Raven Row

Revisit a conversation between artist Tam Joseph and art historian Dr Anjalie Dalal-Clayton, celebrating the publication of Four Corners Books’  I Know What I See , the first major survey of Tam Joseph’s career. ‘With the wry observations of his concerted, determined and engaging international reach, Joseph is in so many respects the absolute embodiment of diaspora. But perhaps we’d do better to s...

Listen back to a conversation between artist Ibon Aranberri, art historian and writer Miren Jaio, and Raven Row’s director Alex Sainsbury, exploring what underpins Aranberri’s wide-ranging practice, how his complex research projects are generated, and how they unfold and intertwine, especially in relation to the works in Unequal Diameters. Miren Jaio (born 1968) is a member of Bulegoa z/b, an offi...

FESPACO and the Archiving of African Cinema With June Givanni (chair), Mohamed Challouf, Jihan El-Tahri, Aboubakar Sanogo and Keith Shiri   Since its establishment in 1969, the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) in Burkina Faso has been considered one of the most important festivals of the African, and later the African diaspora’s, filmic imagination. Chaired by June...

Between Accessibility and Art Criticism: African/Diasporic Film Culture Today With Awa Konaté (chair), Anthony Badu, Liz Chege, Abiba Coulibaly and Rōgan Graham Increasingly the division between cinematic forms and materials produced for art galleries have blurred and created new forms of creative collaborations and questionings of the screen-based image. How does this context speak to legacies of...

Sisterhood With Suzanne Scafe (chair), Wangui wa Goro, Sindamani Bridglal, Ruhi Hamid and Haja Fanta This panel explores Black women’s filmmaking as an important voice in the development of Black independent film in the UK, the African diaspora and on the African continent in the 1980s. Black female directors, producers and programmers share their experiences of overcoming obstacles to produce the...

Third Cinema in the Era of Channel 4 With Imruh Bakari (chair), Gaston Kaboré, Hudda Khaireh, Rod Stoneman and Parminder Vir The first ten years of Channel 4 (1982–92) fundamentally transformed British film and television, and also witnessed the emergence of a Black British independent cinema. This intergenerational panel brought together key individuals who were part of that moment, with creative...

Black on Europe With Juliet Alexander (chair), Felix de Rooy (Zoom), Cecile Emeke, Colin Prescod and Onyekachi Wambu Black on Europe  was a landmark BBC television series produced to signal the establishment of the European single market on 1 January 1993. In 1991, Black British filmmakers Colin Prescod and Onyekachi Wambu documented the lived experiences of Black people and communities living wit...

Listen back to the second panel discussion from our event ‘Public Access Television, the Community Programme Unit and the BBC’, in partnership with the Bishopsgate Institute, exploring the Community Programme Unit’s role in bringing public access television to the UK, and the legacies and tentacles of its achievements. The event took place on 25 March 2023, and was part of our exhibition ‘People M...

Revisit the first panel discussion from our event ‘Public Access Television, the Community Programme Unit and the BBC’, in partnership with the Bishopsgate Institute, exploring the Community Programme Unit’s role in bringing public access television to the UK, and the legacies and tentacles of its achievements. The event took place on 25 March 2023, and was part of our exhibition ‘People Make Tele...

Listen back to the first panel from our event ‘Community Cable Television in the 1970s’ in partnership with the Bishopsgate Institute, where we were joined by former cable channel producers, station managers, volunteers, artists and activists to discuss the history and legacy of community cable TV in the UK. The event took place on 11 March 2023, and was part of our exhibition ‘People Make Televis...

Nightcleaners and '36 to '77 - Panel Discussion (2.30pm) by Raven Row

Nightcleaners and '36 to '77 - Panel Discussion(4.30pm) by Raven Row

An introduction by Gianfranco Baruchello will be followed by a discussion between Baruchello, Luca Cerizza, Alex Sainsbury and Carla Subrizi, considering this exhibition and the surrounding works, his overall production and the broader culture in which this was made. --- Luca Cerizza is an art historian and curator, living in Turin and Mumbai. He is responsible for the Research Institute at Castel...

