre is... - [Research Network: Contested Sites](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/research-network-contested-sites/): Contested Sites is a research series that investigates events, perspectives and languages in recent canonised history beyond the borders of place, position and memory. - [Stuart Hall Library Artist's Residency 2023](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-artists-residency-2023/): iniva and Stuart Hall Foundation are thrilled to announce that artist and maker Dharma Taylor has been selected for the... - [Can publications be porous?](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/can-publications-be-porous/): Can publications be porous? is an exhibition of works by Sadia Pineda Hameed (LUMIN), Amber Akaunu and Fauziya Johnson (ROOT-ed... - [Fugitive Feminism Reading Group Sessions](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/fugitive-feminism-reading-group-session/): iniva x Silver Press invite you to join us at Stuart Hall Library for three reading group sessions in May,... - [Show-and-Tell Tours](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/show-and-tell-tours/): The show-and-tell tours is a series of talks that highlight key collections from iniva’s archive currently being catalogued as part... - [Uncovering the Archive](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/uncovering-the-archive/): Uncovering the Archive is an archival collaboration between iniva and MayDay Rooms (MDR). We are offering a free series of... - [Iniva x The Laundry Arts](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/iniva-x-the-laundry-arts/): ‘How can we create a universal moment that also recognises difference? ’ is the question posed by The Laundry Arts... - [Future Collect Artist Year 3](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/future-collect-artist-year-3-maria-amidu/): iniva and Towner Eastbourne are delighted to announce that the third and final Future Collect commission has been awarded to... - [Untitled: an exhibition of works in progress by Maria Amidu](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/maria-amidu-exhibition-untilted/): Featuring Maria’s series of works on paper, the exhibition includes: somewhere (2020) and episode(s) (2022). The showcase explores Maria’s utilisation... - [On Our Table](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/on-our-table/): On Our Table is a series of short lunchtime tours, which aim to showcase contemporary art histories and challenge conventional... - [Youth Rising Creative Mapping](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/youth-rising/): iniva and Nowadays On Earth have partnered to research ways that iniva can support young people in Westminster to engage... - [CoLab](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/colab/): CoLab brings together artists, mental health workers and educators to take iniva’s artistic programme to schools. CoLab invites artists to... - [iniva x Afterall Bookshop](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/iniva-x-afterall-bookshop/): From October 2022 – October 2023 iniva and research and publishing institute, Afterall will be partnering to create an iniva... - [Research Network: If Sea Is History - What Is Nation?](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/research-network-if-sea-is-history-what-is-nation/): What is conjured in our memory through food, in gathering together over an evening meal? If Sea is History? –... - [Village Letters](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/village-letters/): Opening 27 September 2022, iniva is proud to present Prafulla Mohanti’s first solo exhibition in London since 2008. Following Prafulla... - [Dancing In The Ellipsis // A Cartographer's Black Hole](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/dancing-in-the-ellipsis-a-cartographers-black-hole/): iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) are pleased to present Dancing In The Ellipsis // A Cartographer’s Black Hole, a... - [Emii Alrai : Future Collect Commission 2](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/emii-alrai-future-collect-commission/): Artist Emii Alrai (b. 1993) will present A Core of Scar at The Hepworth Wakefield this spring. Alrai, who lives... - [DRIFT - a post-national digital pavilion](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/drift-a-digital-european-pavilion/): drift. iniva. org iniva proposes DRIFT – a post-national digital pavilion; a series of radical re-imaginings of Europeanness which reflect... - [Pink Tongue, Brown Cheek](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/pink-tongue-brown-cheek/): We are pleased to present Pink Tongue, Brown Cheek, showcasing the work of Rosa-Johan Uddoh. With its title punning on... - [Stuart Hall Library Artist-in-Residence 2021](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-artist-in-residence-2021/): iniva and Stuart Hall Foundation are thrilled to announce that artist and poet Rohan Ayinde has been selected for the... - [Showcase – A Perpetual Remaking](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/emii-alrai-showcase-a-perpetual-remaking/): iniva are pleased to present Emii Alrai as the second artist to be commissioned by Future Collect. Showcase – A... - [Future Commons](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/future-commons/): Future Commons is a responsive space for support, critical discussion and connection. The group emerged from the needs expressed for... - [Making History](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/making-history/): Making History is a collaborative project initiated by Meera Shakti Osborne, exploring notions of migration, displacement and self-love through storytelling,... - [Project: Me Myself and I](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/project-me-myself-and-i/): ArtLab+ reverses the damage of inherited mistakes in art education... I think you have to look at how a project... - [Contemporary Art Space Project: Year 2](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/contemporary-art-space-project-year-2/): After a very tricky year of postponements and delays we were all very excited to get back into schools to... - [I As Monument](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/i-as-monument/): “The idea behind the book was to monumentalise the works produced by the artists who participated in the workshops just... - [Research Network: Archipelagos in Reverse](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/research-network-archipelagos-in-reverse/): The mountain peak is a tip A tip is also a clue A clue to the archive’s archipelagic relations No... - [Celebrating Westminster’s Women](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/womens-history-month-celebrating-westminsters-women/): “I’m actually proud of myself (and everyone else) for not going into judgement and backing out of a public display.... - [Reflections on Public Realm](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/reflections-on-public-realm/): Between March and April Iniva is working in partnership with GLA on a project for the ‘Commission for Diversity in... - [Supporting Year 6 Transition](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/supporting-year-6-transition/): These colourful, helpful resources are designed to support Year 6 children as they transition to Year 7. Created by Lyn... - [Children's Art Week Activity Resources: Inspiring Creative Emotions](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/childrens-art-week-activity-resources-inspiring-creative-emotions/): Order your free copies for schools Iniva Creative learning have produced a printed and downloadable leaflet with the support of... - [ArtLab+ at Earlsmead Primary School](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/artlab-at-earlsmead-primary-school/): In January this year, we began our second year of delivering ArtLab+ for 15 pupils across Years 4 – 6... - [Proximate Currents: When Everything Fuses Together](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/proximate-currents-when-everything-fuses-together/): Iniva is delighted to present a new moving image work by artist Ben Yau. Echoing Stuart Hall’s 2011 essay “The... - [Stuart Hall Library Artist’s Residency 2020](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-artists-residency-2020/): Iniva and Stuart Hall Foundation are delighted to announce that artist, writer and educator Rosa-Johan Uddoh has been selected for... - [Chatting in the Stacks](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/chatting-in-the-stacks/): If you’re missing the library, you can feel connected through our new podcast Chatting in the Stacks. Over the last... - [Research Network: Global Re-Visions](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-research-network-global-re-visions/): This year’s Research Network, selected through open call, will reignite debate and reflect on the concept of globalisation and new... - [Jade Montserrat](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/jade-montserrat/): Preview: 12 December 2019, 6-8pm Iniva is delighted to present the second exhibition in its new space on John Islip... - [Contemporary Art Space Project](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/contemporary-art-space-project/): The Contemporary Art Space Project is a two-year programme of art-making and community engagement. The project reflects the RSA Academies‘... - [Corvus. A painting installation by Matthew Krishanu](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/corvus-a-painting-installation-by-matthew-krishanu/): Crows, rooks, jackdaws and ravens: corvid, corvus, and corvidae. They are considered to be cosmopolitan creatures endowed with a preternatural... - [Syllabus](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/syllabus/): Now in its fifth year, Syllabus provides a learning programme for artists over a ten-month period and is supported using... - [Future Collect](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/future-collect/): Future Collect is a three-year programme designed to create a dynamic new model to transform the culture of commissioning and... - [#MyWestminster: Zines and Beats...](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/mywestminster-zines-and-beats/): Over the last year Iniva Creative Learning has been delivering a series of artist led workshops using materials from the... - [Art Night 2019](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/art-night-2019/): Image: Shiraz Bayjoo, ‘Ile de France’ (2015), HD video still. Please note this event will take place at: Empire Cinema,... - [Stuart Hall Library Artist’s Residency 2019](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-artists-residency-2019/): Image: My Friend’s Job, video still, Alicja Rogalska & Komunitas Pengamen Jalanan, 2016-17 Iniva and the Stuart Hall Foundation are... - [Stuart Hall Library Research Network: More-than-Human Care](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-research-network-more-than-human-care/): This year’s Research Network, selected through open call, will expand on the previous series Duties of Self-Care with artists looking... - [Creating Interference: making art, developing methods, re-imagining histories/memories](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/creating-interference-making-art-developing-methods-re-imagining-histories-memories/): The aim of Creating Interference is to develop, explore and identify creative strategies to disrupt knowledge conventions and dominant discourses... - [London Art Fair 2019](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/london-art-fair-2019/): Iniva is delighted to announce its participation in London Art Fair 2019 within the Art Projects section and as a... - [Young People in the Stuart Hall Library](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-workshops-for-young-people/): We are developing a series of explorative workshops aimed at engaging young people aged 16 to 24 with all that... - [London Art Fair 2018](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/london-art-fair-2018/): Iniva is delighted to announce its participation in London Art Fair 2018 within the Art Projects section and as a... - [The Stuart Hall Library Saturday Reading Group](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/the-stuart-hall-library-saturday-reading-group/): Join us in the Stuart Hall Library for our monthly Saturday Reading Group facilitated by Senior Library Assistant Lexi Frost.... - [Stuart Hall Library Research Network: Duties of Self-Care](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-research-network-duties-of-self-care/): This year’s Research Network, selected through open call, will revolve around how artists attend to self-care in an economic climate... - [Stuart Hall Library Research Network 2017: Virtualities](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-research-network-virtualities/): Gary Zhexi Zhang, The Kernel Process This season of the Stuart Hall Research Network, selected from an open call for... - [Stuart Hall Library Artist’s Residency 2018](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-artists-residency-2018/): Iniva and the Stuart Hall Foundation are delighted to announce that collective Squirrel Nation has been awarded the second Stuart... - [Public Programme: The Place is Here](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/public-programme-the-place-is-here/): Image: A selection of magazines from the Stuart Hall Library Collection. Iniva has devised a public programme for The Place... - [Alien Nation](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/alien-nation/): Alien Nation is an ambitious and thought-provoking touring exhibition that explores the complex relationship between science fiction, race and contemporary... - [Ansuman Biswas: Gnomon](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/ansuman-biswas-gnomon/): Light boxes incorporate kinetic elements which echo the lines and angles of the building and bookshelves. The work responds to... - [Art Lab](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/art-lab/): Iniva Creative Learning believes that contemporary art can stimulate our understanding of the world around and within us. A partnership... - [Dislocation : Central St. Martin's Students Respond](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/dislocation-central-st-martins-students-respond/): Phil Alcock, Keshav Anand, Sofia Bracamontes,Nicole Coson, Sarah J Hamilton, Roshanak Khakban, Louisa Macnamara, Faun Nash, Tosin Ogunsanya, Delphine Simeao,... - [Occupied Spaces: A Political GIF Project](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/occupied-spaces-a-political-gif-project/): Saturday 28 February 2-6pm Special Viewing with the curator of the project Teresa Cisneros. Occupied Spaces is a project designed... - [A Place for Conversation](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/a-place-for-conversation/): About the project A Place for Conversation project was created with Newport Primary School to make a space for parents,... - [Becoming the Other](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/becoming-the-other/): Becoming the Other is a contemporary art exhibition with works by students from Central Saint Martins College of Art and... - [On Borrowed Time(s)](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/on-borrowed-times/): On Borrowed Time(s) showcases the work of students and alumni from MA Photographic Studies, University of Westminster. The University of... - [It's All Lies](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/its-all-lies/): Photography exhibition It’s All Lies is part of a scheme created by Iniva to provide professional guidance and support to... - [Spooling the Ethnographic](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/spooling-the-ethnographic/): The Spooling the Ethnographic course will take as a starting point Hal Foster’s 1996 essay The Artist as Ethnographer, which... - [Emotional Learning Workshop Series](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/emotional-learning-workshop-series/): Workshop Series Following the success of our summer Emotional Learning Card workshops, Iniva developed a series of evening courses for... - [Family: A Space and Stoke Newington Secondary School](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/family-a-space-and-stoke-newington-secondary-school/): Exhibition in the Education Space at Rivington Place from 2-23 May 2013. Working with A Space and Stoke Newington Secondary... - [Hackney Live : See the arts differently](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/hackney-live-see-the-arts-differently/): Iniva contributes to a new initiative showcasing emerging creatives through online profiling of the arts and creative industries with Hackney... - [Iniva Student Research Lab : Supporting Art Studies](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/iniva-student-research-lab-supporting-art-studies/): The Iniva Student Research Lab is a pilot project to support the studies of local students undertaking their A/AS Levels... - [Maths Matters: Millfields Community School](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/maths-matters-millfields-community-school/): Pupils from years 2 to 4 at Millfields Community School in the London Borough of Hackney worked with artist Dia... - [Document/ Image/ Memory: Treasures from the Iniva Archive](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/document-image-memory-treasures-from-the-iniva-archive-2/): Iniva’s Archive is a fascinating resource containing audio-visual material, unique artistic ephemera and historical documents related to the creation of... - [Cart·og·ra·phy: the unfolding of mobile narratives](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/cart%c2%b7og%c2%b7ra%c2%b7phy-the-unfolding-of-mobile-narratives/): Education Space 2 June – 24 July 2010 Thursdays 12-9pm, Fridays & Saturdays 12-6pm Artist Dia Batal’s commission Cart-og-ra-phy: the... - [One & Other exhibition](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/one-other-exhibition/): Young people from four schools in the Borough of Hackney showcase artwork produced from the One & Other project exploring... - [The strange world of Roderick Wood](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/the-strange-world-of-roderick-wood/): Education Space, 2 June – 24 July 2010 Thursday 12-9pm, Friday & Saturday 12-6pm “Don’t trust your ego”, you will... - [Mapping Shoreditch with Shoot Experience](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/mapping-shoreditch-with-shoot-experience/): Rivington Place was the setting for an interactive photo safari on 3 July 2010. Teams of budding photographers took pictures... - [One & Other: Hybrid of Tales](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/one-other-hybrid-of-tales/): Young people from Sebright Primary School have collaborated with artist Dia Batal to research and create artwork inspired by domestic... - [One & Other: Food of Champions](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/one-other-food-of-champions/): Young people from Shacklewell Primary School have collaborated with artist Agnes Poitevin-Navarre to research and create artwork inspired by food,... - [One & Other: How do you hear culture?](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/one-other-how-do-you-hear-culture/): Young people from St. Scholastica’s Primary School have collaborated with artist Larry Achiampong to research and create artwork inspired by... - [One & Other: Superheroes](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/one-other-superheroes/): Young people from Brooks Community School have collaborated with artist Larry Achiampong, with assistance from artist Barbara Lambert, to research... - [Alter Ego: Film workshop with artist Larry Achiampong](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/alter-ego-film-workshop-with-artist-larry-achiampong/): Alter Ego: film workshop This is an opportunity for young people to explore their hidden talents and make a film... - [Workforce](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/bayjoo-needs-you/): © Shiraz Bayjoo, 2009 Artist Shiraz Bayjoo transforms Rivington Place’s Education Space into a temporary artist-run factory, making it the... - [Best of Art: Young Curators at City Hall](https://iniva.org/programme/projects/best-of-art-young-curators-at-city-hall/): The Young Curators on the Curate Art course are staging the Best of Art exhibition at City Hall this autumn.... ## Reading Lists - [Young People Reading List](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/young-people-reading-list/): A reading list designed for younger readers aged 16 and under. - [Hou Hanru](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/hou-hanru/): Reading list for curator Hanru Hou - [Culture Identity and Art in the Age of the Internet](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/culture-identity-and-art-in-the-age-of-the-internet/): This bibliography provides a list of materials around the development of the Internet and its ramifications for art, culture, and... - [14 Jan 2009 AUTOGRAPH ABP exhibition](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/14-jan-2009-autograph-abp-exhibition/): This bibliography provides a list of related resources in the Stuart Hall Library supporting AUTOGRAPH ABP's exhibition Santu Mofokeng showing... - [Future perfect: art, gallery education and regeneration](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/future-perfect-art-gallery-education-and-regeneration/) - [Autograph ABP: Ever Young; James Barnor and The Paris Albums 1900: W.E.B Du Bois](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/autograph-abp-ever-young-james-barnor-and-the-paris-albums-1900-w-e-b-du-bois/) - [The Militant Image](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/the-militant-image/): The Militant Image is a programme of film screenings and discussions on filmmaking practice of late 20th century liberation struggles.... - [Abdoulaye Konaté: Window Commission 2011](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/abdoulaye-konate-window-commission-2011/): This bibliography provides a list of materials in the Stuart Hall Library relating to Abdoulaye Konaté: Window Commission 2011, on... - [Social Fabric](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/social-fabric/): This bibliography provides a list of related materials in the Stuart Hall Library supporting Social Fabric, 19 January - 10... - [Roee Rosen: Vile, Evil Veil](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/roee-rosen-vile-evil-veil/): This bibliography provides a list of resources available in the Stuart Hall Library relating to Roee Rosen and his work.... - [Peter Clarke: Wind Blowing on the Cape Flats](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/peter-clarke-wind-blowing-on-the-cape-flats/): A bibliography of material available in the Stuart Hall Library and resources that can be found online supporting the exhibition... - [Keywords](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/keywords/): A bibliography of material available in the Stuart Hall Library and resources that can be found online supporting the exhibition... - [Anna Boghiguian & Goshka Macuga: Tagore's Universal Allegories](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/anna-boghiguian-goshka-macuga-tagores-universal-allegories/): Iniva's Library team have researched and produced a bibliography of select material to support the exhibition Anna Boghiguian & Goshka... - [Burak Delier: Freedom has no Script](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/burak-delier-freedom-has-no-script/): Iniva's Library team have researched and produced a bibliography of select material to support the exhibition Burak Delier: Freedom has... - [Issa Samb : From the Ethics of Acting to the Empire Without Signs](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/issa-samb-from-the-ethics-of-acting-to-the-empire-without-signs/): Iniva's Library team have researched and produced a bibliography of select material to support the exhibition of work by the... - [Autograph ABP, Black Chronicles II](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/autograph-abp-black-chronicles-ii/): The selection includes publications on the history of black photography in Africa, Britain and the USA and writings on the... - [Bibliography: Park Chan-kyong and Lina Selander 14 Jan – 21 Mar 2015](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/bibliography-park-chan-kyong-and-lina-selander-14-jan-21-mar-2015/): Iniva's Library team have produced a bibliography to support the two solo exhibitions of work by Swedish artist Lina Selander... - [Frantz Fanon](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/autograph-abp-frantz-fanon-bruno-boudjelal-2015/): A reading list on Frantz Fanon to accompany Frantz Fanon-Bruno Boudjelal exhibition, Autograph ABP, 2015 - [Gypsy and Roma art and artists](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/gypsy-and-roma-art-and-artists/) - [Maud Sulter : Stuart Hall Library collection holdings](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/maud-sulter-stuart-hall-library-collection-holdings/) - [Stuart Hall](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/stuart-hall/): This bibliography is based on a collection of materials available in the library, by/about cultural theorist and sociologist, Stuart Hall.... - [Sonia Boyce - Scat: Sound and Collaboration](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/sonia-boyce-scat-sound-and-collaboration/): This bibliography provides a list of material available in the Stuart Hall Library, and resources that can be found online... - [Keith Piper: Unearthing the Bankers Bones](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/keith-piper-unearthing-the-bankers-bones/) - [Lubaina Himid](https://iniva.org/library/reading-list/lubaina-himid/): The Library team have produced a bibliography of published works about or by Lubaina Himid based on the collections of... ## ICL Resources - [Case Studies: Using the Emotional Learning Cards – a Dramatherapist’s Perspective](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/case-studies-using-the-emotional-learning-cards-a-dramatherapists-perspective/): Jodie Cariss, Sesame-trained drama therapist introduces her tips for using the Emotional Learning Cards. - [Who are you? Where are you going? Exploring the Christmas Holiday Season](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/who-are-you-where-are-you-going-exploring-the-christmas-holiday-season/): A resource to help understand the different emotions we feel around Christmas The Christmas holiday can be complicated, stressful and... - [Who are you? Where are you going? New Beginnings](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/who-are-you-where-are-you-going-new-beginnings/): A range of exercises to support those experiencing new beginnings Whether it be a new school, home or relationship, the... - [Exploring adolescence conference- paper by Sue Kegerreis](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/exploring-adolescence-conference-paper-by-sue-kegerreis/): In July 2013, A Space and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies (CPS) at the University of Essex co-hosted a conference... - [Exploring adolescence conference- paper by Lyn French](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/exploring-adolescence-conference-paper-by-lyn-french/): In July 2013,A Space and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies (CPS) at the University of Essex co-hosted a conference at... - [Exploring Adolescence conference- paper by Angie Doran](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/exploring-adolescence-conference-paper-by-angie-doran/): In July 2013,A Space and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies (CPS) at the University of Essex co-hosted a conference at... - ['What do you feel?' Exploring Shame in Childhood](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/what-do-you-feel-exploring-shame-in-childhood/): Uses a selection of 5 cards from the “What do you feel? ” set of Emotional Learning Cards as a... - [M is for MASCULINITY](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/m-is-for-masculinity/): Many boys and men feel under pressure to be a certain way simply because they are male. Girls and women... - [Reflecting on Endings Resource Packet](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/reflecting-on-endings-resource-packet/): This resource packet contains: 3 x Worksheets that can be printed and used in individual or group therapy sessions or... - ['What do you feel?' Franklyn Rogers Workshop](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/what-do-you-feel-franklyn-rogers-workshop/): A working example of how an entire workshop can be created out of a single card. This resource describes a... - [F is for FEMININITY](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/f-is-for-femininity/): Part of who we are is linked to our gender. We are physically either male or female. However, ideas about... - [Emotional Learning Cards Word Bank](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/emotional-learning-cards-word-bank/): This worksheet contains words and phrases which can be used in conjunction with our Emotional Learning Cards series What do... - [F is for Family](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/f-is-for-family/): The word 'family' has the same root as 'familiar'. As we know, families are made up of people who are... - [Case Studies: Using the Emotional Learning Cards in School based Therapy Sessions](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/case-studies-using-the-emotional-learning-cards-in-school-based-therapy-sessions/): Jo Evans and Tara Richards, both A Space therapists share some examples from their work with young people which illustrate... - [E is for learning about our EMOTIONAL LIFE](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/e-is-for-learning-about-our-emotional-life/): The word 'emotion' has its roots in the 12th C French word 'emouvoir' which means 'to stir up'. This makes... - [How do we live well with others? Building an Emotional Dictionary](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/how-do-we-live-well-with-others-building-an-emotional-dictionary/): This new resource accompanies our Emotional Learning Cards 'How do we live well with others? ', describing each featured artist’s... - [Who are you? Where are you going? Building an Emotional Vocabulary](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/who-are-you-where-are-you-going-building-an-emotional-vocabulary/): This new resource accompanies our Emotional Learning Cards 'Who are you? Where are you going? ', describing each featured artist’s... - [What do you feel? Building an Emotional Vocabulary](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/what-do-you-feel-building-an-emotional-vocabulary/): This new resource accompanies our Emotional Learning Cards 'What do you feel? ', describing each featured artist’s work on each... - [B is for understanding BEREAVEMENT](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/b-is-for-understanding-bereavement/): The word 'bereaved' comes from Old English. It means to have something or someone taken away. We are bereaved when... - [The stories that make us: Exploring personal histories](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/the-stories-that-make-us-exploring-personal-histories/): This resource is based on a project undertaken by Iniva and A Space which was commissioned and part-funded by Newport... - [Case Studies: An Art Psychotherapist’s perspective](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/case-studies-an-art-psychotherapists-perspective/): Jess Linton, art psychotherapist, shares some examples from her work with adult asylum seekers illustrating how she has used the... - [NEW: A-Z of Values Resource 4: Multiple Choice and Art Task Worksheets](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/new-a-z-of-values-resource-4-multiple-choice-and-art-task-worksheets/): Values are what we consider to be of greatest importance in life. Exploring values is about more than naming and... - [A is for Assertive vs Aggressive behaviour](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/a-is-for-assertive-vs-aggressive-behaviour/): Aggression isn't just about getting into conflicts or disagreements - it can also be evident in how we behave. Any... - [Exploring betrayal and its opposites](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/exploring-betrayal-and-its-opposites/): All of us experience big and little betrayals in the course of everyday life. There will be instances, too, when... - [NEW: A-Z of Values Resource 3: Worksheets](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/new-a-z-of-values-resource-3-worksheets/): Values are what we consider to be of greatest importance in life. Exploring values is about more than naming and... - [A is for Anxiety](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/a-is-for-anxiety/): Anxiety is something we can all feel. It varies in intensity - sometimes it is very strong and may even... - [Understanding anger and its opposites](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/understanding-anger-and-its-opposites/): Anger is a natural feeling that everyone experiences. In common with all of our emotions, anger gives us information that... - [NEW: A-Z of Values Resource 2: Artist-led exercises](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/new-a-z-of-values-resource-2-artist-led-exercises/): Values are what we consider to be of greatest importance in life. Exploring values is about more than naming and... - [A is for Adolescent Anger](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/a-is-for-adolescent-anger/): Whatever our age, we've all been a teenager. We know from experience that this is a challenging phase of life... - [A to Z of Leadership: Exploring Anxieties](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/a-to-z-of-leadership-exploring-anxieties/): This resource has been designed to be used in conjunction with our NEW set of Emotional Learning Cards - A-Z... - [NEW: A-Z of Values Resource 1: Introduction to Values](https://iniva.org/learning/resources/new-a-z-of-values-resource-1-introduction-to-values/): This resource provides teachers, educators, multi-disciplinary practitioners and therapists with ideas on how to creatively explore the subject of values... ## Directory - [Tic (4)](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/t/tic-4): Tic (4) is a music nerd, musician and A&R. As a creator, he’s best known for songwriting & production with... - [Blenkinsop Grace](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/blenkinsop-grace): Grace Blenkinsop is a Black British writer and researcher based in London. Primarily writing creative non-fiction, her work aims to... - [Gumbs Alexis Pauline](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/g/gumbs-alexis-pauline): Alexis Pauline Gumbs is an Afro-Caribbean, indigenous daughter, granddaughter, sister, auntie and cousin. She is also a world-renowned Black feminist... - [Hart Andrew Pierre](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/hart-andrew-pierre): Andrew Pierre Hart’s practice is inter-disciplinary based in Painting, the main focus of his work is the symbiotic relationship between... - [Prince Shelaine](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/p/prince-shelaine): Shelaine Prince is a London-based Dancehall instructor, creative director and co-founder of Ignition Dance Company. With years of experience teaching... - [Austin Chloe](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/austin-chloe): Chloe Austin is a London based art writer and visual art programmer. She currently manages international visual arts programming at... - [Scarlette Maya](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/s/scarlette-maya): Maya Scarlette is a fashion designer based in London. She is a self-taught fashion designer whose work explores creativity across... - [Dudley Becca](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/dudley-becca): Becca Dudley is a successful DJ, broadcaster and music curator. In 2012 Becca was signed up to front MTV UK’s... - [Oduntan Daniel](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/o/oduntan-daniel): Daniel Oduntan is an interdisciplinary media artist and designer working across sound, visual art, performance media, print, and installation. The... - [Jirathiyut Vasita (Pleng)](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/j/jirathiyut-vasita-pleng): Vasita (Pleng) Jirathiyut is an arts administrator, producer and independent researcher based between London and Bangkok. Currently a Programme and... - [Afefe Rose](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/afefe-rose): Rose Afefé is a visual artist from Bahia, Brazil. Working across installation, painting, and photography, her practice is rooted in... - [Goody Rajyashri](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/g/goody-rajyashri): Rajyashri Goody was born in 1990 in Pune, India. She is currently based in Goa. Goody completed her BA in... - [Dumbuya Samia](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/dumbuya-samia): Samia Dumbuya is a climate educator, facilitator, and the founder of The People’s Ark, focusing on upskilling and educating marginalised... - [Hafeji Hafsah](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/hafeji-hafsah): Hafsah Hafeji is a community horticulturalist whose work focuses on the relationship between people and plants. She is particularly fascinated... - [Amoo-Gottfried Amber](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/amoo-gottfried-amber): Amber Amoo-Gottfried is a climate justice advocate and youth learning designer for social change, championing intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches to... - [Nwanodi Charlie](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/n/nwanodi-charlie): Charlie Nwanodi is a wildlife lover, nature photographer, wellbeing facilitator, and crafter. Through holding nature connection spaces for people from... - [Igwe Onyeka](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/i/igwe-onyeka): Onyeka Igwe is a London-born & based moving image artist and researcher. Her work is aimed at the question: how... - [Kasumu Juliana](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/k/kasumu-juliana): Juliana Kasumu is a British-Nigerian artist and filmmaker whose multidisciplinary practice spans film, photography, and installation. Through fragmented, non-linear storytelling,... - [Khan Raheel](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/k/khan-raheel): Raheel Khan (b. 1992, Nottingham) is a London-based artist & composer working in installation, performance & text. His practice considers... - [Mui Charlotte](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/mui-charlotte): Charlotte Ngo-Suet Mui (b. 1996, Hong Kong) is an artist, art librarian and tarot reader based in London. Through her... - [Koranteng Kaitlene](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/k/koranteng-kaitlene): Kaitene Koranteng is an archivist, engagement producer and poet with an interest in exploring marginalised histories and access to archives.... - [Mulvaney Jack](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/mulvaney-jack): Jack Mulvaney managed the Stuart Hall Library 2024-2025 and oversaw the development of the collection and ran the On Our... - [Denise Lynnée](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/denise-lynnee): Lynnée Denise, a global practitioner of sound, language, and Black Atlantic thought, is an Amsterdam-Johannesburg-based writer and interdisciplinary artist from... - [Henriques Julian](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/henriques-julian): Professor Julian Henriques is convenor of the MA Cultural Studies programme, director of the Topology Research Unit and a co-founder... - [Kamala Linett](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/k/kamala-linett): Linett Kamala is an interdisciplinary creative on a mission to amplify wellness through her offerings which include: DJ, Artist, Academic,... - [Yousefzada Osman](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/y/yousefzada-osman): Osman Yousefzada is a British born, internationally recognised interdisciplinary artist and writer who describes his practice as auto ethnographic, where... - [BBZ](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/bbz): BBZ (Burgeoning Brazen Zamis or Babes) is a creative duo that consists of filmmaker Nadine Davis and photographer Tia Simon-Campbell,... - [Matanda Abondance](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/matanda-abondance): Abondance Matanda is an arts and culture writer and poet. Being based in London proper informs her subject matters and... - [Keiken](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/k/keiken): Keiken, Japanese for experience, is a cross-dimensional collaborative practice based in London and Berlin and founded in 2015 by artists... - [Moran Stephanie](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/moran-stephanie): Stephanie Moran is an artist and researcher, studying for a 3D3-funded PhD with Plymouth University’s interdisciplinary digital research group, Transtechnology... - [Cusimano Amanda](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/c/cusimano-amanda): Amanda Cusimano has over 16 years’ experience in working data, research, evaluation and strategies development within the arts and cultural... - [Rutherford Ananda](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/r/rutherford-ananda): Ananda Rutherford is an experienced researcher and museum collections manager. Her research and professional practice focus is on ethical and... - [Sohal Neena](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/s/sohal-neena): Neena Sohal has over 20 years’ experience in the arts and heritage sector specialising in strategic development, project management, evaluation,... - [Dymond Susan](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/dymond-susan): Susan Dymond has extensive experience of planning and delivering high-quality, audience-focused heritage interpretation at a range of venues. She collaborates... - [Mitra Rinku](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/mitra-rinku): Rinku Mitra has over 15 years’ experience in the cultural, heritage and voluntary sector with extensive knowledge of the formal... - [Hunter Tavian](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/hunter-tavian): Tavian Hunter is a librarian, programme coordinator and editorial publishing manager. Since 2018, she has been Library and Archive Manager... - [Hunjan Bhajan](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/hunjan-bhajan): Bhajan Hunjan is a UK-based artist-educator who creates commissions for the public realm and built environment. She also works collaboratively... - [Earthchild Remedies](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/e/earthchild-remedies): Earthchild Remedies is a company, founded in 2022 by Rebekah Williams that explores wellness through practices that seek to re-connect... - [Muir Evie](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/muir-evie): Evie Muir (she/they) is a nature writer and founder of Peaks of Colour – a Peak District based nature-for-healing community... - [Natalegawa Dhiyandra ](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/n/natalegawa-dhiyandra): Dhiyandra Natalegawa (b. 1991) is an Indonesian Creative Educator and Producer born and raised in Brent, London. Throughout the last... - [a-n](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/a-n): We are the artists’ advocate. Guided by our members and advised by our Artists Council, we campaign on crucial issues,... - [Goh Joon-Lynn](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/g/goh-joon-lynn): Joon-Lynn is a cultural organiser working at the intersections of art, infrastructure, and social justice. They embrace organising as a... - [Broomes Mele](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/broomes-mele): Mele Broomes is an award winning artist and director. She has a multidisciplinary practice in dance, movement, choreographer and vocal... - [Osajivbe-Williams Danielle](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/o/osajivbe-williams-danielle): Danielle DZA Ifakemi Osajivbe-Williams is an integrative counsellor and psychotherapist, consultant, author (‘Race is complicated: a toolkit for psychological therapies... - [Ifekoya Evan](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/i/ifekoya-evan-2): Evan Ifekoya is an interdisciplinary artist working in community organising, installation, performance, sound, text and video, whose practice is an... - [Dennis Angela](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/dennis-angela): Angela Dennis is a visual artist and registered somatic movement educator accredited by the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy... - [Axel Kacoutié & Lou Mensah](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/axel-kacoutie-lou-mensah): Lou Mensah founded Shade Podcast to create a space for Black artists and creative practitioners to talk about their work... - [Francois Janine](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/f/francois-janine): Janine Francois is a Black British feminist writer, academic and cultural producer. Janine’s research focuses on ethics of care, Black... - [Nwaby-Ekeoma Victory](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/n/nwaby-ekeoma-victory): Victory Nwabu-Ekeoma is an Igbo-Irish zine-maker, writer, storyteller, content designer and the founder and editor of Bia! Zine – an... - [Bryce Shanice](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/bryce-shanice): Shanice Bryce is an artist and movement teacher based in London. She is the founder of OOM, which explores the... - [Bare Minimum Collective](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/bare-minimum-collective): bare minimum collective bare minimum is six-person interdisciplinary anti-work arts collective. We believe in doing nothing or at the very... - [Resolve Collective](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/r/resolve-collective): RESOLVE is an interdisciplinary design collective that combines architecture, engineering, technology and art to address social challenges. They have delivered... - [Wong Carmen](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/w/wong-carmen): Carmen Wong is an artist-researcher, a curiously hungry migrant, and a recovering academic with student debt. Her practice often experiments... - [Maxwell Yvonne](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/maxwell-yvonne): Yvonne Maxwell is a Saint Lucian-Nigerian self-taught documentary photographer whose work explores issues surrounding migration, collective and individual memory, community... - [Dhaliwal Suzanne](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/dhaliwal-suzanne): Suzanne Dhaliwal is a Climate Justice Creative, Campaigner, Researcher, Lecturer in Environmental Justice and Trainer in Creative Strategies for Decolonisation.... - [Arefin Maymana](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/arefin-maymana): Maymana Arefin (she/they) is an artist, community organiser and writer based in London. Through leading nature immersions, plant and fungi... - [Taylor Foluke](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/t/taylor-foluke): Foluke writes, teaches, practices therapeutics, and sometimes referring to herself as writer*therapist (with an asterisk* signalling Black feminist modes of... - [Barton Camille](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/barton-camille): Camille Sapara Barton is a Social Imagineer, multi-disciplinary artist and somatic practitioner, dedicated to creating networks of care and liveable... - [Harris Ashanti](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/harris-ashanti): Ashanti Harris is a multi-disciplinary artist, researcher and lecturer exploring ways of disrupting historical narratives and re-imagining them from a... - [Tajudeen Bolanle](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/t/tajudeen-bolanle): Bolanle Tajudeen is the founder of Black Blossoms, an art school and curatorial platform dedicated to amplifying the practices of... - [Kailey Deep K](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/k/kailey-deep-k): Deep K Kailey is an artistic director and cultural narrator. The former Condé Nast fashion director went from styling iconic... - [Henry Joseph](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/henry-joseph): Joseph Henry is a designer, urbanist, and curator whose practice advocates for a more equitable built environment through policy and... - [Whitley Zoé](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/w/whitley-zoe): Dr. Zoé Whitley is Director of the non-profit Chisenhale Gallery in London. She co-curated the acclaimed Tate Modern exhibition Soul... - [Neagu Simina](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/n/neagu-simina): Simina Neagu was Programme and Operations Coordinator at iniva from 2017 to 2022. She has previously worked with various arts... - [Malik Tarini](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/malik-tarini): Tarini Malik (b. 1988, New Delhi, India) is the Shane Ackroyd Associate Curator of the British Pavilion at the 2024... - [Watson Anne-Marie](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/w/watson-anne-marie): Anne-Marie Watson is an artist, arts facilitator, curator and project manager specialising in creative arts and wellbeing. She has worked... - [Berhane Misgane](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/berhane-misgane): Misgana Berhane is an accredited person-centred therapist and a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Her... - [Adelekun Seyi](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/adelekun-seyi): Seyi Adelekun is a London-based multidisciplinary artist of Yoruba-Nigerian heritage. Their practice employs installation, performance, and sound as storytelling devices... - [Harvey James](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/h/harvey-james): Dr James Harvey is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Media at the University of Hertfordshire. His research is preoccupied... - [Givanni June](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/g/givanni-june): Dr June Givanni is a pioneering international film curator who has considerable experience in film and broadcasting for over 30... - [Teyie Alexis G.](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/t/teyie-alexis-g): Alexis G. Teyie is a poet, data scientist, curator, and publisher. Teyie was one of the co-founders of Enkare Review,... - [Addae Yaa](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/addae-yaa): Yaa Addae (she/they) is a writer, researcher, and participatory curator who is committed to imagining ways of being outside of... - [Bhattacharyya Gargi](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/bhattacharyya-gargi): Gargi Bhattacharyya (they/them) is Professor of Anti/Post/Decolonial Theory and Praxis at UAL Decolonising Arts Institute and recently worked as Professor... - [Qualmann Clare](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/q/qualmann-clare): Clare Qualmann (she/her) is an artist/researcher whose work focuses on socially engaged, site specific, and experimental modes of contemporary creative... - [Woolford Joshua](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/w/woolford-joshua): Joshua Woolford is the 2023/24 Research and Interpretation artist in residence at Tate Britain and will be producing a series... - [Clarke Cassia](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/c/clarke-cassia): Cassia Clarke is a Luton-born British-Caribbean self-taught archivist, researcher and facilitator. She uses an autoethnographic and co-curatorial approach to engage... - [Dhallu Amrita](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/dhallu-amrita): Amrita Dhallu is a curator and researcher based in London. She provides support structures for emerging British artists through commissioning,... - [Jay Priya](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/j/jay-priya): Priya Jay is a writer and faciliator. Her practice is led by questions of literacies, embodiment, sustenance and liberation: through... - [Biamah-Ofosu Nana](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/biamah-ofosu-nana): Nana Biamah-Ofosu is an architect, writer and director of YAA Projects, an architecture, design and research practice dedicated to exploring... - [Agbetu Nate](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/a/agbetu-nate): Nate Agbetu is the founder of Free Form, a cultural curator and educator who highlights emergent thinking through research, art... - [Prempeh Charlene](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/p/prempeh-charlene): Charlene Prempeh is the founder of A Vibe Called Tech, a creative studio and art consultancy that is dedicated to... - [Shah Arpita](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/s/shah-arpita): Arpita Shah is a photographic artist and educator based in Eastbourne, UK. She works between photography and film, exploring the... - [Charles Kaia](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/c/charles-kaia): Kaia Charles is a Cultural projects commissioner and curator whose work is rooted in contemporary art practice. Charles has commissioned... - [Petersen Leanne](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/p/petersen-leanne): Leanne Petersen is a curator, creative producer and freelance writer. She has curated and produced several projects for organisations including... - [Sahmland Susi](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/s/sahmland-susi): Susi Sahmland looks after educational outreach for the Frank Bowling Studio. She works closely with schools, galleries and museums and... - [Uambembe Helena](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/u/uambembe-helena): Helena Uambembe, born in 1994 in Pomfret, South Africa, is an artist of Angolan descent whose work is heavily influenced... - [Paintsil Anya](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/p/paintsil-anya): Anya Paintsil, London-based textile artist of Welsh and Ghanaian heritage. Her practice combines traditional hand rug making techniques with afro... - [Kalichini Gladys](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/k/kalichini-gladys): Gladys Kalichini is a contemporary visual artist and researcher from Lusaka, Zambia. Her work centres around notions of erasure, memory,... - [Dennis Nolan Oswald](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/dennis-nolan-oswald): Nolan Oswald Dennis is a para-disciplinary artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Their practice explores ‘a black consciousness of space’... - [Mboya Renée Akitelek](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/m/mboya-renee-akitelek): Renée Akitelek Mboya is a writer, curator and filmmaker. Her custom relies on biography and storytelling as a form of... - [Camp Ibiye](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/c/camp-ibiye): Ibiye is a British Nigerian multidisciplinary artist. Her work engages with technology, trade and material within the African Diaspora. Ibiye’s... - [Ruddock Shamica](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/r/ruddock-shamica): Shamica Ruddock is an artist often found working between sound and moving image. Shamica’s current research concerns sound cultures and... - [Wan Jessica](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/w/wan-jessica): Jessica