Dates:
26 Mar 2024
Location:
HJL's Dream Space, 352 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA
Project:
As part of ICF’s Shifting the Centre project, and in response to requests that ICF hold more reading groups after those convened around our exhibitions with Black Cultural Archives and iniva in 2023, ICF is hosting another reading group in collaboration with Stuart Hall Foundation:
Tuesday 26 March 2024, 6-7:30pm
Healing Justice London’s Dream Space
at Resource For London on 356 Holloway Road N7 6PA
About the Project
Shifting the Centre is International Curators Forum’s 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.
Shifting the Centre forms part of ICF’s Systems Reclaimed project, which aims to create a platform for creative practitioners to highlight and interrogate specific manifestations of systemic inequality both within and beyond the arts.
The Reading Group
We invite attendees to bring in a single text, poem, quote, artwork, or excerpt which you associate with the notion of Shifting the Centre or Systems Reclaimed to share and discuss during the open and informal group discussions. If you prefer not to bring your own text, we had included a link to a Miro board which houses all of the texts we’ve explored through the project so far.
This session opens up a space through which we can generate collective consideration of the ways in which critical texts can act as important analytical tools for addressing urgent political realities, such as the colonial systems impacting peoples living in places like Palestine and the Democratic Republic of Congo, through historical readings of revolutions like the ones that took place in Haiti and Grenada.
There will be food available during the event from 6.30pm.
This is an in-person event with limited spaces and registration is essential.
Explore the Miro board
There is scope to make this a monthly event – if you are interested in signing up to attend a Shifting the Centre reading group regularly, with ICF and SHF, please email info@internationalcuratorsforum.org
Discover More
Shifting the Centre: Grenada as Reference at Black Curatorial Archives
Project:
As part of ICF’s Shifting the Centre project, and in response to requests that ICF hold more reading groups after those convened around our exhibitions with Black Cultural Archives and iniva in 2023, ICF is hosting another reading group in collaboration with Stuart Hall Foundation:
Tuesday 26 March 2024, 6-7:30pm
Healing Justice London’s Dream Space
at Resource For London on 356 Holloway Road N7 6PA
About the Project
Shifting the Centre is International Curators Forum’s 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.
Shifting the Centre forms part of ICF’s Systems Reclaimed project, which aims to create a platform for creative practitioners to highlight and interrogate specific manifestations of systemic inequality both within and beyond the arts.
The Reading Group
We invite attendees to bring in a single text, poem, quote, artwork, or excerpt which you associate with the notion of Shifting the Centre or Systems Reclaimed to share and discuss during the open and informal group discussions. If you prefer not to bring your own text, we had included a link to a Miro board which houses all of the texts we’ve explored through the project so far.
This session opens up a space through which we can generate collective consideration of the ways in which critical texts can act as important analytical tools for addressing urgent political realities, such as the colonial systems impacting peoples living in places like Palestine and the Democratic Republic of Congo, through historical readings of revolutions like the ones that took place in Haiti and Grenada.
There will be food available during the event from 6.30pm.
This is an in-person event with limited spaces and registration is essential.
Explore the Miro board
There is scope to make this a monthly event – if you are interested in signing up to attend a Shifting the Centre reading group regularly, with ICF and SHF, please email info@internationalcuratorsforum.org
Discover More
Shifting the Centre: Grenada as Reference at Black Curatorial Archives
Dates:
26 Mar 2024
Location:
HJL's Dream Space, 352 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA
