Emma Dabiri Instagram – July Live Events ! Some goodies here frfr
So my mind is actually blown from the scale of this exhibition and the range of Tavares Strachans vision imagination
His work is so extraordinary not just for its visual awesomeness expeditionary achievements (from Artic explorations to the launching of satellites) but the fact that all of this is underpinned by epistemic concerns ~ an unsettling of colonial knowledge systems their archives. Strachan’s approach to time; collapsing neat distinctions between past, present and future, as well as its defiance of rigid categorisation makes this ontologically black work, a powerful antidote to the limitations of colonial epistemic traditions! This is one conversation I am hugely excited for 🧠💥
The following day will be in convo discussing one of my favourite novels ; James Baldwin’s Another Country in celebration of the centenary of his birth ! “Explorations of the complexities and dynamics of race, gender and sexuality are central to his work but rather than reify identity, Baldwin unravels it, and in doing so offers profound insights not just into the specificities of the identities he examines, but rather into the very nature of what it is to be human in the 20th century (and presciently the 21st!)
Delighted also to the hosting the U.K. BLM National Festival organised in the spirit and radical tradition of Black anti-imperialist conferences that have come before us, such as the fifth Pan-African conference which took place in 1945 it aims to provide a platform for education, organising, and community building through panel talks and workshops and ie designed to bring together Black and anti-imperialist activists and groups in Britain to strengthen anti-racist organising 🖤🖤🖤 WE MOVE 🖤🖤🖤 | Posted on 06/Jul/2024 14:08:07