Wan is a curator and writer who works to rethink access from the perspectives of transnationalism, migration and feminist... - [Tay Anushka](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/t/tay-anushka): Anushka Tay, a London-based artist and researcher interested in the ways that bodies move through space. Her research examines the... - [Oshin Péjú](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/o/oshin-peju): Péjú Oshin, a British-Nigerian curator, writer, and lecturer working with young and emerging visual artists from the African diaspora. Sitting... - [Brenha Renata](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/brenha-renata): Renata Brenha, a London-based Brazilian womenswear designer with an MA in fashion from the Royal College of Art (2018) and... - [Brown Nicholas](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/b/brown-nicholas): Nicholas Brown, a librarian and doctoral candidate researching Black British artists and print culture, with particular attention to independent magazine... - [Ling Wessie](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/l/ling-wessie): Wessie Ling, Ph. D. , a Professor of Transcultural Arts and Design at London Metropolitan University where she directs The... - [Duah Lauren-Loïs](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/d/duah-lauren-lois): Lauren-Loïs Duah is a cross-disciplinary artist, writer and spatial-designer whose work focuses on the ways in which creativity, craft, and... - [Kellay Meneesha](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/k/kellay-meneesha): Meneesha Kellay is a curator working across art, architecture, design, and performance. Currently the Senior Curator, Contemporary Programme at the... - [Kihara Yuki](https://iniva.org/library/digital-archive/people/k/kihara-yuki): YUKI KIHARA (b. 1975, Sāmoa) is an interdisciplinary artist of Japanese and Sāmoan descent whose work seeks to challenge dominant... ## Events - [TrAIN Open Lecture and Publication Launch](https://iniva.org/programme/events/train-open-lecture-and-publication-launch/): BOOK HERE TrAIN Open Lecture and publication launch followed by in-conversation with Andrew Pierre Hart and Paul Goodwin. Join us... - [The Listening Sweet](https://iniva.org/programme/events/the-listening-sweet/): BOOK HERE Join us at Chelsea College of Arts for The Listening Sweet, an evening of sound, collaboration and coming... - [If you like rice, you'll understand – Collective Noise Opening](https://iniva.org/programme/events/opening/): BOOK HERE Join us for the opening of If you like rice, you’ll understand – Collective Noise – a new... - [Artists in Conversation](https://iniva.org/programme/events/the-message-is-in-the-pattern-artists-long-table/): BOOK HERE Join Post-National Digital Pavilion artists Rajyashri Goody and Anya Paintsil in a collective conversation around making, patterns, lived... - [Dance Party](https://iniva.org/programme/events/dance-party/): BOOK HERE Step into the rhythm of Jamaican Dancehall in this joyful, all-levels dance workshop led by Shelaine Prince, with... - [Bring Ya Ting to Bling](https://iniva.org/programme/events/bring-ya-ting-to-bling/): BOOK HERE Join us for a hands-on workshop inspired by DIY culture, dancehall fashion and adornment practices. Facilitated by Maya... - [Writers Open Call](https://iniva.org/programme/events/writers-open-call/): The next phase of The Message Is in the Pattern invites writers from across disciplines and geographies to respond to... - [Reading & Listening Session](https://iniva.org/programme/events/reading-listening-session/): BOOK HERE Join us for an evening of reading, listening and conversation responding to Dancehall Riddim Queens! Facilitated by Becca... - [Dancehall Riddim Queens Opening](https://iniva.org/programme/events/dancehall-riddim-queens-opening/): Join us for the opening of Dancehall Riddim Queens, a solo exhibition by Linett Kamala at the Stuart Hall Library.... - [Revisiting Club Mix](https://iniva.org/programme/events/revisiting-club-mix/): BOOK HERE Inspired by artistic interventions in club culture that experiment with image, sound and movement, Revisiting Club Mix explores... - [ICA Youth Collective](https://iniva.org/programme/events/ica-youth-collective/): Through a structured series of sessions, ICA Youth Collective participants will gain an understanding of archival theory and practice, histories... - [This Society F*cks Me Over](https://iniva.org/programme/events/this-society-fcks-me-over/): BOOK HERE Join us for a special screening of artists’ film and video works by LGBTQIA+ and womxn artists from... - [Where the Waters Meet: A study day exploring climate change and colonialism](https://iniva.org/programme/events/where-the-waters-meet-a-study-day-exploring-climate-change-and-colonialism/): BOOK HERE The impact of rapid ecological change continues to bring about unprecedented environmental disasters and a threat to persons,... - [What the Land Holds – Soil and Somatics](https://iniva.org/programme/events/what-the-land-holds-soil-and-somatics/): BOOK HERE iniva together with Grand Junction, Climate Reframe, and artist Maymana Arefin to present ‘Fruitings Will Come’, a four... - [Gestures of Care — The Politics of Radical Softness](https://iniva.org/programme/events/gestures-of-care-the-politics-of-radical-softness/): BOOK HERE iniva together with Grand Junction, Climate Reframe, and artist Maymana Arefin, to present ‘Fruitings Will Come,’ a four-part... - [Threads of Memory – The Stories We Stitch](https://iniva.org/programme/events/threads-of-memory-the-stories-we-stitch/): BOOK HERE iniva together with Grand Junction, Climate Reframe, and artist Maymana Arefin present ‘Fruitings Will Come’ a four part... - [Below the Surface – Walking with Kin](https://iniva.org/programme/events/below-the-surface-walking-with-kin/): BOOK HERE iniva together with Grand Junction, Climate Reframe, and artist Maymana Arefin to present ‘Fruitings Will Come’ a four... - [Poetry in Community](https://iniva.org/programme/events/poetry-in-community/): BOOK HERE Come and share with us on our table and gain a glimpse of the iniva’s Stuart Hall Library... - [Ôri (1989)](https://iniva.org/programme/events/ori-1989/): BOOK HERE Join iniva and Brixton Community Cinema for a screening of Ôri (1989), directed by Raquel Gerber, the film... - [Black Threads: Short Films in Dialogue](https://iniva.org/programme/events/black-threads/): The programme features three short films: two from artists that are within iniva’s Moving Image Collection and one film that... - [AfroBinary: Sonic Memories & Diasporic Data](https://iniva.org/programme/events/afrobinary-sonic-memories-diasporic-data/): Join us for a special premiere of AfroBinary: Sonic Memories & Diasporic Data, a sonic lecture by Antonio José Guzman... - [Archive in Motion](https://iniva.org/programme/events/on-our-table-archive-in-motion/): BOOK HERE This short session, entitled ‘On Our Table: Archive in Motion’ aims to showcase material from Stuart Hall Library... - [Cataloguing Your Film Archive](https://iniva.org/programme/events/cataloguing-your-film-archive/): Join archivist Kaitlene Koranteng for a workshop exploring how to catalogue your own archive. Cataloguing is the process of identifying,... - [Reading Cycles](https://iniva.org/programme/events/reading-cycles/): Join us for a series of reading cycles expanding on the themes of Dub Encyclopaedia, a multimedia installation by Antonio... - [Archiving and Photography with Avenues Youth Project](https://iniva.org/programme/events/archiving-and-photography-with-avenues-youth-project/): A creative and hands-on session exploring photography, storytelling and the art of archiving. Led by Cassia Clarke and Tavian Hunter,... - [Getting to Know iniva: Archive and Library Tour for Open Age](https://iniva.org/programme/events/introduction-to-iniva-stuart-hall-library-and-archiving-with-open-age/): A welcoming and informative session introducing the Stuart Hall Library and iniva’s archive to older adults from Westminster, Kensington and... - [Garden of Belonging](https://iniva.org/programme/events/garden-of-belonging/): A workshop led by A-Space art psychotherapist Nathalie Roset with Young at Hearts group at the Abbey Centre exploring personal... - [Sound and Music Workshop with ETAT](https://iniva.org/programme/events/sound-and-music-workshop-with-etat/): This pilot workshop reconnected ETAT participants with their previously recorded vinyl EP, which features spoken word, rap and wartime classics.... - [Garden of Feelings](https://iniva.org/programme/events/garden-of-feelings/): Rich in representation and symbolism, gardens are powerful metaphors frequently featured in literature and art. Often interpreted as spaces of... - [Zine Making with Mozart Community Champions](https://iniva.org/programme/events/zine-making-with-mozart-community-champions/): This pilot zine-making workshop with Mozart Community Champions was facilitated by artist Bhajan Hunjan. It explored the theme of home... - [Zine Making with Open Age](https://iniva.org/programme/events/zine-making-with-open-age/): A pilot zine-making workshop with Open Age Westminster facilitated by artist Bhajan Hunjan, exploring the theme of home and belonging... - [Present Land: Open Call](https://iniva.org/programme/events/open-call-artist-commission/): Deadline: Saturday 5 July 2025, 11:59pm Artist Fee: £3,750 Project Timeline: July 2025 – January 2026 Location: Stuart Hall Library,... - [Dub Encyclopaedia Opening Preview](https://iniva.org/programme/events/dub-encyclopaedia-opening-preview/): BOOK HERE Join us for the exhibition opening preview of Dub Encyclopaedia! Dub Encyclopaedia is an immersive installation by artists... - [Altars of Planetary Healing](https://iniva.org/programme/events/altars-of-planetary-healing/): BOOK HERE Join artist Seyi Adelekun for a participatory performance exploring how we might embody planetary healing in the face... - [Grow Your Collection: Book Sale](https://iniva.org/programme/events/grow-your-collection/): Support the Stuart Hall Library’s collection and build your own! - [Detroit Techno Reading Group](https://iniva.org/programme/events/detroit-techno-reading-group/): BOOK HERE FOR THE READING GROUP From Fordism to Motown, from Kraftwerk to Afro-futurism and mythical Atlantics, Detroit Techno is... - [Detroit Techno](https://iniva.org/programme/events/detroit-techno/): BOOK HERE FOR THE LUNCHTIME TALK From Fordism to Motown, from Kraftwerk to Afro-futurism and mythical Atlantics, Detroit Techno is... - [Against Witness](https://iniva.org/programme/events/against-witness/): BOOK HERE iniva and down river road invite you to join us in a poetry gathering at Stuart Hall Library,... - [Restorative Practices](https://iniva.org/programme/events/restorative-practices/): BOOK HERE Join us for a lunchtime sharing session where we will explore the books and zines surrounding the topic... - [When will we be good enough?](https://iniva.org/programme/events/when-will-we-be-good-enough/): Join interdisciplinary artist Osman Yousefzada and writer and curator, Ekow Eshun in a conversation exploring Yousefzada’s sculptural installation ‘When will... - [Creative Mapping: Art Educators Lab](https://iniva.org/programme/events/creative-mapping-art-educators-lab/): The Creative Mapping: Art Educators Lab will gather art educators working in traditional and untraditional settings to connect and discuss... - [Magic(k)al Practices](https://iniva.org/programme/events/on-our-table-magickal-practices/): BOOK HERE Join us for a lunchtime sharing session where we will showcase books, journals, and articles featuring the use... - [Open Call for Zines](https://iniva.org/programme/events/global-resiliences-open-call-for-zines/): iniva is looking for protest and activist zines which focus on documenting, investigating, and holding space for global social and... - [Autumn Book Fair](https://iniva.org/programme/events/autumn-book-fair/): The iniva bookshop is a destination for books on art, identity & social justice and we stock items from Afterall,... - [Connecting with the Land](https://iniva.org/programme/events/on-our-table-connecting-with-the-land/): Join us for a lunchtime sharing session where we will showcase books, journals, and articles which champion and highlight indigenous... - [The Gathering 2024 – Open Call for Participants](https://iniva.org/programme/events/the-gathering-2024-open-call-for-participants/): Initiated by iniva (Institute of International of Visual Arts), The Gathering 2024 offers a unique space centring Global Majority UK-based... - [11:11 x iniva Residency](https://iniva.org/programme/events/1111-x-iniva-residency/): Open Call for 11:11 London residency, in November 2024 (duration 4 weeks) in collaboration with Iniva’s specialist collections library: Stuart... - [Salvage: Repair: Repeat - A research presentation](https://iniva.org/programme/events/salvage-repair-repeat-a-research-presentation/): BOOK HERE Join Archivist and Engagement Producer Kaitlene Koranteng she as presents reflections developed during a research trip to Ghana... - [Resonant Journeys: A Listening Circle](https://iniva.org/programme/events/resonant-journeys-a-listening-circle/): SIGN-UP HERE How can we link sounds with our cultural identities? Where do those links exist? Join us for an... - [whya (a listening exercise)](https://iniva.org/programme/events/whya-a-listening-exercise/): whya (a listening exercise) invites listeners to be guided through an auditory journey into the digital artwork ‘whya’ by Nolan... - [drunk & disorderly with DRR](https://iniva.org/programme/events/reading-sessions-in-collaboration-with-down-river-road-ddr/): iniva and Down River Road invite you to be ear to ear with voices that will not respond to you,... - [Listening Party - Canto IX (after Listening All Night To The Rain)](https://iniva.org/programme/events/listening-party-canto-ix-after-listening-all-night-to-the-rain/): BOOK HERE Event Schedule: 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM: Opening Playlist Join us for a curated selection of music with... - [Locating Absence](https://iniva.org/programme/events/locating-absence/): BOOK NOW Join us for an evening panel discussion focusing on the artistic practice of John Akomfrah, exploring themes such... - [Global Resiliences](https://iniva.org/programme/events/global-resiliences/): BOOK HERE Join us for this brief lunchtime session titled “On Our Table: Global Resiliences”. This talk showcases zines, books,... - [Anticolonial Thinking on Archives, Water and Climate Justice](https://iniva.org/programme/events/study-day-anticolonial-thinking-on-archives-water-and-climate-justice/): RSVP NOW As part of the public programme for the British Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, iniva presents Unseen... - [Art+Feminism x iniva: Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Palestine](https://iniva.org/programme/events/artfeminism-x-iniva-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-on-palestine/): BOOK A SLOT “Wikipedia matters because it is a go-to source of information, the tenth most visited site in the... - [PRIM x iniva: Navigating Violent Terrains](https://iniva.org/programme/events/prim-x-iniva-navigating-violent-terrains/): BOOK HERE Together with PRIM and iniva, Joshua Woolford will be hosting a reading group around themes and topics Ingrid... - [Out of Margin: A Transnational Perspective - Practice](https://iniva.org/programme/events/out-of-margin-a-transnational-perspective-practice/): BOOK HERE “I wanted to make stories for my kids and other black kids to see a future in which... - [Honour Thy - Archiving to Remember](https://iniva.org/programme/events/honour-thy-archiving-to-remember/): BOOK HERE “Had her name been scribbled on the back of the albumen print, there would be at least one... - [in the perpetual back and forth](https://iniva.org/programme/events/in-the-perpetual-back-and-forth/): Maria Amidu is the third artist in iniva’s Future Collect Commission partnership programme. Her exhibition, in the perpetual back and... - [CoLab Eastbourne](https://iniva.org/programme/events/colab-eastbourne/): Aiming to extend the legacy of Future Collect, in 2023-24 CoLab takes place in Eastbourne, led by artist Arpita Shah... - [Stuart Hall Library & Contested Sites Publication Launch](https://iniva.org/programme/events/stuart-hall-library-contested-sites-publication-launch/): BOOK HERE iniva invites you to join us in celebrating our upcoming publication Contested Sites in our newly refurbished space.... - [Art Pedagogy](https://iniva.org/programme/events/on-our-table-art-pedagogy/): BOOK HERE This brief session, titled ‘On Our Table: Art Pedagogy,’ aims to delve into the role of books in... - [Out of Margin: A Transnational Perspective - Theory](https://iniva.org/programme/events/out-of-margin-a-transnational-perspective-theory/): BOOK HERE Identity is not as transparent or unproblematic as we think. Perhaps instead of thinking of identity as an... - [Unseen Guests – Open Call for Writers](https://iniva.org/programme/events/open-call-for-writers/): iniva is pleased to announce an open call for writing commissions as part of Unseen Guests – Post-National Digital Pavilion.... - [The Local and Global in the Art of Frank Bowling](https://iniva.org/programme/events/the-local-and-global-in-the-art-of-frank-bowling/): Join us for a creative and interactive afternoon exploring the work of artist Frank Bowling as part of Hauser &... - [Out of Margin: A Transnational Perspective - History](https://iniva.org/programme/events/out-of-margin-a-transnational-perspective/): BOOK HERE Identity is not as transparent or unproblematic as we think. Perhaps instead of thinking of identity as an... - [Entangled Threads: Revisiting the Clothes, Cloth & Culture Group](https://iniva.org/programme/events/entangled-threads-revisiting-the-clothes-cloth-culture-group/): "Entangled Threads: Revisiting the Clothes, Cloth & Culture Group," draws on the legacy of the CCCG, reinterpreting Stuart Hall’s writings... - [The Ghosts Will Not Give Up On Us](https://iniva.org/programme/events/the-ghosts-will-not-give-up-on-us/): In this talk, Lamya Sadiq will attempt to trace some of the characteristics and contours of ancestral wounds, using the... - [Storytelling Through Objects](https://iniva.org/programme/events/storytelling-through-objects/): Reflecting on the exhibition themes, the session with students from Millbank Academy will support young people to learn about the... - [Creative Mapping: Design and Architecture Lab](https://iniva.org/programme/events/creative-mapping-design-and-architecture-lab/): iniva’s Creative Mapping: Design and Architecture Lab is a gathering dedicated to artists, designers and architects from the global majority.... - [Artists' Books](https://iniva.org/programme/events/artists-books/): BOOK HERE This brief session, titled ‘On Our Table: Artist Books,’ aims to spotlight materials from the Stuart Hall Library... - [KLA ART 24 Festival Residency](https://iniva.org/programme/events/kla-art-24-festival-residency/): APPLY HERE iniva and 32° East Trust are pleased to announce a new partnership and opportunity through British Council’s Biennials... - [Part of the Furniture](https://iniva.org/programme/events/part-of-the-furniture/): Join us for an in-conversation with Dharma Taylor and Kaia Charles where she’ll be sharing her journey as the sixth... - [Policing The Crisis](https://iniva.org/programme/events/policing-the-crisis/): What is the role of an institution, artist, researcher, practitioner in this wounded time? Join Meera Shakti Osborne who will... - [Insurgent Rituals](https://iniva.org/programme/events/insurgent-rituals-spectral-talismans/): At a time when our unfreedoms are so pronounced; wars are raging and we are reminded safety is conditional. Pleasure,... - [We Shape Ourselves, Fugitive Feminism reading group](https://iniva.org/programme/events/fugitive-feminism-reading-group-with-hudda-khaireh/): BOOK HERE Imagine you were never considered to be human. How would you perceive the world? What future is possible?... - [Transformation of Silence: Group Read-In](https://iniva.org/programme/events/transformation-of-silence-group-read-in/): BOOK HERE Transformation of Silence into Words & Action is the title of an essay by poet, feminist, activist &... - [Reflecting on Family Archives](https://iniva.org/programme/events/reflecting-on-family-archives/): As part of Shifting the Centre – Anticolonial Ways of Seeing‘s Public Programme, artist Beverley Bennett, supported by therapist Stephen... - [CoLab Birmingham](https://iniva.org/programme/events/colab-birmingham/): CoLab promotes interdisciplinary education and well-being practices through contemporary art. The Birmingham edition of CoLab is led by local artist... - [Shifting the Centre: Anticolonial Ways of Seeing - Film Screening](https://iniva.org/programme/events/shifting-the-centre-anticolonial-ways-of-seeing-film-screening/): BOOK HERE Join International Curators Forum (ICF) and iniva at the Stuart Hall Library for a special screening of Edward... - [Shifting the Centre: Anticolonial Ways of Seeing – Reading Session Two](https://iniva.org/programme/events/shifting-the-centre-anticolonial-ways-of-seeing-reading-session-two/): BOOK HERE As part of our Shifting the Centre: Anticolonial Ways of Seeing exhibition, International Curators Forum (ICF) are hosting... - [Shifting the Centre: Anticolonial Ways of Seeing - Reading Session One](https://iniva.org/programme/events/shifting-the-centre-anticolonial-ways-of-seeing-reading-session-one/): BOOK HERE As part of our Shifting the Centre: Anticolonial Ways of Seeing exhibition, International Curators Forum (ICF) are hosting... - [Is a shared history possible?](https://iniva.org/programme/events/is-a-shared-history-possible/): Join us online for an in-conversation with curator Orsod Malik, artist Jacob V. Joyce and archivist Kaitlene Koranteng to explore... - [Livity](https://iniva.org/programme/events/livity/): Join us for an interactive reading and listening group with Dharma Taylor as we explore sociocultural vibes and the crowd’s... - [Authenticity and Dub](https://iniva.org/programme/events/authenticity-and-dub/): Join us for an interactive reading group with Gary Stewart as we explore the authenticity of dubbing sound. Gary works... - [Slow Time: a research presentation](https://iniva.org/programme/events/slow-time-a-research-presentation/): BOOK HERE Join Future Collect curatorial trainee Hollie Douglas as she presents on research developed over her traineeship with iniva... - [Towards a shared history](https://iniva.org/programme/events/towards-a-shared-history/): Join us for an interactive reading group with Orsod Malik as we explore whether a shared history is possible, and... - [Auteurship](https://iniva.org/programme/events/auteurship/): BOOK HERE Join us for an interactive performance evening with Gary Stewart as we explore auteurship and how technological innovations... - [Piecing Together X-Space](https://iniva.org/programme/events/piecing-together-x-space/): BOOK HERE This instalment of our show-and-tell series focuses on iniva’s X-Space collection. X-Space was iniva’s virtual gallery and online... - [Activating iniva's Archive: Catalogue Launch event](https://iniva.org/programme/events/activating-inivas-archive-catalogue-launch/): Book Free Ticket Join us on 25th October 2023 from 5. 30-7. 30pm to celebrate the launch of iniva’s first... - [Migration, Memory and Music: Bringing an archive of songs from Bengal to London.](https://iniva.org/programme/events/migration-memory-and-music-bringing-an-archive-of-songs-from-bengal-to-london/): Book tickets ‘Uncovering the Archive’ is thrilled to present Moushumi Bhowmik, a Calcutta (Kolkata)-based Bengali singer, composer and practice-led researcher... - [Body as a Testimony](https://iniva.org/programme/events/body-as-a-testimony/): “... The whole apparatus of a history, key figures, and works, tendencies, shifts, breaks, ruptures, slips into place silently. ”... - [Archive Focus Group: The Education Archive](https://iniva.org/programme/events/archive-focus-group-the-education-archive/): BOOK HERE Are you passionate about arts education and preserving history? Come along to our focus group session exploring iniva’s... - [RE(SE)A(R)CH](https://iniva.org/programme/events/research/): Join us for an interactive reading group with Meera Shakti Osborne as we explore questions about how we learn in spaces without authority and (re)searching for a common language in relation to youth resistance movements in London. - [Book Launch. Donald Rodney: Autoicon](https://iniva.org/programme/events/book-launch-donald-rodney-autoicon/): Buy Tickets on Eventbrite Book Free Ticket Join us on Monday 9 October 5. 30-7. 30pm for the launch of... - [Anticolonial Ways of Seeing](https://iniva.org/programme/events/on-our-table-anticolonial-ways-of-seeing/): Short lunchtime tour on resources on the theme of anti-colonial thought from Stuart Hall Library and iniva archive. - [Revisiting Internationalism](https://iniva.org/programme/events/revisiting-internationalism/): BOOK HERE In April 1994 iniva held its founding symposium titled ‘A New Internationalism’ at the Tate Gallery, which brought... - [iniva Book Sale 2023](https://iniva.org/programme/events/iniva-book-sale-2023/): iniva is delighted to invite you to our annual book sale – a one week sales event at the Stuart... - [Film Screening by the WANAWAL, MayDay Rooms and iniva](https://iniva.org/programme/events/film-screening-by-the-wanawal-mayday-rooms-and-iniva/): Book tickets The West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library presents a film screening and talk in collaboration with... - [How We (Might) Practice](https://iniva.org/programme/events/how-we-might-practice/): BOOK HERE This workshop offers a space to consider y/our practices as an artist or art worker, as they are... # # Detailed Content ## Pages - Published: 2026-09-25 - Modified: 2026-09-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/about/vacancies/library-volunteer-opportunity/ iniva is looking to recruit several in-person volunteers to support our Stuart Hall Library, archives and wider programmes. This is a tailor-made volunteering experience to support personal interests in contemporary art and visual cultures and future professional interests working in libraries, archives or galleries. Who is this for? This volunteer opportunity would be invaluable for: individuals seeking experience before/after embarking on a professional qualification in library studies; those in the community, in retirement or students with an interest in international visual art and culture; students who have a research interest in Stuart Hall Library collections; and anyone looking to gain reception/front-of-house skills, public speaking skills, or bookshop experience. What will you gain? You will gain valuable insight into how a specialist research library collection is managed, organised and utilised in exhibitions and programming. You will learn to catalogue library material, reshelve books according to a classification system, repackage archival material for digitisation projects; and key research skills. You will be able to provide library tours, assist with library enquires, create reading lists or presentations about a specific subject, provide event support and participate in for reading groups, artist talks, workshops, study days and conferences and contribute content for our blog and social media channels about our collections. What skills do you need? To gain the most from this opportunity, you will have the following skills: Knowledge of how to use library search catalogues is required; An explicit interest in libraries and library-related practises; Interest in the work and ethos of... - Published: 2025-10-10 - Modified: 2025-10-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/access-visiting/accessibility/ iniva is committed to providing an accessible environment for all visitors. We ask that you contact the library ahead of your visit with any questions regarding specific requirements or adjustments that we can make. Venue Access Stuart Hall Library is located within Block D of Chelsea College of Arts at 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU. It has step-free access with wheelchair-friendly pathways and doorways, though some corridors/study areas may be narrow. The nearest step-free Underground station is Pimlico (Victoria Line), approximately 5–7 minutes away on foot. There are drop-off points and limited Blue Badge parking available nearby on Millbank and John Islip Street. Toilets There is one toilet inside at the back of Stuart Hall Library. An accessible toilet is located on the first floor, equipped with grab rails and alarm system. An additional accessible toilet is located on the ground floor of Block A/B of the Chelsea College of Arts (building parallel to Stuart Hall Library). Nearest Changing Places toilet located 120m away at Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1P 4RG. Sensory Access Reading aids such as magnifiers can be requested. Metal weights or snake book weights can be requested. Storage Bags should be stored within our lockers provided. Large items such as luggage or folded bikes can be stored with our storage cupboard. Prams and pushchairs may be stored in the library. Please note all items are left at the owner’s risk. Guides and assistance dogs Assistance and service dogs are welcome within the building. Emergency procedures Visitors... - Published: 2024-12-11 - Modified: 2026-06-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/policies/ Introduction Our policies outline the behaviours we expect of each other at iniva. Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) is a registered arts and educational charity (Number 1031721). Iniva is the data controller of your personal information. By phone +44 7561 737 461 or you can email us at info@iniva. org Privacy Policy iniva is committed to protecting your personal information. We also want to maintain the trust and confidence of every one of our audience members and supporters, as well as each visitor who uses the iniva website. Our Privacy Policy gives you detailed information on when and why we collect your personal information, how we use it and how we keep it secure. If you have questions regarding your information or its use, please contact our Finance and Operations Director (Co-Director), Susannah Gorgeous by email: susannah@iniva. org or by phone: +44 7561 737 461 Safeguarding Policy iniva is committed to a practice which protects children, young people and vulnerable adults from harm. This Policy details organisational behaviour and best practice, which is applicable to all iniva staff and volunteers, including those who work with iniva on a freelance basis. Safeguarding involves both attitudes and policies, and iniva is dedicated to fostering an approach that prioritises both supportive interactions and safety for those we serve. We will do all we can to limit risk, whilst maximising the engagement of our staff with everyone we work with. Our safeguarding responsibilities apply to children, young adults and vulnerable persons. Fundraising Policy... - Published: 2023-12-07 - Modified: 2026-01-21 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/archive-collection/ Explore iniva's history in art education, exhibition-making, publications, and previous projects centred around Black British art history from 1994 onwards. iniva archive held in Stuart Hall Library documents iniva’s 31-year history (1994-2025) of exhibition, publication and event making and being an agent for change, advocating for social justice through working with artists and their communities in order to diversify the mainstream of art history and education. iniva’s archive consists of 350 artists files containing 4500 slides, 1260 files of artist ephemera and 20 files on Iniva events and projects. It holds iniva’s founding documents including transcripts from iniva’s founding symposium Global Visions: Towards a New Internationalism and board papers 1994-present. We also hold in part papers and correspondence of Professor Stuart Hall as former Chair of iniva, OVA (Organisation of Visual Arts, a franchise of iniva) initiated by photographer Sunil Gupta and donated writings from David A. Bailey, artist Isaac Julien, Hanru Hou’s curatorial and research work at iniva as well as a Li Yun-chia’s research project. iniva was awarded the Business Archive Council Cataloguing Grant in 2018 to allow us to begin cataloguing the archive collection and make its contents accessible for future artists, curators and the general public to research the rich history on contemporary art on artists of African and Asian descent. Our archive catalogue is available online. The archive catalogue contains a small selection of archive a listing of archive for iniva’s Artist Files; Early Constitution and Governance Documents and Programming. - Published: 2023-12-07 - Modified: 2023-12-07 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/library-collection/ Stuart Hall Library is a specialist reference library that holds iniva’s collections and research. The library supports the work of iniva by documenting and facilitating its research into the contemporary visual arts within an international and transnational context, as well as providing critical material on issues of cultural identity and offering a specialist collection that is open to the public. The collection is international, with an emphasis on art and artists from Africa, Asia and Latin America, and UK artists of African, Asian and Latin American heritage, and from other cultural backgrounds. Exhibition Catalogues The collection contains over 3000 foreign language and dual language exhibition catalogues by a group of artists. It has holdings for most biennial exhibitions around the world including São Paulo Art Biennial from 1951, Venice Biennale, Whitney Biennial, Berlin Biennale, Sharjah Biennale, Liverpool Biennial, Shanghai Biennale, Dakar Biennale, Biennale of Sydney, Manifesta, and Istanbul Biennial. Other exhibition catalogues international group shows, triennials and more including Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Documenta, and 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair. A selection of the curators of these exhibitions, iniva has worked with and are listed in iniva’s People Directory. Artist Monographs The collection has over 3500 individual artist monographs predominately focusing of British-born or based artists of diverse cultural background and international diasporic artist active from 1950s onwards. A large majority of artists collected for this collection iniva has worked with and are listed in iniva’s People Directory. Theory and Literature We collects contextual critical theory with a political... - Published: 2021-07-02 - Modified: 2026-06-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/about/vacancies/archive-volunteer/ The Institute of International Visual Arts (iniva) is seeking enthusiastic volunteers to support the care, preservation, research, and interpretation of its internationally significant archive collections.  The archive documents over three decades of exhibitions, publications, research, artistic practice and cultural activism related to Black and Global Majority Art Histories. As part of the Living Legacies project, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, volunteers will play an active role in preserving, researching and sharing the histories of artists, curators, writers, and cultural practitioners that have shaped contemporary art and cultural discourse in the UK and beyond.   Whether you are curious about archives, considering a career in archives or cultural heritage sector, or passionate about uncovering overlooked histories, we welcome your involvement. VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES Artwork Detective Volunteers Become an archive detective and help us identify, research, and document artworks and artists represented in our extensive collection. Activities may include: Researching artists, exhibitions, and artworks Identifying missing information in archival records Enhancing catalogue descriptions Contributing to the visibility of Black and Global Majority art histories Archive Preservation Volunteers Support the long-term care of the collection through hands-on preservation activities. Activities may include: Repackaging archival materials into conservation-grade storage Learning best practices in archive handling and preservation Assisting with collection care projects Preparing collections for future digitisation and access Archive Research Volunteers Help us build richer narratives around key collections and histories represented in the archive. Activities may include: Researching iniva's exhibition histories and programmes Investigating the histories of Black and Global Majority... - Published: 2020-11-03 - Modified: 2020-11-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/learning/contemporary-art-space-project-year-2/ We are very pleased to announce the newly appointed artists for Year 2 of the Contemporary Art Space project: Haseebah Ali Haseebah Ali is an artist and print maker based in Birmingham. Her work centres around cultural themes and occasionally political circumstances. Her artistic aim is to create work that not only educates her but the audience to which it is viewed. Having having obtained a BA in illustration, Haseebah has the background of both digital and traditional mediums. Since graduating Haseebah has embarked on many opportunities including facilitating art workshops, collaborating with other creatives, and more recently exhibiting her work at her very own solo exhibition in Birmingham. Future goals include exhibiting work on an international scale and helping educate and support young people in their creative journey. haseebahprints. com De'Anne Crooks As an artist-educator, much of De’Anne’s practice considers the collaborative and collective experiences of others. Considering their practice as a form of activism rather than a teacher of art, De’Anne’s relationship with pedagogy and contemporary art has cultivated a strong sense of play with political, moral and emotional themes. During her fellowship with the Black Hole Club and within her recent commissions for the Film and Video Umbrella, Vivid Projects and ReFramed network, De’Anne has been testing the praxis of contemporary art adjacent to and in harmony with Blackness. Using video, performative and fine art, De’Anne continues to address cultural pedagogy with a focus on the oracy of marginalised persons. With an unapologetic and deliberate approach to... - Published: 2020-10-27 - Modified: 2020-11-05 - URL: https://iniva.org/continuing-reflections-on-identity-exploring-difference/ Identity manifests through personal, interpersonal and social experiences. To explore this dynamic interplay, Iniva Creative Learning is pleased to offer a three week evening course led by artist and art psychotherapist Georgina Obaye Evans. £60 per person; £30 for students and concessions. Group size is limited to 10. Georgina will lead an exploratory series that aims to extend and deepen connections in thinking and experience, offering space for shared learning and individual development. The workshops will ask questions that explore inner worlds and external social frameworks, examine how gender/ race/ sexuality and class intersect in our 'performance of self' and how we are mapped by our environment. The workshops offer space to reflect on the impact that these questions have in shaping our identity as experienced by ourselves and by others. Each weekly session will take a particular focus and approach to explore and identify the connections that we internalise and hold on to: Self: Who do you think you are? What shapes your sense of self and how do you perform who you are to the world? Self and the Other: In what ways do our encounters with others frame our sense of self? How might our gender, race, sexuality and class be framed in relation to people we know, meet or don’t know at all? Social Structures: How do social institutions frame, enable or limit the flow of our lives? Can we negotiate our sense of self and our encounters with others within and through social frameworks to... - Published: 2019-10-01 - Modified: 2020-06-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/learning/contemporary-art-space-project/ The Contemporary Art Space Project is a two-year programme of art-making and community engagement. The project reflects the RSA Academies' (Royal Society of the Arts Academies) Commitment to Arts, Culture and Creativity and Iniva's ambition to further develop their learning and education strand nationally. At a point in time in which study of arts and creative subjects are progressively marginalised from curricula, we would like to explore whether this project would prove to be an accessible, sustainable model to increase whole-school engagement in the arts and cultural learning. This project will establish three outdoor contemporary art spaces in three RSA schools in the West Midlands through a collaborative process with pupils and their teachers. The schools involved are: - Abbeywood First School (Reception - Year 4) in Redditch - Arrow Vale RSA Academy (Year 9-13) in Redditch - Holyhead School (Year 7-13) in Handsworth, Birmingham The project is designed to develop young people's sense of identity and explore what it means to be human through co-commissioning new artworks in response to social issues they identify as being important. The artworks will help schools develop and articulate their collective sense of mission and purpose and strengthen schools' links with their communities. We aim to explore how this project might prove to be an accessible, sustainable model that influences the practice of other schools and arts organisations to increase whole school engagement in arts and culture. Project Delivery A steering group of pupils from each school will work with an appointed artist... - Published: 2019-03-13 - Modified: 2019-03-22 - URL: https://iniva.org/cookie-policy/ This site uses cookies - small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. 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We will refund the cost of returning... - Published: 2017-09-28 - Modified: 2026-06-16 - URL: https://iniva.org/contact/ iniva 16 John Islip St London SW1P 4JU For public enquiries you can contact us at info@iniva. org For library and archives enquiries contact us at library@iniva. org Subscribe to iniva’s newsletter for announcements about our programme of events. Follow us on Social Media Facebook Instagram Bluesky LinkedIn Youtube How to find us By underground Take the Victoria line to Pimlico Underground Station or Vauxhall underground Station. On foot from Pimlico Station (5 mins)– Walk east on Bessborough Street towards Drummond Gate, crossover Vauxhall Bridge Road and turn right, turn left on to John Islip Street, continue for approximately 100m. On the left hand of the road you will see the sandwich shop Relish and Chelsea College of Arts, UAL campus. iniva is located in Block D of the UAL campus in front of the black railings on John Islip Street. On foot from Vauxhall Underground Station (10 mins)– Walk along the Vauxhall Bridge, crossover Grosvenor Road and turn right on to John Islip Street, continue for approximately 100m. On the left hand of the road you will see the sandwich shop Relish and Chelsea College of Arts, UAL campus. iniva is located in Block E of the UAL campus in front of the black railings. By Bus There are a number of buses which travel close by including 88, C10, 87 and N87. By Ferry The closest pier is Millbank Millennium Pier. Walk west towards Millbank, pass Tate Britain and turn right onto Atterbury Street and then turn left... - Published: 2017-06-01 - Modified: 2022-03-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/learning/workshops/ Iniva runs workshops throughout the year to support the use of our Emotional Learning Cards. These workshops are held at Iniva, and led by a variety of professionals from the fields of education and art therapy. Our public workshops are offered to all and provide opportunities for accredited CPD. Each workshop includes: - A fully trained workshop facilitator from the field of therapy, education or the arts - Exploration of key emotions and art exercises that can be adapted for use in group or individual sessions with any age group. - Printed resources, including suggestions for practical activities and discussion points to take away. - A discount on purchase of our Emotional Learning Cards at the Stuart Hall Library, John Islip Street. (Group size no bigger than 15) We also can create bespoke workshops for you or your organisation. For more information please contact Beatriz Lobo +44 (0)207 749 1247 beatriz@iniva. org - Published: 2017-05-03 - Modified: 2017-05-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/learning/artists/ Our Emotional Learning Cards now feature over 100 contemporary artists. Without their input and generous permission we wouldn't be able to produce the cards. Read more about every one of them below: - Published: 2017-03-27 - Modified: 2020-10-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/learning/creative-mapping/ The Iniva Creative Mapping Project considers how and why contemporary artists from across the globe are opening up the concept of mapping in imaginative and unexpected ways. It is an opportunity to explore the potential of new cartographic languages to deepen our understanding of identity, place and power and to reflect on the multiple spaces we inhabit: our selves, our bodies, our communities, our cities, our nations, our earth. At the beginning of the 21st century, geographic information technologies show us extraordinary levels of detail about the physical world we inhabit. However, their objective authority can distract us from their subjective limitations; satellite-based maps mask racial, linguistic or religious concerns, and show us little about the social, emotional and political worlds we inhabit. The Iniva Creative Mapping Project asks how we can begin to map these worlds. Artists work with different groups to create new maps, maps that reflect something of our daily lives. Previous mapping projects have considered 'how can we map our senses? ', 'who makes up my personal cartography? ', while others create ways to tag the world with 'geograffiti'. Each project provides a unique reconsideration of mapping as well as a different world to think about how we look at the world we live in. 'I think that maps are a great thing to use in art. Before they were confusing, but learning about it now I feel I can make a map out of anything. ' Student at City Learning Centre Newham Do you want... - Published: 2017-01-05 - Modified: 2017-06-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/learning/learning-resources-2/ This is the learning resources. - Published: 2017-01-05 - Modified: 2022-05-26 - URL: https://iniva.org/learning/artlab/ ArtLab was an Iniva Creative Learning initiative developed in partnership with the Opossum Federation and formed the basis of Iniva's education output between 2014 - 2018. Since then, Iniva Creative Learning has worked to develop and build on the ideas behind ArtLab's successful integrated art and art therapy programme, continuously looking to challenge, push and explore ideas of inclusive creative learning for all ages, through collaborations with artists, schools, organisations and participants. ArtLab in collaboration with the Opossum Federation 2014 - 2018 Guest artists from Iniva and creative therapists from A Space work with pupils using the classroom as an experimental ‘laboratory’. Workshops designed around contemporary art practices focus on an identified subject related to the curriculum. Exploration is opened up to include psychologically resonant themes, in particular, those featured in the Emotional Learning Cards co-published by Iniva and A Space. In parallel with the classroom input, selected Art Leaders collaborate closely with the artist to co-create inspirational gallery-standard works. Resources for teachers and educators are then produced based on the workshop programme, and are made available to download for free. Iniva Creative Learning (a partnership between A Space arts and therapy service and Iniva) is now working on new education projects which hold the integration of Art and Art Therapy alongside the building of art making and emotional learning skills and the exploration of identity at their core. 2018 - 2021: A three year project, funded by Children in Need at Earlsmead Primary School marks a developed iteration of... - Published: 2017-01-05 - Modified: 2022-06-24 - URL: https://iniva.org/learning/emotional-learning-cards/ Iniva's Emotional Learning Cards occupy a leading position in the growing fields of emotional learning and psychological therapies. Our cards encourage emotional literacy, support and critique ‘meaning-making' as well as challenging often stereotypical ideas about who makes art and what its purpose might be. Each of our seven boxed sets of Emotional Learning Cards highlight specific themes designed to facilitate a better understanding of what makes us who we are and how we make sense of our experiences, bringing together the artwork of international contemporary artists with therapeutic commentary and questions. We move beyond commonly explored subjects by branching into discussion relating to difference, diversity, outsider / insider experiences, and how past histories (both personal and collective) shape the present. Using art as a starting point, the cards help facilitators and educators open up difficult conversations on challenging feelings, and complex family or cultural experiences. By openly exploring less talked about feelings and thoughts engendered by the artworks, we re-frame them as common to the human family, to be shared and thought about rather than labelled as embarrassing or shameful and denied or hidden away. Browse and buy our cards in our shop. For more information contact: Beatriz Lobo beatriz@iniva. org 0207 630 1278 - Published: 2017-01-05 - Modified: 2025-04-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/about/partnerships/ Current and recent partnerships include: Our contribution to Black Artists and Modernism, an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded research project led by Professor Sonia Boyce at University of the Arts, with Middlesex University; (image: Lubaina Himid Study Day at the Stuart Hall Library, 20 June 2016, George Torode) Keith Piper's Unearthing the Bankers' Bones, a co-commission with Arts Council Collection and Bluecoat, Liverpool; Ongoing collaboration with arts therapy organisation A Space on our learning programme, Iniva Creative Learning; Public programming at South London Gallery, as part of The Place is Here; Series of talks at Tate Modern, on The Artistic Strategies of the Eighties; Various placement and student activities with undergraduate and postgraduate courses across the UK. If you are interested in working with us, please contact Finance and Operations Director, Susannah Gorgeous susannah@iniva. org - Published: 2017-01-05 - Modified: 2026-10-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/staff-and-trustees/ iniva Team & Board - iniva iniva iniva ✖ Hide Menu About iniva Team & Board Partnerships Funders Programme Projects Events Stuart Hall Library Library Catalogue Reading Lists Visit Venue Hire iniva Archive Archive Catalogue Shop Artist Editions Publications Emotional Learning Cards Delivery & Returns Policy News People Directory Opportunities Support Contact Donate Leave this field empty if you're human: © Iniva 2026. All rights reserved. Site by Fiasco Design. Welcome to Iniva’s new website. We are in the process of updating content throughout. We welcome your feedback at info@iniva.org All Events News Projects Shop iniva Team & Board Sepake Angiama Artistic Director (Co-Director) Sepake provides the vision and artistic leadership for the organisation as a whole, ensuring that iniva continues to occupy a leading and unique position within international contemporary arts. All proposals and invitations should be sent to info@iniva.org Susannah Gorgeous Finance and Operations Director (Co-Director) Susannah is responsible for the day-to-day strategic, operational and financial management of the organisation. She sets and manages the budgets and ensures efficient and robust financial and operational systems are in place. susannah@iniva.org Azieb Pool Strategic Lead for Individual Giving Azieb is responsible for establishing relationships with potential individual donors and supporters for iniva‘s artistic programme. azieb@iniva.org Rebecca Sinker General Manager A former iniva trustee (2018-23) Rebecca is leading on the monitoring, evaluation and impact of iniva’s work, with responsibility for evaluation strategy, analysis and reporting. She supports the F&O Director in the operational management and environmental responsibility of the organisation. rebecca@iniva.org Tavian Hunter... - Published: 2017-01-05 - Modified: 2023-10-26 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/library-and-archive-collection/ iniva’s Stuart Hall Library acts as a critical and creative hub for iniva’s work. It houses unique and rare collections that are internationally significant in the field of contemporary visual art. It focuses on art from Indigenous, African, Caribbean, Asian, Latin American and UK artists of diverse cultural backgrounds. The library also collects contextual critical theory with a political and international focus, in particular on diasporic thought and intersectional identity theory as well as critical theory around contemporary art and visual cultures with a non-Western focus. The library is a reference only collection of over 10,000 volumes including over 3500 individual artist monographs; 2500+ contextual, historical and theoretical books on the politics of race, class, gender; 400+ journals titles with many rare items important to the UK Black Arts Movement; a growing collection of 260+ artist and activist zines exploring different aspects of cultural identity and a substantial audio-visual collection of artists’ films and interviews. The collection also contains over 4000 group exhibition catalogues in dual language and foreign languages and most biennial exhibitions around the world going back to the first Sao Paolo Biennial in 1951. Search the library catalogue. Archive Collection iniva archive held in Stuart Hall Library documents iniva’s 27-year history (1994-2021) of exhibition, publication and event making and being an agent for change, advocating for social justice through working with artists and their communities in order to diversify the mainstream of art history and education. iniva’s archive consists of 350 artists files containing 4500 slides, 1260... - Published: 2017-01-05 - Modified: 2021-11-25 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/book-donations/ The Stuart Hall Library welcomes donations of artist monographs, zines, exhibition catalogues and theoretical text to our collections, subject to our collection development policy criteria. Contact the Library and Archive Manager at library@iniva. org with the publication details of books you wish to donate. Please do not send items to the library without prior acceptance as we do not have the capacity to return books that do not fit into our collection development policy. You can also send us suggestions for acquisition and/or donate a book through our wishlist on Amazon or from the out-of-print list below. 2021 Wishlist 2019 Wishlist - Published: 2017-01-05 - Modified: 2022-05-24 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/university-partnerships/ Iniva is embarking on a new series of projects working with Higher Education groups in order to actively support the professional development of the next generation of artists. This series of projects will work closely with professional tutors to decide how best to support students they work with, be it a temporary exhibition with crits, or a course designed around a subject that Iniva is exploring. For further information on how your group can be supported please contact Beatriz Lobo Britto. beatriz@iniva. org - Published: 2017-01-05 - Modified: 2026-10-20 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/access-visiting/ Directions By Tube Pimlico Underground Station or Vauxhall Underground Station on the Victoria Line. By Bus Bus number 88, C10, 87 and N87. By Ferry The closest pier is Millbank Millennium Pier. By Car Limited parking around the area. The nearest car parks are: Q-park Victoria: 1 Arneway St, Westminster, London, SW1P 2TX. Tel: 0113 238 4200. Q-Park Pimlico: Cumberland St, Pimlico, London, SW1V 4LR. Tel: 0113 238 4200. - Published: 2017-01-05 - Modified: 2025-10-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/faqs/ Frequently Asked Questions Below - Published: 2017-01-05 - Modified: 2025-06-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/shop/privacy-and-returns-policy/ Introduction Iniva is committed to protecting your personal information. We also want to maintain the trust and confidence of every one of our audience members and supporters, as well as each visitor who uses the Iniva website. Our Privacy Policy gives you detailed information on when and why we collect your personal information, how we use it and how we keep it secure. Aside from helping us deliver events and run the Stuart Hall Library, the information you share with us means you’ll receive a more personalized and rewarding experience e. g. information about our programme and library, and publications and limited editions that may interest you. Signing up for Iniva’s newsletter has many benefits, not least the opportunity to manage your personal information and receive information about our work. You can register with us at any time here. Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) is a registered arts and educational charity (Number 1031721). Iniva is the data controller of your personal information. 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How We Collect Your... - Published: 2016-12-21 - Modified: 2016-12-21 - URL: https://iniva.org/support/supporting-iniva/ Supporting Iniva - iniva iniva iniva ✖ Hide Menu About iniva Team & Board Partnerships Funders Programme Projects Events Stuart Hall Library Library Catalogue Reading Lists Visit FAQs iniva Archive Archive Catalogue Shop Artist Editions Publications Emotional Learning Cards Delivery and Returns Policy News People Directory Opportunities & Vacancies Contact Donate Subscribe to our newsletter Leave this field empty if you're human: © Iniva 2025. All rights reserved. Site by Fiasco Design. Welcome to Iniva’s new website. We are in the process of updating content throughout. We welcome your feedback at info@iniva.org All Events News Projects Shop Supporting Iniva This is an example of a subtitle Arts Council England Long Term Supporter Arts Council England is Iniva’s main stakeholder, providing core funding for our programme of activities. Arts Council England (ACE) works to get more art to more people in more places. It develops and promotes the arts across England, acting as an independent body at arm’s length from government. Between 2006 and 2008, ACE will invest £1.1 billion of public money from government and the National Lottery in supporting the arts. This is the bedrock of support for the arts in England. Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Long Term Supporter Esmée Fairbairn Foundation aims to improve the quality of life for people and communities throughout the UK both now and in the future. We do this by funding the charitable work of organisations with the ideas and ability to achieve positive change. The Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-makers... - Published: 2016-12-21 - Modified: 2026-05-26 - URL: https://iniva.org/about/institute-of-international-visual-arts/ The Institute of International Visual Arts (iniva) is a charity based in Pimlico, London. Founded to challenge inequalities in the visual arts, since1994 we have created spaces for Black and Global Majority artists and communities, nurturing creative practices and expanding the ways we understand art, culture and society. Through commissions, residencies, workshops, exhibitions, and publishing, iniva supports artistic practices that critically engage with what it means to embody the histories of social, cultural and political movements and migration. At the heart of iniva is the Stuart Hall Library (SHL), named after the influential cultural theorist, our founding Chair. The SHL houses a world-class collection of over 10,000 volumes, artist books, catalogues, journals, zines, and mixed-media archival materials from over three decades of iniva’s history. Providing a unique research centre dedicated to sharing knowledge, addressing inequality of representation and ensuring the visibility and legacy of diverse artistic practices, the library is a vital gathering space for artist audiences, researchers and communities. iniva’s core programmes engage artists locally and internationally through our Research Network, Library Residency, Digital Pavilion, CoLab school programme, Exhibitions Programme and public events at the Library and partner venues. Each year, our work reaches over 70,000 people digitally and 6,000 in person, including 1,900 visits to the Stuart Hall Library. Global Majority audiences represent 63% of our engagement, with young people aged 20–25 making up 20%. iniva continues to create equitable, anti-racist spaces where artists and audiences can explore global and diasporic perspectives together. Our Vision Make art from... - Published: 2016-12-20 - Modified: 2025-04-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/support/ Iniva event at Guest Projects, October 2018. Photo by Christian Cassel. Become a Friend of iniva iniva is a registered charity and we depend on donations from trusts, foundations and individuals like you to keep our programme innovative and free. Give today and help us achieve our mission to nurture, support and develop anti-racist and equitable spaces for artistic research, wellbeing, play, experimentation and enjoyment with creatives and communities. You can make a one-off donation of any amount or become a Friend of iniva by giving regularly at any level. Giving is easy, just click on the donate button below to give via our secure CAF Donate portal. var caf_BeneficiaryCampaignId=6822; document. write(unescape('%3Cscript src="https://cafdonate. cafonline. org/js/CAF. 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Ongoing advocacy and sector support, challenging the culture of representation through the visual arts in UK for wider and more inclusive audiences. iniva Friends (giving regularly) receive the same benefits: Advance invitations, previews & discounts on exhibitions and events Exclusive pre-event access to artists, curators and writers, including... - Published: 2016-12-20 - Modified: 2026-02-17 - URL: https://iniva.org/about/ Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) Iniva is an evolving, radical visual arts organisation dedicated to developing an artistic programme that reflects on the social and political impact of globalisation. With the Stuart Hall Library acting as a critical and creative hub for our work, we offer residencies, commission new work and promote existing practices enabling artistic ambition and development. - Published: 2016-12-20 - Modified: 2021-12-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/learning/ View our current projects and resources below. Iniva Creative Learning (ICL) reflects the belief that contemporary art can stimulate and challenge our understanding of the world around and within us. We deliver learning projects and integrated art and art therapy workshops with schools and communities. We produce art focused learning resources to support teachers, counsellors, therapists, art educators, students and parents who are interested in new ways of fostering emotional intelligence and developing creative thinking by exploring what makes us who we are and shapes where we are going. ICL evolved out of a long standing partnership between Iniva and A Space, an arts & therapies service. Our experience comes from over 10 years of jointly delivering art education and therapy services for schools, community groups and the wider public. For more information please email your inquiry to info@iniva. org - Published: 2016-12-20 - Modified: 2026-10-20 - URL: https://iniva.org/library/ Due to unforeseen events, Stuart Hall Library will be closed this week. Chelsea Space remains open for visitors wishing to see works by Andrew Pierre Hart as part of the co-curated exhibition if you like rice, you'll understand – Collective Noise. The 'Listening Sweet' event on Thursday 22 October 2026 will go ahead as planned at the Canteen in Chelsea College of Arts. We apologise for any inconvenience and look forward to welcoming you back soon. 16 John Islip Street, London, SW1P 4JU Opening Hours: 10:00am - 5:00pm Saturday Openings:7 November and 5 December 2026 Winter Closure: Closed 21 December 2026 - 4 January 2027; Reopen 5 January 2027 Stuart Hall Library is a specialist library that centres art and theory publications from the Global Majority, African, Asian, Caribbean, Polynesian, Latinx, and Diaspora perspectives. The library serves as the intellectual and social hub of iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), its home. Named in honour of iniva's first chairman and cultural theorist Professor Stuart Hall, the library holds a non-borrowing collection of over 10,000 publications, such as artist books, monographs, exhibition catalogues, journals and zines as well as an archive of iniva's history promoting the work of Black and Asian artists such as those from the UK Black Arts Movement. Search the Library Catalogue Explore our collections of artist books, monographs, exhibition catalogues, zines, literature and audio-visual material. You can search by author, title, keyword, curator, artist or individual contributor. Join The Library Library membership is free and everyone is... - Published: 2016-12-20 - Modified: 2026-10-20 - URL: https://iniva.org/about/vacancies/ Volunteering Programmes We have an integrated volunteers programme to support our library and archive work, which recruits twice a year through a public call-out. Volunteers gain experience in all aspects of our organisational, research-based and public-facing work in the library and archive. Placement Programmes We also work with a small number of key academic partners to offer a library, archive and curatorial work placement each year. Secured through an application and interview process, we ensure each placement includes a broad range of experiences, with active involvement in programme research, development, and production. We are not able to offer short work experience to anyone under 18 years old. 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For organisational orders of iniva titles and Emotional Learning Cards, please email our trade distributor, Art Data, at orders@artdata. co. uk ## Posts - Published: 2026-09-30 - Modified: 2026-10-20 - URL: https://iniva.org/creative-mapping-listening-disorientation-and-radical-care/ - Categories: Pedagogies, Library and Archive, Writing Tavian Hunter reflects on the Art Educators Lab event from 30 November 2024 The Creative Mapping: Art Educators Lab felt less like a workshop and more like a collective pause. A moment to breathe, listen and sit with the complexities of what it means to teach, learn and make space through art—especially at a time when so many educators are exhausted. Meera Chauda delivering a presentaion. We began simply. Introductions moved beyond names and job titles, with Meera Chauda using postcards from Tate as prompts to share memories, emotions and histories. What emerged was striking: images became portals to our lived experience. People spoke about protesting in their youth, queerness and Blackness as states of being and shyness, trust, abstraction, home, and loss. Words and images folded into one another, reminding us that visual literacy is inseparable from language, memory, and feeling. There was something grounding about starting here and acknowledging that education is never neutral. It is shaped by where we come from, what we carry, and what we are still trying to make sense of. That grounding deepened as we moved through the Stuart Hall Library with Sepake Angiama. Listening to Pauline Oliveros, to Ursula K. Le Guin and fragments of an education: documenta 14, became an embodied act. Reading together, overlapping voices, pausing in shared silence. When Sepake closed by saying that “a radical act of education is just listening,” it landed not as a slogan but as a practice we had already begun. The session on... - Published: 2026-07-28 - Modified: 2026-07-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/introducing-the-selected-writers-for-the-message-is-in-the-pattern/ - Categories: Announcements We are delighted to announce the writers selected to develop new texts as part of the next phase of The Message Is in the Pattern, the third iteration of iniva’s Post-National Digital Pavilion, developed in collaboration with the British Council in the context of the 61st Venice Biennale. Following an international open call that received 117 applications, we are thrilled to welcome Bardi Osobuanomola Catherine, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Vijayta Lalwani, Ritika Biswas and Kefiloe Siwisa to the project. The selected writers will develop new texts responding to the three commissioned works by Anya Paintsil (UK), Rajyashri Goody (India), and Rose Afefé (Brazil). Their contributions will form part of a forthcoming publication, extending the conversations and questions raised by the commissions through a range of critical, creative, and experimental approaches to writing. We are deeply grateful to everyone who shared their work with us. We were inspired by the extraordinary range of perspectives, geographies, and writing practices represented across the applications. We look forward to sharing more about the selected writers and their contributions as the project develops. About the Writers Bardi Osobuanomola Catherine Bardi Osobuanomola Catherine is a writer, educator, and cultural practitioner based in Lagos, Nigeria. Her practice moves between criticism, curatorial writing, and community-based futuring, centering the artists and institutions that sustain contemporary art across the African continent. She is the Communications and Events Lead at Guest Artists Space (G. A. S. ) Foundation, writing on artists in residence and supporting the Foundation's public programming. She coordinates Lagos... - Published: 2026-06-09 - Modified: 2026-06-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/addressing-belonging-identity-and-inclusion-in-art-education-by-imrana-khanum/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Writing Image of Imrana Khanum in Stuart Hall Library, 2026 After twenty-eight years teaching Art in secondary schools with an MA in Museums and Education, I semi-retired to work part-time and, with the time gained, offered my services as a volunteer with the Stuart Hall library. I have always valued the work they do in centring Global Majority artists. Reading the 2024 Visualise report led me to want to write a blog about issues around belonging, identity, and inclusion in Art education. Identity is about belonging, about what you have in common with others and what differentiates you from them. It gives you a sense of personal location, the stable core to your individuality. I hope my blog offers support to Art educators in introducing Global Majority artists to their students. Why Belonging Matters The theme of belonging and identity has been important throughout my life as I was born in Mombasa, East Africa, to parents from the Punjab, India, and migrated to the UK in 1971. They migrated across two continents that were previously part of the British Empire due to changes in the political climate. Having never visited my parents’ hometown, as it is now part of India after the 1947 Partition, I have often wrestled with the notion of 'Belonging'. This is a thread that can often run through the Asian and Black diaspora living in the UK from former British colonies. As an art educator, it has been a concern to decolonise the curriculum in order to... - Published: 2026-05-12 - Modified: 2026-06-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/muslim-women-thinking-further-than-the-end-of-the-world-a-reading-list-by-surah-ya-salaam/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Writing Surah ya Salaam at Stuart Hall Library Within the Euro-American imagination, the Muslim woman artist is always looking back. They are maternally preserving. Their art reconciles pasts of migration, pasts of colonisation, pasts of displacement, fragmentation, refugee-dom; the boats and the children who died on them; they are forever clutching together what remains of nations and families and societies. That is their allotted place. One could argue - an allotted cage. Within this cage, eyes watch them. No woman is more visible within Euro-American anxieties than the veiled woman; the oriental other. We watch the Niqabi hovering down the high street, the woman in Jilbab clutching her children, the Muslimah praying on her shift. Within Euro-American paranoia, monsters have to be made out of them. And the Muslim woman artist works to resist this. But the past has to be in service to something, otherwise it is perpetual. What happens when oppression keeps Muslim women stuck in past-making, never being able to move out of place? How do they then, hyper-surveilled like this, and frozen in someone else’s meaning, dream? They invent the future. Because Euro-American society has cancelled the future with their global capitalism, but there is a gap where the future once sat. And it must be invented. In fact, it is the Muslim woman tradition to invent. Who else but Fatima Al Fihriya could have invented the first university? It is within our heritage to imagine futures never before conceived, to return to the Quran, sunnah and... - Published: 2026-05-02 - Modified: 2026-05-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/how-to-create-a-tradition/ - Categories: Exhibition, Announcements Rose Afefé How to Create a Tradition – Chapter 1: the party is everywhere (2026) In How to Create a Tradition, Rose Afefé unfolds a speculative approach to tradition-building grounded in Terra Afefé, her adobe micro-city in the state of Bahia, Brazil. Terra Afefé operates as a living structure shaped through communal labour and shared-making, sustained by proximity to the land, and continuously redefined through use. Art does not sit apart from life but emerges through it, embedded in the rhythms and material conditions of everyday practice. Drawing on the logic of Sankofa, the act of returning to the past in order to move forward, Rose Afefé initiates a collective process inventing a new tradition. Through mask-making workshops with local children, she proposes the beginning of a new ritual: not in a restricting form, but as something provisional, rehearsed, and collectively authored. The work resonates with Stuart Hall’s understanding of culture as “not a matter of ontology, of being, but of becoming”. Cultural identity is always in process, through ongoing positioning and relation. In this sense, tradition is not something preserved intact, but actively made and remade through lived encounter. Afefé’s project inhabits this condition directly, treating tradition as an open structure of becoming rather than a closed inheritance, constructed in the present, through need, interest, repetition, shared participation, through the patterns of daily life. The proposition that “the party is everywhere” reframes celebration as inseparable from labour, making, and being. Rather than a moment of rupture from daily life,... - Published: 2026-05-02 - Modified: 2026-05-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/unhatanhat-no-more-no-longer-upashitapashi-rajyashri-goody/ - Categories: Exhibition, Announcements Rajyashri Goody Unhatanhat no more, no longer Upashitapashi उन्हातान्हात नो मॉर, नो लॉगर उपाशीतापाशी (2026) Rajyashri Goody’s Unhatanhat no more, no longer Upashitapashi unfolds as a sustained attention to how caste operates not only as a social structure, but as something that settles into the body through the most basic conditions of survival: food, water, rest, and access to space. Developed through workshops with 28 girls at the Bahujan Hitay hostel in Pune, the work moves between lived testimony and collective narration, tracing the passage from rural precarity into education as both emancipating and contested. Goody’s methodology involves a deliberate act of cultural translation. She deconstructs Dalit women’s autobiographies and the girls' own testimonies, reworking them into recipes. By shifting from the first-person “I” to a second-person “you” of address, the texts become a series of instructions that reveal the historic and systemic control of resources. The work does not simply recover past narratives, but creates a space in which subjectivities are revisited. Here, education offers a form of liberation, while still shaped by histories of exclusion written into texts such as the book Manusmriti, which denied Dalit communities the right to literacy. The title draws from the Marathi prose of Shantabai Krushnaji Kamble, the author of the first female Dalit autobiography. The terms unhatanhat (the exhaustion and thirst of the harsh sun) and upashitapashi (the repetitive ache of hunger and fever) remain partially untranslated, retained in a hybrid Marathi-English form to preserve their rhythmic texture, resisting assimilation. This refusal... - Published: 2026-05-02 - Modified: 2026-05-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/spun-yarn-anya-paintsil/ - Categories: Exhibition, Announcements Anya Paintsil Spun Yarn (2026) Anya Paintsil’s Spun Yarn begins from a question of how connection is sustained in places where formal infrastructures of care are thinly distributed, and where community life is held together instead through informal, word-of-mouth exchange. Set across Wrexham and Glyn Ceiriog in North East Wales, the work listens to the ways Black residents navigate landscapes in which spaces such as salons, African grocery shops, or long-standing community hubs are largely absent, and where forms of belonging are continuously negotiated through everyday encounters. Rather than working within the more structured dynamics of institutional settings, Paintsil shifts her practice into the town centre itself, approaching people directly and inviting them into the tactile act of braiding hair. The gesture is deliberately intimate: she uses her own finger as an anchor point, insisting on proximity and attention in a process that might otherwise be mechanical. In this closeness, conversation unfolds. Participants speak about migration, isolation, care, and the search for spaces where their hair – and by extension their identities – can be held without refusal. These exchanges become central to the work’s material, with stories such as Natalie’s experience of being turned away from salons as a child, or Grace’s continued journeys to Manchester for hair care, or Ronnie and Leona’s domestic practices of maintenance and care. The title Spun Yarn draws on maritime traditions in which sailors would tell stories while making rope, turning labour into narration, repetition into memory. This resonance is important: it frames... - Published: 2026-04-29 - Modified: 2026-06-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/a-leaf-of-moving-image-by-maddie-black/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Writing Maddie Black volunteering with iniva's Archive. Our archive volunteer Maddie Black reflects on working with iniva's Moving Image Collection. Feeling a bit estranged from art and literature while working in hospitality last year, I decided to start volunteering at iniva to rekindle lost affections. I was assigned the role of cataloguing volunteer by archivist Kaitlene Koranteng, and set on the task of watching every DVD, CD and VHS in their Moving Image Collection. True, the repetitiveness of archival labour isn’t glamorous. But you still feel like you are seeing behind the curtain. At the very least, you are experiencing the archive in an unusual way: in alphabetical order, onboarding it piece-by-piece into the digital realm. An archive is more than the sum of its parts, as I quickly found out. Continuities began to shimmer. Relationships between the different works formed a larger web. And as I slowly progressed through each cardboard box, one conviction rose especially strong. How visual storytelling can demystify complex ideas about power and exploitation. When words like ‘systemic’ are used, it can be hard to visualise what really happened. Sometimes, you need to be shown. Maddie Black volunteering with iniva's Archive. But if you visited the Stuart Hall Library off-the-cuff, you probably wouldn’t start with the Moving Image Collection. You can’t leaf through short films like you can with books, in this case, the collection of artist monographs and exhibition catalogues. So here are some examples of the kind of moving image work housed by iniva... - Published: 2026-04-14 - Modified: 2026-04-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/notes-on-return/ - Categories: Writing - Tags: Return Researching into the OVA Collection at Stuart Hall Library, taken by Sepake Angiama Have you ever looked at the word ‘return’? I mean, really looked at it. When you break it down, the word turn already hints at a movement, and then the prefix in front of the word means that there is a shift in the position, a repositioning or a turning that would mean that the direction would reorientate ‘back’ or ‘again’. When we think of returning, we understand it as coming back to the place or a position from which you have started. Like pressing the return button on your keyboard, you go back to the beginning – but not quite back to the same place, but to a slightly different or altered position. There have been many projects of return, whether the idea that you can return people, return to ideas or the return of objects to a place of origin. We see a return to right-wing politics that has given rise to warring atrocities around the world. At what point could we see an end to extractivist wars that are built on imperial and colonial legacies? When can we begin to consider returning, repairing, restoring and rebuilding as strategies of hope? Famously Jamaican political activist Marcus Garvey promoted the Black Star Line as part of a ‘back to Africa’ movement of the early 1900s. This has been one of many projects of return motivated by early pan-African thinkers. In a process of decolonising the museum,... > Discover how iniva’s Living Legacies project is transforming access to Global Majority art heritage through community co‑creation, apprenticeships, and new exhibitions supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. - Published: 2026-02-09 - Modified: 2026-05-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/living-legacies-project-announcement/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Announcements - Tags: living legacies, Iniva archive Front of iniva. Photo courtesy of OrsiniBrewin, 2019. iniva (The Institute of International Visual Arts) is delighted to announce the launch of Living Legacies: Collaboration, Community and Radicality, a major four-year project supported by a substantial grant of £1,675,222 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The initiative will help transform public access to and engagement with iniva’s archive, establishing it as a “living” resource that empowers communities to share knowledge, creativity and lived experience. It will culminate in three major exhibitions, developed with and showcasing the archives alongside leading iniva-associated artists, and presented in partnership with institutions, including Arts Council Collection, UAL: Chelsea College of Arts and Southwark Park Galleries. Housed in the Stuart Hall Library in London, iniva’s archive is an unparalleled resource that documents the organisation's history as a radical change-maker, tracing its roots back to the wake of the British Black Arts Movement. It chronicles over 30 years of iniva's work in decolonising art history, placing Global Majority artists at the forefront through its exhibitions, publications, and events. The archive notably includes records from some of Britain’s most celebrated contemporary artists—such as Dame Sonia Boyce, Matthew Krishanu and Rosa-Johan Uddoh—in addition to documentation of pivotal exhibitions, including Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance (1997), Cities on the Move (1999), Veil (2003-4), and Alien Nation (2006). Currently, iniva’s archive primarily serves as a specialised resource for artists, curators, and researchers. Over the next four years, Living Legacies will broaden this scope, reaching wider communities in Westminster,... - Published: 2025-12-05 - Modified: 2026-04-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/notes-on-resistance/ - Categories: Announcements, Writing As the year draws to a close, I find myself reflecting on the many forms resistance can take. For some, simply rising each morning is an act of defiance against systems that would prefer us invisible. For others, choosing rest and nourishment is equally radical, as Sepake reminded us so beautifully in her Note on Rest Ashley Holmes with Skylarking vinyl Right now, my favourite acts of resistance are twofold: one rooted in community, the other deeply personal. Both are bound by the possibility of transformation. In a climate of fear, hatred and division, particularly for Black and Global Majority peoples, building community is a way to save ourselves. As bell hooks wrote, “One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone. ” Walking into iniva’s doors this year, I felt this truth immediately. The Stuart Hall Library embodies this spirit. Surrounded by its world-class collection, you cannot help but feel changed, physically, emotionally, even at the level of DNA. The shelves speak across generations and geographies, reminding us of the vital role Black and Global Majority artists have played in shaping the global arts ecology. You don’t even need to read (though you’ll want to); simply being there is nourishment. This year has been one of transitions and transformations. I was honoured to step into the role of Interim Artistic Director while Sepake takes a well-earned sabbatical. She will return in the spring to lead... - Published: 2025-10-15 - Modified: 2025-10-21 - URL: https://iniva.org/calling-designers-iniva-leaflet-commission/ - Categories: Announcements, Writing iniva is inviting designers to create a bold new leaflet that celebrates our work in radical art, culture, and community. The leaflet will introduce new audiences to iniva and the Stuart Hall Library, while doubling as a striking poster that people will want to keep and display. The leaflet should highlight the Library and Archive’s unique focus on global contemporary art, race, identity, class and gender, and encourage people to join as members, use our resources for research, and arrange group visits. This is a paid opportunity to create something bold, celebratory, and lasting that captures the spirit of the Library at the heart of iniva. The brief document can be found in the link below. This document gives further details, including the project background, requirements, and submission data. Please read the brief in full and make sure you meet all the criteria before submitting your application. Following expressions of interest, one artist will be commissioned for the leaflet design. How to apply To apply, please send an expression of interest to Tavian Hunter, Library and Archive Manager, at library@iniva. org by 9 November 2025. Your expression of interest should include: A short statement describing your idea and how it responds to the brief (max 300 words) Examples of previous work (up to 3 PDF attachments or links) that demonstrate your style and experience. If you have designed leaflets before, please include them as examples for our reference. These expressions of interest will be reviewed by the iniva team, with... - Published: 2025-08-27 - Modified: 2025-08-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/new-stuart-hall-library-membership-card-commission/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Announcements ©Chila Kumari Singh Burman MBE, Tiger Jamu on Pyar hi pyar (2021). Courtesy of the Artist. We're pleased to invite the public to join the Stuart Hall Library, one of the UK’s most important collections on global contemporary art and culture, with the launch of a striking new, limited-edition library membership card. Artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman MBE was invited to create the design of our third edition of the library card, following the commissions of Larry Achiampong and Jade de Montserrat. The card features a neon tiger set against a kaleidoscopic patchwork of bright patterns titled ‘Tiger Jamu on Pyar Hi Pyar’ (2021) The tiger, a recurring motif in Chila’s work, is both a national symbol of India and an emblem of urgent ecological concern, with the species now highly endangered. India is home to nearly 70% of the world’s wild tiger population, making its survival deeply tied to the country’s identity and responsibility. By invoking the tiger, Chila draws on its associations with courage and strength while simultaneously underscoring the critical importance of conservation today. Its repetition across her practice transforms the image into a call to action. Another motif central to Chila’s visual language is the grid. In the image on card, patterns are arranged within a grid-like structure, recalling both the organisational logic of comics and graphic novels and the rational clarity of Western modernism. Yet, within this framework, Chila’s vibrant forms strain against containment. The grid flattens and orders, but the luminous tiger breaks through—an... - Published: 2025-06-18 - Modified: 2026-02-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/living-legacies-pilot-connecting-archives-artists-and-communities/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Writing - Tags: living legacies, Iniva archive Photo of young people from Avenue Youth Project as part of Living Legacies pilot workshop in Stuart Hall Library on 15 May 2025 Living Legacies Project Manager Tavian Hunter reflects on the pilot programme connecting and engaging iniva's archive in creative ways as part of our project supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Over spring 2025, iniva launched a series of pilot events as part of Living Legacies: Collaboration, Community and Radicality, an initiative supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The pilot programme set out to test ideas, build relationships and experiment with creative ways of making iniva’s archive, particularly our Exhibition Collections and the Organisation for Visual Arts (OVA) Collection, more visible and relevant to today’s communities. The result? A powerful range of intergenerational, artist-led activities that brought people together through shared memory, creativity and cultural heritage. These pilots confirmed that archives don’t belong behind glass but to communities. Exploring Archives Through Art and Memory At the heart of the pilot programme was the belief that archives can be more than static collections, but ‘a living archive’ as Stuart Hall states, that exudes sources of creative inspiration and collective reflection. In May, iniva welcomed young people from The Avenues Youth Project to Stuart Hall Library for a hands-on workshop led by Cassia Clarke and Tavian Hunter. Participants were invited to explore the OVA archive, create collages and take polaroids that reflected their identities, before learning how to preserve their photographs using starter archiving kits. The session sparked... - Published: 2025-06-10 - Modified: 2025-06-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/visualising-contemporary-art-histories-inivas-moving-image-collections/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Announcements iniva is thrilled to announce our new project, Visualising Contemporary Art Histories — iniva’s Moving Image Collections which is supported by the BFI Screen Heritage Fund, awarding funds from the National Lottery. This project celebrates iniva’s moving image archive, focusing on underrepresented voices and stories from the Global Majority, in particular, the Global South. The unique collection includes 350 catalogued DVDs and VHS tapes, alongside approximately 2,000 uncatalogued items of different media. These materials, largely inaccessible to the public, document iniva’s rich programming history, addressing enduring themes such as Black diaspora, migration, cultural memory, race relations in Britain, desire, and personal migrant experiences. The collection features influential works by artists such as John Akomfrah and Horace Ové, whose films provide critical reflections on the Black British experience, post-colonial identity, and community resilience; Anand Patwardhan’s documentaries that tackle India’s socio-political issues, including caste discrimination and religious intolerance; and Zarina Bhimji’s poetic films that explore displacement and the lingering impacts of colonial histories. The global perspectives are further represented through the works of Park Chan-wook and Park Chan-Kyong, who blend Korean history with contemporary narratives; Bouchra Khalili’s films highlight migration and belonging and Majida Khattari and Cecilia Vicuña works engage with themes of gender, tradition, and environmental activism, offering powerful and innovative perspectives. By cataloguing and sharing these moving image works iniva’s project ensures that these critical cultural narratives are preserved, accessible, and celebrated. It highlights the ongoing relevance of these themes, fostering dialogue with contemporary filmmakers and increasing knowledge for future... - Published: 2025-05-08 - Modified: 2026-03-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/the-coloniality-of-climate-change/ - Categories: Writing This blog post is a slightly amended version of a presentation delivered by Jessica Brown in May 2025. ‘Climate justice, social justice and racial justice are all interconnected’ - Veronica Mulenga1 Before starting this piece, I would like to recognise my positionality as a 26-year-old cis white woman, born and raised in the United Kingdom, with a university education. I acknowledge the privilege I hold as a result of these identities, and strive to be aware of my biases. ‘Racial injustice and climate injustice are both rooted in the evil notion that some lives are more important than others’ – David Lammy6 We are all aware of the growing impacts of climate change, but what I see discussed less is the intersection of colonialism, racism and climate change. The above quotes from Veronica Mulenga, a Zambian climate activist, and David Lammy, a politician, were central in my inspiration for this project. Many other people have written about this topic much more effectively and insightfully than I can, and I have tried to centre the voices of people of colour throughout this work - a full list of references and cited resources can be found below. My aim is that this piece can be a jumping off point for you to engage with other literature and media, particularly resources available at iniva’s Stuart Hall Library. Last week, in early May 2025, large areas of Western Europe had a power cut that lasted for about 10 hours10. To be honest, I was... - Published: 2025-05-02 - Modified: 2025-05-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/on-repetitiveness-of-archival-labour-by-billy-tong/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Writing - Tags: Billy Tong, archive, volunteer In February 2024, during the third year of my PhD study at UCL, I began volunteering at iniva. My first task involves organising artists’ files: I have to review each one, take notes on what was inside, and then repackage them into new, sturdier folders designed to withstand ageing. With extra caution, I remove the thin metal staples binding certain paper materials to prevent any potential rust from contaminating them. Fortunately, many of these materials are still relatively young, having been born in the 1990s and 2000s, reducing the immediate likelihood of degradation. Usually, I found myself performing repetitive tasks on most of my volunteer days, and time has flown by—it's been almost three months already. It serves as a reminder of the tedious nature of archival labour, a point of contention for many individuals. However, amidst precarity, I increasingly value its simplicity, which provides a sense of calm and order. This volunteer experience is not my initial encounter with archives. I identify archival practices as both my professional and social endeavours. This occurred during my employment at a university library, as well as my participation in and my writing about the Umbrella Movement Visual Archives. Three years ago, I completed a Master’s degree in Archives and Records Management at UCL. It was during this program that I became aware of iniva, an organisation that later provided a platform for me to reconnect with my MA classmates, Kaitlene. From the courses, I learned to approach archives with a critical eye.... - Published: 2025-05-02 - Modified: 2025-05-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/a-black-feminist-manifesto-for-radical-rest/ - Categories: Writing - Tags: Collective poetry, radical rest, Poetry Photograph by Francis Augusto This collective poem, created by participants of The Gathering 2024 and curated by Evie Muir, serves as a manifesto for Radical Rest, an invocation to centre rest as an intentional practice. Drawing inspiration from Evie's debut book Radical Rest: Notes on Burnout, Healing and Hopeful Futures, the participants engaged with nature writing prompts and took part in a walkshop, an experimental and experiential space where they move through personal and collective relationships with rest. Through the process, the participants have co-created a manifesto rooted in Black Feminist, abolitionist and nature-allied principles, reclaiming rest as a radical, restorative act. Photograph by Francis Augusto A Black Feminist Manifesto for Radical Rest A collective poem created at The Gathering and curated by Evie Muir In a leafy enclave along the banks of the River Thames, Evie Muir held The Gathering community in an embodied nature writing walkshop. Through writing prompts and embodied invocations inspired by Evie’s debut book ‘Radical Rest: Notes on Burnout, Healing and Hopeful Futures’, together they built a Manifesto for Radical Rest. Rooted in Black Feminist, abolitionist and nature-allied principles we hope this manifesto serves as a collective tool which will support us to ground our artistic and activist practices in intentional rest. Photo by Francis Augusto In this moment we are the... Interconnected, interwoven, still weaving Waves. Held by our ancestors. Photograph by Francis Augusto We are the stillness, the change, the branches that claw at the new day, The running minds in unrested bodies,... - Published: 2025-03-31 - Modified: 2025-03-31 - URL: https://iniva.org/stuart-hall-librarys-new-vinyl-collection/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: vinyl, library, Library collections, stuart hall library Bruno Verner with Tetine's vinyl Music for Breathing iniva is pleased to announce it is launching an exciting new vinyl collection at the Stuart Hall Library that explores experimental sound, cultural narratives, and artistic innovation through sonic art expressions. This collection is a testament to the power of sound as both an artistic medium and a historical record. The idea to begin a vinyl collection at Stuart Hall Library came to Library and Archive Manager Tavian Hunter through the introduction and subsequent donation from composer, artist, and musician Bruno Verner. Best known for his work with the tropical mutant punk-funk duo Tetine, Verner gifted four 12” vinyl records, each carrying the sonic DNA of São Paulo’s avant-garde music scene. The Tetine Collection: A Sonic Revolution Slum Dunk Presents Funk Carioca Mixed By Tetine This groundbreaking compilation was Tetine's first European vinyl dedicated entirely to Funk Carioca, also known as Baile Funk. Featuring 18 tracks from classic funk MCs and producers from the early 2000s such as Tati Quebra Barraco and Bonde do Tigrão, this album serves as a vibrant snapshot of Brazilian street sounds and club culture. Many of the tracks we played on Slum Dunk, a weekly radio programme that aired in London covered all aspects of Brazilian music. Cover of Here We Come vinyl by Shepherd Manyika and ETAT L. I. C. K MY FAVELA Released in 2005, this record is a visceral, performative “grito de guerra” (battle cry). Fusing funk carioca, hip-hop, and post-punk, it is both... - Published: 2025-03-19 - Modified: 2025-08-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/interludes-sound-ritual-workshop-recording/ - Categories: Announcements - Tags: The Gathering 2024, Sound Art, workshop A sonic memory of the meditative workshop facilitated by Axel Kacoutié & Lou Mensah to encourage reflection and healing through sound. What does healing sound like? Get immersed in a sound recording of the workshop Interludes: Sound Ritual, facilitated by Axel Kacoutié and Lou Mensah as part of The Gathering 2024. The workshop explored the healing potential of sound and meditative practices through rich auditory responses to the artists’ prompts. Participants were invited to “chime in” throughout the session when the audio revealed something that resonated with their practice. This recording acts as a sonic memory of the workshop, supporting personal practice and reflection at home. Interludes: Sound Ritual was part of The Gathering 2024, a two-day event that offered a unique space for UK-based Global Majority artists and cultural workers to convene in exploration of restorative practices and to build frameworks for stronger relationships and more sustainable arts ecologies. - Published: 2025-03-07 - Modified: 2025-08-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/salvage-repair-repeat-archival-research-trip-ghana-part-2/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Writing Last Summer Archivist and Engagement Producer Kaitlene Koranteng travelled to Accra and Tamale in Ghana, to archiving and collecting practice. Learn more about her time in Tamale below: An important part of my research trip was going to Tamale, Ghana. Tamale is third largest city in Ghana and the capital of the Northern Region. Prior to travelling to Tamale, I had attended a screening of Certain Winds From the South, a short adaptation of the acclaimed Ghanian writer Prof. Ama Ata Aidoo by photographer and film maker Eric Gyamfi. The story of Certain Winds From the South, highlights an ongoing inequality in Ghana, punctuated by a migration pattern from the North to South, Tamale to Accra, that remains ongoing. This inequality is also present in the representation of Ghanian culture in wider society, which is one reason why I thought it was important to go to Tamale and learn about initiatives taking place. Upon my arrival Tamale, there is a clear cultural difference from its Southern counterpoint. Tamale provides a soothing energy compared to Accra’s bustling energy. The languages and food also differ, due to the tribal ethnic groups present in the region. The popular method of transport is motorbike opposed to a car or a yellow-yellow (a three-wheeled rickshaw taxi), which was a change from trying to navigate and avoid the grid-locked traffic of Accra. The temperature was far warmer, due to its proximity to the equator and resulting in the surrounding savannah landscape that Tamale is know for.... - Published: 2025-03-06 - Modified: 2025-03-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/the-visiting-arts-archive-a-legacy-of-cultural-connection/ - Categories: Library and Archive Dean Reed holding ‘Open Space: UK opportunities for visual artists from overseas’ from the Visiting Arts Archive at the Stuart Hall Library At iniva, we are thrilled to announce the accessioning and scoping of the Visiting Arts Archive—a collection of material chronicling 45 years of international arts facilitation. Last Spring, with the help of our UCL placement student, Dean Reed, we reviewed the material in this collection to be able to provide further insights into what this collection contains. We hope to fully catalogue this collection in the not-too-distant future. The Visiting Arts Archive now finds its home within iniva’s Stuart Hall Library, ensuring that researchers, artists, and cultural practitioners have access to the rich history of an organisation that played a pivotal role in fostering cross-cultural artistic exchange. This archive tells the story of a organisation that acted as a bridge between cultures, giving underrepresented artists a voice and bringing global creative practices to UK audiences. The History of Visiting Arts Founded in 1977, Visiting Arts emerged at a time when international artistic exchange was constrained by geopolitical tensions and limited institutional support. Initially known as the Visiting Arts Unit, it was backed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the British Council, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Each of these institutions had its own motivations—ranging from fostering international artistic presence in the UK to promoting cultural diplomacy—but together, they enabled Visiting Arts to become a critical facilitator of global artistic engagement. Over the... - Published: 2025-02-07 - Modified: 2026-02-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/meet-our-living-legacies-project-consultants/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Announcements - Tags: living legacies, Iniva archive From left to right, Susan Dymond (Interpretation Planner), Ananda Rutherford (Copyright & Archive Consultant), Rinku Mitra (Activity Planner), Neena Sohal (Activity Planner), and Amanda Cusimano (Evaluation Planner). iniva (The Institute of International Visual Arts) is delighted to introduce our project team to support the initial phase of its groundbreaking project, Living Legacies: Collaboration, Community and Radicality supported by a recently awarded development grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. We’re excited to share some fantastic news! In 2024, iniva was awarded a development grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to launch the initial phase of our innovative project, Living Legacies: Collaboration, Community and Radicality. This initiative is all about transforming access to our archives and celebrating the vital contributions of diasporic artists who have shaped Black art and Internationalism. Running from June 2024 to October 2025, this development phase will set the groundwork for widening our community engagement, ensuring that iniva’s archive reaches new audiences while also creating opportunities for underrepresented individuals in the archive sector. Meet the Team To make this vision a reality, we’ve brought together an incredible team of expert consultants who will be working alongside our Living Legacies Project Manager, Tavian Hunter and Artistic Director, Sepake Angiama: Neena Sohal & Rinku Mitra (Activity Planners) – Exploring how we can connect with new audiences and create important community-led activities. Susan Dymond (Interpretation Planner) – Helping us shape engaging narratives that bring the archive to life through storytelling. Ananda Rutherford (Copyright & Archive Consultant) – Ensuring that... - Published: 2025-02-04 - Modified: 2025-08-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/salvage-repair-repeat-archival-research-trip-accra-and-tamale/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Writing Kaitlene Koranteng in front of backdrop at Jamestown Jamestown Café. Photo taken by Agbongua Kwadwo Buenortey Okor Last Summer Archivist and Engagement Producer Kaitlene Koranteng travelled to Accra and Tamale in Ghana, to archiving and collecting practice. Here is a diary of her trip: The concept of Black Archival Practice seeks to testify to the complexity of how Black life is lived, documented, and remembered. In June 2024, I undertook a research trip to Ghana, funded by the Jonathon Ruffer Grant, with the intention of exploring Black archival practice in a West African context and investigating my own position as a Black archivist stewarding the iniva archive. There were several considerations. Iniva's existence is situated within the canon of the British Black Arts Movement, which was defined by the work of artists of African, Caribbean, and Asian ancestry and explored race, gender, and the politics of representation within Britain. I felt it was vital to examine a perspective on archival practice that exists outside Western archival and curatorial traditions. This research diary documents some of the places, people and things I learned during this research trip – a second part detailing my time Tamale will be uploaded at a later date. Before I arrived in Ghana, my trip coincided with the 95th birthday of James Barnor, arguably Ghana’s most celebrated photographer. His career, spanning six decades, captured Ghanaian society amid its transition to independence from Britain. He was Ghana’s first full-time newspaper photographer in the 1950s and introduced colour processing... - Published: 2025-01-10 - Modified: 2025-01-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/a-note-on-rest/ - Categories: Announcements, Writing It’s that time of year when you start to reflect, look back, and look at the plans for the coming year. I am looking back at the last 5 years since I began as Artistic Director. Joining the organisation in 2020 with an ambitious vision to radically transform the cultural landscape. This work first had to begin with iniva itself. As an organisation that was finding its feet in a new location at the UAL Chelsea campus in Pimlico, we soon had to adjust to work remotely and over time have recruited new team members. While this forced sejour from the library and archive collection was a testing time, it made us realise that without being physically onsite at the Stuart Hall Library you could not get access to our collections. When we returned to the office greedy to feast our eyes on what we had been missing we found that Research Network reading groups and our Artist Kitchen Salons were a way to resocialise our bodies. Hours on Zoom couldn’t replace the experience of being in the presence of other bodies, speaking, laughing, listening and eating together. In different parts of the country, we worked on Future Collect with artists and curators to commission new works to be acquired into collections while plotting exhibitions. Supported by Arts Council England, Art Fund and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, artists Jade de Montserrat, Emii Alrai and Maria Amidu have made three sensitive and yet audacious works challenging their practice. All works are now... - Published: 2024-10-11 - Modified: 2025-08-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/green-libraries-week-connecting-with-the-land/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Writing For Green Libraries Week 2024 (7-13 October 2024), we're highlighting some of the books and zines that were featured in On Our Table: Connecting with the Land, a lunchtime sharing session held on 12 September 2024. Let’s Become Fungal! by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez Looking at a range of Indigenous practices from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia, the book presents 12 teachings in how fungi can inspire new ways of thinking, new systems, and behaviours. The 12 teachings focus on how we organise and collaborate, relationships of solidarity, how to escape categorization, communication, and insecurity. Unearthed: On Race and Roots, and How the Soil Taught Me I Belong By Claire Ratinon A memoir by Claire Ratinon who found belonging through falling in love with growing plants and reconnecting with nature. The book recounts her first year living in the English countryside and her farming practice, and how she strengthens her connection to Mauritius through growing food from the island, exploring its histories and recording her parents’ stories. John Akomfrah By James Harvey The book by James Harvey is the first comprehensive analytic investigation of John Akomfrah’s films, offering sustained close engagement with the artist’s core thematic preoccupations and aesthetic tendencies. Chapter 6, in particular, investigates his works which engage with themes of climate change and ecology. On the topic of John Akomfrah, iniva has also recently launched Unseen Guests: A Post-National Digital Pavilion, which features eight artistic commissions and investigations alongside Pan-African cultural archives across the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA),... - Published: 2024-10-01 - Modified: 2025-03-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/global-resiliencies-activist-zines-from-2010-to-2022-reading-list/ - Categories: Exhibition, Library and Archive Global Resiliencies is a project centred on activist zines produced between 2010 and 2022. It asks how grassroots publications can reflect and shape political movements and collective action across different geopolitical contexts around the globe. At its core, this project seeks to explore how zines—those self-published, often ephemeral documents of resistance—offer unique insights into how people organise, build communities, and foster solidarity across borders. Rather than a conventional, static exhibition, Global Resiliencies unfolds at the Stuart Hall Library as a living, evolving showcase. Through rotating the zines and making space for new contributions as they arrive, this approach emphasises a continuous process of gathering, sharing and reflecting on activist voices and materials. This participatory format invites viewers to return, engage with the new additions, and reflect on how political and social movements evolve. Global Resiliencies proposes a double exercise of looking back, and looking forward into the future—creating strategies to ensure that these materials can continue to inspire new forms of resistance, new solidarities, and new ways of understanding our worlds. The Stuart Hall Library reaffirms the potential of self-publishing as a tool for social transformation and building collective memory, proposing an evolving archive of resilience; one that lives and expands alongside the movements it documents. The following resources is an evolving list of activist and protest zines that will grow alongside the exhibition. Artistic organising The zines included on this wall focus on the various forms of artistic organising, making use of exhibitions, film, video games, and the zine... - Published: 2024-08-09 - Modified: 2024-08-22 - URL: https://iniva.org/notes-on-home-resources/ - Categories: Writing " Where do we find the words and actions to continually fight racism, Islamophobia and fascism? How can we collectively make spaces of belonging through culture? " - Notes on Home, iniva. The following is a small but growing list of resources the iniva team has compiled in response to the recent violent riots across the UK. Stuart Hall Library At Home and Not At Home: Stuart Hall and Les Back in conversation The article is also available physically in the Stuart Hall Library. 