| Symposium 3. Saturday 27 June 2015 Mother Tongue presents Blind Spots | 13:00 | CCA, Cinema | Glasgow Exploring Themes of Race in Archives of Visual Art through Curating with
Nana Adusei-Poku, Eddie Chambers, Loulou Cherinet, Power Ekroth This half-day event will focus on curatorial and artistic interventions into different kinds of archives; asking how the creation or maintenance of archives reflect national interests and place-making; with a particular emphasis on projects that have sought to address racial inequalities, exclusions, grand narratives and myth-making in the visual arts. Focusing on the Nordic region in particular, discussion will explore manifestations of 'whiteness' in northern 'artistic cities', examining any parallels between e.g. Stockholm, Oslo, Glasgow in discussing how Black artists' work is positioned alongside their multiracial heritage. The event is preceded by a film screening of Ruben Östlund’s ‘Play’ (2011, Sweden). Translated excerpts of writer Oivvio Polite’s ‘White Like Me: Selected Texts on Racism’ (Danger Bay Press, Stockholm, 2007) have been translated into English specifically for this event, and will be freely distributed for all audience members. |
