EMPIRE LINES uncovers the unexpected, often two-way, flows of empires through art.
Interdisciplinary thinkers use individual artworks as artefacts of imperial exchange, revealing the how and why of the monolith ‘empire’.
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MUSIC: Combinación // The Dubbstyle
PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic
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As part of my work in learning, I lead public tours, talks, and live-recorded in conversation events, with artists, curators, historians, and thinkers:
With Professor Paul Gilroy, Françoise Vergès, and artists Angela Camacho, Sylvie Séma-Glissant, and Ashish Ghadiali at the Black Atlantic Symposium (11-2023)
With Ekow Eshun, writer and curator of The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London and The Box in Plymouth (06-2024), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art and North Carolina Museum of Art in the US into 2025 (left)
Featured by national museums and galleries:
Audio installations in the museum space, and at live events, like safe + sound in London:
To promote the series, I have written for the likes of Museums and Galleries Edinburgh, featured in interviews, and hosted events with Retrospect Journal (08-04-2021):
I was also interviewed for the EMPIRE LINES podcast launch for BBC Radio Shropshire.
Mid-morning on BBC Radio Shropshire with Jim Hawkins – 01-10-2020
EMPIRE LINES also features in print: