Posts from June 2021

Online exhibition: Personal Perspectives

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Wednesday 23 June 2021, 6pm – Wednesday 30 June 2021, 6pm

Personal Perspectives is a screening of artists’ works curated from the LUX collection by four final year University of Westminster students, Alex Guiste, Jordan Blanchard, Tia Lewis and Jodie Lawal-Mcdonald, with support by curator Jemma Desai, artist Adham Faramawy and our own Alison Craighead. This project was funded by The Quintin Hogg Trust and supported by LUX.

The process of making the selection began with the group watching Alnoor Dewshi’s seminal work from 1992, Latifah And Himli’s Nomadic Uncle, where two cousins discuss ideas of culture and history while wandering through London. Described by John Akomfrah as an “excellent film on Nomadology and [the] diasporic sublime”, this subtly rich and often humorous work opens this screening: it was the catalyst for the discussions that led to the students’ selection of these three subsequent works: The Very Very End, George Barber, 2013; A Part of Me, Carl Callam, 1998; A is for Artist, Ayo Akingbade, 2018.

Details at: https://lux.org.uk/online-exhibition/personal-perspectives

Women’s Experiences of Conflict: Gender, Violence, and Representation at the National Museum of Colombia

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Wednesday 9th June 2021, 17.00 (BST)

Women’s Experiences of Conflict
Gender, Violence, and Representation at the National Museum of Colombia

Organised by our friends Latin American Studies at Westminster research group, this roundtable presents the ongoing issues of representation, gender, and violence within Colombia’s National Museum, delineating how museums are responding to these social issues.

Speakers:
Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster/IMCC)
Catalina Delgado Rojas (Institute of Cultural Practices, University of Manchester)
Valeria Posada Villada (Arts Curatorial Department of the National Museum of Colombia)

Further details and booking for this online event here.