18.01.2023 Colloque: Vestibule
On 18 January 2023, Lennon Mhishi participates in two conversations:
- Disruptions: power dynamics of acquisition
- Prisoners of Love: Affect, containment and alternative futures
Lethaby Gallery, Granary Building, London
Organised by the University of Arts London and Central St Martin
- Disruptions: power dynamics of acquisition
This conversation will explore the power dynamics of acquisition in museums and galleries. From researching existing collections, to surface bias, to working with acquisition selection panels, commissioning new work and working for restitution and reparation. What is a collection? What does it mean to have your work accessioned? We will reflect on the power dynamics of selecting student work for the UAL collection and how they have been overturned, as well as situating this work of disruption within its broader, urgent and ongoing political context.
- Prisoners of Love: Affect, containment and alternative futures
Connecting UK museum collection items with home and diasporic communities through virtual visits and art practices. A conversation about Prisoners of Love, Concepts Have Teeth and Mootookakio'ssin research projects, with work and thoughts from students who have been part of the projects. Art practices embedded in a web of relations between de/colonial histories, technologies and digital media.
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