Events

Art Activism School

3-day course, 14-16 December @ Rivington Place

Learn more about the strategies used in art activism and how you can apply them to your cause.

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Exhibitions

Black Chronicles

Photographic Portraits 1862-1948

18 May - 11 December 2016 @ National Portrait Gallery

The National Portrait Gallery in partnership with Autograph ABP presents a unique ‘snapshot’ of black lives and experiences in Britain.

An important display of photographs, which reveal some of the stories of Black and Asian lives in Britain from the 1860s through to the 1940s, is open until 11 December at the National Portrait Gallery.

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Exhibitions

Vasco Araújo

Decolonial Desire

7 October - 3 December 2016 @ Autograph ABP, Rivington Place

In this first solo exhibition in the UK, Portuguese multimedia artist Vasco Araújo uses photography, video and sculpture to explore how the trauma of the colonial encounter continues to haunt the modern world.

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Events

Book launch

Delhi: Communities of Belonging

Thursday 8 December, 6:30 - 8pm @ Rivington Place

Join us for a glass of wine to celebrate the launch of Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh’s new photo book Delhi: Communities of Belonging (The New Press, November 2016)

Listen to the authors introduce their latest work depicting India's emerging LGBTQ community with a Q&A session and free wine reception for the audience.

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Events

Decolonial Politics Today?

Wed 30 November, 6:30 - 8:30pm @ Rivington Place

How do notions of the ‘decolonial' continue to challenge the violence of colonial pasts and present? A contested term within the visual arts and wider cultural debates, this event reflects on the current status of 'decolonial' activity in the visual arts, and explores what kind of politics are being produced.

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