Exiles and 脡migr茅s

Frank Davis Memorial Lectures 2021-2022

Photograph of a black woman standing with her hands on her hips against a backdrop of a bookcase.
Image: Antony Fran莽in, 2019

Exiles and 脡migr茅s听explores the ways art and art practices relate to issues of homeland, exile, diasporic identity, the 鈥榩ost-colonial鈥, the 鈥榙ecolonial鈥, critical thinking about performance, exhibiting, and museum displays. We are proud to be inviting speakers to talk about issues ranging from decolonising French museums to the curating of S脿mi听art in the context of the Scandinavian pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022, performance and protest inside and outside of Iran to what it is like to be an Israeli artist based in London鈥檚 East End for many decades.

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Research

Decolonizing the Museum?

2:30pm, 6 Oct 2021

This lecture discusses a series of practices and experiments initiated by Fran莽oise Verg猫s around the decolonisation of the museum for the 鈥楳useum without Objects鈥 (R茅union Island, 2004-2020), 鈥楾he Slave in the Louvre: An Invisible Humanity鈥 (Paris ...

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