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Peter Finnemore, Looking For Signs, 2018. © The artist
Talk
Exploring Colonial Conversations
12 May 2020
Regular hours
- Tue, 12 May
- 14:00 – 16:00
Address
- Alexandra Road
- Swansea
- SA1 5DZ
- United Kingdom
This seminar will bring together visual artists from India and Wales, whose multi-media work explores themes of identity, migration, colonialisation and collaboration; paying particular attention to Swansea’s status as the second city of Sanctuary.
About
Location: Online via Zoom
Cost: Free
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” (Marcel Proust).
The seminar series Imperial Subjects: (Post)colonial conversations between South Asia and Wales is led by British Art Network bursary awardee Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and South Asian art historian Dr Zehra Jumabhoy. This series of seminars has been adapted for delivery online.
South Asia and Wales have had a long liaison, stretching back to the earliest years of Britain's socio-political infiltration of the Subcontinent. And, given Wales' own status within the larger British narrative, the encounters have often been more collaborative (and the two have shared more in common) than the history of Colonialism would lead one to assume. This series of four paired seminars traces some of the historic interactions between South Asia and Wales, while simultaneously forging new ones.
The seminars are paired as Week One and Two and will be delivered on Tuesday and Thursday each week. Delegates may register for one or both weeks.
