Short Course: Curating Black Art
How do historical, cultural and social factors affect our subjectivity when consuming artworks made by artists of colour in institutional spaces? What are the implications if our understanding of the artworks is rooted in a westernised context?
This course aims to shift the paradigms in which we understand artworks by artists of colour by drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to develop a new framework and artistic vocabulary focused on scholarly contributions to the field.
Throughout the sessions, we will explore the many ways in which contemporary artists, theorists and cultural workers are (re-imagining) how ‘blackness’ is perceived by upsetting traditional modes of corporal spectatorship in transformative and radical ways.
Tutor: Ese Onojeruo
Ese Onojeruo is an interdisciplinary artist and curator whose work is underpinned by the ways gender and race can be felt as phenomenological experiences. Her curatorial practice is particularly focused on how communal experiences of ‘exclusion’ encourage alternative methodologies of learning.
In 2018 Ese co-founded Narration Group a collective of women and non-binary people of colour. Focused on understanding and unpicking the intersectional forms of discrimination which people of colour encounter, and ways to engage collectively and critically with these experiences. The group provides a space for alternative collective learning through the lenses of queer theory, black feminist thought and diasporic perspectives.
Instagram: @ese_onojeruo
Date and Time:
4 Weeks
Every Thursday
May 6th - May 27th (2021)
7 PM (BST)
Delivery:
To create an interactive viewing experience, each course is delivered live via Zoom. Information to access the classes and the learning material will be sent up to one week prior to the course start date. Participants will also be able to access the learning platform which includes the recordings of the live lectures for 30 days after the last class.
How do historical, cultural and social factors affect our subjectivity when consuming artworks made by artists of colour in institutional spaces? What are the implications if our understanding of the artworks is rooted in a westernised context?
This course aims to shift the paradigms in which we understand artworks by artists of colour by drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to develop a new framework and artistic vocabulary focused on scholarly contributions to the field.
Throughout the sessions, we will explore the many ways in which contemporary artists, theorists and cultural workers are (re-imagining) how ‘blackness’ is perceived by upsetting traditional modes of corporal spectatorship in transformative and radical ways.
Tutor: Ese Onojeruo
Ese Onojeruo is an interdisciplinary artist and curator whose work is underpinned by the ways gender and race can be felt as phenomenological experiences. Her curatorial practice is particularly focused on how communal experiences of ‘exclusion’ encourage alternative methodologies of learning.
In 2018 Ese co-founded Narration Group a collective of women and non-binary people of colour. Focused on understanding and unpicking the intersectional forms of discrimination which people of colour encounter, and ways to engage collectively and critically with these experiences. The group provides a space for alternative collective learning through the lenses of queer theory, black feminist thought and diasporic perspectives.
Instagram: @ese_onojeruo
Date and Time:
4 Weeks
Every Thursday
May 6th - May 27th (2021)
7 PM (BST)
Delivery:
To create an interactive viewing experience, each course is delivered live via Zoom. Information to access the classes and the learning material will be sent up to one week prior to the course start date. Participants will also be able to access the learning platform which includes the recordings of the live lectures for 30 days after the last class.
How do historical, cultural and social factors affect our subjectivity when consuming artworks made by artists of colour in institutional spaces? What are the implications if our understanding of the artworks is rooted in a westernised context?
This course aims to shift the paradigms in which we understand artworks by artists of colour by drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to develop a new framework and artistic vocabulary focused on scholarly contributions to the field.
Throughout the sessions, we will explore the many ways in which contemporary artists, theorists and cultural workers are (re-imagining) how ‘blackness’ is perceived by upsetting traditional modes of corporal spectatorship in transformative and radical ways.
Tutor: Ese Onojeruo
Ese Onojeruo is an interdisciplinary artist and curator whose work is underpinned by the ways gender and race can be felt as phenomenological experiences. Her curatorial practice is particularly focused on how communal experiences of ‘exclusion’ encourage alternative methodologies of learning.
In 2018 Ese co-founded Narration Group a collective of women and non-binary people of colour. Focused on understanding and unpicking the intersectional forms of discrimination which people of colour encounter, and ways to engage collectively and critically with these experiences. The group provides a space for alternative collective learning through the lenses of queer theory, black feminist thought and diasporic perspectives.
Instagram: @ese_onojeruo
Date and Time:
4 Weeks
Every Thursday
May 6th - May 27th (2021)
7 PM (BST)
Delivery:
To create an interactive viewing experience, each course is delivered live via Zoom. Information to access the classes and the learning material will be sent up to one week prior to the course start date. Participants will also be able to access the learning platform which includes the recordings of the live lectures for 30 days after the last class.