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Iniva presents a programme of events drawing on themes from the multi-voiced exhibition Progress Reports: art in an era of diversity. Talks, debates and performances explore current understandings and changing interpretations of cultural diversity, reflecting the times we live in and changes to the social and cultural landscape.
Discussion: Super Diversity Who Participates Now?
Tuesday 2 February, 6:30pm
The recent phenomenon called 'super diversity' describes London as a highly diverse society with people from 176 different nations and 300 different languages spoken. How is this visible in the arts today? With Naseem Khan OBE, previously Head of Diversity for Arts Council England, Jorella Andrews, Head of the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths University, Lina Dzuverovic, Director of Electra, and chaired by Colin Prescod, Chair of the Institute of Race Relations.
Performance: Wind-up
Saturday 6 February, 3:30pm
Exhibiting artist Naomi Kashiwagi's performance involves improvising, drawing and sketching with a wind-up gramophone turntable and re-appropriated 78rpm records using electrical tape to create an interruptive percussive layer.
Talk: Global Visions
Thursday 11 February, 6.30pm
Beyond the wealth of international biennales and in the context of a âglobalised' world, in what way does the 'international' connect with the 'national' today? Is 'New Internationalism', as previously championed by Iniva, still a valid critical format? With Everlyn Nicodemus, an artist and writer who was at Iniva's first symposium âGlobal visions' in 1994, Kristian Romare, art historian and critic, and chaired by Deborah Cherry, Research Professor, Art History department at Central Saint Martins College.
Artists' event: Falafel Road Residency
Saturday 13 February, 4pm
Run by exhibiting artists Oreet Ashery and Larissa Sansour, this event explores manifestations of the falafel as a diasporic food that has been assimilated into London's rich food culture. You are invited to bring along a memory or an observation of how food has a political and cultural resonance for you.
Challenging Cultural Hierarchies
Thursday 18 February, 6:30pm
How rigid are the power structures and institutions in the arts and who narrates art history now? An evening of polemics considers how today's cultural practitioners circumvent cultural hierarchies.
Live Bibliographies: Performing the Text
Saturday 20 February, 2:30pm
Performance poet Joyful Noise uncovers lost voices, illuminates new art histories, and playfully interacts with the lexicon of heritage and identity present in the Stuart Hall Library resources, in response to Progress Reports.
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