'So, Where Are You Really From? ': Championing Creatives of Colour in the North of England by Pennycress People talk a lot about where you come from. When you’re black, mixed race or of another ethnic minority, you’ll likely be asked it, several times a year, in tones ranging from camaraderie and general interest to suspicion, derision and even shock. But where someone is from means a lot more than DNA or parentage- it’s about the circumstances one has to grow through, the emotions that drive our decisions, all the little experiences that add up to world perspective we call our own. It also relates to the city we call home - Leeds. For Pennycress’s inaugural issue, 32 creatives share art, writing, photography and more to interpret where they’re REALLY from; reflections on their heritage, the place they live, and the passions that say far more about themselves than their skintone. The zine was featured at the lunchtime talk On Our Table: Finding Home. 'What Would... - Published: 2024-08-08 - Modified: 2025-08-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/notes-on-home/ - Categories: Writing They say, home is where the heart is or home is where you lay your head or your hat. It's the place where you feel at ease, where you are most comfortable or where you can be yourself. But sadly, in the face of so much violence and misinformation, how do we find the words that can instil hope and eradicate the fear of calling the UK our home? They told our grandparents that they were British subjects to serve Queen and country. ‘Why did they come? ’ one friend asked me this weekend. They came because they were invited and to serve a country that was on its knees, I responded. The prospect of opportunities, a place to also call home and even to raise a family. But when they arrived they were told to ‘go home’. They were told that this fair isle was a place of justice, a harbour for refuge for those who came to seek asylum, a place of safety. It does not matter in fact how we arrive here, whether we are born here, born elsewhere, or part of the colonial and imperial histories of Britain. This is the place that we chose to call our home. The fact that it was a common saying to recite that, 'the sun never sets on the British Empire' should tell us all something about the places where the British have been. But when does the 'them' and the 'us' become 'we'? What difficult conversations do we... - Published: 2024-07-04 - Modified: 2024-07-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/review-of-the-rock-throwers-by-chloe-tayali/ - Categories: Library and Archive Iamge of the The Rock Throwers tape in Stuart Hall Library. The following post is a review of our recently catalogued tape The Rock Throwers by our previous volunteer Chloe Tayali. Centring migrant oral traditions, generational offerings and conversations, curator Amina Jama presents The Rock Throwers; a limited edition cassette tape which integrates research on orality within archival practices, and positions the archive as a living, breathing resource. Drawing from their own personal family archives of cassette tapes from the 1980-90s, Jama recruits time stamping, generational exchange, and ancestral thinking in a deeply personal attempt to reclaim space, tackle erasure, and encourage listeners to abandon comfort and turn towards unfamiliar ground. Amina Jama, The Rock Throwers: Introduction (2023) Launched on Thursday 26 January 2023 at Chisenhale Gallery, Amina Jama introduces The Rock Throwers with the Somali phrase (meaning ‘to protest’) that it is translated from and the context of ethnic and governmental suppression to which the phrase applies. She invokes the Mary Douglas quote ”institutions remember and forget”, to remind us that they decide for a society what to remember and what to avoid. But she also tells us that institutions such as the Stuart Hall Library and Chippendale Gallery Archive hold the same value as family archives. These family archives allow families to record their histories outside of colonial infrastructure, without the comfort museums inject around difficult topics. We can all share our voices in this way. The Rock Throwers project is based on this expansion of the meaning... - Published: 2024-07-01 - Modified: 2024-07-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/reflecting-on-michael-mcmillans-practice-by-cassia-clarke/ - Categories: Library and Archive Michael McMillan in Stuart Hall Library, June 2024 Our recent archive volunteer Cassia Clarke reflects on the practice of Michael McMillan and the connection with her Caribbean heritage. Michael McMillan is a British-born playwright, author, artist, curator and educator of St Vincent and the Grenadines heritage. Since the early 2000’s, McMillan has become a prolific installation artist depicting the West Indies domestic interior of working-class respectability. These simulated spaces include, but are not exclusive to – The West Indian Front Room (2003), Zion Arts Centre/BAA, Manchester. The West Indian Front Room: Memories and Impressions of Black British Homes (2005-06), Geffrye Museum, London (renamed the Museum of the Home in 2019). The Living Room of Migrants in the Netherlands (2007), Imagine IC, Amsterdam. A Living Room Surrounded by Salt Installation (2008), Buena Vista, Curacao The Front Room ‘Inna JoBurg’ & The Arrivants (2016), FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg. Joyce’s Front Room, 1970 (2021), Tate Britain, London – a part of a group show, Life Between Islands, Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now. A Front Room in 1976 (2021), Museum of the Home (formerly the Geffrye Museum). The Front Room: Inna Toronto/6ix (2023) Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto – a part of a group show, Life Between Islands, Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now. I was introduced to Michael McMillan and his installation work through Tate Britain’s group show, Life Between Islands (December 2021 – April 2022), titled Joyce’s Front Room 1970. The exhibit was split into five sub-themes: Arrivals, Pressure, Ghost of History,... - Published: 2024-06-25 - Modified: 2024-06-25 - URL: https://iniva.org/current-journal-subscriptions/ - Categories: Library and Archive Collection of current journal issues, taken at Stuart Hall Library. Photo by Charlotte Mui Stuart Hall Library journals collection contains over 400 titles including many rare items important to the UK Black Arts Movement, British and International contemporary visual arts and culture. Though many of these titles have ceased publication, Stuart Hall Library currently subscribes to 40 journals, magazines, and newspapers, focusing on independently published, artist-led, and interdisciplinary journals that continue to inform and expand our library collection. Afterall Launched in 1999, Afterall is a London-based journal of art, context, and enquiry that is published twice a year. It offers in-depth analysis of artists’ work, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Al Hayya Al Hayya is a Philadelphia-based bilingual magazine that publishes literary and visual content in English and Arabic on the works, interests, and strife of women in the context of South West Asia and North Africa. The issues feature interviews, opinion pieces, and visual essays ranging from sex education to protesting to the destruction of Beirut. Art AsiaPacific Established in 1993, Art AsiaPacific is a bimonthly English periodical featuring profiles, essays, and exhibition reviews covering contemporary art and culture from Asia and the Pacific. The Hong Kong-based magazine also publishes an annual Almanac that surveys the past year in the 53 countries and territories covered. Art India Established in 1996, Art India is a quarterly magazine specialising in Indian modern and contemporary art, and promotes critical discourse and debate regarding painting, sculpture,... - Published: 2024-06-24 - Modified: 2024-07-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/creative-mapping-design-and-architecture-lab-by-charlene-prempeh/ - Categories: Exhibition, Writing Charlene Prempeh at Creative Mapping: Design and Architecture Lab. Photo credit: Jemima Yong Introduction When we gathered in early March, it was ostensibly a moment to explore the resource needs of a community of design and cultural practitioners. We were to commune in a library and though it was purposefully unclear where things would end, there was a sense that the main take out would be a professional one. What transpired that day felt more spiritual and elemental-we were reminded of the role that design plays in helping us to understand ourselves, our values and our community. It was a moment of respite from what many described as a treadmill of doing. Instead, we all luxuriated in the swell of ideas that can arise when there is no goal other than to connect. An Exercise in Values One of the first things that can be lost in the relentless wheel of doing is the ‘why’, so the workshop ran by Nate Agbetu on values felt incredibly grounding for the group. Some of the thoughts that arose are below. Overwhelmingly, what people valued was character and community and it set the tone for a day where attendees thought about design not in relation to their individual discipline or experience, but in relation to who they were as people: I’m concerned with people and the way they think, create, and communicate. I’m driven by my belief that integrioty drives empathy and human connection needs this to evolve... Human connection is power. I... - Published: 2024-06-07 - Modified: 2024-06-07 - URL: https://iniva.org/announcing-drift-stuart-papers-publication/ - Categories: Announcements Cover of Drift Stuart Papers. Designed by Rose Nordin. Published by iniva, 2024. Originally printed in 2022, iniva is excited to announce the reprint of our publication, DRIFT – Stuart Papers. This special issue of STUART Papers designed by Rose Nordin and edited by Tavian Hunter and Sepake Angiama was published for iniva’s DRIFT - A Post-national Digitial Pavilion Project in 2022. Reflecting on thinking through fluidity of notions of nationhood, it contains written contributions Cairo Clarke, Lola Olufemi, Rahila Haque and Adjoa Armah from iniva's Research Network Programme: Archipelagos in Reverse (2022) as well as Kaitlene Koranteng and Rohan Ayinde who have been involved in iniva’s DRIFT pavilion project. For their DRIFT Pavilion, iniva proposed a series of radical re-imaginings of Europeanness that reflect on the entanglement between land and water, movement and m/otherlands, in the forging of new identities and subjectivities. DRIFT considered Europe from three vantage points: The River at Stuart Hall Library in London; The Island in Venice; and The Coastline in Margate. At these sites, they will consider how water connects land, people and communities. This publication weaves together questions of migration and movement in relation to sound and water – thinking about sound as movement and how water connects to departures and arrivals. It questions what it means to belong to a diaspora? How can you create space for yourself in spaces where you are othered? And what does it mean to have the archipelagic as a part of your practice? It also proposes... - Published: 2024-06-05 - Modified: 2024-06-07 - URL: https://iniva.org/stories-told-and-untold-by-lyn-french/ - Categories: Writing Return to BreathPhotograph: Jade de MontserratImage Layout: Sonja Frick Introducing two new resources: A Return to Breath featuring a watercolour series by Jade de Montserrat and Making that remembers... . a correspondence between emotion and materials based on artworks and works in progress by Maria Amidu. Understanding ourselves and making better sense of our similarities and differences is dependent on the capacity to be freely and openly curious. Wondering about and puzzling over who we are, how we are seen, and what it means to belong - or the opposite - is commonly associated with the often-tumultuous adolescent years. However, throughout life, thoughts about who we’ve been and who we are in the process of becoming continue to ebb and flow in and out of consciousness, washing up impressions, memories, and fragments of history both personal and collective, each influencing the other ‘in the perpetual back and forth’ to borrow the title of Maria Amidu’s 2024 Towner Eastbourne exhibition. In the academic arena, themes relating to individual, group, social, cultural, and global identities feed into multiple streams of thought running through and between the arts, philosophy, psychotherapy, cultural studies, critical theory, post-colonial studies and so on. Curiosity of this kind is vital for us all to cultivate yet finding the language to put our lived experience into words can prove challenging. Making the remembers... Photograph: Maria AmiduImage Layout: Sonja Frick The emotional learning cards co-published by iniva and A Space are designed to bridge this gap by providing a starting... - Published: 2024-05-01 - Modified: 2024-06-07 - URL: https://iniva.org/our-newest-publication-contested-sites/ - Categories: Announcements Cover of Contested Sites publication. Courtesy of Rose Nordin, 2024. iniva is excited to announce our newest publication Contested Sites is now available at Stuart Hall Library. This publication documents reflections, research, thoughts and engagement from our recent Research Network programme. Continuing Stuart Hall’s ideas around re-affirming existence, this publication reflects on multiple ways in which histories hold multiple contested narratives within archives, bodies, institutions and geographies, whether material or digital, as sites for future histories. Designed by Rose Nordin and edited by Priya Jay, Contested Sites includes contributions from research associates Orsod Malik, Meera Shakti Osborne, Lamya Sadiq, Gary Stewart, Dharma Taylor and artist Fawziyah Rahman. Drop by the library to pick up a copy on a first come, first serve basis during opening hours. This publication was made possible through funds from Freelands Foundation. - Published: 2024-04-04 - Modified: 2024-04-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/future-collect-film/ - Categories: Announcements As the third and final Future Collect commission prepares for opening at Towner Eastbourne, we are delighted to share this film about iniva’s groundbreaking national partnership programme. Featuring the project artists, partner gallery curators and curatorial trainees discussing their work, the film explores the public they engage and examines the importance of challenging and changing the nature of curating in regional and national collections. Future Collect is a three-year funded programme, transforming the culture of commissioning and collecting within museums across England to better reflect the diversity of our heritage and to engage a broad contemporary audience. Beginning in Manchester Art Gallery at the start of the pandemic in 2020, with Northeast-based artist Jade de Montserrat, the project then moved to Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire, showcasing work by Emii Alrai. Finally, the project moves to the South coast in Eastbourne where Maria Amidu’s exhibition in the perpetual back and forth will open at Towner on 4 May as part of our #iniva30 programme. Supported by The Art Fund, Arts Council England and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation - Published: 2024-03-06 - Modified: 2024-03-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/notes-on-ageing/ - Categories: Announcements Uncovering the Archive, July 2023. How do we mark the passing of time? Ageing or getting older is a privilege as it gives us the opportunity to take stock of what has been achieved, to bring people together to acknowledge the here and now and also to make plans for the future. In the artworld, turning 30 is still considered to be young and possibly even just emerging, so as we look back, we must also look forward. There can be no doubt that the 'black phoenix' of INIVA has risen out of the ashes of the disastrous Roundhouse Project, that it has drawn from the vision and struggle of many who have been forced to remain outside the art system: yet is it also just coincidence that INIVA is coming up when that tainted and ossified Commonwealth Institute is coming down? INIVA is another chance to start again! - Nikos Papastergiadis (1993) Disputes at the boundaries of ‘new internationalism’, Third Text, 7:25, 95-101. iniva’s first board meeting took place in February 1994 and shortly thereafter, A New Internationalism, the inaugural conference took place at Tate Gallery on Millbank (now Tate Britain). Prior to these events many people had been involved in imagining the potential of an institution that addressed Internationalism as a position that went beyond the rhetoric of multiculturalism. In 1985 The Roundhouse Project was set up by the Greater London Council to establish a 'black', international and multidisciplinary arts centre. The Project collapsed for lack of funds... - Published: 2024-02-28 - Modified: 2025-09-29 - URL: https://iniva.org/artists-writers-and-activists-on-palestine/ - Categories: Library and Archive Your Silence Will Not Protect You “What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? Perhaps for some of you here today, I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am woman, because I am Black, because I am lesbian, because I am myself - a Black woman warrior poet doing my work - come to ask you, are you doing yours? ” - Audre Lorde, The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action. The following resources in Stuart Hall Library is a small but growing list of materials that speak to Palestinian thinkers, activists and artists. This includes stories of Palestinian life, the struggle of colonised people, voices of solidarity, love, liberation, queerness, survival, women voices, the media, joy and the future. Staff Highlights 28 February 2024 From Tavian Hunter, Library Manager: Funambulist, no. 50 Nakba, sumud, intifada : a personal lexicon of Palestinian loss and resistance by Rana Issa (The Funambulist; no. 50, pages 34-39) In this article featured in the Funambulist magazine, Rana Issa interrogates the vocabulary used to articulate the loss and conditions of Palestine through the lens of a personal narrative around three significant words used by Palestinians: nakba, sumud, intifada. The article also reminds us that the sacralisation of political concepts is full of traps and that it is... - Published: 2023-11-27 - Modified: 2023-11-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/notes-on-silence/ - Categories: Announcements Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde. Published by Silver Press 4'33 In commemoration of the dead. Audre Lorde tells us, “your silence will not protect you”. iniva will no longer remain silent. In this moment, looking towards Gaza we take a collective breath to consider how to act as a cultural organisation that believes in art, social justice and dialogue, questioning global legacies of imperialism and colonialism. We are in grief, witnessing so much loss.   But beyond statements and petitions, how do we act? What is our way of being? “Art is where and how we speak to each other in tongues audible when official language fails. It is not where we escape worlds ills but rather one place we come to - to make sense of them. ” Elizabeth Alexander, The Black Interior iniva supports art that builds on the work of so many who have been critical in developing emancipatory practices. We need to stand in solidarity with you, the artists, cultural workers and communities who are looking to iniva to break the cultural silence. We join our voices to those calling for an unconditional and permanent ceasefire for Gaza, for the right to freedoms, self-determination and life. We are witnessing the deaths of so many people and we must 'mark our resistance' - we cannot remain silent. We offer the Stuart Hall Library and our resources to everyone who wants to come together with others in dialogue, to develop pedagogies, for read-ins and teach-ins, in... - Published: 2023-11-24 - Modified: 2023-11-24 - URL: https://iniva.org/the-drift-podcast/ - Categories: Announcements The DRIFT podcast is part of iniva’s postnational digital pavilion reflecting on the entanglement between land, water, movement and m/otherlands. Episode 1: Imagination and Borderlessness Iniva · DRIFT : Imagination and Borderlessness This first episode explores imagination and borderlessness, with questions like how do you unbuild a nation, who gets to imagine borderlessness and how multiple imaginaries of nations can coexist? We’ll be weaving these questions alongside conversations and interviews from curators, artists, and creative practitioners invited by iniva, in order to explore, What is Nation? This episode features contributions from (in order as they appear): Sonia Boyce Yuki Kihara Catherine Chiang (Hyun Seo) Kirsty Flockhart Tsherin Sherpa Stan Douglas Zineb Sedira Hosted by: Tobi Alexandra Falade (Curatorial Trainee) Kaitlene Koranteng (Archivist and Engagement Producer) Beatriz Lobo (Curator) Edited and mixed by: Lucia Scazzocchio Available to listen on SoundCloud, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Episode 2: M/otherlands Iniva · DRIFT: M/otherlands This second episode explores M/otherlands, and considers: what does it mean to belong to a diaspora? How can you create space for yourself in spaces where you are othered? and what does it mean to have the archipelagic as a part of your practice? We’ll be weaving these questions alongside conversations and interviews from curators, artists, and creative practitioners invited by iniva, in order to explore, What is Nation? This episode features contributions from (in order as they first appear): Stan Douglas Zineb Sedira Andrius Arutiunian Sepake Angiama Yuki Kihara Lola Olufemi Rahila Haque Yang Li Sonia Boyce Produced by:... - Published: 2023-11-24 - Modified: 2023-11-24 - URL: https://iniva.org/the-sound-i-sea-shenece-oretha/ - Categories: Announcements Shenece Oretha with Despacito Art School children. Photo by Open School East iniva is pleased to share the recent soundscape 'The Sound I Sea' by artist Shenece Oretha in collaboration with Open School East’s Despacito Art School children and Iniva's Drift Pavilion, a series of radical re-imaginings of Europeanness which reflect on the entanglement between land and water, movement and m/otherlands, in the forging of new identities and subjectivities. Together they explored the sound of waves and movement and how they relate to the movement, migration and relation of people. Through various ways of composing they created a fun sculptural sound piece that reflects movement of sound, sea and people. Listen to 'The Sound I Sea' document. createElement('audio'); https://iniva. org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/The-Sound-I-Sea-Shenece-Oretha. mp3 About the Artist Shenece Oretha (b. Montserrat) is a London based multidisciplinary artist sounding out the voice and sound’s mobilising potential. Through installation, performance, print, sculpture, sound, workshops and text she amplifies and celebrates listening and sound as an embodied and collective practice. - Published: 2023-10-30 - Modified: 2025-01-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/iniva-launches-online-archive-catalogue/ - Categories: Announcements iniva is delighted to announce a significant milestone in its journey as it approaches its 30-year anniversary. In alignment with its mission to foster and showcase radical and emerging contemporary artistic practice, with a specific emphasis on Global Majority, African, Asian, and Caribbean diaspora perspectives, iniva has been the proud recipient of an Archives Revealed grant. Thanks to this grant, iniva has successfully catalogued four pivotal collections from its institutional archives. This accomplishment was made possible through the dedicated efforts of iniva's team and volunteers. These four collections, including the Veil touring exhibition, iniva's Governance and Early Constitution files, iniva's Founding Symposium 'A New Internationalism,' and X-Space, will soon be accessible to the public through iniva’s new online archive catalogue. Niamh Glanville-Frayne in Stuart Hall Library with Third Text Journal, 2022 Cataloguing the Collections Niamh Glanville-Frayne, Cataloguing Archivist at iniva, played a central role in this achievement. Over the past year, she organised and catalogued these collections, enabling iniva to take control of how it represents its collections and the people associated with them. Niamh also conducted informal interviews with key figures such as curators David A. Bailey, Jananne Al-Ani and Zineb Sedira for the Veil exhibition collection; photographer Sunil Gupta and Gary Stewart for the Governance and Early Constitution collection and X-Space collection respectively. These interviews have added invaluable context to the archive, enriching the catalogue entries and offering diverse perspectives on the collections and their narratives. To introduce these newly catalogued collections to the public, Niamh hosted a... - Published: 2023-07-26 - Modified: 2023-07-26 - URL: https://iniva.org/chinese-artists-beyond-china-1989-2008-a-journey-through-the-spotlight-and-shadow-of-archive-collections-by-yang-li/ - Categories: Library and Archive Yang Li with the publication Cites on the Move in Stuart Hall Library, 2023 Our archive volunteer Yang Li reflects on her research into Chinese artists beyond China through her volunteering work in iniva's archives. My research on Chinese Artists Beyond China began when I worked as a Research Assistant at Asia Art Archive during the summer of 2021. Over three months, I was responsible for organizing the archive collection for the 'Cities on the Move' exhibition. Given the large number of participating artists that changed during the touring of the exhibition, I started my research by creating spreadsheets to analyze the artists based on their place of birth and current living location. This sparked my interest in the exhibition which includes Contemporary Chinese Art Beyond China, and how these Chinese artists connect themselves with the Western art world. After moving to London, I sought to continue my research - through volunteering in iniva’s archives. The term ‘Sinophone’ refers to a connection to Chinese language and culture, either through ancestry, ethnicity, or personal identification. Whereas, the term ‘Chinese artists’ can be narrowed down to a group of artists who live and work in China. Through the process of repackaging artist files at iniva, I have been able to explore the diversity and complexity of the term 'Chineseness' in the British cultural context back to the 90s and early 2000s which goes beyond discourse around 'Chinese artists' who were born and live in China. The exhibitions I explored that took place... - Published: 2023-07-20 - Modified: 2023-07-20 - URL: https://iniva.org/a-review-of-index-exhibition-workshop-sharing-memories-over-kurdish-cuisine-by-yasmine-mattoussi/ - Categories: Writing - Tags: Yasmine Mattoussi, Kurdish artists, memory, Volunteering Our recent library volunteer Yasmine Mattoussi reviews INDEX Exhibition Workshop ‘Sharing memories over Kurdish cuisine’ as part of exhibition “Untitled, an exhibition of works in progress by Maria Amidu. ” Image from Off screen : four young artists in the Middle East : Al Braithwaite, Henry Hemming, Stephen Stapleton, Georgie Weedon. A table of guests sat around an abundant spread of Kurdish dishes provided in part by Nandine, a Kurdish restaurant in Camberwell and carefully laid out by artist and facilitator Êvar Hussayni. The evening was going to be centred around the connections between food and memory, and guests were given small notepads to write down their feelings and thoughts at intervals throughout the shared meal. What unfolded over the next few hours was a beautiful exchange of anecdotes, nostalgia, and laughter, as people resonated with each other’s stories and exchanged family lore. A familial feeling encapsulated the event, making a room full of strangers feel like they had known each other for years. For Êvar, the event was a refreshing change of narrative, as she said, “From a facilitator’s perspective, it can be nerve-wracking to organise—events like this are always a bit political. ” The food was a carefully-chosen centrepiece for its communal aspects, and it successfully united participants from an array of backgrounds. Over glasses of pomegranate juice and plates of borek and kibbeh (savoury pastries), they laughed about their parents' airport security woes and Sunday market bargaining tactics. Part of being an artist is having to revisit... - Published: 2023-06-21 - Modified: 2023-06-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/a-living-archive-research-progress-by-dharma-taylor/ - Categories: Writing - Tags: Dharma Taylor Dharma Taylor in studio . Image courtesy of Dudley Waltzer, 2023. 'Part of The Furniture’ Stuart Hall Artist Residency Pausing half-way through her artist residency at Stuart Hall Library, Dharma Taylor shares with us a collection of her notes, which she describes as being ‘all over the place, but honest insights into the way this research has organically developed’. Through her writing, she is finding connections between text as a starting point, inspiration directly from the design world and then ultimately, the physical realisation of her work. Dharma Taylor – Lightbeam (Photo by Dan Weill). “Just relax into it and let one publication lead to another. ” The above quote came as reassurance from artist and designer Mac Collins after speaking to him on the phone from what sounded like his studio in Nottingham just before he showcased a new large-scale body of work at the British Pavilion for Venice Biennale 2023 titled ‘Dancing Before The Moon’ and just after he presented a new chair in Ronan Mckenzie’s group show ‘To Be Held’ in Margate. I reached out to Mac as part of my research as the sixth artist in residence at the Stuart Hall Library. Mac and I have supported each other’s furniture narratives for the past few seasons, and I’ve always respected and related to him as a designer who works with wood as a material. First on my reading list, I was drawn to a lovely little publication by Pricegore and Yinka Illori called Dulwich Pavilion. Reading... - Published: 2023-06-14 - Modified: 2023-06-16 - URL: https://iniva.org/reflections-on-prafulla-mohanti-indian-village-tales/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: reflective writing, Prafulla Mohanti, sondliwe pamisa Sondliwe Pamisa with the publication "Prafulla Mohanti: Indian Village Tales" in Stuart Hall Library, 2023 Our recent archive volunteer Sondliwe Pamisa offers reflections on the publication, Prafulla Mohanti: Indian Village Tales. It’s funny how the stories we are told as children shape who and how we are going to be. Not to mention the why but, the irony continues as we grow in this world and begin to discover the world outside of the ones we have become accustomed to. A world full of so many, it is only when we spend the time necessary in order to understand our present dispositions that we begin to learn and understand that our worlds are not quite as special as we thought. Now, herein lies the test of our character. Upon the discovery of that which is unfamiliar at first, but afterwards is realised to be a lesson you have long held, learnt many moons ago, you are faced with a choice; either accept and harness the power of a collective identity or deny and fight the tide that guides you. If you are anything like me, a faithful nihilist, you may find yourself in favour of the former; in the embrace of a collective identity bound with the seams of human need; but as we seem to be in a never ending battle of needs vs wants, the notion of balance within such a predicament may appear to be an ever-impossible reconciliation... No need to fear, for I am here today... - Published: 2023-05-15 - Modified: 2023-05-16 - URL: https://iniva.org/behind-the-display-fashion-within-the-fabric-of-identity/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: library placement Tanya Srivarodom with book 'Thai Art: Currencies of the Contemporary' within Stuart Hall Library, 2023 Our recent placement student Tanya Srivarodom reflects on her research project focused on fashion resources at Stuart Hall Library. Growing up, I have always loved clothes. My mom would take me to the mall every weekend – granted, that was all anyone could really do in my small suburban town at the time. We would browse through the hundreds of clothing racks in the department stores, try to find something reasonably priced, and either go home with a new wardrobe or nothing at all. It wasn’t until I got older that I started taking a closer look at my clothes: their material, the silhouette, and how they made me feel. When I moved to New York, I was even more shocked at the level of detail those walking the streets of Soho or 5th Avenue had for their complete outfit. The university that I attended was known for their arts and design program and the students in those courses didn’t disappoint when it came to making life their runway. My university became hell and a source of inspiration when New York Fashion Week occurred each year. After that I became interested in understanding how the fashion industry functions and its origins. I’d ask my friends who were in the design courses what they were learning in class and how it impacted their own work process. For many of them, they were focused on the design... - Published: 2023-05-02 - Modified: 2023-06-29 - URL: https://iniva.org/future-commons-publication/ - Categories: Announcements Priya Jay with Future Commons Publication iniva is proud to share a new publication by Future Commons. Future Commons is a peer-led network that has been running alongside the Future Collect project. Developed and coordinated by Priya Jay, Barbican-iniva curatorial trainee 2018-19, the group responded to the needs expressed for a space that nurtures creative belief, radical practice and open peer-level exchange outside formal work structures. Ten curatorial trainees and early career creative practitioners in iniva’s orbit have been meeting since the summer of 2021. Future Commons includes Chloe Austin, Tammi Bello, Tobi Alexandra Falade, Nikita Gill, Anahi Saravia Herrera, Amina Jama, Priya Jay, Amber Li, Jessica Lowe-Mbirimi and Kinnari Saraiya. In this publication, they share some of the quiet work and internal conversations they’ve been having. Part of an edition of 250, it will be distributed in pairs to a list of 100 individuals and institutions who are invited to keep one and pass one on. A further 50 will be kept in the Stuart Hall Library - one reference copy and the rest available to take away from next week onwards. A PDF version of the publication is available to read online here. - Published: 2023-04-17 - Modified: 2024-06-07 - URL: https://iniva.org/artist-kitchen-salon-zine-publication-launch/ - Categories: Announcements Artist Kitchen Salon Zine. Published by the Institute of International Visual Arts in association with Studio Voltaire, March 2023. iniva is excited to launch a new publication, The Artist Kitchen Salon Zine. The Artist Kitchen Salon Zine documents a series of Artist Kitchen Salons which were part of iniva’s recent Research Network programme ‘If Sea is History? - What is Nation? ’ This programme reflected on the sea as an archive that connects the body and memory and this publication reflects on the ongoing research of Research Associates' Safiya Robinson, Holly Graham, Shenece Oretha and Beatrix Pang. It seeks to answer: What is conjured in our memory through food, in gathering together over an evening meal?   This A5 bound zine functions as part cookbook (to be used in your kitchen) and part memoir of notes and reflections to be used as a source of inspiration on nationhood and identity. Alongside contributions from the Research Associates, it also includes a written foreword by Tavian Hunter and Maggie Matić, quotes, archival material, reading lists and recipes from each Artist Kitchen Salon that took place at Studio Voltaire from September 2022 until March 2023.   We have a limited number of printed copies to give away for free on a first come first served basis, but we welcome a donation to support the activities of Stuart Hall Library and iniva’s wider artistic programme. Copies can be collected in person from Stuart Hall Library or ordered via our shop for a donation of £6 which also covers postage & packaging to your... - Published: 2023-03-31 - Modified: 2023-04-12 - URL: https://iniva.org/reflections-at-stuart-hall-library-by-stefano-cacaveri/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: librarianship, Volunteering Stefano Cacaveri with publication 'The Other Story'. Stefano Cacaveri reflects on his time volunteering at Stuart Hall Library to retrain as a librarian and learn about librarianship. I joined Stuart Hall Library (SHL) as a volunteer with the hopes to gain experience to enter a different professional career in librarianship. The volunteering opportunity offered at iniva seemed an exciting starting place for those who are willing to undertake a similar path. My desire to pursue a career as a librarian came from my personal interest in the arts and humanities and working at the junction between intellectual production and public accessibility. As a volunteer, my first task consisted of documenting artists present in group exhibitions by listing the artist’s name to create catalogue records or update bibliographic records. ‘The Other Story’ is one of the first exhibition catalogues I worked on. Curated by Rasheed Araeen at the Hayward Gallery in 1989, it features many artists of African, Caribbean and Asian descent active during the British Black Arts Movement. The exhibition revealed the discrimination, marginalisation and inequality inherent in British society and cultural life in the late period of Thatcherism. This activity, for example, gave me an insight on the work of a librarian who has the aim to create a catalogue record that is easily accessible for its users. Another activity I was engaged with was the listing of the audio-visual collection of the library held in the archive. Among the material catalogued was the film ‘Whoever Heard of a... - Published: 2023-02-16 - Modified: 2023-03-31 - URL: https://iniva.org/review-of-zine-mine-by-meredith-stern/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: stuart hall library, Volunteering, zines Volunteer Hannah Dunsmore in Stuart Hall Library with zine Mine: An Anthology of Women’s Choices by Meredith Stern, 2023 Our recent volunteer Hannah Dunsmore reflects on the zine Mine: An Anthology of Women’s Choices by Meredith Stern, found in the Stuart Hall Library collection. TW: The zine highlights the topic of abortion rights that may trigger uncomfortable feelings or traumatic experiences For me, last year, the word choice became synonymous with an ideological shift in the United States which culminated in the removal of a person’s rights over their own womb. The year 2023 marks fifty years since Roe v. Wade, the court case that legalised abortion in the United States, and six months since that constitutional right was revoked. During my time at Stuart Hall Library, I have been stock-checking the library’s collection of zines from A to Z. Nestled within the box marked M, I discovered the zine Mine: An Anthology of Women’s Choices by Meredith Stern. Published in 2002, Mine is a collection of stories, collected via an open call, by women sharing their personal experiences with abortion procedures (medical and surgical, menstrual extraction, herbal remedies, etc. ). The voices vary from women who are stoically pro-choice and those who share more mixed feelings. Some choose to share their name, and some choose to remain anonymous. The DIY nature of zines and the collective ethos behind the creation and distribution of this type of publication fosters a unique relationship between the writer and their readers. As a... - Published: 2023-02-09 - Modified: 2023-04-12 - URL: https://iniva.org/final-future-collect-artist-commission-announced/ - Categories: Announcements Studio visit 2023, Maria Amidu and Hollie Douglas. Photo by Beatriz Lobo We are delighted to announce that the third and final Future Collect commission has been awarded to artist Maria Amidu. The final Future Collect commission supports the creation of a major new work of art by a British based artist of African and/or Asian descent, for exhibition and acquisition at Towner Eastbourne in 2024. The exhibition will be supported with an education and engagement programme, plus new research into Towner’s growing art collection. The project also supports significant curatorial development in the form of a year-long curatorial traineeship. Previous Future Collect artists are Jade Montserrat with curator Nikita Gill at Manchester Art Gallery; and Emii Alrai with curator Amber Li at The Hepworth Wakefield. Maria Amidu’s artistic concerns are influenced by the complexities of the relational – between people, and between people and place. Through writing, printmaking, artist’s books, audio visual works and sometimes glassmaking she tries to substantiate what might be going on in collective situations, paying specific attention to what is hidden, obscured or unspoken. Studio visit 2023, Maria Amidu and Hollie Douglas. Photo by Beatriz Lobo The selection panel, composed of curatorial teams from iniva and Towner, chose the artist because of her open and generous exploration of place both personally and as an invitation to others, her questioning approach to processes of archiving and collecting, and her sensitive considerations of care, temporality and memory. Maria Amidu, who is based in East Sussex, says, "To... - Published: 2023-01-13 - Modified: 2024-01-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/cvan-iniva-report-on-anti-racism-and-equity-in-the-visual-arts/ - Categories: Announcements CVAN x INIVA Report on Anti-Racism and Equity in the Visual Arts A report published today, sets out a new approach to tackling racism and inequity in the visual arts sector, and makes recommendations for a long-term, anti-racist development scheme to be adopted by arts institutions. Written by artist Dr Jack Ky Tan, the report is the culmination of a knowledge exchange project initiated by CVAN London (Contemporary Visual Arts Network) in collaboration with iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), exploring how arts organisations may establish and support anti-racist and equitable working practices. The project was started following increasing reports of racist incidents experienced by artists and cultural workers in the sector, and the desire expressed by CVAN’s members to create a meaningful, proactive response to bring about change. The research was carried out in two parts: the convening of two knowledge exchange roundtables with a cross-section of arts organisations in the CVAN London network led by Jack Ky Tan, and meetings with a group of artists hosted by artist Larry Achiampong. The artist’s meetings were convened as a safe space to enable open conversations about artists’ experiences and to offer mutual support. They served to bear witness and to evidence the racism suffered by people working in the visual arts sector. The two roundtable knowledge exchange workshops were held for the institutional members of CVAN London to explore their needs and experiences around tackling and experiencing racism and inequality. Led by artist Jack Ky Tan, the workshops took the... - Published: 2023-01-11 - Modified: 2023-01-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/prafulla-mohanti-village-letters-a-reflective-review-by-shalmali-shetty/ - Categories: Writing 'Kalika' by Prafulla Mohanti Independent Writer and Curator Shalmali Shetty reviews Prafulla Mohanti’s artistic practice, influenced by his lived experiences between India and the UK, in context to iniva’s current exhibition titled Village Letters showcased at the Stuart Hall Library An egg, its yolk; an eye, its pupil; a yoni (womb), its seed; a bindu (dot), a shunya (zero), a mandala (circle), a globe in a fathomless Brahmanda (universe); the purusha and prakriti (union of masculine and feminine to create a non-binary energy) with no beginning or end: ananta (infinite); paripurna (complete) - each painting emanated a strong energy, while the simultaneous experience of everything and nothing pulsated across the room. Our exchange of stories and conversations began making visual sense. Time Prafulla Mohanti’s studio in London is an archive of his long-drawn practice. He remains to be one of the last living artists from the neo-Tantric movement of the early 60s to late 80s, that spread within both the Indian and Western modern art contexts. The studio was otherwise occupied by dusty wooden furniture strewn with piles of books and posters, rolls of paper and flattened cartons leaning against the pink walls; intricately designed moth-eaten rugs warming the wooden floors, lengths of printed fabric covering surfaces; canvasses, easels and paint; framed pictures, bronze sculptures and idols of deities, interspersed with lopsided lamps and vases of fresh flowers... each item carried with it the damp scent of memories and lived experiences from across geographies and cultures. Slowly ambling our way... - Published: 2022-12-30 - Modified: 2023-01-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/game-of-two-halves-by-devaan-feese/ - Categories: Library and Archive Devaan Deese with Offside Exhibition Poster in Stuart Hall Library Devaan Feese explores questions of nationhood and representation through researching Offside! Contemporary Artists & Football exhibition in iniva's archive and utilising Stuart Hall Library collections. There are many ways in which various forms of material can represent a nation’s ideals and aspirations. Colours, patterns, symbols and emblems transform pieces of cloth into tangible identity. We see this abundantly in international football tournaments; the team shirts, badges, flags. As we see the faces of nation changing rapidly through the representation of national teams, to what extent does this symbolism reflect this? Sporting events can bring a nation together. Who can deny the national morale boost England progressing through an international football tournament brings? The hopes of a nation are realised or destroyed, depending on which net the ball hits the back of. As explored in Offside! Contemporary Artists and Football, a stadium becomes the stage upon which national aspirations are projected, and the players become heroes and fantastical. But it can also reveal national angst. The national stadium at Wembley hosted the Euro 2020 final: England v Italy. With a crowd 67,000 strong and a global audience of 328 million, Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho, and Bukayo Saka, all sporting the England flag on their shirts, failed to score during the penalty shoot-out. Immediately, social media was inundated with racist posts. In response, Rashford apologised for the missed goal but refused to apologise for who he was and where he came from.... - Published: 2022-12-19 - Modified: 2022-12-19 - URL: https://iniva.org/short-reflections-from-loophole-of-retreat/ - Categories: Writing - Tags: Research Network, venice biennale Within the etymology of the word retreat is the idea of drawing back, withdrawing or calling back. What does it mean for us to retreat collectively? To come together with others that are also retreating away from our busy lives. - Sepake Angiama, iniva's Artistic Director iniva's Library and Archive Manager, Tavian Hunter briefly reflects on a recent trip to Loophole of Retreat at Venice Biennale with Associates from our Research Network: Archipalegos in Reverse programme. Earlier this year, iniva discussed the idea of "retreating" as part of our Research Network: Archipelagos of Reverse programme. Taking the time to be a sponge within the micro-climate of Venice and through the support of the European Cultural Foundation, we attended the Loophole of Retreat on 7-9 October. From left to right: Rahila Haque, Cairo Clarke, Lola Olufemi, Tavian Hunter, Sepake Angiama, Adjoa Armah, Daniella Rose King and Rose Nordin at Loophole of Retreat on 9 October 2022 The Loophole of Retreat, a symposium centred on Black women’s intellectual and creative labour features a programme of many incredible talks, performances and films in an atmosphere full of latent potential. With our Research Associates (Adjoa Armah, Cairo Clarke, Rahila Haque, Daniella Rose King, Lola Olufemi and Rose Nordin), iniva convened in Venice not only to listen to the esteemed speakers and engage with their practices but also to listen to our bodies. To gather ourselves and to gather our thoughts. On Day 1, Rashida Bumbray welcomed us to the Loophole of Retreat by evoking... - Published: 2022-12-14 - Modified: 2022-12-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/youth-rising-creative-mapping-research-survey/ - Categories: Pedagogies Youth Rising Creative Mapping We are excited to announce that this month, iniva and Nowadays On Earth have partnered together to launch our Youth Rising Creative Mapping Research Survey. This survey will help us to research ways we can support young people in Westminster to engage in intersectional climate action and make the climate movement more accessible through knowledge and capacity building. Youth Rising will help us develop an emerging interdisciplinary strategy led by young people for local communities to tackle the crises of our generation. You can learn more about our creative mapping programme here. As a leader in this space, we would love your support in sharing this opportunity with your community of young people (ages 8-24) to take part in this research phase. All you need to do complete the survey below or share the link(s) to someone who might be interested. Complete the survey For 8-11 years olds For 12-24 years olds Deadline for filling out the form is 13th February 2023 at 9 am. Thank you so much for your continuous support and the work you’re doing for our community. - Published: 2022-12-02 - Modified: 2022-12-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/a-writer-encountering-an-archive-by-indra-tincoca/ - Categories: Library and Archive Indra Tincoca with publications by F. R. David in Stuart Hall Library Indra Tincoca reflects on her placement in Stuart Hall Library as part of the Writer in Residence Project for her BA(Hons) Writing for Performance course at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. The beauty of being surrounded by and researching such rich material is that occasionally, you find something that exceeds that material and research interest. By this, I mean something that speaks to a deeper part of you. It is hard to make such a distinction when you are surrounded by iniva’s resources, but the distinction lies in the ‘epiphany value’ that the intense, personal moment of discovery contains. Perched on the third shelf of the Essay and Theory section (towards the end), you will find several volumes of the F. R David Journal (with the spines spelling out the name via its individual letters). At the bottom of the spine lies a small apple. A treat. What I enjoy most about publications such as F. R David is their capacity to be entirely themselves. It seems too easy to encounter a dominant vein of thought, and experience very little beyond it. We are using the same words, utterances, and grammar. Why is it that I have never noticed the way you have seen this (issue, topic, artwork)? Why have I never seen this? These are questions I ask myself when I converse with F. R David. The more I learn from him, the less... - Published: 2022-10-28 - Modified: 2022-10-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/into-the-archive-a-powerful-repository-of-knowledge/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: Archives, archiving, volunteer, Volunteering Teloni Thandiwe with publication Mirror Reflecting Darkly: The Rita Keegan Archive' in Stuart Hall Library, 2022 Our recent archive volunteer Teloni Thandiwe reflects on her time volunteering in iniva's archives and the development of her approach to archiving. My encounter with archives throughout my time at university revealed the scarcity of historical records that reflected the experiences that intrigued me. In my study of women’s resistance movements throughout colonial Africa, the lack of women’s perspectives in the records I came across and biased colonial archives revealed the deliberate constructions of incorrect and incomplete histories. Due to this, I sought to collaborate with institutions that were motivated to create, regenerate, record and highlight marginalised histories and how their histories would be preserved. Volunteering in iniva’s archives has been invigorating and has taught me valuable skills, intensified my desire for new knowledge, and enabled me to be a part of defining an archival practice which focuses on reflecting internationalism and preserving the memories of visual artists of African and Asian descent. I undertook a variety of tasks, starting with repackaging material from artist files to update the archives and the upcoming digitisation project for TaNC (Transforming a National Collection) project with the Institute of Decolonising Art. I explored the background of the artists that I was working with and had to carefully consider what kind of information should be preserved within these files. It also gave me the opportunity to discover artists and unearth more intriguing facts about their practices. I believe... - Published: 2022-10-20 - Modified: 2022-10-20 - URL: https://iniva.org/shifting-hegemonies-the-politics-of-nationalism-at-the-venice-biennale/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: nationhood, nations, venice biennale, volunteer, Volunteering Kirsty Flockhart with publication Floating Margins in Stuart Hall Library, 2022. Based on her recent master’s thesis, Stuart Hall Library volunteer Kirsty Flockhart reviews the politics of nationalism in the current organisation of the Venice Biennale. The global art scene is always dominated by the powerful countries; the same geopolitics that governs the world governs the art scene -artist Hit Man Gurung from Kathmandu, Nepal The Venice Biennale features exhibitions through a format of ‘national pavilions’, where the space dedicated to each participating country is dependent on various economic and political factors. The major permanent pavilions are situated within the gated-grounds of the Giardini, many of which have historic links to colonialism and now feature exceptional economic prowess. The rest are forced into renting temporary spaces within the Arsenale. Beyond this, there are many other non-biennale-sanctioned countries whose exhibitions are scattered across the city. This is one of the largest problems; the implication of equal representation at the ‘Olympics of the Art World’, and the reality that each pavilion heavily relies on access to funding to determine its place. The format of national pavilions seems an impossible task: to represent a nation with just one or a few individuals. Biennales claim to represent national contemporary culture, which is particularly complex, as culture is experienced and interpreted differently between each region, community or individual. With ever increasing international movement, we should expect ideas of national identity to become ever more complicated. By maintaining the system of national pavilions, there is also... - Published: 2022-10-18 - Modified: 2022-10-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/interview-with-rohan-ayinde/ - Categories: Writing Dancing In The Ellipsis // A Cartographer’s Black Hole, Poem on glass exterior of library, Rohan Ayinde, 2022 Photo credit: Fikayo Adebajo As part of the Stuart Hall Library Artist-in-Residence 2021, Curatorial Trainee Tobi Alexandra Falade conducted a short interview with Rohan Ayinde to discuss his exhibition, Dancing In The Ellipsis // A Cartographer's Black Hole. TAF: During your residency in 2021 how did you use the resources of the Stuart Hall Library to shape your research? RA: I started by searching the Stuart Hall Library catalogue online using key words to find texts that were related to my research. There were a few points that I was starting from such as abstraction, and I was also looking at Frank Bowling and Aubrey Williams as artists related to abstraction. These were my three starting points alongside reading Stuart Hall's essay on diaspora identity. I pored through the books I found, sat with them reading sections and making copious notes that were both related to the books, and to the research I had already developed, thinking about where that led me as a portal for new ideas that weren't specifically about abstraction. TAF: How does your exhibition explore Stuart Hall’s description of “diaspora identity”? RA: My understanding of Stuart Hall’s description of diaspora identity is this idea that people from diaspora are in a constant state of becoming. There is no stable marker of identity other than in the idea of movement, and the process of translation from one thing to... - Published: 2022-09-29 - Modified: 2022-10-05 - URL: https://iniva.org/lift-these-ashes-into-your-mouth-by-sophie-j-williamson/ - Categories: Writing - Tags: Future Collect, Study Day On 14th July 2022 we organised Approaching the Scar, a study day which took the form of an excursion to Gordale Scar, a hidden gorge in the Yorkshire Dales and a key research site in artist Emii Alrai’s work towards her Future Collect commission. As we traversed the landscape together, we shared and exchanged experiences, ideas, research and practice inspired by the themes Emii is exploring in her work around the links between our bodies and the land, and the layers of history and memory written into different terrains. Guided by invited artists, curators and writers, we also joined each other in a meditation grounding us in our own physicality, broke bread together baked with locally grown wheat, delighted in observing local fauna, and drank water from the waterfall at the magical Janet’s Foss. By engaging in conversations with the landscape, we explored the links and parallels between land/body and human/body, exploring their shared histories, ruptures and shifting narratives. To create a record of the day we asked curator Sophie Williamson, one of our invited participants, to produce a written response. For the study day Sophie collaborated with writer Daisy Hildyard to select a number of texts which they read to the group at different points along our walk. We are delighted to share her thoughtful and evocative response below, weaving multiple voices through excerpts from these texts with her own reflections on the day. -- //Fields Our walk through deep-time starts in fields; fields that were once forests, roamed... - Published: 2022-08-05 - Modified: 2025-01-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/iniva-announce-their-archives-revealed-cataloguing-grant/ - Categories: Announcements - Tags: archive, archiving, Iniva archive iniva's new Cataloguing Archivist, Niamh Glanville-Frayne in Stuart Hall Library with Third Text Journal, 2022 iniva is excited to announce that we have received an Archives Revealed Cataloguing Grant. Archives Revealed is a partnership programme between The National Archives, The Pilgrim Trust and The Wolfson Foundation, dedicated to cataloguing and unlocking archives. Through Archives Revealed funding, we have been able employ an Cataloguing Archivist to catalogue key sections of the archive that are most in demand by our users, including our founding conference and early constitutional documents which feature speeches, writings, and practice by now internationally recognised academics and thinkers including Stuart Hall, Rasheed Araeen, Geeta Kapur, Gilane Tawadros and Eddie Chambers. We will also catalogue ground-breaking exhibition and programming material including Veil and X-Space, together representing a microcosm of INIVA’s institutional archive as a whole. These archives will be brought alive via a dynamic open-source software called ‘Collective Access+’ for managing and publishing museum and archival collections, accessible worldwide. This new catalogue will contribute to wide-ranging research and academic knowledge by exposing hidden art histories, as well as promoting well-being and creative expression through interaction with archival extracts that are representative of their local communities in Westminster and beyond. “iniva is delighted to receive this grant to fund an archivist to catalogue key parts of our visual arts archive pertaining to our organisational set-up and two ground-breaking exhibitions. This fund will enable us maximise the digital reach of our collections to our global audiences, such as researchers and scholars,... - Published: 2022-08-03 - Modified: 2022-08-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/pear-nuallak-reflections-on-contained-terrain/ - Categories: Writing - Tags: Future Collect, Study Day On 16th May 2022 we organised the study day Contained Terrain: conversations about collecting natural histories, at the Stuart Hall Library. In this generative, open and nourishing space we came together to share and exchange experiences, ideas, research and practice inspired by the themes artist Emii Alrai is exploring in her work around natural histories and landscapes as well as time and memory. We asked what happens to natural artefacts when they are placed in collections, and considered the meaning of containment in relation to entities that were once subject to change, decay and life processes, becoming frozen into something static. With the act of containment also suggesting colonial implications of ownership and capture, we explored what it might mean to decolonise natural collections and reflected on new models for the form a container or collection could take. To create a record of the day we invited artist and writer Pear Nuallak, a participant at the study day, to produce a written and visual response. We are delighted to share their poetic and evocative reflections below. To see further information on the study day including the bios for all of the collaborators who joined us in a process of thinking together, see the study day info pack here. *** Digital collage in response to the Future Collect study day in May, with digital mark-making, mosses and lichens from Croydon, and a tiny plastic hand bearing frankincense. 1. On the archive Let us consider the archive as a container. Before we... - Published: 2022-08-02 - Modified: 2022-08-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/volunteer-reflections-by-esther-cawte/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: librarianship, volunteer, Volunteering Esther Cawte with publication on Sonia Gomes titled 'I Rise' in Stuart Hall Library, 2022 Our recent volunteer Esther Cawte reflects on her time volunteering in the Stuart Hall Library to learn more about art librarianship I started volunteering at iniva as I was looking to gain pre-library school experience, and the opportunity at Stuart Hall Library looked to provide this within a specialist art library. Furthermore, with Stuart Hall Library’s unique, rare and international collection, I knew I would be challenged to think beyond my own perspective. Now that I have come to the end of my time here, I can say that the opportunity has not only given me the insight and hands-on experience of the library skills I had been seeking, but also the confidence to move forward in this sector. Initially, a significant amount of my time was dedicated to abstracting articles from Art Review, which would then be added to the online catalogue. This was a chance to read about a broad range of artists, practices and ideas, and encapsulate them into summaries. I learnt that abstracting articles in this way is rather unique to Stuart Hall Library, who create their own abstracts for articles which fall within its users’ interests, broadly race, gender and class. So while writing each abstract, it’s a matter of illuminating themes and ideas which are most useful to the library’s users. This process takes time and resists any automated approach, but shows the care with which iniva approaches its... - Published: 2022-07-22 - Modified: 2022-07-22 - URL: https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-creole-atlantic-in-the-rubble-of-what-is-still-falling-apart/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: stuart hall library, volunteer, Volunteering Volunteer ines silva holding book "Atlantica: Contemporary Art from Angola and its Diaspora" in Stuart Hall Library, July 2022 Stuart Hall Library volunteer ines silva reflects on Angolan artist Délio Jasse’s careful reframing of family photographs from Portugal’s colonial occupation of Mozambique. I had never heard of Atlantica: Contemporary Art from Angola and its Diaspora (Dantas, 2020) until I found the book in the Stuart Hall Library. This wouldn’t have been so strange had I not lived in Lisbon for 21 years, just 5 kilometres away from HANGAR, the research centre that published it. Inside this book I met Délio Jasse’s work for the first time, his series The Lost Chapter Nampula – 1963 that has still been etched into my mind. The “Black Atlantic”, understood in the stead of Paul Gilroy (1993), is a counterculture of modernity imagined and practiced as a refusal and denunciation of whiteness, imperial colonialism, and the centres as the sole agents of History. In this blog post, I consider the work of Délio Jasse through the notion of a Creole Atlantic – a metonymic framework that avoids centring the coloniser’s narratives. I also grapple with the question of temporality. How are contemporary artists engaging with the ongoing disaster of transatlantic slavery, colonialism, and coloniality? If we take Trouillot’s challenge to face pastness as a position (2015), how are these artists refusing the Portuguese state’s official aphasiac chronology, which disavows colonialism and racism as psychological, a-historical problems of individual moral deficit? I focus on artistic... - Published: 2022-06-15 - Modified: 2022-06-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-reading-to-encounter/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: library, reflections, volunteer, Volunteering Loulwah Kutbi with publication Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers Stuart Hall library volunteer Loulwah Kutbi reflects on her experience of migration, sharing her thoughts about the library space and constructions of identity as read in iniva’s 2008 publication Exiles, Diasporas and Strangers. I often find myself identifying with Edward Said’s interpretation of György Lukács's meditation on the modern novel as the literary site of “transcendental homelessness”; as a representation of displacement that actively engages with creative expression or passionate research because “the exile’s life is taken up with compensating for disorienting loss by creating a new world” (Said, 2013: p. 181). Standing at the threshold of various national constructions – ethnically Turkic, culturally Arab – I have always found articulating identity around national frameworks to be compromising. I came to the UK in 2019 to pursue my undergraduate degree in French and Politics; at the dawn of Brexit and not too long after, the pandemic. Moving to London made me feel a sense of disillusionment that heightened my sense of foreignness. Although migrating was a conscious choice that I chased for the longest time, I noticed how the political and social dynamics framing the discourse around migration did not acknowledge the different gradations of migration and its fundamentally violent urge to occult subjects. Despite the best of intentions to support those not integrated into the system, something felt amiss to me within social and cultural spaces. The library space was somewhat of an abstract concept for me growing up, being used... - Published: 2022-06-06 - Modified: 2022-06-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/iniva-announce-towner-eastbourne-as-partner-for-year-3-of-future-collect/ - Categories: Exhibition, Announcements iniva is pleased to announce that it has selected Towner Eastbourne as its partner for the third year of Future Collect. Future Collect is iniva’s national partnership programme designed to diversify who is collected by, who works at, and who goes to national museums and galleries, with the aim of better reflecting the breadth of contemporary British society. The partnership will commission a major new work of art by an artist of African and/or Asian descent, born or based in Britain, for exhibition and acquisition at Towner Eastbourne in 2024, following an artist open call later this year. The project also supports significant curatorial development in the form of a curatorial traineeship. The exhibition will be supported with an education and engagement programme, and new research into Towner’s growing art collection. Previous Future Collect artists have included Jade Montserrat with curator Nikita Gill at Manchester Art Gallery; and Emii Alrai with curator Amber Li at The Hepworth Wakefield. There will be a sector conference in 2023 that reflects on the learning gained from all three years of the Future Collect programme. The Curatorial Trainee, jointly appointed by iniva and Towner Eastbourne, will be predominantly based in Eastbourne where they will be given an outstanding opportunity to develop a range of skills needed for the curatorial workforce today. This includes assisting with selection of the commissioned artist; working alongside them to develop the new work and subsequent exhibition at the gallery; collection research, care and display; and audience engagement. The partnership... - Published: 2022-05-06 - Modified: 2022-05-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/behind-the-display-punk-zines/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: library placement, zines This essay is a transcript of a presentation given by Naomi Hart highlighting a selection of punk zines in Stuart Hall Library Zine Collection given on 6 May 2022 Stuart Hall Library’s contemporary collection features around 400 artist and activist zines which address the subject areas of cultural identity and diversity, visual culture, and platforming underrepresented voices. Zines are DIY self-published magazines, typically with a small circulation, and are affordable or free. Zines are rooted in social histories of protest movements, radical subcultures, and projecting the voices of marginalised communities, and fit well within the library’s collection development policy. While browsing through the zines, which are kept on an open shelf by the entrance to the library, it caught my attention that many of them were about punk music and culture, and the intersections of punk with other themes, such as race and identity, feminism, female readerships, and queer culture. Punk is a counter-cultural movement that centres on punk music and other forms of creative expression, with an anti-establishment ethos that promotes rebellion, non-conformity and individual freedom. According to the writer Chloe Arnold, “In the ‘70s and ‘80s, the main hub of zine culture became the punk scene in London, LA and New York. ” And in the 1990s, the feminist riot grrrl movement emerged as “an alternative to the male-driven punk world of the past”, encouraging women and girls to start bands and make zines themselves (Arnold, 2016). An example of this is Electra, a zine by Jane Collins... - Published: 2022-03-22 - Modified: 2022-06-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-emotional-dimension-of-stuart-hall-library-by-leda-yang/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: identity, library placement, migration Leda Yang with publication Shades of Black in Stuart Hall Library, 2022 Leda Yang is a current MA in Migration and Diaspora studies Student at SOAS who has completed her placement at iniva. This blog post summarises her reflections on her time in Stuart Hall Library and her personal questions on the emotive construction of spaces for migrated individuals. During my time at Stuart Hall Library at iniva, I learnt about things somewhat outside of my expectations. I initially thought I would make sense of my fine art education through intersecting with my current anthropology and sociology studies in migration and diaspora. However, what I gained from my placement experience here went beyond that with the focus shifting into deeper understanding of the construction of spaces, specifically the emotional, affective dimension of spaces. My entering into academic life was somewhat delayed. As a first generation Italian born Chinese woman at the dawn of Chinese economic migration to Italy during the 90s, I didn’t feel entitled to the production of narratives surrounding my identity. Whilst here as a part of my placement for my masters programme at SOAS, I was able to bring together my theoretical understanding of migration and diaspora with practice, being in a space where the conversations around migrant and diasporic states of being is actively generated through the curation of text, art and documentation. Both my degree and placement at Stuart Hall Library has been a gradual exercise in possessing my own entitlement to cultural creation, inside... - Published: 2022-02-24 - Modified: 2024-02-19 - URL: https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-artistic-representations-of-stuart-halls-notion-of-the-familiar-stranger/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: Caribbean, Library collections, stuart hall, Volunteering Agnes Perotto-Wills with John Berger's Ways of Seeing publication Agnes Perotto-Wills, a Stuart Hall Library volunteer, explores Stuart Hall’s term ‘familiar stranger’ in relation to the migration of Caribbean individuals and the experiences of artists of Caribbean heritage. Cultural theorist Stuart Hall, in the 2017 edition of his autobiography Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands, used the term ‘familiar strangers’ to refer to the unique experience of Caribbean migrants who came to Britain in the ‘Windrush generation’ of post-war migration. The term refers to the familiarity of symbols of Britishness, such as the royal family and works of classic British literature as a result of colonial education which engendered a sense of loyalty to Britain, with many West Indians referring to it as the ‘Mother Country’. However, the ‘stranger’ referred to by Hall was visible in the reality that met migrants upon arrival, one vastly different from the utopian England many had been taught to imagine. Caribbean migrants were treated with ignorance and discrimination and quickly realised their ‘familiarity’ with their host culture was very much one-sided, with accounts of British people asking migrants if they ‘spoke English’, or telling them to ‘get back to the jungle’. Further, Caribbean migrants were utilised in ‘race-relations’ sociological discourse, which dichotomised society into an ‘us’ versus ‘them’ narrative, with migrants portrayed as ‘strangers par excellence’. Iterations of the idea of the ‘familiar stranger’ are visible in migrant memoirs, in fiction, in music and in art. This blog post will explore the latter... - Published: 2022-02-18 - Modified: 2022-06-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-my-time-at-stuart-hall-library/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: librarianship, stuart hall library, Volunteering, volunteers Yasmin Smith with Working Class Queers in Stuart Hall Library, 2022 Yasmin Smith reflects on her time volunteering at the Stuart Hall Library and how this has developed her confidence to pursue a career in librarianship. I have come to the end of volunteering at Stuart Hall Library and it brings me great sadness to leave a place that is so astounding in its reception of typically ignored voices. I came to the library during a time of flux in my life and it was only when entering the library that I was given a sense of accomplishment. This library has done more than just give me the confidence to pursue a career in librarianship that is often dominated by middle-class attitudes and policies, but it has educated me on ways I can commit to equality in my everyday life. I began my library experience by writing abstracts for journal articles to be indexed and re-shelving items both of which gave me insight into the collection. I expanded my knowledge on artists such as Jade Monserrat and fell in love with her recent publication ‘A Reimagining of Relations’. This then led me to more challenging tasks such as coming up with my own topic for a blog post related to the collection. This experience of successfully finding a publication and/or exhibition that relates to me gave me the assurance that the Stuart Hall Library enforces representation in all its forms. Although I could have learned these skills in other libraries,... - Published: 2022-02-16 - Modified: 2022-06-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/guest-post-searching-for-the-queer-caribbean/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: Caribbean, queer, Zach Myers Zach Myers in Stuart Hall Library with the publication Art in the Caribbean Zachary Myers, Stuart Hall Library volunteer, reflects personally on the resources in the library’s collections on the ‘Queer Caribbean’ Content warning: homophobic slur I don’t remember the moment when I knew my aunt was a lesbian. When we would visit Trinidad to see my family it wasn’t something that we really spoke about – it never seemed important. What I remember is her laugh pealing above the low growl of her voice. I remember how big she was, how strong her hands seemed even as they glid across the guitar when she tried in vain to teach me how to play. I remember everyone saying that we looked alike; for a time when I looked at her, I would see myself, feeling that deep down in some unspoken and grasping way, we were the same. I remember the air reverberating with a half-beat of silence after someone would say she was ‘zamian’. This word, I would learn, comes from zami, a Caribbean word for women who work together as friends and lovers. I’d known that it was the title of Audre Lorde’s ‘Biomythography’, but it wasn’t until I found it again in the Stuart Hall Library that I thought of my Aunt Leslie, whispering the word to myself, pulling each syllable softly from my mouth like the beads of a pearl necklace. Audre Lorde, the child of West Indian immigrants in Harlem, isn’t someone that I’ve seen... - Published: 2022-02-11 - Modified: 2022-06-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-disengagement-with-my-own-heritage/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: Emii Alrai, Library collections, volunteer Yasmin Smith with publication Veil in Stuart Hall Library, 2022 Yasmin Smith reflects on the impact of classification, disengagement with heritage and what it means to be at the forefront of decolonising information with reference to Emii Alrai’s ‘Showcase- A Perpetual Remaking’. ‘Classification, although necessary in systems of language, contributes to hierarchies of power: the power to define information and the power to grant or limit access to that information. ’ (Crystal Vaughn 2018). My mother, an Israeli immigrant who moved to the UK twenty years ago, never taught me Hebrew as a child. I have always punished her for this choice by neglecting to participate in Sabbath or preferring Christmas over Hanukkah. I did this because I believed being bilingual was the only entry into the culture of my mother. But it is only now, as I am tasked with gathering information for a reading list on Middle Eastern female artists, that I realise the bigger punishment was felt on my behalf. I felt I had punished myself by feeling locked out of my own cultural heritage because I was locked out of a language. My mother's ease into rituals and celebrations that were based in Hebrew meant that I correlated language with culture and so lost out on both. This realisation, alongside volunteering at the Stuart Hall Library, began a journey into how libraries, with the use of language, can create their own visions of society. iniva’s Future Collect artist Emii Alrai’s ‘Showcase- A Perpetual Remaking’ touches on... - Published: 2022-01-26 - Modified: 2022-02-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/news-from-the-north-by-emii-alrai/ - Categories: Writing Future Collect artist Emii Alrai has been researching for her new commission across the UK. Here she tells us of her journey to Scotland with curator-in-training Amber Li as well as drawing inspiration from Yorkshire and St Ives, both places known for Barbara Hepworth's' engagement with the landscape. "Me and Amber Li traveled to Lybster, in the East Coast of Scotland, 40 mins away from John O' Groats to visit North Lands Creative, who are an incredible team of glassblowers pushing glass outside of its limits. Our plan was to visit North Lands and then travel to John O' Groats to reach the most Northern part of the UK. Unfortunately (or in many ways, fortunately) found ourselves in the middle of Storm Arwen, and spent a very dreamlike few days trapped in Lybster with two other artists, Fionn Duffy, whose research practice is dealing with origins of glass making and kelp collecting to make ancient glass, and Laura Quinn, who is an incredible glass artist. Having those days in a lodge in Lybster, shared with wonderful people and beating snowstorms I feel added depth to the conversations around glass, foraging, landscape. We couldn't make it to John O' Groats due to the likelihood of being blown over the cliff edge, but hope to visit when producing glass work for the commission in February. Here is a pic of us on the day we were able to travel back to the lowlands and a pic of some plants growing in the... - Published: 2021-11-03 - Modified: 2023-02-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/future-collect-artist-year-2-emii-alrai/ - Categories: Announcements - Tags: Emii Alrai, Future Collect Emii Alrai, Passing of the Lilies, Jerwood Arts. 2021. Photographs by Anna Arca iniva and The Hepworth Wakefield announce the second artist to be commissioned for Future Collect – a programme of contemporary art commissions – transforming the national conversation around contemporary art collecting. iniva and The Hepworth Wakefield have selected artist Emii Alrai for the second Future Collect commission. Alrai’s work explores relationships and tensions within Western museum practice, and previous projects have investigated processes of displaying and valuing artefacts from the Middle East. Her practice has emerged from making objects mimicking these artefacts, transforming humble materials to question museological traditions and systems of display. The selection panel, composed of curatorial teams from iniva and The Hepworth Wakefield, chose the artist because of her sensitivity in navigating complex diasporic narratives combined with her evocative exploration of materials. The partnership between iniva and The Hepworth Wakefield to commission a major new work by an artist of African, Caribbean, Middle Eastern or Asian heritage living and working in the UK follows the commission of Jade Montserrat with Manchester Art Gallery. Alrai’s work will be accessioned into the The Hepworth Wakefield’s collection, which holds international modern and contemporary art as well as a substantial body of work by Barbara Hepworth, who was born in Wakefield. Alrai, who is based in Leeds and currently has her studio in Wakefield, spoke about the importance of accessing The Hepworth Wakefield’s collection: “The opportunity to engage with The Hepworth Wakefield’s collection would be extremely beneficial to... - Published: 2021-10-20 - Modified: 2021-12-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/iniva-seeks-charity-trustees-non-executive-directors/ - Categories: Announcements iniva seeks charity trustees/non-executive directors As we emerge from an extraordinary year, Iniva is seeking new trustees to join our Board to support the organisation’s growth, and help realise our ambitious vision to transform the cultural landscape with artists and creative communities. With the unique Stuart Hall Library and Archive at its heart, for more than 25 years, Iniva has been at the vanguard of cultural practice, promoting the work of artists, writers and curators who have been pivotal in exploring anti-colonial narratives and foregrounding diverse, hybrid cultural perspectives. We are now embarking on a series of exciting projects, with new staff and funding, informed by research and conversations between creative practitioners and the intergenerational and international communities we serve. As part of this programme, we are seeking new board members who will help strengthen and sustain the organisation. Do you have a passionate belief in the essential role of art to address social justice and inequity and create lasting change - through practice, research, education and collaboration? Do you bring expertise in any of the following areas: income generation and knowledge from the commercial sector; digital communications across platforms; libraries & archives; engaging and working with young people? If you bring experience and a commitment to work with us to achieve our goals for current and future generations, we would like to hear from you. About the roles As part of the role Trustees are expected to: · Engage in and support the artistic endeavours of the organisation · Advocate for Iniva’s vision and programme · Oversee the charity’s organisational development, financial operations, future strategy, and delivery of objectives.... - Published: 2021-10-08 - Modified: 2021-12-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/the-caribbean-archipelago-display/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: Caribbean, Display, libraries week Zach Myers in front of the Caribbean Archipelago display in Stuart Hall Library In celebration of Libraries Week (4-10 October 2021), our volunteer Zach Myers has curated a display in the Stuart Hall Library entitled 'The Caribbean Archipelago'. Our second episode of 'Behind the Display' explores Zach's selection of exhibition catalogues on Caribbean art and history and essays and memoirs by prominent Caribbean intellectuals in relation to his research and heritage. Drop-in the library to see the display Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm or watch the presentation below. Watch the presentation Zach Myers is currently a postgraduate student at University College London, starting an MA in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre. - Published: 2021-09-16 - Modified: 2022-06-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-reflections-on-library-placement/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: librarianship, library career, library placement Tessa in the Stuart Hall Library, 2021. Tessa Roynon reflects on her short placement in the Stuart Hall Library as part of her MA in Library and Information Studies course at University College London and its impact on her current endeavour to create a diverse school library collection. I was keen to complete a placement at the Stuart Hall Library at iniva for several reasons. First, I have long been a devotee of Stuart Hall’s thought on identity, culture and politics. Second, one of my aims in starting a new library from scratch at The Swan School, where around 46% of students are not white British, is to create a facility that is always and already decolonial, and/or that is anti-racist from its inception. My MA dissertation will focus on whether or not such an ambition can be realised. The Stuart Hall Library and its manager, Tavian Hunter, are currently in the vanguard of anti-racist work in UK Libraries, and although both their collection and their users are in many ways different from that of a secondary school, I hoped to learn from their best practice. I was not disappointed! I was amazed by how many activities and processes I could participate in or shadow over the 2. 5 days of my placement: reshelving; book cataloguing; posting about my visit on iniva’s social media; researching for my dissertation from books in the Library’s collection, searching for missing resources, and abstracting individual articles for the online catalogue. My primary interest was... - Published: 2021-09-10 - Modified: 2022-02-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/stuart-hall-library-artist-in-residence-2021-rohan-ayinde/ - Categories: Writing Rohan Ayinde portrait. iniva and Stuart Hall Foundation are thrilled to announce that artist and poet Rohan Ayinde has been selected for the fifth Stuart Hall Library Artist’s Residency – a funded opportunity with support from Arts Council England that builds on Professor Stuart Hall’s unique contribution to intellectual and cultural life. Building on the distinct connections between iniva and Stuart Hall Foundation, the residency allows a visual artist the space to think about some of the key themes related to the work of Iniva and the Foundation, including the language of the diaspora, culture, identity and archiving. This year marks the 70th anniversary of Professor Stuart Hall’s arrival in Britain from Jamaica in 1951 and in commemoration, the residency invited an artist to respond to the concept of ‘arrival’ and its capacity to transform and trouble notions of fixed cultural identities. Selected through a richly competitive open call, Rohan Ayinde will be resident for three months at the Stuart Hall Library in London, UK, from October to December 2021. The panel selected Ayinde for his dynamic and imaginative proposal that brings a multidisciplinary and nuanced critical approach to grappling with the shifting landscape of race and black radical politics. Ayinde’s work oscillates between abstract drawings, audio-visual poetry, performance and sculpture, and is interested in the ways that abstraction can function as a method for thinking about black radical thought as a form, or a poetics. His research during the residency will take Stuart Hall’s description of “diaspora identity” with... - Published: 2021-06-03 - Modified: 2024-01-29 - URL: https://iniva.org/guest-blog-post-black-feminist-artists-writers-and-collectives/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: black feminist, collectives, feminism, stuart hall library, writers Tammi Bello, a placement student from Birkbeck College exploring black feminist artists, writers and collectives in Stuart Hall Library with a display of publications from the collection. Books, Journals and Zines in Stuart Hall Library on Black Feminist Artists, Writers and Collectives, May 2021. Black women have a long history of organising and building groups in which they share stories and experiences, then drawing on the parallels between them to make work and create discourse. This is why collectives are so important to the wider movement, they created and exhibited together. Without them the artists that we see now making waves in the mainstream wouldn’t have had the platform to do so. Lubaina Himid, Claudette Johnson, Bell Hooks, or Beverly Bryan could not have gotten to the place they’re at now without that early collective backing. This nature is still seen in black feminist workings today, they are all part of something bigger. The UK Black Arts Movement for example did not have a strong feminist discourse before Claudette Johnson brought the issues to the forefront at the first National Black Arts Conference in 1982 which led to a deeper discussion in the Women’s’ workshop and was a pivotal moment in the UK’s black feminist art movement. This can be seen as the beginning of the collective identity for these women, and what sets them apart from the wider feminist movement. Casting your eyes across the display the words that stick out are: Girl-hood, Womanhood, Sisters, liberation, making the movement... - Published: 2021-04-16 - Modified: 2023-02-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/iniva-announce-gallery-partner-for-year-2-of-future-collect/ - Categories: Writing - Tags: Future Collect, Hepworth Wakefield The Hepworth Wakefield Garden - Tulips (16th April 2020). Photography by Jason Ingram. Iniva is pleased to announce that it has selected The Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire as its partner for the second year of Future Collect. Future Collect was established in 2020 with generous support from Art Fund, Arts Council England and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. Future Collect is a three-year initiative to reimagine the future of public collections at major art galleries and museums throughout the UK and provide paid curatorial trainee opportunities. The partnership will commission a major new work of art by an artist of African and/or Asian descent born or based in Britain for display at The Hepworth Wakefield in 2022. It will be supported with a wide public engagement programme and new research into Wakefield’s growing art collection. A paid, year-long Curatorial Trainee, jointly appointed by Iniva and The Hepworth Wakefield will be predominantly based in Wakefield, where they will be given an outstanding opportunity to develop a range of essential skills needed for the curatorial workforce today, including working with the commissioned artist, collection research, care and display, and audience engagement. The partnership also offers an opportunity for The Hepworth Wakefield’s Assistant Curator to spend time on secondment at Iniva, utilising the unique resource of the Stuart Hall Library as a space for critical enquiry and creative exchange. Sepake Angiama, Artistic Director of Iniva, said: “We are delighted with our new collaboration with The Hepworth Wakefield to radically rethink new models for commissioning... - Published: 2021-04-01 - Modified: 2021-04-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/ice-cream-over-bronze/ - Categories: Writing Image courtesy of Harun Morrison By Harun Morrison Part 1 from your fleshy animate body consider static, polished ones consider your skin in relation to metal your bones in relation to stone your breath in relation to wifi your veins in relation to the fibre optic cables beneath you listen, the city speaks, it is a dissonant choir, speaking differently in different places simultaneously each intervention in public space is speech meeting other speech imaginations of today encountering imaginations ten, fifty a hundred years prior imaginations of the future wrestling with imaginations of today memorials should be flatpack, all the quicker for their inheritors to disassemble, to shelve, to relocate or send down a river as they deem necessary Part 2 When a large statue is stolen at night, sawn to pieces, then sold to a yard; it's rightly considered an act of vandalism. Newspapers take grim glee in reporting something worth only a few thousand pounds as scrap-metal being worth millions as sculpture. Typically such sculptures are monumental, weighty and commanding of the space around them. Cranes, reinforced ground, multiple crews of workers are all needed to install them, and they are similarly demanding feats to remove. However, what if in this case such a sculpture is not stolen by thieves for profit? Instead it is stolen by the artist themself, who proposes through this clandestine act to reimagine their work in public space. Nor is it stolen alone, but in consort with others, for whom it is local,... - Published: 2021-02-04 - Modified: 2021-02-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/queen-britannia-is-a-mess-and-kali-reigns-supreme-at-tate-britain/ - Categories: Writing Photography: (c) Tate (John Humphreys). By Hassan Vawda and Khaled Sofian Queen Britannia is 'a mess' and Kali reigns supreme! The 123 year-old facade of Tate Britain, with its towering steps, white textures and heroic pillars, a museum claiming to contain 'the heart of British art', has been mashed up with infinite colours and lights by the Punjabi Liverpudlian artist, Chila Kumari Singh Burman. Beneath the colours and lights is a network of images that make up Burman’s vision: the power of women tearing up patriarchy, deep memories of her childhood and experiences of 'beyond two cultures'. Her family’s ice-cream van is stationed on the regal museum steps reading, 'we are here coz you were there', with freedom fighter Lakshmibai glowing nearby and the Rani of Jhansi standing strong. Even at 10pm on a rainy day during lockdown, pilgrims and passersby can be seen hypnotised by the warm, nourishing, dazzling glows of 'Remembering a Brave New World'. Burman’s playfulness pumps liberation into the Art monument on the Thames. Her legacy stakes a claim at social action. For the first time, this 'Christmas-is-coming' signifier, the Winter Commission, opened on Diwali. Expressing worlds, histories and identities that speak across generations. To be your whole self, as an artist, but also speaking to the post-colonial diasporas who find themselves in the crushing narratives of 'Westernese', pushed to the margins, forced to compromise, change, and assimilate. Your whole self, just as her great father did by placing a fierce tiger on top of his... - Published: 2021-02-04 - Modified: 2021-12-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/uncover-discover-create/ - Categories: Pedagogies - Tags: creative learning, emotional learning In the first of a new series of blog posts that coincide with our new monthly workshop series Ways of Being, A Space Director Lyn French explores the history, approach and importance of our emotional learning workshops. Reflections on the Iniva Creative Learning Workshop Programme from early 2000s-present day By A Space Director Lyn French Exploring identity, difference and diversity is always relevant, compelling and emotionally resonant regardless of the times we live in. These subjects touch us all. Each of us must work out who we really are which usually includes challenging some of our skewed self-perceptions as well as re-thinking our place in the world and how we imagine others see us. In tandem, defining and refining who we want to become is a lifelong task. This is supported by increasing our understanding of the rich and complex interplay between messages we pick up from the world around us and our internal thoughts, each influencing the other in ways which may be outside of our conscious awareness. Uncovering our limiting self-beliefs, discovering our agency and creating possibilities for ourselves is a dynamic process. It is never carried out in isolation but within a context shaped by our gender, race, class and culture, all of which are social constructs which also shift and change. Our current workshop programme, which is now delivered on Zoom either in short blocks or as one-off sessions, has its roots in the history of the Iniva /A Space partnership dating back to the early... - Published: 2020-12-01 - Modified: 2021-12-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/interview-with-xiaoyi-nie-and-bo-choy/ - Categories: Writing - Tags: Research Network War of Perception, 2020. Film still. ©Bo Choy As part of Research Network programme: Global Re-visions, Curatorial Trainee Chloe Austin conducted a short interview with Xiaoyi Nie and Bo Choy to discuss their research in advance of their talk 'Vicissitudes of Crossing Borders'. CA: How does your project explore the themes of globalisation and internationalism as presented in the Global Re-Visions call out? XN/BC: Having grown up in Hong Kong and mainland China respectively, we came to know each other in London in the field of contemporary art. Xiaoyi’s research tells the story of art project ‘Long March: A Walking Visual Display’ (2002). It was curated by Lu Jie and Qiu Zhijie in the early stage of globalisation of the art world and a trial to encourage Chinese artists to reflect on ‘the obsession with China’, the anxiety towards the West and the phenomenon ‘Chinese contemporary art’ propelled by the international market and by the multiculturalism policy in Europe. Hong Kong, a transfer station for ‘Chinese contemporary art’, was considered as the centre of Asia and heralded as an international and multicultural hub during the 1990s. Bo will ponder on the several ‘End Time’ (1997, 2047 and 2020) that Hong Kong has gone through politically and socioeconomically, with her own living and migrating experience in Hong Kong and UK as a clue. These social transformations also brought the diversion of identities such as ‘Hong Kongese’, ‘Chinese’... From the 1990s to 2021, from the emergence of multiculturalism to the recession of... - Published: 2020-11-05 - Modified: 2021-12-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/listing-inivas-archives/ - Categories: Library and Archive - Tags: Archives Boxes of Iniva's Archives relocated to John Islip Street arranged in the Stuart Hall Library Archives Room Iniva is excited to announce the creation of a new up-to-date listing of the Iniva Archive collection. In 2018, Iniva was awarded a £4,000 British Archives Council Cataloguing Grant. The grant allowed us to begin cataloguing Iniva’s Archives based in the Stuart Hall Library. The archival collection documents Iniva’s 26-year history as a pioneering organisation set up to diversity the mainstream of contemporary art. It comprises the organisation’s foundational documents, including key mission, strategy and policy; correspondence with key stakeholders, funders and artists, as well as exhibition and publication files demonstrating years of campaigning for better representation of Black and Asian artists in British art institutions. Artist file of ephemeral material related to Frank Bowling's exhibition history preserved in melinax sleeves The grant was awarded to make the contents of the archives accessible for future artists, curators and the general public to research the rich history on contemporary art on artists of African and Asian descent. Between 2019 and 2020 our Project Archivist worked closely with our Library Manager to review, sort, catalogue and repackage the collections into our new dedicated archive space where a listing of the archival collections is now available here. Images from Veil exhibition (2003) archive collection As we revisit Iniva’s founding ideas through this year’s Research Network Programme: Global Re-visions, it is the perfect time for artists, curators and the public to research our past projects and exhibition... - Published: 2020-11-05 - Modified: 2020-12-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/interview-with-deniz-sozen/ - Categories: Writing - Tags: Research Network Image credit: ©Deniz Sözen. Surya Namaz, HD video, 2018, video still. As part of Research Network programme: Global Re-visions, Curatorial Trainee Chloe Austin conducted a short interview with Deniz Sözen to discuss her research ‘The Art of Un-belonging’ in advance of her talk. CA: How does your project explore the themes of globalisation and internationalism as presented in the Global Re-Visions call out? DS: Resonating with the themes of the Global Re-Visions call out, my practice-based research – The Art of Un-belonging – sets out to investigate and develop artistic strategies that challenge conventional notions of belonging and difference in the context of globalisation and diasporic art. Despite the advancements within the theoretical discourse since Iniva’s first symposium ‘A New Internationalism’ (1994), in practice artists still tend to be categorised according to their geographical, national and/or ethnic belonging(s) by the art world/market. Taking my own practice and position as diasporic artist as point of departure The Art of Un-belonging seeks to formulate a critical response to this tendency. The practice element of my research consists of three discrete yet interrelated artworks that challenge an ethnocentric and anthropocentric conception of belonging. The multilingual video-performance Surya Namaz (2018) is a personal investigation of yoga and namaz, the Muslim prayer ritual, exploring the potential of transcultural performance, opacity and multilingualism to undo fixed notions of belonging. Kahvehane Kongresspark (2016), a temporary café, ceramic cups/saucers and a site-specific performance in public space and Trans Plantations (2018), an installation of cups/saucers and coffee beans cast... - Published: 2020-11-02 - Modified: 2020-11-19 - URL: https://iniva.org/the-contemporary-art-space-project-year-2/ - Categories: Pedagogies We are very excited to announce the newly appointed artists for Year 2 of the Contemporary Art Space project 2020 - 2021, a partnership with RSA Academies. Each artist will work closely with a collective of students in three schools in the West Midlands. Haseebah Ali Haseebah Ali is an artist and print maker based in Birmingham. Her work centres around cultural themes and occasionally political circumstances. Her artistic aim is to create work that educates: both herself and the audience that views and/or engages with it. Having having obtained a BA in illustration, Haseebah has the background of both digital and traditional mediums. Since graduating Haseebah has embarked on many opportunities including facilitating art workshops, collaborating with other creatives, and more recently exhibiting her work in a solo exhibition in Birmingham. Future goals include exhibiting work on an international scale and helping educate and support young people in their creative journey. haseebahprints. com De'Anne Crooks As an artist-educator, much of De’Anne’s practice considers the collaborative and collective experiences of others. Considering their practice as a form of activism rather than a teacher of art, De’Anne’s relationship with pedagogy and contemporary art has cultivated a strong sense of play with political, moral and emotional themes. During her fellowship with the Black Hole Club and within her recent commissions for the Film and Video Umbrella, Vivid Projects and ReFramed network, De’Anne has been testing the praxis of contemporary art adjacent to and in harmony with Blackness. Using video, performative and fine... - Published: 2020-07-02 - Modified: 2020-07-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/notes-on-standing/ - Categories: Writing Statue of Edward Colston in the river Avon. There are many ways to stand. You can stand up, stand down, stand together, stand with, stand for and stand against. This is of course not an exhaustive list but standing alone is not neutral. Over the last month we have seen what it means when various publics ‘make a stand’ for what they believe in and how this intentional position might result in action. Amidst the Black Lives Matter protests that swept across the world in the wake of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police Officers at the end of May, we see the very much-needed introspection of our cultural institutions. Witnessing the brutality of George Floyd’s death shook the world in a moment while we are still dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic. The call for justice resonated across the world and has made us all, individually and collectively, reflect on our responsibility of being witnesses to such a tragic death. The voices and chants of grass roots movements have been articulated as audible demands. Who do you stand with? What do you stand for? What do you stand against? How do our institutions reflect what we say we stand for? How can institutions change their statements into actions? What stands in our public spaces and can we uphold public statues as standing for all? The campaign to remove Edward Colston because of his direct involvement as a merchant and slave trader and the fact that... - Published: 2020-06-03 - Modified: 2020-06-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/a-note-on-voicing/ - Categories: Writing What should be the response from cultural institutions or institutions of any kind to the racial violence that we are seeing today? How do we respond? Firstly, we need to acknowledge the hurt, pain and ongoing racial violence that occurs not only on our streets and within our communities but also within our institutions. The work can begin by addressing what it means to be an anti-racist institution that reflects this, not only in statements but also in our employment, in our governance, in our programming, in our practice working with artists and the public. We need to reflect upon our work and recognise that systemic racism and issues of racism cannot be seen in isolation. How do we, as institutions through our policies and our practice, act to show solidarity and shape our society? How can we be spaces that voice-up and support our communities’ artistic voices or otherwise when they are in pain? How do we make spaces for our publics to breathe or pause and reflect? Can we act as platforms to bring people together? As cultural institutions, do we recognise that we have a voice that can speak to injustice? In the case of Iniva we believe our role is to create spaces where we can have conversations that articulate the language of difference through the visual arts. Stuart Hall, the first chair of Iniva, set our mandate of making space for the emerging generation of artists that are to come – making new forms of... - Published: 2020-05-01 - Modified: 2020-06-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/a-brief-note-on-care/ - Categories: Writing May Day is known as an international celebration of the worker that arose as a marker of the Haymarket riots in Chicago triggered by their poor working conditions and demands for an 8 hour work day. “Mayday mayday” is a distress call coming from the French “m’aider” meaning help me – a call to come to ones rescue. A painting of three black nurses in crisp white uniforms titled Portrait of Daphne Steel, 2018 hangs on the wall of St George’s University. They commissioned artist Sola Olulode who made a painting of Daphne Steel the first black matron in Britain. The painting was not only a celebration of 70 years of the Windrush generation in Britain but also a connection to 70 years of the NHS. The two commemorations are deeply entangled. The word care has Germanic and Norse roots and its etymology relates directly to "sorrow, anxiety, grief," also "burdens of mind; serious mental attention". Care can also be painful. In Old Norse it apparently relates to the word for 'sick bed'. To really care for, to sit with someone else's pain. We are learning this lesson right now. Commissioned artist for Future Collect Jade Montserrat challenges us to think through a series of questions this month relating to how language translates to practices of collecting and how the power of language impacts on the practice of artists. Jade also proposes that we look beyond the care of the art work to think about the care of artists and... - Published: 2020-05-01 - Modified: 2021-12-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/review-autoicon-the-digital-body-a-work-by-donald-rodney/ - Categories: Writing - Tags: autoicon, Donald Rodney Images of Donald Rodney's AUTOICON CD-ROM Stephen Weller, Stuart Hall Library volunteer reviews the recent lunchtime talk: AUTOICON : The digital body Prompted by the unique audio-visual collections available in the Stuart Hall Library and Iniva’s involvement in the intersection of art, technology, and the internet at the end of the 20th Century, I developed an interactive talk focused on Donald Rodney’s AUTOICON. An interactive CD-ROM based media work, produced in part by Iniva in 2000 but conceived by Rodney and completed by a close group of friends and collaborators following his death from sickle cell anaemia in March of 1998. Whilst familiar with Rodney’s practice, I first learned about AUTOICON when researching for a blog post on subjectivity and the body in internet art. AUTOICON consists of a Java-based AI and neural network allowing users to interact, converse, and collaborate with it through a simulated, systematic dialogue. The responses can be in the form of text, audio clips, videos, and images; these are drawn from documentation on Rodney including interviews, his body of work, his medical data, and popular media. A generative montage machine serves to collect and collage the produced material according to a rule-based system drawn from Rodney’s own creative process. AUTOICON was conceived as a digital body - a living, evolving presence that would stand in the organic Rodney’s absence. What I was hoping to glean from a reading of AUTOICON was how it can illuminate the process of digitalisation and the consequences it has had... - Published: 2020-04-09 - Modified: 2020-06-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/a-note-from-the-director/ - Categories: Writing This month we find our ourselves ‘working from home’, a commonly used phrase when in need of concentration, away from the distractions of busy office life. Obviously, this disposition comes from the dramatic effect that the coronavirus Covid – 19 is having on all our lives. Like most other visual arts organisations, after realising that the virus had passed through British borders unchecked and indiscriminate to whom it claimed as host despite our heightened hygiene practices, we postponed our public meetings, our study and reading groups and soon after, sadly closed the Stuart Hall Library doors to the public. A place in which many people take solace in our book collection and where we gather for collective study, intimate talks, and reading. Then the team themselves needed to retreat to work remotely. Meanwhile, the government realised the magnitude of the public health risk and have encouraged ‘social distancing’, only bare minimum and essential travel as well as the closure of all non-essential gatherings, as well as commercial, social and religious spaces. Schools and universities also closing their doors means that work life and family life are now colluding in the same time and space. And due to the high proportion of elderly and people with underlying health issues being at greater risk, it makes attending to parents, grandparents and loved ones extremely difficult. This was truly an event of a global scale that continues to have a direct impact on our daily lives. The fear of the virus quickly gave... - Published: 2020-04-09 - Modified: 2020-04-17 - URL: https://iniva.org/a-brief-conversation-with-artist-jade-montserrat/ - Categories: Exhibition, Writing Image: Jade Montserrat, Born to Suffer the Weight of Men, installation view, 2020. Photograph by George Torode. In December 2019 Jade Montserrat’s exhibition at the Stuart Hall Library addressed the multitude of voices and conversations nurturing the artist's work and the generative relationship between image and text. Iniva’s Simina Neagu sat with the artist to discuss her multi-faceted practice. Jade’s work is informed by the interplay of art and activism and the literary traditions of the Black Atlantic. Combining quotations with her own writing, Jade refers to her watercolours and drawings as dissemination tools. An underlying common theme in the artist’s practice is an ongoing exploration of building spaces of belonging and care. The figure plays a significant role in the work that is shown at the library. In particular, a series of works, Ecclesiastes, installed in the library's individual study spaces features silhouettes strewn with minuscule text and dots. Could you consider this body of work having a bodily function? I think we could probably liken these works to skin. Mostly because it's something that can take on different reflecting qualities. Skin cells wrap our bodies, while showing us what we're about. It's the first thing that you see and distinguishes us from one another. The watercolours would point to different dynamics of skin, different times, different ages, different sicknesses. They're also adorned skins. They are also entry points, right? Yes, absolutely. I'm also in Anne Anlin Cheng territory at the moment, reading "Second Skin: Josephine Baker & the... - Published: 2020-04-05 - Modified: 2020-04-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/the-contemporary-art-space-project-the-depths-of-our-history-by-rudy-loewe/ - Categories: Pedagogies In this blog post for our Contemporary Art Space Project based in the West Midlands, we hear from the CAS project curator Josephine Reichert about the impact of the in-school launch of Rudy Loewe’s “The Depths of Our History” held on 4th March 2020... In summer 2019 I was appointed the curator for the Contemporary Art Space Project, a collaborative project by Iniva and RSA Academies. I was excited by what the project was trying to do. At a time when the curriculum had been moving away from art and music teaching, this project didn’t just try and bring great contemporary art into schools, it was also trying to redefine how art is included in the teaching of all subjects. The project saw us working directly with students and teachers to support their engagement with artwork created by emerging talent from Birmingham and London. The artists selected make work that asks difficult questions around belonging, community, identity and emotions. It also brought contemporary art to many students who might not have experienced it otherwise. On the 4th March 2020 we held a day-long launch of Rudy Loewe’s piece entitled “The Depth of our History” at Holyhead School in Handsworth, North Birmingham. The work was created following three workshops with Year 8 children and an art therapist, Prabhjot Kaur and looks at Handsworth’s history of protest and resistance, its strong community spirit and also its issues. Over the school day we met 4 classes from year groups 7 to 10 and... - Published: 2020-03-17 - Modified: 2020-03-17 - URL: https://iniva.org/covid-19-update/ - Categories: Announcements Dear friends and visitors, The Stuart Hall Library is temporarily closed to the public from Tuesday 17 March until further notice to help combat the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID -19). Based on government advice and as a duty of care to our team, contributors, supporters and visiting public we have taken the difficult decision to postpone any upcoming public or education events to help prevent the continuous spread of the virus. We will keep you up to date through our social media channels and our website as we continue our work through digital channels. @iniva_arts www. iniva. org For public enquiries you can contact us at info@iniva. org Thank you for your ongoing interest and support. - Published: 2019-12-03 - Modified: 2024-01-03 - URL: https://iniva.org/donate-a-book/ - Categories: Library and Archive Recent donations to the Stuart Hall Library collection. We are grateful for the amazing new resources we have acquired this year for the Stuart Hall Library. For our popular Research Network reading groups as part of the More-than-Human Care series, we have expanded our critical theory section to include books that address issues of global art activism and ecology in the face of climate crisis through the lenses of race, class and gender. We have also received some generous donations which you will see filling our shelves in the New Year, from Brazilian and South American exhibition catalogues, Middle Eastern artist monographs and a large donation of critical theory on international relations, protest and political resistance narratives in UK from the 1980s and 1990s. This will be available alongside new purchases that will expand on radical writers and thinkers in the collection, fill gaps in the Eastern European art collections and demonstrate our continued links with international publishers. Bookplate for donations to Stuart Hall Library However, in order to for us to continue our work fostering a culture of learning and researching within the visual arts, we ask you to support us in developing up-to-date collections by gifting a new book to Stuart Hall Library. Any book you purchase will be given a personalised book plate to acknowledge your donation. We've made it really easy to donate a book and have carefully selected the books and resources which we know will greatly benefit our library users from academic researchers to... - Published: 2019-11-28 - Modified: 2019-11-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/a-view-from-elsewhere-ten-chinese-contemporary-artists-by-i-ying-liu/ - Categories: Library and Archive, Writing I-Ying Liu, Stuart Hall Library volunteer explores the theme of identity in Chinese contemporary art. Chinese Art at the Crossroads: Between Past and Future, Between East and West edited by Wu Hang. Available for purchase in shop When asked to write about ten Chinese contemporary artists, the first thing that popped into my mind was a question: What is Chinese contemporary art? How is it defined? As someone who doesn’t regard herself as but is and ‘looks’ Chinese in some way, this task seems particularly tricky, but intriguing at the same time. Previous artist-in-residence at Stuart Hall Library, Ting-Ting Cheng (鄭亭亭) continued her exploration of identity politics from her time at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CCFCA) in Manchester. The resultant work is a performance that restages ‘A New Vocabulary for Chinese Art? ’, a seminar the institution organised in 1998. Setting out to rethink the term ‘Chinese’ in various cultural contexts, the seminar has raised questions of why people need this label and who it is for. ‘Is it for artists to identify themselves or for others to define them? ’, asks Cheng. What does this self-identification suggest? Is it a mere compliance with the norm, an indication of cultural origin, a declaration of political stance or a manifestation of loyalty? And who are the ‘others’? Are they the audience looking to get a sense of certain artistic practices, governmental bodies to strengthen their diplomatic soft power, institutions to tick diversity boxes or markets to cater for collectors’... - Published: 2019-11-25 - Modified: 2019-11-25 - URL: https://iniva.org/interview-with-matthew-krishanu/ - Categories: Exhibition, Writing Matthew Krishanu, Corvus, 2019. Installation view. Photograph by George Torode. In advance of his talk at the Stuart Hall Library, Iniva Programme & Operations Coordinator Simina Neagu caught up with artist Matthew Krishanu to discuss the series of paintings currently displayed in our new space in John Islip Street. The small-scale works, depicting crows, rooks, jackdaws and ravens emerge between shelves and bask alongside books, populating the collection with their delicate, comical and eerie presence. Your practice includes several cycles of works, such as Another Country (2012-2019), inspired by your childhood in Dhaka or Expatriates (2016-2019), a series of portraits of English expatriates in India and Bangladesh. How do the Crows sit within your wider practice? You mentioned before that although its subjects were found mostly in London, they somehow exist outside of time and place. Could you elaborate on that? The crows are mainly London crows (although some are from other parts of England as well). Having just returned from a visit to Mumbai, India, where I observed and photographed crows there, I may well be painting some Mumbai crows soon. The crows are partly a signifier for me of my childhood growing up in Bangladesh and India, where the sound of their cawing was ever present. The sound of them anywhere in the world takes me back to my memories of crows. Memory forms the basis of my other series of works – which include paintings of my brother and myself as boys (Another Country), and series that... ## Products - Published: 2024-06-06 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/artist-kitchen-salon-zine-2nded/ - Price: 5.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter The Artist Kitchen Salon Zine documents a series of Artist Kitchen Salons which were part of iniva’s recent Research Network programme ‘If Sea is History? – What is Nation? ’ This programme reflected on the sea as an archive that connects the body and memory and this publication reflects on the ongoing research of Research Associates’ Safiya Robinson, Holly Graham, Shenece Oretha and Beatrix Pang. It seeks to answer: What is conjured in our memory through food, in gathering together over an evening meal? 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Sheats, Howard Singerman, Marlene Smith with Claudette Johnson, Lucy Steeds and Brittany Webb. - Published: 2022-12-08 - Modified: 2023-11-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/visual-pleasure-narrative-cinema/ - Price: 11.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Since it first appeared in Screen in 1975, Laura Mulvey's essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ has been an enduring point of reference for artists, film-makers, writers and theorists. Mulvey’s compelling, structured and polemical analysis of visual pleasure has provoked and encouraged others to take positions, challenge pre-conceived ideas and produce new works that owe their possibility to the generative qualities of this key essay. In this book, the artist Rachel Rose has produced an innovative work that extends and adds to the essay’s frame of reference. Drawing on eighteenth and nineteenth-century fairy tales, and observing that their flat narratives matched the flatness of their depictions, Rose has drawn a connection between what happened in these illustrations before cinema, and what Mulvey describes in her essay – cinema flattening sexuality into visuality. Rose’s intricately layered work, with its mixing of genres and histories, is a complex and playful reformation. This title is part of the Two Works series and was designed by Sara de Bondt. - Published: 2022-12-08 - Modified: 2023-11-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/the-everyday-of-everydayness/ - Price: 11.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter ‘The character of the everyday has always been repetitive and veiled by obsession and fear', wrote Henri Lefebvre in 1987. Drawing on his mid-twentieth century Critique of Everyday Life, a monumental contribution to social thought, ‘The Everyday and Everydayness' takes seriously the everyday as a structure imposed upon all of life in the context of the ‘modern'. At a moment of enforced reflection on the everyday, internationally renowned contemporary artist Julie Mehretu re-examines and responds to Lefebvre's text, bringing to bear on it her own longstanding fascination with questions of time, space and place. Mehretu's mastery in interrogating these concepts collides with Lefebvre's work in surprising ways that vindicate and invigorate this radical, rich and prescient text in the present. - Published: 2022-12-08 - Modified: 2023-11-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/of-our-spiritual-strivings/ - Price: 11.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter In 1903 W. E. B. Du Bois's text The Souls of Black Folk made history as a work of sociological thought, and would go on to become a cornerstone of African American literature. In it, Du Bois combined music, history and memoir to advance a vital message of resistance in the uniquely dehumanising context of the so-called ‘Jim Crow' era. It was in this collection that Du Bois, in ‘Of Our Spiritual Strivings', wrote of the ‘double consciousness' experienced by the Black subject - a ‘sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity'. Refusing this fate, Du Bois passionately and creatively makes the case for the rights of Black people of the South to be treated with equality and justice. 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Working from a site of racial uprising some thirty-five years later, artist Tschabalala Self responds to Davis's words with a new series of characteristically vibrant, challenging and provocative works on paper. Her series of three individual subjects emerge collectively as something greater than their parts, suggesting in the ebbs and flows in joy and disdain a kind of shared social consciousness. - Published: 2022-12-08 - Modified: 2024-03-12 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/gay-betrayals-afterall-two-works-series/ - Price: 11.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter In 1997, during a symposium at Centre Pompidou, Leo Bersani presented a prescient critique of the assimilative tendencies that made ‘gays melt into the very culture they like to think of themselves as undermining. ’ Mired in micropolitics, for Bersani, queer activism had relinquished the radical task of reconfiguring the horizon of the possible. Later published as ‘Gay Betrayals’, Bersani’s intervention champions a truly disruptive vision of homosexuality, one that betrays the relational, identitarian and communitarian foundations of bourgeois heterosexual respectability through ‘antimonogamous promiscuity’. Building on extensive artistic research into the politics of queer spaces and culture some 20 years later, artist duo Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings revisit Bersani’s polemic with a response in three acts. Through a kaleidoscopic array of drawings, preparatory sketches and egg tempera paintings, a narrative of everyday (homo)sociality comes into view. A series of statuesque figures are caught as they feel the outlines of existing power structures, try out new strategies of inclusivity and, ultimately, wrestle with the blurred lineaments of identity and community. - Published: 2022-12-08 - Modified: 2023-11-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/what-is-black-art-writings-on-african-asian-and-caribbean-art-in-britain-1981-1989/ - SKU: 5 - Price: 10.99 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter A landmark anthology on British art history, bringing together overlooked and marginalized perspectives from 'the critical decade' What is Black art? This vital anthology gives voice to a generation of artists of African, Asian and Caribbean heritage who worked within and against British art institutions in the 1980s, including Sonia Boyce, Lubaina Himid, Eddie Chambers and Rasheed Araeen. It brings together artists' statements, interviews, exhibition catalogue essays and reviews, most of which have been unavailable for many years and resonate profoundly today. Together they interrogate the term 'Black art' itself, and revive a forgotten dialogue from a time when men and women who had been marginalized made themselves heard within the art world and beyond. - Published: 2022-10-03 - Modified: 2023-03-16 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/kalika/ - SKU: 25 - Price: 350.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Artist Editions - Product shipping classes: Artist prints To accompany iniva's exhibition 'Village Letters', we are delighted to announce the launch of a limited edition print by the artist Prafulla Mohanti in October 2022. The print, entitled Kalika in reference to the all powerful female Hindu goddess Kali or Kalika, comes from an orginal watercolour featuring the artists iconic motif of bright concentric circles. This work, chosen for its seductive, visceral tones, is representative of Prafulla's spiritually-led painting and drawing practice. Realised as a giclee print and finished with a silkscreen layer to capture the painterly watercolour bleed. This is an extremely rare opportunity to own work by the artist. About the Artist Prafulla Mohanti (b. India, 1936) was born and brought up in the village of Nanpur (Orissa), and moved to England in 1960 after graduating as an architect in Bombay. In 1964 he gained a diploma in town planning at Leeds where in the same year his first solo exhibition of paintings was held. He worked as an architect-planner for the Greater London Council (1965 to 1969) but gave this up to devote himself to painting and writing. His paintings have been exhibited all over the world and are in several private and public collections including the British Museum-London, the Gallery of Modern Art, The Hepworth Wakefield, and ICCR- New Delhi. - Published: 2022-06-02 - Modified: 2022-12-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/limited-edition-pamphlet/ - Price: 12.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications Edition of 75 18 x 12 cm 16 Sides, Concertina fold Printed on (G.F. Smith) Colorplan Lockwood Green 175gsm Designed by Bamidele Awoyemi. Printed by Calverts Design & Print Pamphlet Photographs: Fikayo Adebajo 2022 iniva is delighted to launch this limited edition pamphlet created by Rohan Ayinde to accompany the artist's exhibition Dancing In The Ellipsis // A Cartographer’s Black Hole. Each pamphlet features a collection of poems which are in conversation with Rohan Ayinde's exhibition at the Stuart Hall Library. The prose mirrors the frequency found in Ayinde's photographic and drawn work; reflecting on questions of home, place, diaspora, freedom and blackness. At the heart of Ayinde's poetry is a desire to "write home", building physical spaces for readers to get lost in. Biography Rohan Ayinde is an interdisciplinary artist based between London and Chicago. His work is centered around creating otherwise potentials (Ashon Crawley), and in so doing breaking down and simultaneously reconfiguring the ideological architectures that shape our daily and generational lives. The landscapes his work explores are formed through the lens of a black radical imagination committed to describing freedom as a horizon of possibility. They are an archive of the journey there; maps/scores under continuous construction and refusals to acquiesce to the dominant structures of thought that frame the world we live in. Ayinde’s work oscillates between abstract drawings, audio-visual poetry, photography, performance and sculpture, and is interested in the ways that abstraction can function as a method for thinking about black radical thought as a form, or a poetics. He talks about his work as being “in a constant negotiation with itself, trying to understand the role it plays in building the worlds it is invested in imagining.... - Published: 2022-05-31 - Modified: 2022-11-07 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/floating-margins/ - Price: 7.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter We are honoured to share this collection of heart-led texts from ten contributors whose work generatively interrupts linear histories and de-godded cultural discourse. Texts by Adelaide Bannerman and Michael Smythe, Hassan Vawda, Adam Farah and PJ Winter, Amahra Spence, Amal Khalaf, Jemma Desai, Sepake Angiama. Gloria Anzaldúa tells us that we must work from the inside out. Can publishing, too, become a gesture of the body? Can we use it to pay more attention to what we need and desire? We are honoured to share this collection of heart-led texts from ten contributors whose work generatively interrupts linear histories and de-godded cultural discourse. Texts by Adelaide Bannerman and Michael Smythe, Hassan Vawda, Adam Farah and PJ Winter, Amahra Spence, Amal Khalaf, Jemma Desai, Sepake Angiama. This publication is created by STUART, an experimental art publishing practice and collective producing printed matter and publications. Initiated by Rose Nordin with Priya Jay and Amrita Dhallu, the project centres live archiving, conversation as marginalia and the book as a site of collaboration. 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Each edition has been fitted to an armature, custom-made by Mark Webster of MW Fabrications. These armatures mimic display modes typically used by archaeological museums. Alrai invites us to consider such devices as instruments of colonial capture. Proceeds from the sale of this edition will support the development of an artist’s book by Emii Alrai, creating a permanent legacy for both the artist and the Future Collect project. Future Collect Commission: A Core of Scar (7th April-4th September 2022) Emii Alrai was commissioned by iniva and The Hepworth Wakefield in 2021 as a part of Future Collect, a three-year programme initiated by iniva (the Institute of International Visual Arts) aimed at transforming the future of public art collections across the UK to better reflect our culturally diverse society. A Core of Scar will be acquired for The Hepworth Wakefield’s permanent collection in 2022. In A Core of Scar, Alrai has created a series of hand-blown glass vessels, evoking ancient funerary urns. The vessels are marked by the scars... - Published: 2021-09-16 - Modified: 2025-08-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/a-reimagining-of-relations/ - Price: 10.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications We are delighted to announce Jade Montserrat’s publication, A Reimagining of Relations, as part of her Future Collect commission with iniva and Manchester Art Gallery. This visually rich artist publication makes material the dialogue and ideas that have shaped Montserrat’s process over the past two years. Centring the conversations that have taken place between the artist and fellow creatives through the public programme associated with the commission, the publication also reveals her research and thinking around African American actor Ira Aldridge. A key point of departure for Montserrat was the first work acquired by Manchester Art Gallery, James Northcote’s portrait of Ira Aldridge posing in character as Othello. A Reimagining of Relations asks us to consider the story behind the man in the painting alongside questions of institutional care for people, objects and performances. The publication is punctuated by three Acts; Act I: Ira – Curiosity and Creative Language, Act II: Scoring Performance and Act III: On Publishing Radical Constitutions. The Acts are made up of collective conversations, featuring Amber Akaunu (Root-ed Zine), Fauziya Johnson (Root-ed Zine), Maurice Carlin (Co-Director Islington Mill), Rivca Rubin (Co-Director Islington Mill), Amy Lawrence (Artist), Jack Ky Tan (Artist), Hamja Ahsan (Artist) and No Matter (Poetry Collective). It also includes conversations between Montserrat and curator-in-training Nikita Gill and between curator Kate Jesson and former Director of the National Portrait Gallery Sandy Nairne, alongside a commissioned essay by Alan Rice on the relationship between Montserrat’s work, Ira Aldridge and the history of Black communities in the... - Published: 2021-06-29 - Modified: 2025-10-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/new-reflecting-on-feelings-cards/ - Price: 6.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Emotional Learning Cards - Product shipping classes: Large Letter The 40 cards in this set feature commentary and questions which can be used as conversation prompts in workshops, therapy sessions and the classroom. Designed to be used with our Emotional Learning Cards, the themes explored include everyday feelings, those relating to identity, belonging and thinking about our place in the world. A new accompaniment to our Emotional Learning Cards The Reflecting on Feelings card pack contains 40 cards, featuring commentary and questions which can be used as conversation prompts in discussions, workshops, therapy sessions and the classroom. Themes explored include everyday feelings, those relating to identity, belonging and thinking about our place in the world. The cards support the development of emotional understanding, broaden vocabulary and enable deeper, more extended thinking and discussion to take place. Written by Director of A Space art and therapy service, Lyn French (art therapist, counsellor and psychoanalytic psychotherapist) and designed by Sonja Frick, this set can to be used together with any of our Emotional Learning Card image sets, are suitable for use with any age group and can be used with our free resources to further extend activities and thinking. - Published: 2019-11-29 - Modified: 2023-03-16 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/here-we-come/ - Price: 50.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Artist Editions - Product shipping classes: Artist prints Shepherd Manyika has produced a special limited edition, based on his most recent project Here We Come, The Release Party (2019). The project, made possible through funding from #MyWestminster, involved Manyika working with ETAT (Encouragement Through the Arts and Talking), a Westminster based community group, to respond to preconceived notions of hip-hop. Collectively they produced incredible tracks of spoken word and rap – combining inspiration from drill to wartime classics, recorded in an eight track vinyl EP. This is a rare opportunity to own one of Shepherd Manyika’s works, especially produced for Iniva’s 25th anniversary. - Published: 2018-03-01 - Modified: 2023-03-16 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/black-sapphire-mandingo/ - Price: 7,200.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: exclude-from-catalog, exclude-from-search, outofstock - Product categories: Artist Editions - Product shipping classes: Artist prints Iniva is delighted to announce a new limited edition diptych print by Donald Rodney, produced in collaboration with the Estate of Donald G Rodney. A leading British artist of his generation, Rodney was profoundly influenced by the work of artists including Eddie Chambers, Keith Piper, Sonia Boyce and others who were re-examining social and historical narratives from a black perspective. Though his work continually evolved, Rodney always returned to the human form deployed through multiple manifestations. He would often explore recurring themes of black masculinity, the body and the stereotyping of the black man as “public enemy”, and an icon of danger, often bristling with unbridled and untamed sexuality. Photography for Rodney was a technical means to subvert images, deconstruct and reconstruct a set of realities mediated by print and broadcast media, advertising and commercial illustration. Viewed online, Rodney’s sketchbook number 35 from 1990 shines a slither of light on his view how the ‘genuine history of the slave trade’ is perversely romanticised in a form of pulp fiction which eroticised the daily trauma of plantation life. He made collages overlaying book covers, photographing, disassembling, reassembling and re-photographing to saturate colour and polarise the contrast. Images of people would be cut up, dismembered, and roughly taped together again to create fragile, hybrid, alien and alienated forms. A metaphor perhaps for his own experience of medical incursions transformed poetically through cutting paper creating something more ephemeral and otherworldly. Find out more about Donald Rodney's work at the London Art Fair 2018. - Published: 2017-06-15 - Modified: 2025-03-13 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/lets-talk-about-values/ - SKU: letstalkaboutvalues - Price: 17.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Emotional Learning Cards - Product tags: Emotional Learning Cards - Product shipping classes: Large Letter - 30 colour cards including the British values explored in detail - On the front: an image of an original artwork by Shiraz Bayjoo - On the back: descriptive text linking values with emotions + questions for discussion - A fold out leaflet with lesson plans created by a senior school leader as well as ideas for using them in the therapy setting - 2 additional cards with the complete A-Z list of values and suggestions for extending Receive 5% off when you buy any four sets of Emotional Learning Cards together, 10% off when you buy all seven sets. Boxed set of 30 Contemporary Art Cards with commentary + questions exploring key life values. Values reflect the principles we live by. They influence the choices we make, how we relate to others and what we consider most important in life. In the UK, the Department for Education requires that four values, defined as British values, are now taught in all schools as part on the national curriculum. Labelling key values as nation-specific raises intriguing questions around identity and belonging. Let’s talk about values helps young people explore why we have values and what they look like in action, in order to build inclusive communities and live meaningful lives. Let's talk about values is co-published by Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and A Space, an arts and therapy service. It brings together 30 original lithographic images commissioned from artist Shiraz Bayjoo, reflecting the richness of global contemporary art, while the text written by A Space, reflects over 20 years’ experience of working in the field of psychotherapy. The set was commissioned by Opossum, a federation of primary schools in north London who will use the cards as starting point to support reflection, discussion and art making in the classroom, and are suitable for Key Stage 2 onwards. They can be used in a variety of contexts by teachers, therapists, mentors, psychologists and parents/carers. All artworks commissioned from... - Published: 2017-04-19 - Modified: 2025-08-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/a-z-of-emotions/ - SKU: AZE - Price: 16.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: featured - Product categories: Emotional Learning Cards - Product tags: Emotional Learning Cards - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Receive 5% off when you buy any four sets of Emotional Learning Cards together, 10% off when you buy all seven sets. Boxed set of 26 Contemporary Art Cards for building an Emotional Vocabulary. Life includes ups and downs for everyone. Strengthening our capacity to tolerate unsettling feelings and building our resilience so that we recover quickly from setbacks are both vital to well-being. The A-Z of Emotions is the latest emotional learning resource in our series, featuring 26 commissioned artworks from contemporary artists, paired with a therapeutically informed alphabet and commentary + questions designed to stimulate personal reflection and group discussion. Throughout history, artists from all disciplines have recognised the importance of documenting and exploring ‘felt experiences’. Each of the artists included has produced original works to illustrate feelings from ‘anger’ to ‘zest for life’ using a range of media from digital montage to watercolour and collage. The accompanying texts have been written by an experienced therapist to help navigate complex personal and emotional exploration across age groups. The Artwork Drawing on Iniva’s extensive knowledge, the selected artists have been carefully chosen for commission in order to reflect the richness of global contemporary art. Artists featured include: Larry Achiampong (Digital Montage), Phoebe Boswell (Pencil on Paper), Dia Batal (Mixed Media), Chila Burman (Mixed Media Collage), Matthew Krishanu (Oil on Canvas). Each artist has contributed 5 or 6 original images. - Published: 2017-04-19 - Modified: 2026-05-19 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/what-do-you-feel/ - SKU: WDYF - Price: 14.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Emotional Learning Cards - Product tags: Emotional Learning Cards - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Receive 5% off when you buy any four sets of Emotional Learning Cards together, 10% off when you buy all seven sets. A beautiful learning resource for stimulating young people’s creative exploration, developing self-awareness and understanding adolescence. 20 thought provoking images of contemporary art, each with a series of questions and prompts, help to facilitate important and honest conversations with young people. "What do you feel? " is a stimulating art education and emotional learning resource that can be used in the classroom, after-school workshops, therapeutic settings and at home. Processing emotional responses to life, finding ways to express oneself and understanding relationships are essential life skills. This set of emotional learning cards is ideal for helping children and young people to build these skills. The cards in the boxed-set feature contemporary artworks by culturally-diverse artists on one side, with questions relating to the images on the other. The cards creatively bring to the surface important themes and experiences that are central to the lives of young people, including: understanding relationships; preparing for change and transition; acknowledging and working through losses; thinking about social, personal and cultural identities; identifying emotions and learning how to express them. Recommended for 10-14 year olds, the cards can be used with individuals or groups at home, in school or in therapy and counselling sessions. The set also includes a booklet with ideas for using the cards in their own right or as the starting point for creative projects. NEW AND IMPROVED 2014 EDITION. Featured... - Published: 2017-04-19 - Modified: 2025-08-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/who-are-you-where-are-you-going/ - SKU: WAYWAYG - Price: 14.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Emotional Learning Cards - Product tags: Emotional Learning Cards - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Receive 5% off when you buy any four sets of Emotional Learning Cards together, 10% off when you buy all seven sets. These cards provide images of contemporary art that support people of all ages to gain deeper insights into their identity, backgrounds, values and attitudes. Together with questions and ideas, it is particularly valuable for those coping with change and transition. Who are you? Where are you going? features artworks by culturally diverse and international artists, together with questions and prompts which stimulate activity and discussion around the themes of identity and transition. People’s identities are ever changing and are rooted in social, emotional and cultural histories. They are revealed or hidden in our personal and cultural belief systems, values and attitudes. Mapping emotional and social histories can provide us with deeper insights into who we are and where we come from, a process which provides us with greater self understanding and increased agency over where we are going. Each artwork in this boxed set has been carefully selected to deepen and widen understanding of the themes explored within the resource. The artists and images reflect a range of different cultural backgrounds, making the cards particularly useful for developing understanding around diversity and multiculturalism. NEW AND IMPROVED EDITION 2014 Featured Artists: Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Shiraz Bayjoo, Los Carpinteros, Sokari Douglas Camp, Juan Pablo Echeverri, Yara El-Sherbini, Alex Flemming, Diana Fonseca, Aya Haidar, NS Harsha, Permindar Kaur, Anthony Key, Hew Locke, Otobong Nkanga, Lucy Orta, Wilfredo Prieto, Donald... - Published: 2017-04-19 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/how-do-we-live-well-with-others/ - SKU: HDWLWWO - Price: 14.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Emotional Learning Cards - Product tags: Emotional Learning Cards - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Receive 5% off when you buy any four sets of Emotional Learning Cards together, 10% off when you buy all seven sets. As well as challenging commonly held assumptions about who makes art and what its purpose might be, the cards bring together the kinds of questions artists enquire into with those which are at the root of all emotional learning and therapeutic exploration. ‘How do we live well with others? ’ is the latest emotional learning resource in our series. The images featured are beautiful reproductions of contemporary artworks selected for their psychological resonance and their visual impact. This set has been developed to raise awareness of our similarities and differences, and their effect on our understanding of each other. The set addresses questions including: What has influenced who we are now and how do we make sense of who we are becoming? What are the conscious and unconscious impacts of history, memory, class, race, culture, gender, family and society on our perceptions of ‘self’ and ‘other’? It is now widely recognised that well-being in every part of life depends on successfully building understanding, insight and emotional resilience. Emotional Learning Cards occupy a leading position in the growing fields of emotional learning and psychological therapies, bringing together the extensive experience of Iniva and A Space in both the arts and therapies. Our cards support ‘meaning-making’ as well as challenging often stereotypical ideas about who makes art and what its purpose might be. Featured Artists: Yinka Shonibare MBE, Ai Weiwei,... - Published: 2017-04-19 - Modified: 2025-06-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/a-z-of-leadership/ - SKU: AZL - Price: 16.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Emotional Learning Cards - Product tags: Emotional Learning Cards - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Receive 5% off when you buy any four sets of Emotional Learning Cards together, 10% off when you buy all seven sets. Boxed set of Contemporary Art Cards for building emotionally intelligent leadership. The A-Z of Leadership is the latest emotional learning resource in our series featuring evocative and compelling artworks by international contemporary artists along with psychologically informed commentary + questions. We all understand the everyday meaning of emotional intelligence but how does it apply to leadership? Whether we hold a responsible position in a small or large organisation or are trying to be an effective role model to others, we can benefit from expanding our understanding of the conscious and unconscious factors at play. At the heart of effective leadership is the capacity to build relationships that can sustain more complex challenges. We need to be able to work with difference, balance needs, understand unconscious agendas and take into account other viewpoints or cultural influences which may be very different from our own. The A-Z of Leadership cards are designed to go beyond common themes by reflecting on these kinds of subjects and on the psychological dimensions of taking on a leadership role. Featured Artists: Endia Beal, Idris Khan, Nina Mangalanayagam, Joy Gregory, Kimathi Donkor, Karl Ohiri, Razwan Ulhaq, Mohamed Bourouissa, Alida Rodrigues, Natalia Anciso, Ria Hartley, Aya Haidar, Nandan Ghiya, Oscar Murillo, Park Chan-kyong, Halil Altindere, Felipe Castel Blanco, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye,Delaine de Bas, Erika Tan, Jack Tan, Sandra Ramos, Hassan Hajjaj, Faisal Abdu'Allah, Barby Asante and Lerato... - Published: 2017-04-19 - Modified: 2026-05-19 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/what-do-relationships-mean-to-you/ - SKU: WDRMTY - Price: 17.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Emotional Learning Cards - Product tags: Emotional Learning Cards - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Receive 5% off when you buy any four sets of Emotional Learning Cards together, 10% off when you buy all seven sets. Boxed set of 30 Contemporary Art Cards with commentary & questions exploring sexual identities and intimate relationships. Intimacy, sexual identities, love... what does it all mean? Making sense of our relationships and of the context for these experiences is something that, throughout time, artists from different disciplines and diverse cultures, have recognised the importance of. Sometimes this task requires that we explore our past and present from multiple perspectives. What do relationships mean to you? is the latest emotional learning resource in our series, using visual art to explore sexual identities and intimate relationships. These cards use contemporary art to support reflection on key themes ranging from what makes a relationship meaningful, emotionally enriching and sustainable through to how we articulate sexual difference and alternative sexualities. Needless to say, a good relationship with our inner self is where it all starts! Designed to stimulate discussion, art making, personal reflection, diary writing, storytelling and creative play; the cards can help to make sense of life experiences, open up new ways of thinking about emotions and encourage free expression. Featured Artists: Jannane Al-Ani, Alina Azadeh, Farah Bajull , Phoebe Boswell, Sutapa Biswas, Sonia Boyce, Helen Chadwick, George Chakravarti, Neha Choksi, Sarah Cole, Song Dong, Meschac Gaba, Sheila Ghelani, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Joy Gregory, Shilpa Gupta, Zhi Holloway, Deborah Kelly, Mouna Karray, Mem Morrison, Chris Ofili, Imran Qureshi, Sheena Rose, The Singh... - Published: 2017-01-27 - Modified: 2023-03-16 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/omerfast/ - SKU: OmerFastRichard - Price: 200.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Artist Editions - Product shipping classes: Artist prints Born in Jerusalem and based in Berlin, Omer Fast is one of the most innovative video artists working today. Using familiar sources of reference, Fast manipulates time, memory and location with a multi-layered elegance, which is both subtle and humorous. The print Richard was produced with Iniva when Fast was part of inIVA's Atlas season of exhibitions and events that map ideas and experiences largely drawn from uncharted territory in 2004. The print includes a still and text from Fast’s film Godville in which he interviews 18th-century character interpreters in Colonial Williamsburg, a living history museum in Virginia, USA. The characters in Godville represent a cross-section of the town's resident reenactors interviewed in their assigned eighteenth-century settings and period garments and the film tells the story of a town whose residents are unmoored and floating somewhere in between America's past and present, fantasy and reality. The composition of the print mimicks his playful editing process of cutting and arranging scraps of text to create new frissons within language. Omer Fast is pre-occupied with the way conventional documentary approaches misrepresent and distort history. His ruminations have a multilayered elegance that is subtle, humorous, and continuously overlapping between time, memory and location. - Published: 2017-01-27 - Modified: 2021-12-13 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/homage-to-the-poet-langston-hughes/ - SKU: PeterClarkeHomage - Price: 250.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Artist Editions - Product shipping classes: Artist prints Print by Peter Clarke on the occasion of the Iniva exhibition 'Wind Blowing on the Cape Flats'. One of the most accomplished and versatile visual South African artists, Peter Clarke was born in 1929. In his early twenties he declared that he would make his living as an artist, which was a highly unusual ambition for a young black South African at the time. Over the last sixty years, Clarke has reflected on his country's social and political history and is often referred to as the ‘quiet chronicler'. His work constitutes a subtle critique of apartheid and its social consequences as well as more recently, aspects of the ‘new' South Africa. The exhibition Wind Blowing on the Cape Flats honours Clarke's life, work and contribution to art over sixty years and tells the story of an artist who is part of a lost generation, a voice that has been largely unheard in Europe. This print, a four-colour lithograph, is after an original hand-coloured linocut from the artist's personal collection. It depicts an outstretched single hand, reaching towards a dove, suggesting a yearning for peace or solidarity. The work is a homage to the American poet and social activist Langston Hughes who was recognised for his contribution to the 'Harlem Renaissance' and was an important influence on the artist. - Published: 2017-01-27 - Modified: 2023-03-16 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/good-morning-freedom/ - SKU: SoniaBoyceGoodMorning - Price: 215.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Artist Editions - Product shipping classes: Artist prints The acclaimed artist, Sonia Boyce, works in a wide range of media to address contemporary urban experience and the relationship between sound and memory. Boyce rose to prominence in the 1980s for her work questioning racial stereotypes in the media and in day-to-day life. Her more recent work has shifted to explore social practice and collaboration, with the audience as an integral part of the artwork. In Scat, produced in collaboration with Iniva, Boyce explores the significance of sound in art through the presentation of two video works and through The Devotional Collection, a multi-media archive she has built which charts the history of black women in the music industry. Good Morning Freedom is a new limited edition print, created especially for Scat and developed through archive materials from The Devotional Collection. Boyce has sampled the 1970's hit ‘Good Morning Freedom'; an uplifting song that reached number 10 in the UK singles charts in 1970. Performed by the band Blue Mink, it features the vocals of Madeline Bell, a US session singer who settled in the UK having started out singing gospel in the United States. The vibrant print communicates the spirit and effervescence of the song. Recognised as an important artist for her generation, Sonia Boyce only occasionally produces limited edition prints and as such this is a rare opportunity to own a work of hers. Watch Sonia Boyce talk about her limited edition print - Published: 2017-01-27 - Modified: 2021-12-13 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/banksia/ - SKU: AlidaRodriguesBanksia - Price: 60.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Artist Editions - Product shipping classes: Artist prints Iniva is delighted to announce a new limited edition print by Alida Rodrigues to accompany her residency and exhibition Anthologia during October 2014. This small, affordable edition of 30 giclée digital prints has been created from one of Rodrigues iconic black and white portrait photographs, which features a distinctive spiked Australian wildflower addition from the plant genus Banksia for which the print has been named. The plant collage addition runs off the postcard and into the print which has been created on a 100% cotton rich German Etch paper. Rodrigues work consists of a found black-and-white photographs from the 19th century. These original ‘postcards' were self-portraits of individuals, couples and families sent to their loved ones as mementos and communiqués. The faces of some of these anonymous subjects are obscured by botanical illustrations, and named after a plant genus. Playing with tropes of identity, traditional hand-painted photography, history and collage, Rodrigues performs the role of a botanist, painstakingly crafting, cataloguing and naming the specimens in her collection. Alida Rodrigues will be exhibiting and developing work in our education space during October 2014. Iniva is providing Rodrigues with an open studio to enable a dialogue with visitors and provide an opportunity for her to experiment with her practice. During this time, the public are invited to view both an existing and a developing body of work within the space. This is a unique opportunity to own one of Alida's works, produced in collaboration with Iniva solely for the Anthologia residency. - Published: 2017-01-27 - Modified: 2025-02-05 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/naufrage-du-dalblair/ - SKU: ShirazBayjooNaufrage - Price: 150.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Artist Editions - Product shipping classes: Artist prints Iniva is delighted to announce a new limited edition print by Shiraz Bayjoo to accompany the artist's residency and exhibition Ile de France 14 January - 7 February 2015. This small, affordable edition of 30 giclée digital prints depicts an archival postcard of the Dalblair, a 19th century steel barque which sunk off the coast of Mauritius in 1902 and after which the print is named. Bayjoo has used collage and acrylic watercolour to transform the depicted boat, the shipwreck of which is now a mainstay of the tourist coastline at the Pointe D'Esnay. The print captures Bayjoo's interest in encounters between his native Mauritius and its colonial past which are omnipresent in his work Ile de France, and are commonly found as a juxtaposition of painted and archival material in his artworks. Printed onto a cotton rich Somerset Satin paper with raw edging. Bayjoo will be exhibiting and developing work in our education space during the residency. Iniva is providing Bayjoo with an open studio to enable a dialogue with visitors and provide an opportunity for him to edit his new film Ile de France. This is a rare opportunity to own one of Bayjoo's works, produced in collaboration with Iniva solely for the residency. - Published: 2017-01-27 - Modified: 2025-02-05 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/all-things-considered/ - SKU: TsherinSherpaAllThings - Price: 450.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Artist Editions - Product shipping classes: Artist prints Iniva is delighted to launch a new limited edition print by acclaimed Nepalese artist Tsherin Sherpa, created in collaboration with Rossi & Rossi Contemporary. This outstanding digital print which comes in two sections, was created from the original monumental canvas based diptych ‘All Things Considered'. 'All Things Considered consists of two enormous spirit figures hovering above scenes of chaos and play. There's a sense of confusion and protection amongst smothering amounts of fire and smoke. Golden children from different parts of the world are depicted either playing blissfully or in anguish amongst the turmoil, almost as if on a different plain of existence. In today's world we are all affected by some form of upheaval, be it from poverty, war, genocide, sickness, discrimination or environmental changes. Much of the hatred comes out of our attachment to individual realities and belief systems. As we draw lines between countries and close our minds to other cultures and their identities, we turn away from our commonalities. Here, I search for equanimity above the current destruction in the world, hoping that the next generation can see past the differences and find some better ground. ' Tsherin Sherpa - From Parallel Realities, Contemporary Tibetan Art. About the Artist Born in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tsherin Sherpa currently works and lives in the United States. From the age of 12, he studied traditional Tibetan thangka painting with his father, a renowned thangka artist from Ngyalam, Tibet. After studying computer science and Mandarin in Taiwan, he returned to Nepal... - Published: 2016-12-20 - Modified: 2023-03-16 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/reviewing-the-future-in-broken-english/ - SKU: KeithPiperReviewing - Price: 275.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Artist Editions - Product shipping classes: Artist prints Iniva is delighted to announce a new limited edition print by Keith Piper entitled Reviewing the future in Broken English. This silk screen print was produced by Bluecoat Print Studio alongside the artist, to celebrate Keith's forthcoming solo exhibition Unearthing the Bankers Bones, a Bluecoat/Iniva collaboration, Liverpool 28 October 2016 - 22 January 2017. The print references research and visual strategies which address contemporary concerns about the impacts of globalisation, themes found in the wider exhibition. About the Artist Keith Piper is an artist, curator, researcher and academic. His work over the past 25 years has explored issues of racial, gender and class identity. Piper first exhibited in 1981 as a member of the BLK Art Group, an association of black British art students that included peers Eddie Chambers, Claudette Johnson and Donald Rodney. In a series of exhibitions entitled 'The Pan African Connection' the group sought to explore issues relevant to aspects of black political struggles through contemporary art practice. Using a wide range of media, from painting, sculpture and installation, to interactive and digital media he has made interventions into arts and non arts spaces both in the UK and internationally. He currently lives and works in London. - Published: 2009-01-15 - Modified: 2025-04-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/shen-yuan/ - SKU: ShenYuan - Price: 17.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Having exhibited internationally to great acclaim, Shen Yuan is emerging as one of the most important and innovative artists working in Europe today. Living and working in Paris since 1990, she forms part of a generation of artists who left China to pursue their artistic practice. Shen Yuan, the first monograph to be published on the artist's career, takes readers on a visually exciting journey of Shen Yuan's work to date. Documenting past projects and work in progress for her first major solo exhibition, the book also includes colourful sketchbook pages of both realised and unrealised projects, which provide insight into the artist's working process. Alongisde newly commissioned essays by Hou Hanru, Evelyne Jouanno, Martina Köppel-Yang and Gilane Tawadros, quotations from the artist provide a lively and enlightening commentary on her work. Published on the occasion of a touring exhibition at Arnolfini, Bristol; Chisenhale Gallery, London; and Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool - Published: 2007-12-11 - Modified: 2025-04-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/exiles-diasporas-strangers/ - SKU: ExilesAAH - Price: 15.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications, Annotating Art's Histories Migration throws objects, identities and ideas into flux across a global network of travelling cultures. Examining life-changing journeys that transplanted artists and intellectuals from one cultural context to another, Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers offers a thematic overview of the critical and creative role of estrangement and displacement in the story of 20th-century art. Revealing the traumatic conditions that shaped numerous variants of modernism - among indigenous artists in Australia and Canada as much as émigré art historians from Central Europe - these critical studies also highlight multidirectional patterns of cross-appropriation that trouble the settled boundaries of national belonging, whether manifested in 1920s Nigeria or in post-modern works by black British artists of the 1980s. Coming up to date with historical perspectives on conceptual art's engagement with alterity, Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers makes a unique contribution to art history's rapprochement with the post-colonial turn. Annotating Art's Histories series Featuring internationally renowned scholars and curators at the critical edge of current research in art history, visual culture, and the humanities, Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures is the third volume in the Annotating Art's Histories series. Newly-comissioned writings are presented alongside bibliographies, translations, and selected reprints of key texts. Building up a richer understanding of cultural difference as a dynamic feature of 20th-century art, this acclaimed series is essential reading for students, practitioners, and anyone curious about cross-cultural interaction in the visual arts. The Annotating Art's Histories series is supported by The Getty Foundation. Other books in the series Cosmopolitan Modernisms Pop Art... - Published: 2007-08-29 - Modified: 2024-10-17 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/states-of-exchange-estados-de-intercambio/ - SKU: StatesofExchange - Price: 17.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter At a time when borderless communication is assumed to be the global standard and economic powers no longer adhere to old boundaries of East and West, Cuba is a country caught in flux. States of Exchange explores how artists in Cuba deal with the contradictions, ambiguities and social negotiations in Cuban life, leading a critical culture that prevails in the country since the mid-1980s. With contributions from the curators - Gerardo Mosquera on the history and context of current Cuban art and Cylena Simonds on the exhibition's themes of economic and communication exchange - this book also includes texts by different writers on the six exhibiting artists. In addition it features a survey of current video practice, exploring its status as an alternative means for creatively investigating and exchanging knowledge about Cuba's historical past and social present. En una época en la que damos por sentado que la comunicación sin fronteras es el estándar global, y las potencias económicas ya no se adhieren a las viejas líneas divisorias del esquema Este-Oeste, Cuba es una nación en constante estado de cambio. Estados de intercambio explora la forma en que los artistas de Cuba manejan las contradicciones, ambigüedades y negociaciones sociales de la vida cubana, encabezando una cultura crítica que impera en el país desde mediados de los años ochenta. Con contribuciones de los curadores - Gerardo Mosquera escribe sobre la historia y el contexto del arte cubano actual, y Cylena Simonds sobre los temas de intercambio económico y de comunicación a... - Published: 2007-05-17 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/pop-art-and-vernacular-cultures/ - SKU: PopArt - Price: 15.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: featured - Product categories: Publications, Annotating Art's Histories How does pop art translate across cultures? What does pop art look like through a post-colonial lens? This collection, co-published by Iniva and The MIT Press, casts new light on the aesthetics and politics of pop by bringing cross-cultural perspectives to focus on the shifting boundaries of ‘high' and ‘low' across different national and international contexts. Artists have long challenged the discourse of officialdom by turning to dissident elements in vernacular cultures. Exploring practices that range from the recycling of consumerist leftovers in Chicano rasquachismo to the painterly pastiche of Hindu 'photo-gods', innovative studies reveal how unexpected antagonisms in the social life of images have also questioned the categories of 'folk', 'nation' and ‘people' in the visual culture of modernity. When Mao goes pop, should we view the results as avant-garde, anti-modern or post-modern? Who ‘owns' popular culture in South Africa or Brazil? Why is hybridity so closely associated with the carnivalesque and the grotesque? Taking a fresh look at global transitions from modernism to post-modernism, the critical revision put forward in Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures radically expands our understanding of the late 20th-century period from which our working definitions of contemporary art are drawn. Annotating Art's Histories series Featuring internationally renowned scholars and curators at the critical edge of current research in art history, visual culture, and the humanities, Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures is the third volume in the Annotating Art's Histories series. Newly-comissioned writings are presented alongside bibliographies, translations, and selected reprints of key texts. Building... - Published: 2006-08-21 - Modified: 2024-10-17 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/alien-nation/ - SKU: AlienNation - Price: 19.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Small Parcel The scale of current global insecurity and fear may feel unprecedented, but Alien Nation is a timely reminder that today's anxieties are in fact a frighteningly recurrent theme. In the Cold War narratives of the 1950s and '60s that were played out in science fiction films, fears surrounding a communist invasion and atomic catastrophe were displaced onto an alien, often racialised ‘other'. In recent years artists from around the world have again taken up elements of science fiction and the figure of the alien to explore the fear of difference and the perceived threat of the outsider. Featuring the work of twelve contemporary artists alongside original film posters, film stills and archival photographs from the Cold War era, this lavishly illustrated book offers another chapter in this all too real fiction. It includes interviews with the artists, an in-depth exploration of the connections between science fiction, political and media narratives and contemporary art, as well as a major essay on the BBC television series Quatermass. It also includes a glossary of extra-terrestrial beings and an annotated tour through sci-fi films evoking race as an alien spectre. Texts: Claire Fitzsimmons, Jens Hoffmann, David Alan Mellor, Cylena Simonds, Greg Tate, Gilane Tawadros/John Gill Artists: Laylah Ali, Hamad Butt, Edgar Cleijne, Ellen Gallagher, David Huffman, Hew Locke, Marepe, Henna Nadeem, Kori Newkirk, Yinka Shonibare, Eric Wesley, Mario Ybarra Jr. Book design: APFEL (A Practice for Everyday Life) - Published: 2006-06-08 - Modified: 2024-10-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/discrepant-abstraction/ - SKU: DiscrepantAbstractsAAH - Price: 15.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications, Annotating Art's Histories Discrepant Abstraction is hybrid and partial, elusive and repetitive, obstinate and strange: it includes almost everything that does not neatly fit into the institutional narrative of abstract art as a monolithic quest for artistic ‘purity'. Exploring cross-cultural scenarios in 20th-century art, this ground-breaking collection, co-published by Iniva and The MIT Press, alters our understanding of abstract art as a signifier of modernity by revealing the multiple directions it has taken in diverse international contexts. Impure, imperfect and incomplete, the version of abstraction that emerges from this global journey - from Hong Kong and Islamic regions to Canada, Australia, Europe and the United States - shows how the formal ingenuity of abstract art has been cross-fertilised, from abstract expressionism onwards, by creative discrepancies that arise when disparate visual languages are brought into dialogue. Annotating Art's Histories series Featuring internationally renowned scholars and curators at the critical edge of current research in art history, visual culture, and the humanities, Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures is the third volume in the Annotating Art's Histories series. Newly-comissioned writings are presented alongside bibliographies, translations, and selected reprints of key texts. Building up a richer understanding of cultural difference as a dynamic feature of 20th-century art, this acclaimed series is essential reading for students, practitioners, and anyone curious about cross-cultural interaction in the visual arts. The Annotating Art's Histories series is supported by The Getty Foundation. Other books in the series Cosmopolitan Modernisms Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers - Published: 2005-05-05 - Modified: 2025-07-31 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/cedric-price-retriever/ - SKU: CedricPriceRetriever - Price: 9.99 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications, Annotations - Product shipping classes: Small Parcel The time-based interventions of radical British architect Cedric Price (1934-2003) earned him legendary status among artists and architects alike. This publication provides a unique insight into the preoccupations of one of Britain's leading architects and thinkers. In 2004 Eleanor Bron and Samantha Hardingham set about locating and cataloguing each title from Cedric Price's personal library. What has emerged is a map of Price's thought processes and imagination - a set of both strategic and unruly co-ordinates for the projects that emerged from his office. Bron and Hardingham, in keeping with the coding system of Cedric Price Architects, have created an annotated catalogue with symbols and codes referring to possible categories in which to place each book. However, space is left for the reader to add notes and annotations and the utilitarian nature of the publication - offered as a self-assembly kit - allows readers to assemble it as they wish and create their own map from the catalogue. As Price notes, '... hardly anything, believe me, is more depressing than going straight to the goal' (Gunter Grass). A4 size, the pages fit into any binding system. Price's preferences for fonts, symbols, paper and information are reflected in Paul Khera's design. In the knowledge of one civilisation printed on the remains of another, the book is produced from 100% post consumer waste, with the colour on the pages being derived from vegetable ink. Eleanor Bron is an actress and writer who first met Price in 1970. Samantha Hardingham is a writer... - Published: 2005-04-11 - Modified: 2024-03-12 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/shades-of-black-assembling-black-arts-in-1980s-britain/ - SKU: ShadesofBlack - Price: 19.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Medium Parcel In the 1980s - at the height of Thatcherism and in the wake of civil unrest and rioting in a number of British cities - the Black Arts Movement burst onto the British art scene with breathtaking intensity, changing the nature and perception of British culture irreversibly. This richly illustrated volume presents a history of that movement. It brings together in a lively dialogue leading artists, curators, art historians and critics, many of whom were actively involved in the Black Arts Movement. Thirteen original essays combine cultural theory with anecdote and experience, and the collection debates how the work of the black British artists of the 1980s might be viewed historically. The book includes a unique catalogue of images, an extensive list of suggested readings, and a descriptive timeline situating the movement vis-à-vis relevant artworks and films, exhibitions, cultural criticism, and political events from 1960 to 2000. Contributors: Stanley Abe, Jaward Al-Nawab, Rasheed Araeen, David A. Bailey, Adelaide Bannerman, Ian Baucom, Dawould Bey, Sonia Boyce, Allan deSouza, Jean Fisher, Stuart Hall, Lubaina Himid, Naseem Khan, susan pui san lok, Kobena Mercer, Yong Soon Min, Keith Piper, Zineb Sedira, Gilane Tawadros, Leon Wainwright, Judith Wilson - Published: 2005-01-01 - Modified: 2025-05-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/cosmopolitan-modernisms/ - SKU: CosmoModsAAH - Price: 15.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications, Annotating Art's Histories Co-published by Iniva and The MIT Press, Cosmopolitan Modernisms explores various moments in 20th-century art where the encounter between different cultures has produced something distinctive and revealing about the lived experience of modernity. Distinguished art historians and emerging scholars are brought together in this book by a critical dialogue that pushes beyond separate areas of study to arrive at a more connective approach to the history of art. Travelling through a variety of historical contexts, from colonial India and pre-war Germany, to post-1945 Brazil, and the Caribbean and African American spaces of the black Atlantic diaspora, this unique collection re-defines the ‘cosmopolitan' as a critical aspect of the questioning attitude that artists adopted throughout the world. Annotating Art's Histories series Featuring internationally renowned scholars and curators at the critical edge of current research in art history, visual culture, and the humanities, Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures is the third volume in the Annotating Art's Histories series. Newly-comissioned writings are presented alongside bibliographies, translations, and selected reprints of key texts. Building up a richer understanding of cultural difference as a dynamic feature of 20th-century art, this acclaimed series is essential reading for students, practitioners, and anyone curious about cross-cultural interaction in the visual arts. The Annotating Art's Histories series is supported by The Getty Foundation. Other books in the series Cosmopolitan Modernisms Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers - Published: 2004-01-23 - Modified: 2025-10-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/changing-states-contemporary-art-and-ideas-in-an-era-of-globalisation/ - SKU: ChangingStates - Price: 25.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: featured - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Small Parcel Featuring the work of over 100 artists and writers, this unique anthology maps the changing landscape of contemporary art and culture over the past decade in the context of global economics and local politics. Seen through the prism of a decade of artistic programming by Iniva, the book examines the most pressing issues that have driven international contemporary art at the turn of the millennium. The presentation of compelling issues in an accessible and visual way makes this book essential reading for academics and art enthusiasts alike. Thematic chapters on key concepts - such as modernity, nation, site, technology, the postcolonial city, performance, the archive and sport - combine new writing with artists' pages, reprints of much sought-after texts, unpublished transcripts of discussions and interviews featuring leading international scholars. The inclusion of a glossary and a timeline plotting some of the decade's greatest artistic achievements makes this an important book for anyone interested in international contemporary art. Celebrating ten years of Iniva projects, the anthology provides a compendium of groundbreaking artworks, debates and ideas that have been at the cutting edge of wider social, economic and political transformations. Preface: Stuart Hall Contributors: Remi Abbas, Absalon, Kourush Adim, AES art group, Laylah Ali, Janine Antoni, Lyle Ashton Harris, David A. Bailey, Ian Baucom, Sutupa Biswas, Louise Bourgeois, Frank Bowling, Sonia Boyce, Guy Brett, Tania Bruguera, Roddy Buchanan, Hamad Butt, Eddie Chambers, Clifford Charles, Carl Cheng, Freddy Contreras, Clare Cumberlidge, Avtarjeet Dhanjal, Tarsila do Amaral, Ricardo Dominguez, Aaron Douglas, Jimmie Durham, Richard... - Published: 2003-03-04 - Modified: 2025-06-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/veil-veiling-representation-and-contemporary-art/ - SKU: Veil - Price: 17.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Small Parcel Veil is the first publication to explore the representation of the veil - one of the most powerful symbols in contemporary visual culture - and serves as an essential starting point to establish a new international dialogue. Extending possible interpretations of the veil and investigating the ambiguities and paradoxes expressed in contemporary arts practice, it provides both a social and an historic context to the veil's multilayered symbolism. Alongside newly commissioned essays by leading international scholars and works by contemporary visual artists, key historical texts trace a trajectory of writings across religions, cultures, genders and ages to reflect the breadth of conflicting and constantly shifting attitudes towards the veil. Texts: Leila Ahmed, Jananne Al-Ani, David A. Bailey, Alison Donnell, Frantz Fanon, Reina Lewis, Hamid Naficy, Zineb Sedira, Ahdaf Soueif, Gilane Tawadros Artists: Faisal Abdu'Allah, Kourush Adim, AES art group, Jananne Al-Ani, Ghada Amer, Farah Bajull, Samta Benyahia, Gaëtan de Clérambault, Marc Garanger, Shadafarin Ghadirian, Ghazel, Emily Jacir, Ramesh Kalkur, Majida Khattari, Shirin Neshat, Harold Offeh, Gillo Pontecorvo, Zineb Sedira, Elin Strand, Mitra Tabrizian Published on occasion of Veil, an Iniva touring exhibition initiated by Zenib Sedira, developed by Jananne Al-Ani and Sedira, and curated by Al-Ani, David A. Bailey, Sedira and Gilane Tawadros - Published: 2003-01-01 - Modified: 2025-10-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/vampire-in-the-text-narratives-of-contemporary-art/ - SKU: Vampire - Price: 14.99 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Small Parcel This collection of writings by Jean Fisher traces the author's journey through the political and intellectual turbulence of the past 20 years and its impact on both artistic practice and the writing of art. Through her close study of Anglo/Irish and US/Native American colonial and contemporary relations, Fisher explores the effectiveness of artistic practice in the construction of political and subjective agency. Each essay in the first part of the book maps a possible terrain for approaching the work of a single artist - among them, James Coleman, Jimmie Durham, Susan Hiller, Gabriel Orozco and Adrian Piper - while the texts in the second part reflect upon artistic practice in relation to questions of subjectivity, postcoloniality and multiculturalism. Jean Fisher's interdisciplinary approach to writing provides rich insights into the relationship between visual art and theory and has been highly influential to a generation of international scholars, artists and curators. Artists featured: Judith Barry, James Coleman, Willie Doherty, Jimmie Durham, David Dye, Jack Goldstein, Susan Hiller, Anselm Kiefer, Avis Newman, Everlyn Nicodemus, Gabriel Orozco, Adrian Piper, Santi Quesada, Frank Stella, Lee Ufan Preface: Cuauhtémoc Medina - Published: 2002-04-01 - Modified: 2024-10-17 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/chinese-art-at-the-crossroads-between-past-and-future-between-east-and-west/ - SKU: ChineseArt - Price: 20.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Small Parcel This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding more about the transformations occurring in Chinese art today. This wide-ranging collection of texts and images, by artists, critics and curators, reveals the tensions, fervour and zeal of one of the most exciting art scenes anywhere in the world. The book's essays, interviews and debates provide varied, lively and well-informed insights from a diverse range of individuals at the forefront of Chinese contemporary art. This wide-ranging collection of texts, interviews, discussions and images, previously published on the Chinese-art. com website in 2001, embraces a disparate group of voices and offers local and global perspectives on the art scenes of mainland China and its diaspora. - Published: 2002-01-27 - Modified: 2024-10-25 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/a-long-conversation-with-stuart-hall/ - SKU: StuartHallDVD - Price: 12.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: DVD, Publications Stuart Hall is an important figure in the influential interdisciplinary field known as cultural studies. In this stimulating and eloquent four-hour interview, conducted by the literary journalist Maya Jaggi and directed by Mike Dibb, Hall reflects on his life and career, talking personally and in depth about the trajectory of his work and how it has intersected with broader political movements. In a conversation both intimate and sweeping in scope, Hall describes his migration from Jamaica to England, his immersion in left-wing politics in London, the influence of Raymond Williams and E. P. Thompson on the evolution of his thought, and the context within which the early classic texts of cultural studies were written. Hall also shares his pessimism about the economic recession and his optimism about Barack Obama's victory. Future analysis of Hall's work, and of cultural studies in general, will need to take account of this fascinating and indispensable first-person account of his life and ideas. The conversation is broken into short sections to facilitate use in the classroom. - Published: 2000-10-01 - Modified: 2025-08-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/drawing-space-contemporary-indian-drawing/ - SKU: DrawingSpace - Price: 7.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Weaving a thread between contemporary drawing and nineteenth-century Company paintings, Drawing Space: Contemporary Indian Drawings maps the intimate historical connection between Britain and India. In the early nineteenth-century, Company paintings forged a new relationship between Indian artists and their colonial patrons, the East India Company. The drawn line was traditionally used as a means of defining social and physical space; this publication explores how it has become a device for negotiating space in ways that are self-empowering. Bringing together three of India's most innovative contemporary artists - Sheela Gowda, N. S. Harsha and Nasreen Mohamedi - Drawing Space contains specially commissioned essays, interviews and diary extracts, providing not only an art-historical background of the work, but also personal insights into the creative processes of the three artists. Published on occasion of the exhibition Drawing Space, co-produced by Iniva and Beaconsfield in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum. - Published: 1999-07-28 - Modified: 2017-07-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/mixed-belongings-and-unspecified-destinations-annotations-1/ - SKU: MixedBelongings - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications, Annotations Edited by Nikos Papastergiadis with contributing essays from Graham Crow, Simon Edge, Richard Hylton, Doreen Massey, Lynda Morris, Yinka Shonibare and Tim Rollins, this book explores the different and complex relationships between artists and notions of community. Annotations 1 brings together the papers delivered during the one-day interdisciplinary conference 'Imagined Communities' at John Hansard Gallery in May 1996. Annotations series Iniva's Annotations series assembles art and ideas that have existed previously in a different context. These short accessible volumes are perfect introductions to some of the issues at the heart of current critical debate. Other titles in the series Cedric Price Retriever Modernity and Difference, Stuart Hall and Sarat Maharaj Run Through the Jungle: Selected Writings by Eddie Chambers Steve Ouditt: Creole in-site Sonia Boyce: Performance - Published: 1999-01-31 - Modified: 2019-08-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/recordings-a-select-bibliography-of-contemporary-african-afro-caribbean-and-asian-british-art/ - SKU: Recordings - Price: 9.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: World Zone 1 Standard An archive of audio and video tapes, ephemera, books and exhibition catalogues on the practice of black artists was established at Chelsea College of Art in 1985 and its holdings are now published in this bibliography. Aiming to reflect the diversity of black British visual arts practice, it provides an invaluable resource for historical documentation and research worldwide. - Published: 1999-01-30 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/steve-ouditt-creole-in-site-annotations-4/ - SKU: SteveOudittCreole - Price: 4.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications, Annotations - Product shipping classes: Large Letter 'A post-independence American/English-educated Christian Indian Trinidadian West Indian Creole male artist'. This is how Steve Ouditt describes himself in a playful and poignant comment on the complexities of diasporan identities which have become so resonant in the so-called post-modern world. Profoundly aware of the limitations of language, Ouditt's writings and art navigate the difficult terrain between the visual and the verbal, between the poetic and the prosaic. Creole in-site collects together the artist's writings for the first time, alongside images of his work. Annotations series Iniva's Annotations series assembles art and ideas that have existed previously in a different context. These short accessible volumes are perfect introductions to some of the issues at the heart of current critical debate. Other titles in the series Cedric Price Retriever Modernity and Difference: Stuart Hall and Sarat Maharaj Run Through the Jungle: Selected Writings by Eddie Chambers Frequencies: Investigations into Culture, History and Technology Sonia Boyce: Performance Mixed Belongings and Unspecified Destinations - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2024-03-12 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/phillip-lai/ - SKU: PhillipLai - Price: 4.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter This first publication on the work of Phillip Lai was published to coincide with an exhibition of his work in 1997. It contains an introductory essay by Francis McKee, an interview with the artist by Karina Daskalov, and documentation of Lai's work at The Showroom, London. - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/filter/ - SKU: MaryEvansFilter - Price: 6.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter The culmination of Mary Evans' residency at Leighton House Museum, Filter contains an essay by Gilane Tawadros and a conversation between the artist and Julia Findlater. During her residency, Evans 'excavated' the history of Lord Leighton and his home. Evans' subtle interventions appear, at first, to be part of the historic fabric of the building but are, on closer inspection, something altogether different as the artist investigates the heavily coded sign systems of the Leighton House Museum. - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2019-08-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/li-yuan-chia-tell-me-what-is-not-yet-said/ - SKU: LiYuanChia - Price: 20.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Small Parcel Li Yuan-Chia: tell me what is not said is the first fully-illustrated monograph dedicated to the life and work of this extraordinary artist and reproduces works seen here for the first time. An artist, curator, poet and archivist, Li Yuan-chia ranks among the most original and radical of post-war artists. Born in China, Li Yuan-chia studied art in Taiwan where he was considered one of the founding fathers of Chinese abstract painting in the 1950s. He arrived in London in the 1960s to exhibit at David Medalla's and Paul Keeler's Signals Gallery and later showed with Lisson Gallery. He spend most of his later life in Cumbria, establishing the LYC Museum in his own home and creating opportunities for over three hundred artists. This publication includes two newly commissioned essays: Guy Brett contributes an account of the artist's life and work, and Nick Sawyer introduces his selection of the artist's poems. In addition, there is an illustrated documentary section on the LYC Museum, a detailed chronology and bibliography. Published on the occasion of a major touring exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, London; Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Musuem, Kendal; and Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/avtarjeet-dhanjal/ - SKU: AvtarjeetDhanjal - Price: 15.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Small Parcel This monograph is the only publication to focus on the life and work of Avtarjeet Dhanjal since his arrival in Britain from India in the early 1970s. Concerned with the resolution of opposing elements - materially, formally and culturally - Dhanjal's work draws heavily on his experience of Indian aesthetic traditions, blending them with the influence of European and specifically British modernist sculpture. Containing an extended critical essay by the Irish author and playwright Brian McAvera, this book is generously illustrated in colour with images from the artist's installations in galleries and natural environments. Published on the occasion of Avtarjeet Dhanjal's first major solo exhibition at Pitshanger Manor and Gallery, 1997. - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2025-03-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/familiars-hamad-butt/ - SKU: HamadButt - Price: 14.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Small Parcel Hamad Butt was a brilliant young artist who graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1990 and died in 1994. During his brief career he undertook only two major exhibitions. One of these was a solo exhibtion Familiars (John Hansard Gallery, South Hampton, 1992) and his work was also included in the group exhibition Rites of Passage (Tate Gallery, London, 1995). Before his death he began to devise a publication about his work. In effect Butt's last work, this illustrated hardback edition is a posthumous artist's book. - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/sonia-boyce-performance-annotations-2/ - SKU: SoniaBoycePerformance - Price: 4.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications, Annotations - Product shipping classes: Large Letter This book records and interprets work produced by Sonia Boyce during her 18 month residency at the University of Manchester in 1997/98. Through collaborations with the university, the public and the artistic community of Manchester, Boyce produced an important new body of work using video, wallpaper, photography and other media. Including essays by Nikos Papastergiadis and Marcus Verhagen, this publication also includes an interview with the artist, extracts from a diary of the residency and artist's pages. Published out of Sonia Boyce's residency at the University of Manchester, January 1997 to June 1998, a fellowship organised jointly by Iniva, University of Manchester and North West Arts in association with Cornerhouse. Annotations series Iniva's Annotations series assembles art and ideas that have existed previously in a different context. These short accessible volumes are perfect introductions to some of the issues at the heart of current critical debate. Other titles in the series Cedric Price Retriever Modernity and Difference: Stuart Hall and Sarat Maharaj Run Through the Jungle: Selected Writings by Eddie Chambers Steve Ouditt: Creole in-site Frequencies: Investigations into Culture, History and Technology Mixed Belongings and Unspecified Destinations - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2026-06-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/keith-piper-relocating-the-remains/ - SKU: KeithPiperRelocating - Price: 17.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Small Parcel You can purchase a copy of this book via our trade distributor, Art Data. Now in its second edition, this is the first major publication on Keith Piper providing an in-depth analysis of his life and work to date. It includes a major essay by Kobena Mercer based on an extended dialogue with the artist and an accompanying dual-platform CD-ROM, fully authored by Piper. Echoing the idea of a physical expedition in its labyrinth of user-interactive 'virtual spaces', the CD-ROM enables users to explore, excavate and assemble fragments from Piper's various thematically linked bodies of work. Published on the occasion of Piper's solo exhibition at the Royal College of Art, London, July 1997. - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2025-08-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/sutapa-biswas/ - SKU: SutapaBiswasBirdsong - Price: 17.50 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Over the last two decades, Sutapa Biswas has created an intensely evocative and challenging body of work engaging with feminism, cultural identity and memory. Biswas draws from a variety of literary, critical and visual sources to capture particularly still moments in time. Her influences include Marcel Proust's and Edward Lear's writings, Frantz Fanon's psychoanalysis, and paintings by Johannes Vermeer, Edward Hopper and George Stubbs, among others. Generously illustrated, this monograph, the first critical appraisal of Biswas's work, takes us on a visual journey through the artist's oeuvre. From essays by Ian Baucom and Griselda Pollock exploring her literary and feminist influences, to newly commissioned texts by Guy Brett and Laura Mulvey which look at the more recent film work and the development of her practice across different media (from painting to photography to film), to an extensive interview with curator Stephanie Snyder, this book provides a unique and unprecedented insight into Biswas's working practice. Published to accompany Sutapa Biswas: Birdsong, a major international touring exhibition organised by Iniva in collaboration with the Film and Video Umbrella. - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/artists-in-research/ - SKU: artistinresearch - Price: 5.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter This book explores the notion of research in relation to contemporary visual arts practice, and documents the three-year pilot Artists-in-Research residency programme through images and artist's statements. Participating artists include: Clare Charnley, Monika Dutta, Edwina fitzPatrick, Nicky Hirst, Indika Perera and Louise K. Wilson. - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/frequencies-investigations-into-culture-history-and-technology-annotations-3/ - SKU: Frequencies - Price: 4.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications, Annotations In this collection of texts delivered at three one-day seminars of the same title, artists, designers and critics explore how technology, in all its manifestations, is transforming our lives at the end of 20th century. These critical debates analyse the economic, political and global forces that continually inform art practice in both Western and non-Western contexts. Contributors: Dunne + Ray, Susan Hiller, Takahiko Iimura, Gustav Metzger, Annie-mie Van Kerckhovenm Denise Robinson, Olu Oguibe, Professor Marco Susani, Professor Lola Young, Françoise Vergès, Theodore Zeldin Annotations series Iniva's Annotations series assembles art and ideas that have existed previously in a different context. These short accessible volumes are perfect introductions to some of the issues at the heart of current critical debate. Other titles in the series Cedric Price Retriever Modernity and Difference, Stuart Hall and Sarat Maharaj Run Through the Jungle: Selected Writings by Eddie Chambers Steve Ouditt: Creole in-site Sonia Boyce: Performance Mixed Belongings and Unspecified Destinations - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2023-10-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/run-through-the-jungle-selected-writings-by-eddie-chambers-annotations-5/ - SKU: Runthroughthejungle - Price: 4.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications, Annotations Other titles in the series Cedric Price Retriever Modernity and Difference, Stuart Hall and Sarat Maharaj Steve Ouditt: Creole in-site Frequencies: Investigations into Culture, History and Technology Sonia Boyce: Performance Mixed Belongings and Unspecified Destinations This book brings together writings by Eddie Chambers, one of Britain's most controversial critics and curators. A selection of his writings from the early 1980s to the late 1990s are published here for the first time and include seminal texts and reviews such as 'Beyond Ethnic Arts' (Circa, 1985), 'Black Art Now' (Third Text, 1991), 'Whitewash' (Art Monthly, 1988) and 'Johannesburg' (Art Monthly, 1998). With an introduction by Professor Sarat Maharaj, this collection maps out a key period of post-war British art which saw the emergence of an important generation of black British artists and curators who irrevocably changed the face of the British art scene. ISBN: 1-899846-20-4 140pp, paperback, 225 x 165mm, 19 illustrations Iniva, 1999 Annotations series Iniva's Annotations series assembles art and ideas that have existed previously in a different context. These short accessible volumes are perfect introductions to some of the issues at the heart of current critical debate. - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/parisiennes/ - SKU: Parisien(ne)s - Price: 10.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Parisien(ne)s was published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name which brought together the work of nine artists exploring ideas around location and dislocation, within and across the cultural and geographical boundaries of the European metropolis. It contains an essay by Hou Hanru, critic and curator of Parisien(ne)s, artists' statements, images and installation photographs. Artists: Absalon, Chen Zhen, Chohreh Feyzdjou, Thomas Hirschhorn, Huang Yong Ping, Tiina Ketara, Sarkis, Shen Yuan, Tsuneko Taniuchi - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/map/ - SKU: Map - Price: 7.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter This pocket-sized book is an atlas of maps and dreams by artists and writers worldwide. Charting various personal, physical and psychological journeys, Maps is divided into three sections. The first consists of texts and bibliographical references to texts, both fictional and non-fictional ranging from Andre Brink's An Instant in the Wind and an extract from Wilson Harris' novel Palace of the Peacock to Edward W. Said's Culture and Imperialism and Henri Lefebvre's The Production of Space. The third section could be described as an atlas of artists' maps and desires, consisting of an eclectic array of artists' works and diagrams from Vermeer to Bhimji, from Moholy-Nagy to Bennett. Wedged between these two sections, are a series of individual 'lost testimonies' edited by writer Deborah Levy. - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/a-fruitful-incoherence-dialogues-with-artists-on-internationalism/ - SKU: FruitfulIncoherence - Price: 18.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Small Parcel This fully illustrated publication includes dialogues between the artist and critic Gavin Jantjes and some of Europe's most important visual artists - Carlos Capelán, Marlene Dumas, Chohreh Feyzdjou, Susan Hiller, Huang Yong Ping, Marie-Jo Lafontaine and David Medalla. In these illuminating and dynamic conversations, works of art and the lives of these artists are the starting point for discussions around definitions of home, border and internationalism. Pennina Barnett, Leili Echghi and Peter Foolen discuss the work of the late artist Chohreh Feyzdjou and the book also includes a glossary of terms compiled by Rohini Malik and Gavin Jantjes. - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2022-11-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/signals-magazine-1964-1966/ - SKU: Signals - Price: 25.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Medium Parcel First published between 1964 and 1966, Signals was the international forum for European, Latin, Central and South American artists. Edited by the celebrated artist David Medalla, this cutting-edge journal documented exhibitions at the Signals showroom in London, and also included poems, critical essays, scientific digests, images, photographs and experimental art news. Documenting vital exhibitions and events in Britain and abroad, Signals brought together leading innovative artists, writers and poets of the time and, in addition, establishes a context for kinetic, time-based, performance and environmental art. Artists featured in the original and now reproduced in the facsimile editions include Jesús Rafael Soto, Takis, Lygia Clark, Sergio de Camargo, Carlos Cruz-Díaz, Eduardo Chillida and Marcela Salvadori, and many others. Signals magazine remains an essential contribution to this important period in 20th century art and is still a crucial document of the mid-1960s international art scene. Many of today's young contemporary artists, at work in both the northern and southern hemispheres, are inspired by the magazine's style and far-reaching content. This special facsimile edition comprises volumes one and two and comes complete with a comprehensive index. There are 10 issues in total, as numbers 3 and 4 are combined into one twin issue (as in the original). Iniva gratefully acknowledges the support and assistance of James Moores, Jane Rankin-Reid and Pulsynetic in preparation of the Signals archive set and index - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/reading-the-contemporary-african-art-from-theory-to-the-market-place/ - SKU: ReadingtheContemporary - Price: 20.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Medium Parcel This anthology brings together 22 essays in which key critical thinkers, scholars and artists explore a wide range of subjects including contemporary African visual art, cinema and photography. They lay out theoretical and critical frameworks for engaging with these practices, locating them within the context of current debate and the continent's history. Contributors: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Manthia Diawara, Ima Ebong, Okwiu Enwezor, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Salah Hassan, Sidney Kasfir, Daivd Koloane, Thomas McEvilley, Kobena Mercer, V. Y. Mudimbe, Laura Mulvey, Everlyn Nicodemus, Olu Oguibe, Chika Okeke, John Picton, Colin Richards, Margo Timm, N. Frank Ukadike, Ocatvio Zaya - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2023-06-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/beyond-the-fantastic-contemporary-art-criticism-from-latin-america/ - SKU: Beyondthefantastic - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications Beyond the Fantastic brings together a selection of influential essays that have informed critical discourse on the visual arts in Latin America from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. It provides an invaluable context for viewing contemporary Latin American art and includes contributions from leading critics and art historians. Contributors: Mónica Amor, Pierre E. Bocquet, Gustavo Buntinx, Luis Camnitzer, Néstor García Canclini, Ticio Escobar, Andrea Giunta, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Paulo Herkenhoff, Mirko Lauer, Gerardo Mosquera, Celeste Olalquiaga, Gabriel Peluffo Linari, Carolina Ponce de Léon, Mari Carmen Ramírez, Nelly Richard, Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, George Yúdice - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2017-07-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/modernity-and-difference-annotations-6/ - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications, Annotations Modernity and Difference includes an influential conversation between Professor Stuart Hall and Professor Sarat Maharaj on modernity, difference and untranslatability, which took place at the Lux Centre in Hoxton, London, at an event organised by Iniva. In this extraordinary discussion, two of today's most important commentators on race and culture map out a new space for thinking about difference - a space which is both translatable and untranslatable and, ultimately, escapes fixity and closure. This volume also publishes Stuart Hall's keynote address to the Tate Gallery's 'Museums of Modern Art and the End of History' conference, in which he proposes the history of modernity and modernism to be a series of 'cultural translations', rather than being firmly enshrined in the Western canon. Sarat Maharaj's 'Perfidious Fidelity: The Untranslatability of the Other', first published with the papers from Iniva's first conference on the 'new internationalism' is reprinted here, as it introduces and lays out the framework within which Maharaj speaks of translation and untranslatability. Annotations series Iniva's Annotations series assembles art and ideas that have existed previously in a different context. These short accessible volumes are perfect introductions to some of the issues at the heart of current critical debate. Other titles in the series Cedric Price Retriever Run Through the Jungle: Selected Writings by Eddie Chambers Steve Ouditt: Creole in-site Frequencies: Investigations into Culture, History and Technology Sonia Boyce: Performance Mixed Belongings and Unspecified Destinations - Published: 1999-01-01 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/fault-lines-contemporary-african-art-and-shifting-landscapes/ - SKU: FaultLines - Price: 20.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Small Parcel In geological terms, fault lines reveal themselves as fractures in the earth's surface but they also mark a break in the continuity of the strata and create new landscapes. Fault Lines brings together artists and writers from Africa and the African diaspora whose works trace the fault lines that are shaping contemporary experience locally and globally. Published on the occasion of the 50th Venice Biennale, Fault Lines traces a journey from the rousing words of the first presidents of the independent states of Africa to the current 'states of emergency' that Stuart Hall discerns in the work of the Fault Lines artists. Achille Mbembe's honest and insightful notes on the postcolony; Sarat Maharaj's discussion of ‘cultural managerialism' in apartheid South Africa; and Okwui Enwezor's analysis of the institutional reception of multicultural art provide the cultural, economic and political context in which the Fault Lines artists are operating. Complementing Gilane Tawadros's introduction to the curatorial framework of the exhibition and to the artists she has selected, essays have been commissioned from a wealth of established and emerging writers on the individual artists. Contributors: Gamal Abdel-Nasser, Solomon Deressa, Deepali Dewan, Okwui Enwezor, Lisa Fischman, Elsabet Giorgis, Stuart Hall, Salah Hassan, Sarat Maharaj, Prince Massingham, Achille Mbembe, Prince Mbusi Dube, Kobena Mercer, Landry-Wilfrid Miampika, Adriano Mixinge, Simon Njami, Kwame Nkrumah, Bheki Peterson, Nasser Rabbat, Niru Ratman, Jérôme Sans, Mark Sealy, Yasmeen Siddiqui, Gilane Tawadros, Ramon Tio Bellido, Hamza Walker, Kateb Yacine Artists: Laylah Ali, Kader Attia, Samta Benyahia, Zarina Bhimji, Frank Bowling, Clifford... - Published: 1997-09-30 - Modified: 2023-06-01 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/rhapsodies-in-black-art-of-the-harlem-renaissance/ - SKU: Rhapsodies - Price: 20.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications In the years following the First World War, black Americans began migrating to the cities of the north in increasing numbers. New York's Harlem became a magnet for musicians, writers, artists and performers, whose creative activity was celebrated under the banner of 'the New Negro Arts Movement'. Rhapsodies in Black takes a fresh look at the Harlem Renaissance, contesting narrow interpretations of it as an isolated phenomenon. Rather, it is recognised as an historical moment of global significance, with connections to Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and other parts of the USA, in particular Chicago and the Deep South. Like jazz musicians, the artists of the Harlem Renaissance era travelled and interacted, and their art was cosmopolitan, inspired by European modernism as well as the cultural groundswell of black America. This fully illustrated book examines this cultural phenomenon as a key moment in twentieth-century art history which transcended regional and racial boundaries. Rhapsodies in Black speaks across the arts, reaching out from an exploration of the painters and sculptors of the time, to consider film, theatre and dance. With contributions by distinguished authors from both sides of the Atlantic, it offers a kaleidoscope of provocative readings, showing that the issues and ideas of the Harlem Renaissance still resonate today. Published on occasion of the touring exhibition organised by the Hayward Gallery, London in collaboration with the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washingon D. C. and Iniva - Published: 1996-11-01 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/boxer-an-anthology-of-writings-on-boxing-and-visual-arts-practice/ - SKU: Boxer - Price: 12.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Small Parcel Boxer explores the connections between boxing and visual culture, raising questions about the figure of the boxer as a cultural icon and placing the boxer at the centre of debates around class, race, masculinity and eroticism. This fully illustrated book negotiates this complex terrain, encompassing a broad sweep of historical space and time and a range of media from painting and sculpture through photography, video, installation, and film. Texts: David Chandler, Roger Lloyd Conover, Jean Fisher, Jennifer Hargreaves, Sarah Hyde, Nick James, Ian Jeffrey, Glenn Ligon, David Mellor, Joyce Carol Oates, Keith Piper, Marcia Pointon. Published on occasion of the exhibition Boxer, curated by John Gill and produced by Walsall Museum & Art Gallery in association with Iniva, 1995 - Published: 1996-09-01 - Modified: 2017-07-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/the-fact-of-blackness-frantz-fanon-and-visual-representation/ - Price: 11.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications Creating a far-reaching and original dialogue between cultural theory and visual practice, the rich insights which emerge from this publication explain why Frantz Fanon's seminal texts of the 1950s and 60s - Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth - have re-emerged at the forefront of postcolonial studies. This collection of texts and dialogues work with Fanon's ideas in understanding how narrative, the media, image, and symbol lie at the very heart of the practice of politics and social knowledge. Contributors: Martina Attille, Homi K. Bhabha, Renée Green, Stuart Hall, Lyle Ashton Harris, bell hooks, Isaac Julien, Marc Latamie, Steve McQueen, Kobena Mercer, Mark Nash, Raoul Peck, Alan Read, Ntozake Shange, Gilane Tawadros, Françoise Vergès, Lola Young Originating from the symposium held during the season Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference and Desire (ICA, London, 1995) - Published: 1996-06-01 - Modified: 2025-03-24 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/offside-contemporary-artists-and-football/ - SKU: Offside - Price: 9.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Examining the football stadium as an arena for the public display of national aspirations and anxieties, this fully-illustrated catalogue complements the exhibition Offside! Contemporary Artists and Football. It includes an introduction by curator John Gill and contributions from Simon Kuper (writer for Financial Times) and Richard Williams (writer for the Guardian). Artists: Adam Beebee, Roderick Buchanan, Freddy Contreras, Rosana Fuertes, Lucy Gunning, Crispin Jones, Gabriel Kuri, David Mackintosh, Simon Patterson, Natalie Turner, Martin Vincent, Mark Wallinger, Nick Waplington On occasion of the exhibition at Manchester City Art Galleries - Published: 1996-01-01 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/heri-dono/ - SKU: HeriDono - Price: 4.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications One of Indonesia's most established installation and performance artists, Heri Dono creates multimedia works and performances which reflect a wide range of social and political issues with the traditional Indonesian art of puppet theatre being a strong influence in his work. This catalogue was published to coincide with Heri Dono's residency and exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, and includes texts by the artist and an interview. Contributors: Heri Dono, David Eliott, Tim Martin, Gilane Tawadros - Published: 1995-08-01 - Modified: 2025-06-10 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/peep/ - SKU: SoniaBoycePeep - Price: 5.00 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter 'Anthony Shelton Keeper of Non-Western Art and Anthropology Dear Anthony, I've been thinking about the shadows cast by objects in the cases. Would it be possible to have access to the insides of the cases so that I can trace these shadows? I'm not quite sure where this is leading, but I suddenly like the idea of capturing the intangible... ' Sonia Boyce Artist, Sonia Boyce, was commissioned by Iniva to work with Brighton Museum's collection of non-Western art and ethnography in 1995. Exploring themes of observation, interpretation and her identification with an 'ancestral' past, Boyce produced Peep - an installation at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery and this artist's book which illustrates Boyce's thoughts and ideas whilst making the work. - Published: 1995-05-01 - Modified: 2022-03-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/mirage-enigmas-of-race-difference-and-desire/ - SKU: Mirage - Price: 17.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter This fully illustrated catalogue complements the exhibition and season Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference and Desire (ICA, London, 1995). It charts the recent history of the relationship between contemporary art and culture and the ideas of the great writer and theorist Frantz Fanon. Texts: David A. Bailey, Frantz Fanon, Kobena Mercer, Catherine Ugwu Artists: Lyle Ashton Harris, Sonia Boyce, Nina Edge, Ronald Fraser-Munro, Mario Gardner, Edward George and Trevor Mathieson, Renée Green, Isaac Julien, Keith Khan, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Marc Latamie, Susan Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Steve McQueen, Sarbjit Samra, Carmelita Tropicana - Published: 1995-01-30 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/exotic-excursions/ - SKU: ExoticExcursions - Price: 4.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter The phrase 'exotic excursions' evokes the mysterious promise of far-away places and cultures which exist in our fantasies, in stark contrast to our everyday lives. This catalogue accompanied the exhibition, Exotic Excursions, in which five artists explore the experience of travel through video, installation and photographic works. Artists include: Michael Curran, Clair Joy, Tatsuo Majima, Fernando Palma Rodriguez and Kate Smith. - Published: 1994-12-01 - Modified: 2025-02-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/time-machine-ancient-egypt-and-contemporary-art/ - SKU: TimeMachine - Price: 5.95 GBP - Product type: simple - Product categories: Publications - Product shipping classes: Large Letter Curated by James Putnam, curator of the Egyptian Antiquities Department at the British Museum, Time Machine was an exhibition which contested the idea that the British Museum and its ancient Egyptian artefacts are stagnant remnants of the past, disconnected from the present. Installed in the vast Egyptian sculpture gallery the works by twelve artists achived a rare juxtaposition of ancient and contemporary art. Artists: Stephen Cox, Andy Goldsworthy, David Hiscock, Liliane Karnouk, Rita Keegan, Jiri Kolar, Alexander Mihaylovich, Igor Mitoraj, Marc Quinn, Martin Riches, Peter Randall-Page, Kate Whiteford - Published: 1994-11-01 - Modified: 2017-07-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/product/global-visions-towards-a-new-internationalism-in-the-visual-arts/ - Product type: simple - Product visibility: outofstock - Product categories: Publications Global Visions presents the collected papers of the Iniva symposium, A New Internationalism, held at the Tate Gallery in London, April 1994. This book brings together some of the foremost thinkers and practitioners in the visual arts in a provocative critique of notions of internationalism, the role of curatorial practice, particularly in relation to debates on cultural identity and difference. Contributors: Rasheed Araeen, Gordon Bennett, Jimmie Durham, Hal Foster, Hou Hanru, Geeta Kapur, Raiji Kuroda, Sarat Maharaj, Gerardo Mosquera, Everlyn Nicodemus, Olu Oguibe, Guillermo Santamarina, Elisabeth Sussman, Gilane Tawadros, Fred Wilson, Judith Wilson. ## Projects - Published: 2026-07-08 - Modified: 2026-07-08 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/exhibition/ - Project Types: Exhibition More details soon. - Published: 2026-07-08 - Modified: 2026-09-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/if-you-like-rice-youll-understand-collective-noise/ - Project Types: Exhibition We are delighted to announce our upcoming Autumn 2026 programme, if you like rice, you’ll understand – Collective Noise - a cross-site exhibition, events programme and publication with artist and educator Andrew Pierre Hart. The project forms the beginning of a new collaboration between cultural neighbours: a joint artist programme between iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and Chelsea Space, Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London (UAL). if you like rice, you’ll understand – Collective Noise is a new project by Andrew Pierre Hart that draws on Stuart Hall's cultural studies and pedagogical legacy to explore sound as a form of learning and cultural exchange. Bringing together painting, photography, moving image, text and sound, the project considers how knowledge travels through everyday practices, informal gatherings, and sonic experiences. Developed through personal travel, artistic research, and ongoing engagement with the Stuart Hall Library, Andrew will examine the relationship between sound and diasporic experiences, inviting audiences to reflect on how cultural knowledge is produced and shared across communities. The public programme will be used as the framework to explore gatherings and collective spaces for learning as modes of action outside of the country’s current political rhetoric. Using iniva and Chelsea Space as catalysts for experimentation and reflection, Andrew will consider how different ways of coming together might be imagined and experienced. The exhibition and programme is generously supported by The Ampersand Foundation. About the artist Andrew Pierre Hart is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is based in Painting, the... - Published: 2026-04-07 - Modified: 2026-10-14 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/dancehall-riddim-queens/ - Project Types: Exhibition iniva is pleased to present Dancehall Riddim Queens, a solo exhibition by Linett Kamala at the Stuart Hall Library. Bringing together paintings and archival material, the exhibition explores the cultural, sonic and visual histories of dancehall, centring the legacies of women whose contributions have shaped the culture while often remaining under-recognised or erased. Drawing on Kamala’s lived experience of London’s dancehall culture, particularly in the 1990s, the artist works with the personal –– photographs, mixtapes, CD collections, magazines, and clothing –– to trace how dancehall travels across geographies and time, shaping forms of expression through embodiment and sound. This exhibition examines the circulation of these influences, from Kingston to London and beyond, attending to the ways they are repeated, adapted and reconfigured, and cantering the concept of the riddim – a shared instrumental structure within dancehall music that multiple artists voice over. Rather than fixed authorship, the riddim enables a layered and collective form of expression. Through this body of work, Dancehall Riddim Queens proposes the riddim as both structure and method, as a way of understanding culture as collective, cyclical and in motion. For Kamala, it also offers a way of thinking through the tensions within dancehall, where lyrics can often be outrageous and prejudiced, while rhythm remains open, participatory and continuous. Dancehall Riddim Queens is curated by Beatriz Lobo with programme support by Vasita (Pleng) Jirathiyut and generously supported by The Ampersand Foundation. Graphic design by Jeffrey Choy, with art direction by Charlotte Mui. About the Artist Linett... - Published: 2026-01-28 - Modified: 2026-07-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/the-message-is-in-the-pattern/ - Project Types: Digital Project As a digital programme in collaboration with the British Council at the 61st Venice Biennale, iniva is pleased to announce the third edition of the Post-National Digital Pavilion, titled The Message Is in the Pattern. This programme is developed in response to Lubaina Himid's British Pavilion commission Predicting History: Testing Translation, which draws on her long-standing methodologies of making histories visible, working collaboratively, and attending to the political significance of everyday materials and gestures. The programme foregrounds lived practices and relational forms of making that emerge through sustained engagement with communities. Three invited artists, Anya Paintsil (UK), Rajyashri Goody (India), and Rose Afefé (Brazil) are supported to work within their local contexts, exploring the intersection of community engagement, cultural translation, and the relationship between artistic and social practice. In addition, the programme will commission four writers through an international open call, to respond critically and creatively to the digital works. These texts will be brought together in a digital publication that extends the life of the programme and situates the commissions within wider artistic, social, and political conversations. This edition of the Post-National Digital Pavilion follows DRIFT (2022) and Unseen Guests (2024), continuing iniva’s commitment to building transnational and research-led public programmes, making art from a global perspective accessible to everyone. The Message Is in the Pattern is curated by Beatriz Lobo with programme support by Vasita (Pleng) Jirathiyut and supported by the British Council. Graphic design by Jeffrey Choy, with art direction by Charlotte Mui. Documentation by Rose Afefé... - Published: 2025-09-11 - Modified: 2026-07-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/visualising-contemporary-art-histories/ - Project Types: Project This project shines a light on underrepresented voices and stories from the Global Majority, with a particular focus on the Global South, by celebrating and preserving iniva’s rich moving image archive. The unique collection of mixed media materials, document iniva’s rich programming history and addressing themes such as Black diaspora perspectives, migration, cultural memory, race relations in Britain, desire, and personal migrant experiences. The collection allows engagement with films that provide critical reflections on the Black British experience, post-colonial identity and community resilience; documentaries on socio-political issues; as well as poetic and artistic films that explore displacement and environmental climate change. By cataloguing and sharing these moving image works iniva’s project ensures that these critical cultural narratives are preserved, accessible, and celebrated. It highlights the ongoing relevance of these themes, fostering dialogue with contemporary filmmakers and increasing knowledge for future audiences. This initiative is supported by the BFI National Lottery Screen Heritage Fund. - Published: 2025-06-18 - Modified: 2026-03-13 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/living-legacies-collaboration-community-and-radicality/ - Project Types: Project “Our archive is a living one—it reflects a genealogy of Black and international artists that belong to all of us. We must preserve and activate it, not just for memory’s sake, but as a way to inspire and empower future generations. ” — Sepake Angiama, Artistic Director, iniva Living Legacies is a transformative four-year project rooted in the legacies of Global Majority artistic practice. It activates iniva’s unique visual arts archive centred on radical global art histories and reconnects it with contemporary communities in Westminster, Lambeth and Southwark through co-created exhibitions, events, podcasts and digital resources. The project foregrounds identity, belonging and cultural memory through intergenerational partnerships with young people (16–25) and older adults (65+), artists, educators and grassroots organisations. Launched with a development grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Living Legacies is grounded in inclusivity, creativity and care. The project will: Improve access through inclusive communication, digital tools and physical accessibility Increase engagement by activating the archive through storytelling and creative interpretation Grow knowledge and skills by supporting underrepresented people into heritage and archiving roles During the Development Phase (2024–25), Living Legacies bring artists, elders and youth together in zine-making, archiving and emotional learning workshops that explored home, identity and memory. These sessions demonstrate the power of the archive as a tool for care, connection and transformation. This lays the foundation for deeper, long-term partnerships across London’s diverse communities. Living Legacies is supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. - Published: 2025-06-06 - Modified: 2026-04-29 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/present-land/ - Project Types: Project Present Land is a community art project based in Westminster, exploring climate justice through creative and intergenerational collaboration. Through an open call, Maymana Arefin was selected as the commissioned artist for Present Land. Working with iniva’s Curator, Beatriz Lobo, Maymana developed ‘Fruitings Will Come’ which served as the framework for the series of four workshops. Each of the workshops hosted at the North Paddington community art centre Grand Junction was supported by a collaborator from Climate Reframe. Through nature walks, textile craft, soil play, and storytelling, local residents and visitors worked wtih Maymana to exchange experiences and ideas on sustainable action, care, climate justice, and belonging. The project culminated in a community gathering event at the Stuart Hall Library where participants were invited to share their reflections from the workshops and think about how climate justice is lived, felt, and imagined. To expand the access and impact of Present Land beyond the project, a downloadable resource pack has also been created for facilitators, curators, artists and creatives to engage and reference from. Present Land is presented by iniva in partnership with Climate Reframe, with venue sponsorship by Grand Junction, and supported by Westminster City Council. - Published: 2025-06-02 - Modified: 2026-04-29 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/dub-encyclopaedia/ - Project Types: Exhibition - Event types: Exhibition Dub Encyclopaedia is an immersive installation by artists Antonio José Guzman and Iva Jankovic, opening at the Stuart Hall Library on 13 June 2025 presented by iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts). Antonio Jose Guzman and Iva Jankovic are Netherlands-based artists whose collaborative practice weaves together indigo-dyed textiles, sound, and performance to explore colonial legacies, migration, and diasporic identity. Drawing on diverse musical traditions, including dub and punk, their immersive installations and live works evoke the emotional resonance of displacement and cultural memory. Through patterned fabrics inspired by DNA sequencing and vernacular motifs, Guzman and Jankovic map global connections across the Black Atlantic, using indigo as a symbolic material to examine the transatlantic slave trade and the movement of people, knowledge, and ritual. Drawing on the radical tradition of dub poetry, Dub Encyclopaedia maps diasporic journeys through textiles, sound, and archival traces. The centrepiece of the exhibition is a nomadic tent constructed from indigo ajrak fabrics and houses poems, books, soundscapes, and archival materials. Through this constellation of media, the artists explore storytelling, pedagogy, and resilience in the context of global migration and vernacular memory. Presented as part of the Concrete Roots series for the Liverpool Biennial 2025, Dub Encyclopaedia marks the artists’ first solo presentation in the UK. Following a performance at the Biennial, two hand-crafted dresses featured in the live piece will travel to London, forming part of the exhibition narrative at iniva’s Stuart Hall Library. All poems presented will enter the Stuart Hall Library collection, continuing the... - Published: 2025-01-27 - Modified: 2025-03-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/braiding-sessions/ - Project Types: residency iniva and down river road are pleased to announce Braiding Sessions, a partnership programme between Stuart Hall Library and Karara Community Library. The project explores the various practices that cultural workers, curators, librarians, and administrators engage in their communities to promote engagement with their knowledge resources and safeguard against memory loss and historical revisionism. As part of the project, iniva will be hosting Brian Muraya from Karara Community Library in early February. The project is supported by the British Council through the UK/Kenya Season 2025 Catalyst Grant. - Published: 2024-10-25 - Modified: 2025-08-27 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/culture-zine-club/ - Project Types: Learning, Workshop Are you a young person living in Westminster between 16 –18 looking for a creative way to explore your identity and heritage? Join our zine-making workshops! This project invites young people, to delve into the rich archive of Iniva and the Stuart Hall Library (SHL) — a treasure trove documenting the impactful legacies of Black and Asian artists who have shaped contemporary British art and culture. In three interactive workshops, you'll dive into work of artists often overlooked in classrooms. You’ll learn how to use archives and libraries as powerful tools to explore personal heritage, identity, and self-expression. By curating your own unique narrative, you’ll develop a deeper connection to these resources, now and in the future. By the end of the project, you’ll collaborate with other participants to create pocket-sized zines that reflect your creative journey. These zines will not only document your experience but also serve as a guide on how to use libraries and archives creatively. The final zine will be shared with schools, art organizations, and groups across Westminster and published digitally on our website. Don’t miss this chance to make your voice heard and be part of a creative community. Discover the power of archives, learn new skills, and share your story with the world! - Published: 2024-10-23 - Modified: 2024-10-23 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/1111-x-iniva-residency-2024/ - Project Types: residency iniva and Residency 11:11 are thrilled to announce that curator, writer and researcher Beulah Ezeugo has been selected for Residency 11:11’s November Residency in partnership with iniva. Residency 11:11’s domestic residency is a research-based residency situated in a residential shared flat in London. For a duration of one month the residency aims to connect its guests to the city’s artistic landscape, encouraging practitioners to explore local discourses and collaborations. This residency invited practitioners with a strong interest in special collections, artists archives and archival practices to engage with iniva’s Artist File Collection. The collection primarily contains various amounts of ephemera in the form of gallery invitations, press releases, 35mm slides, biographies, press clippings and much more. Much like iniva’s Stuart Hall library collection it documents radical and emergent contemporary artistic practice centering Global Majority, African, Asian, and Caribbean diaspora perspectives. Beulah Ezeugo is an artist & curator who works with others against the rapid tightening and regularisation of national borders. Her practice engages with postcolonial geographies, archival practices, & collective memory and expands outwards through exhibition-making, programming, & publication. As an independent curator, she is interested in supporting collaborative & research-led artists’ practices. Beulah is currently a research associate at CCA Derry~Londonderry, and one-half of the collective Éireann & I Archive, a migrant memory project. Ezeugo is currently focused on how marginalised groups have historically used fabrication—through falsified documents, elaborate dress, racial passing, or other elaborate personal myths—to navigate systemic barriers. She is especially interested in how these strategies mirror... - Published: 2024-09-05 - Modified: 2026-02-19 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/global-resiliencies/ - Project Types: Open Call, Exhibition, Workshop - Event types: Exhibition Global Resiliencies is a project centred on activist zines produced between 2010 and 2022. It asks how grassroots publications can reflect and shape political movements and collective action across different geopolitical contexts around the globe. At its core, this project seeks to explore how zines—those self-published, often ephemeral documents of resistance—offer unique insights into how people resist, build communities, and foster solidarity across borders. From 2 October 2024, to 28 February 2025, Global Resiliencies unfolds at the Stuart Hall Library as a living, evolving showcase rather than a conventional, static exhibition. This approach emphasises a continuous process of gathering, sharing, and reflecting on activist voices and materials. The project's format is open and participatory, designed to create new connections between distant geographies and varied political struggles. Global Resiliencies is launched alongside an international open call for activist zines. The call invites activists, artists, and cultural workers engaged in various forms of struggle to share their stories, strategies, and visions. In addition to being featured in the exhibition, the selected submissions will become part of the Stuart Hall Library’s zine collection, expanding it to include more voices, experiences, and forms of resistance. Through the act of collecting, the project aims to ensure the legacies of these movements to inspire future generations. As part of Global Resiliencies, iniva will also be collaborating with RCA Palestine Society to create a new zine which will record their recent political activism and efforts for Palestinian liberation and those from other student organisations. The zine will... - Published: 2024-07-26 - Modified: 2025-08-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/the-gathering-2024/ - Project Types: Project - Event types: Workshop The Gathering 2024 offers a unique space centring Global Majority UK-based artists and cultural workers to convene in exploration of restorative practices to build frameworks for stronger relationships and more sustainable arts ecologies. The Gathering 2024 runs from the 26th to the 27th October 2024. This programme is cooperatively built between our curatorial board, led by: Zoé Whitley Yesomi Umolu Sepake Angiama Beatriz Lobo Nate Agbetu This two-day gathering focuses on how we bring rest into our communities. Expanding holistically through our five programme pillars – Practice, Mind, Embodiment, Environment, and Nourishment – we centre our attention on different forms of rest. As part of the curatorial process, we worked with a Sub-Committee for each pillar, proposing frameworks and identifying contributors for the programme. PRACTICE Informing access and working conditions. Members - Zoé Whitley, Bonlanle Tajudeen and Harold Offeh The practice pillar seeks to find balance and knowledge within the works of transdisciplinary cultural workers. This pillar is focused on creating programming and moments that can engage a multi-hyphenate audience in search of the common thread surrounding rest. Reflecting on working conditions, exhaustion and precarity across the sector, The Gathering can be a space to review and reimagine support systems, particularly focused on peer-to-peer support. By offering practical sessions on common issues such as ‘negotiating contracts’ and ‘building care riders’, we hope that delegates will leave the retreat better informed about cultural infrastructural support and have developed language and tools to negotiate better working conditions. The sub-committee was inspired by... - Published: 2024-05-09 - Modified: 2025-01-30 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/promise-me-tomorrow/ - Project Types: Exhibition - Event types: Exhibition Promise Me Tomorrow is an exhibition that brings together the artistic and education practices and processes of our two-year national programme CoLab. Taking place at schools across the country, between 2022 and 2024, each CoLab project involved artists, mental health practitioners and educators. Since 2022 iniva has organised a series of workshops for students of various ages while developing resources for educators. Each project has created a zine to illustrate the process and in some cases an artwork was left with the school as a permanent legacy of the project. Throughout all the projects and iniva’s education programme, priority is given to how creativity can be used to support young people to find and amplify their own voices. The aim is to strengthen their feelings of autonomy, their ability to speak out about what matters to them and explore their own identity untethered from the context they are within. Most of the projects used the classroom as a site to reconfigure, reconsider and reorientate, removing the usual hierarchies from the institution by creating a democratic public sphere within educational space. This autonomy allowed students to make informed choices about their work, engage in open dialogue with their peers and take part in critical discussions about societal issues. Artists used methods and processes to offer them a way to express themselves whether through photography, drawing, clay modelling or collage. Each took their starting point from a pressing societal issue enabling students to critically examine issues of identity, race, class, activism and... - Published: 2024-05-09 - Modified: 2025-07-09 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/kla-art-festival-artist-in-residence/ - Project Types: residency iniva and 32° East are excited to announce that artist Seyi Adelekun has been selected as the KLA ART '24 Artist-in-Residence. This residency is a partnership opportunity through British Council’s Biennials Connect for an artist based in the UK to take part in KLA ART '24 Festival in Kampala, Uganda. KLA ART, Kampala Contemporary Art Festival, is a non-commercial venture with an emphasis on the commission of new works of an experimental nature. Through an extensive professional development programme for artists and curators, KLA ART is currently focusing on strengthening the visual art scene within Uganda and East Africa. The theme for KLA ART ’24, Care Instructions, invites artists and the public to look at cultural heritage through the lens of care. Selected through a popular open call, Seyi’s project aims to create an abstract sculptural installation of The Tree of Life, symbolizing spiritual wisdom rooted in nature. It will highlight the importance of African traditional herbal medicine in caring for the spirit, mind, and body, fostering a deep connection with plant spirits and reverence for the land. Seyi was in residence at 32° East art centre over a three-month period from May to July 2024, immersing themselves in local herbal knowledge to create a new work of art for KLA ART '24 Festival in August 2024. Teesa Bahana, Director at 32° East said, “We are very pleased to welcome Seyi to Kampala and our purpose-built art centre. Seyi's project stood out because of its direct connection to the KLA... - Published: 2024-04-12 - Modified: 2024-04-12 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/transformation-of-silence/ - Project Types: Workshop Transformation of Silence into Words & Action is the title of an essay by poet, feminist, activist & educator Audre Lorde. Under this banner we will come together for collective study, scanning, zine making and research on Palestine and Israel, to transform our silences into language and take action in making audible demands, for collective freedoms, self-determination and joy through the works of artists, writers and other cultural producers. We offer the Stuart Hall Library and our resources to everyone who wants to come together with others in dialogue, to develop pedagogies, for read-ins and teach-ins, in line with all of the work iniva has supported over the past 30 years, and to counter the continual misinformation we see in the media. - Published: 2024-02-27 - Modified: 2024-09-06 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/unseen-guests/ - Project Types: Commission “I’m interested in the way that unseen guests arrive at parties, and become actually quite prominent party members, becoming central actors in the ongoing proceedings” — John Akomfrah As part of the public programme for the British Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, Unseen Guests is a commission of eight artists based in the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), working across new media, audiovisual and writing to create new works in dialogue with the work of filmmaker and artist John Akomfrah. For the second edition of the Post-National Digital Pavilion, iniva presents Unseen Guests. The Pavilion is a series of radical re-imaginings of nationhood, reflecting on the entanglement between land and water, movement and m/otherlands, in the forging of new identities and subjectivities. Unseen Guests invites eight artists to develop new works, including Ibiye Camp, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Gladys Kalichini, Rodrigo Nava Ramirez, Shamica Ruddock and Helena Uambembe, and writers Yaa Addae and Alex/is G. Tayie, selected through an international open call. Investigating histories embedded in cultural and environmental landscapes, and exploring their relationships with present geopolitical issues, Unseen Guests proposes artistic investigations alongside Pan-African cultural archives across the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), focusing on documentations of anticolonial events and testimonies of climate change. Experimenting with elements that may not have been recognisable as significant, Unseen Guests commissions a series of artworks exploring archival material to identify connecting tissues between different narratives. Unseen Guests is co-curated by Renée Akitelek Mboya and Beatriz Lobo Britto, and produced by Leanne Petersen.... - Published: 2024-02-23 - Modified: 2024-05-22 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/out-of-margin-a-transnational-perspective/ - Project Types: Reading Group Identity is not as transparent or unproblematic as we think. Perhaps instead of thinking of identity as an already accomplished fact, which the new cultural practices then represent, we should think, instead, of identity as a 'production', which is never complete, always in process, and always constituted within, not outside, representation. — Stuart Hall, Cultural Identity and Diaspora, 1997. Join us to collectively read and discuss texts that think through practices in relation to 'Identity, Migration and Diaspora' in the transnational world. Funded by UAL’s Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN) and iniva, these reading groups are part of Out of Margin: A Transnational Perspective, a research project focus on reading, discussing and sharing texts relating three paradigms: History, Theory and Practices. It aims to expand the interpretation of art and its discourse to reflect on the social and political impact of globalisation. At the heart of this space is a desire to champion critical theory and practice in art making, curation and collection care that disrupt the prolonged systems of Western pedagogy and colonisation of knowledge. This series of 12 reading sessions explore practices outside the Euro-American axis through four emergent sections, highlighting voices that are historically underrepresented. About the facilitator Jessica Wan is a curator and writer who works to rethink access from the perspectives of transnationalism, migration and feminist thought. Dedicated to exploring how knowledge and inhabitation is produced through fugitivity and entanglement, her research focuses on radical pedagogies and artistic practices that reflect on... - Published: 2023-12-20 - Modified: 2025-08-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/materials-speak/ - Project Types: Exhibition - Event types: Exhibition Opening: Thursday 25 January 2024, 5:30pm - 7:30pm BOOK HERE Materials Speak is a personal exploration of memory and narrative of objects, with a particular focus on textiles. Designer Dharma Taylor was the Stuart Hall Library Artist-in-Residence, from May to July 2023. Departing from Stuart Hall’s text, ‘Constituting an Archive’ (2001), Dharma investigated the potential meaning for a ‘living archive’, and the role that objects play in our daily lives. Through the residency, Dharma further explored the history of tapestry and how textiles have been used by diasporic communities in fashion, design and architecture to build identity and belonging in new places. Woodgrain (2023), the central artwork in this exhibition, takes its inspiration from a vivid memory of the opening of a shipping container. The container consisted of objects belonging to Dharma’s parents from an extensive visit to Barbados. Unfurled, the folds in the shipping container created a series of geometric shapes that formed the basis for her design. Dharma describes the arrival and unpacking of a shipping container as an act of transitioning through the intricacies and shapes within the wood-grain. The work reflects upon notions of migration, home and returning, while interweaving these early memories within her design. Building upon tapestry traditions, Dharma unveils how textiles serve as ornamental elements as well as tools for expressing identity and fostering a sense of belonging in unfamiliar territories. Materials Speak invites you to reflect on how objects, instrumental in the formation of diasporic identities, can serve as conduits for cultural... - Published: 2023-09-06 - Modified: 2024-05-20 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/shifting-the-centre-anticolonial-ways-of-seeing-exhibition/ - Project Types: Exhibition - Event types: Exhibition Opening Times Tuesday– Friday, 10am – 5pm Opening Event Monday 25 September 2023, 5:30pm – 7:30pm Shifting the Centre is International Curators Forum’s (ICF) archival activation project dedicated to excavating the radical observations, emancipatory dreams, and revolutionary practices of anticolonial thinkers to develop counter approaches by asking: what kinds of ideas emerge when those resisting dominant forces are the protagonists of world history? The project locates connections between seemingly unrelated events, people, issues and objects as a way of rejecting a single vantage point from which to understand, tell and mobilise histories. Ultimately, it seeks to widen what dominant forces attempt to narrow: our vision, imagination, and the political possibilities available to us. ______ Anticolonialism can be understood as a tradition of thought and action; a transnational counter-politics enacted by peoples resisting the material conditions, structural legacies and ideologies that normalise empire. Anticolonial Ways of Seeing is the second iteration of ICF’s Shifting the Centre project. It considers the concept of ‘anticolonialism’ as a framework that allows clear links to be drawn between racialisation and capitalism, between past and present-day injustices, and local and global political struggles. The exhibition asks: is a contemporary anticolonial visual language possible? What are its concerns, reference points, and principles? What kinds of demands can it articulate? What sort of education can it provide? What histories does it draw from? For the exhibition, publications from Stuart Hall Library are placed into dialogue with a variety of materials found in iniva’s archive collection to build a... > Contested Sites is a research series that investigates events, perspectives and languages in recent canonised history beyond the borders of place, position and memory. - Published: 2023-07-17 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/research-network-contested-sites/ - Project Types: Research Network Stuart Hall writes in essay Constituting an Archive the importance of the meticulous task of creating Black and Asian diaspora archives as an informal act of messaging the future to say, ‘we were here and we did this’. To contest is to dispute, question and oppose an object of contention by the act of calling to witness. Continuing Stuart Hall’s ideas around testifying to history and re-affirming existence, Contested Sites is a research series that investigates events, perspectives and languages in recent canonised history beyond the borders of place, position and memory. Recognising the multiple ways in which histories hold multiple contested narratives, we embark on a journey to consider archives, bodies, institutions and geographies, whether material or digital, as sites for future histories. The Research Network is a space that brings together curators, writers, artists and creatives to share their ongoing research in dialogue with others. For this year’s Research Network, we invited Research Associates Orsod Malik, Meera Shakti Osborne, Gary Stewart and Lamya Sadiq to think through the following research question(s): How is memory contested considering geographical concepts? How can the constitution of the body be contested? How can we practically shift historical narratives around archives? How contested pasts inform institutional futures? iniva's Research Network is supported by Arts Council England and Freelands Foundation. Biographies Orsod Malik is a UK-based Sudani curator, writer, content producer and digital strategist. He is the founder of @code__switch an archive/continuum of radical internationalism dedicated to drawing links between anticolonial struggles and thought... - Published: 2023-05-02 - Modified: 2023-12-21 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/stuart-hall-library-artists-residency-2023/ - Project Types: residency iniva and Stuart Hall Foundation are thrilled to announce that artist and maker Dharma Taylor has been selected for the sixth Stuart Hall Library Artist’s Residency – a funded opportunity at Stuart Hall Library in London, UK, that builds on Professor Stuart Hall’s unique contribution to intellectual and cultural life. Building on the distinct connections between iniva and Stuart Hall Foundation, the residency allows visual artists the space to think about some of the key themes related to the work of iniva and the Stuart Hall Foundation, including the language of the diaspora, culture, identity and archiving. This year, reflecting on Stuart Hall’s paper ‘Constituting an archive’ (published by Third Text, Spring 2001), artists were invited to apply with research proposals that responded to the concept of “the living archive” and consider the multiple ways in which an archive as a site may hold multiple narratives that are contested. The Stuart Hall Foundation and iniva were particularly interested in working with an artist whose practice is informed by perspectives on politics, identity and activism; who is interested in the language of the international and ideas around diaspora; and whose methodology may relate to notions of archiving and the archival. Selected artist Dharma Taylor is a multidisciplinary artist, combining textiles with woodwork to produce narrative-rich, design-driven works that seek to observe aspects of systems within which we exist and that allow her to explore her position within the Diaspora and contemporary British society. Her practice focuses on memory and the prehistory... - Published: 2023-05-01 - Modified: 2025-03-04 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/can-publications-be-porous/ - Project Types: Exhibition - Event types: Exhibition Can publications be porous? is an exhibition of works by Sadia Pineda Hameed (LUMIN), Amber Akaunu and Fauziya Johnson (ROOT-ed Zine), co-curated with artist and cultural futurist Lauren Craig. This exhibition takes the Stuart Hall Library as an experimental space questioning the porosity of publishing. Through observing how artists move, think through and reject concepts of collectivity and individuality as separate, this exhibition seeks to share their exploration of expanded publishing through drawing, painting and sculpture. The exhibition is the third phase of a project initiated by Lauren Craig in 2021 under the title HerStories // Shelf Life, which brings together B/black women and non-binary people of colour collectives who are involved in creative writing and publishing. Highlighting collaborative and rhizomatic methods of cultural production and dissemination, this research project takes a digital peek at the shelf life of collective publishing, from printed matter to digital audiovisual. The first phase (2021) entailed a roundtable discussion, while the second stage was composed of online 1:2:1 performative interviews (2022). Both phases are now compounded by the third phase as a physical exhibition, where the library becomes a transitional space. Bringing together artists' interviews and book lists as abstract audio collages, and the artists’ visual responses to a score composed by Lauren Craig through the conceptual modality S:E:P:A:L:S, which will be unpacked in a public programme – questions based on sustainability; experience/engagement; practice/presencing; action/attunement; learning/empowerment; sensitivity. Lauren Craig says: The artworks in the exhibition aim to challenge the notion of the hierarchy of... - Published: 2023-04-28 - Modified: 2023-11-28 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/fugitive-feminism-reading-group-session/ - Project Types: Reading Group iniva x Silver Press invite you to join us at Stuart Hall Library for three reading group sessions in May, June and December 2023 focused on resonances from the publication, Fugitive Feminism. Humanity has always excluded Others on the basis of race, class and gender. What happens to people who choose to flee, following in the footsteps of those who resisted enslavement? Fugitive Feminism written by Akwugo Emejulu with a foreword by Edna Bonhomme was published by Silver Press in 2022, as the first book in Crescent: a new series of contemporary writing. This audacious manifesto draws on the legacies of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Sylvia Wynter and others to consider the ways in which Black women have been excluded from, struggled to achieve and opted to reject the category of ‘human’. Sociologist Akwugo Emejulu argues that it is only through embracing the status of the ‘fugitive’ that Black women can determine their own liberation. Fugitive Feminism is a call for the collective process of speculative dialogue and a bold new model for action. These reading group sessions are supported by funding from Freelands Foundation. About the Author Akwugo Emejulu is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Her research interests include the political sociology of race, class and gender and women of colour's grassroots activism in Europe and the United States. She is the author of several books including Precarious Solidarity (forthcoming, Manchester University Press) and Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (Policy... - Published: 2023-03-21 - Modified: 2023-10-02 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/show-and-tell-tours/ - Project Types: Talk The show-and-tell tours is a series of talks that highlight key collections from iniva's archive currently being catalogued as part of our Archives Revealed Cataloguing Project. The Archives Revealed Programme ensures that significant archive collections, representing the lives and perspectives of people across the UK, are made accessible to the public. The four archive collections included in this project are Veil touring exhibition; iniva's early constitution and governance documentation; iniva's founding symposium: Towards a New Internationalism and X-Space programme of digital art commissions. Each of these show-and-tell tours will invite you to reflect on the historical contexts and narratives of each collection and explore the archival process of making them widely accessible. - Published: 2023-03-21 - Modified: 2024-04-26 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/uncovering-the-archive/ - Project Types: Talk Uncovering the Archive is an archival collaboration between iniva and MayDay Rooms (MDR). We are offering a free series of workshops & screenings to existing youth programmes with an aim to engage young people (16-25) from marginalised communities such as Black and QTIPOC/PGM*, working class, migrant and disabled. The intention is to introduce the archive as a resource and archiving as a mode of storytelling available to, and representative of, the identities and lives of those normally excluded from history making practices. By working with the collections held both at iniva and MDR, the programme aims to offer young people with the tools to confidently explore, interrogate and create the stories they want to tell or wish were told through engaging activities that center creative play, conversation and making. By introducing young people to places, digital spaces and people that are made for/representative of them, we hope to empower their claim to history and uphold the integrity of what is important to them. We recognise that archives are often spaces accessed by people with privilege ie. wealthy/higher educated/ablebodied/neurotypical, and so a core objective is to work to open up these spaces through prioritising access, inclusion and safety. This programme will be facilitated by creative practitioners from marginalised backgrounds whose practices are informed by disruptive approaches to history telling and making. Subject to consent from participants, physical/digital copies of their creations will hold a permanent place at both MDR and Iniva archives. All originals will be kept by participants. *Queer, trans,... - Published: 2023-03-18 - Modified: 2023-03-18 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/iniva-x-the-laundry-arts/ - Project Types: Reading Group ‘How can we create a universal moment that also recognises difference? ’ is the question posed by The Laundry Arts for the collective readings that consider strategies for organising and survival in the arts. The Laundry Arts is a creative platform + studio engaging with the curious, visionary and creatively courageous. Their work is purpose-led, insightful and challenging. They are a growing network of creators and thinkers, leading in their fields, kicking down doors and refusing to be unseen. They curate exhibitions, produce installations, self-publish and collaborate with cultural organisations and brands in the production of experiential content, from dinners to parties and discussions. Between January and March 2020, we will meet together for three sessions on Ethnicity as Counterculture, Art Strikes and Emergent Strategies. - Published: 2023-02-09 - Modified: 2024-03-15 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/future-collect-artist-year-3-maria-amidu/ - Project Types: Project iniva and Towner Eastbourne are delighted to announce that the third and final Future Collect commission has been awarded to artist Maria Amidu. The final Future Collect commission supports the creation of a major new work of art by a British-based artist of African and/or Asian descent, for exhibition and acquisition at Towner Eastbourne in 2024. The exhibition will be supported with an education and engagement programme, plus new research into Towner’s growing art collection. The project also supports significant curatorial development in the form of a year-long curatorial traineeship. Previous Future Collect artists are Jade Montserrat with curator Nikita Gill at Manchester Art Gallery and Emii Alrai with curator Amber Li at The Hepworth Wakefield. Maria Amidu’s artistic concerns are influenced by the complexities of the relational – between people, and between people and place. Through writing, printmaking, artist’s books, audio visual works and sometimes glassmaking she tries to substantiate what might be going on in collective situations, paying specific attention to what is hidden, obscured or unspoken. The selection panel, composed of curatorial teams from iniva and Towner, chose the artist because of her open and generous exploration of place both personally and as an invitation to others, her questioning approach to processes of archiving and collecting, and her sensitive considerations of care, temporality and memory. Maria Amidu, who is based in East Sussex, says, "To be the third artist selected for Future Collect is such a privilege, it is such an incredible opportunity to develop new work.... - Published: 2023-02-01 - Modified: 2023-04-11 - URL: https://iniva.org/programme/projects/maria-amidu-exhibition-untilted/ - Project Types: Exhibition - Event types: Exhibition Featuring Maria’s series of works on paper, the exhibition includes: somewhere (2020) and episode(s) (2022). The showcase explores Maria’s utilisation of material and language to create delicate works that respond to ideas around correspondence, communication and the residues they create. Employing what can often be viewed as mundane objects such as water, ink and paper, Maria’s experimentations are an indication of her practice to date. Untitled reveals Maria’s interest in materiality and resonates with the surroundings of the Stuart Hall library, where transmissions between people and objects are encouraged, more specifically paper. There is also the opportunity to delve further into Maria’s process through the exploration of books that inspire her own practice. Hollie Douglas, Future Collect Curatorial Trainee said, “This exhibition gives insight into the excavations and processes by which Maria works with simple materials, and the relationship she draws between them. At the heart of this work lies the communication between the materials, the space that is left when they correspond, which Maria seizes as the point of inception for her works. The exhibition invites the audience to pause and reflect - from which