Candice Hopkins 'Sounding the Margins: A Choir of Minor Voices' Saturday 29 April 2017 Candice Hopkins presents a new version of her lecture 'Sounding the Margins: A Choir of Minor Voices’, ongoing reflections on protest, Indigenous art and sound-based practices. Candice Hopkins is a curator and writer based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has published writing on art and vernacular architecture,...

Suzy Mackie | 'Don't break down, break out' | Symposium Saturday 20 May, 2017 A symposium addressing historic and contemporary forms of political activism and art-making, in a programme of screenings, performances, and discussions, taking as a starting point the publication within this exhibition 14 Radnor Terrace: A Woman’s Place. With contributions by Amy Tobin, Harry Giles, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski,...

'Poison the Cure' | Conversation and screening with Jenna Bliss, Alex Fleming and Las Nietas de Nonó Saturday 10 June 2017 Jenna Bliss and Alex Fleming will discuss the research and production process which informed her new film 'Poison the Cure' (2017), including Bliss' work with artist and actor Michel Nonó of the performance collective Las Nietas de Nonó. They will draw on their previous projec...

Victor Burgin, 'Now and Then', in discussion with Antony Hudek and Alex Sainsbury Friday 3 March 2017 Burgin will consider his participation in 'A Survey of the Avant-Garde in Britain' at Gallery House not as a history to be exhumed but as a place in the past from which to view the present. For more information please visit our website: www.ravenrow.org --- Presented as part of the exhibition 'Thi...

The Centre for Behavioural Art, Gallery House, 1972–73 Sunday 26 February Round table discussion on the intersections of art and the social sciences, with original participants of the Centre, Kevin Lole, Ross Longhurst, Colston Sanger and Peter Smith in conversation with artist Nils Norman. Please see our website for more information: www.ravenrow.org --- Presented as part of the exhibition 'This...

The Avant-Garde in Britain? Sunday 19 March Round table with Peter Berry, Jon Bird, Rachel Garfield, Lucy Reynolds, Paul Wood and Kevin Wright, chaired by Antony Hudek and Alex Sainsbury. Borrowing from the title of Rosetta Brooks' exhibition at Gallery House, this panel will consider the idea of the avant-garde in Britain in the early 1970s, particularly in relation to conceptual art and film. Pl...

Feminist Domesticities in Art and Art History | Jo Applin, Francesca Berry, Tamar Garb, Teresa Kittler, Catherine Spencer, Amy Tobin Saturday 6 May 2017 A special new issue of Oxford Art Journal titled 'Feminist Domesticities' is the starting point for this discussion. The issue gathers an emerging corpus of feminist research and addresses how we might encounter domesticity as concept, environment...

'Sick Time is Resist Time' | Khairani Barokka, Richard Fung, Alice Hattrick, Raisa Kabir, Caspar Heinemann & Holly White Friday 26 May 2017, 6.30pm An evening of performance and film exploring creative responses to living with illness. Khairani Barokka will perform her poem 'Sliding Scale' alongside extracts from her recently published 'Indigenous Species' (2016), a Braille and text poetry-art boo...

'Sick Time is Resist Time' | Khairani Barokka, Richard Fung, Alice Hattrick, Raisa Kabir, Caspar Heinemann & Holly White Friday 26 May 2017, 6.30pm An evening of performance and film exploring creative responses to living with illness. Khairani Barokka will perform her poem 'Sliding Scale' alongside extracts from her recently published 'Indigenous Species' (2016), a Braille and text poetry-art boo...

'I Am Dora' presents ‘Domestic Estrangement’, with work by Chantal Akerman Sunday 30 April 2017 An extended introduction by Jemma Desai to the film 'Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles' (1975; 201 mins) by Chantal Akerman that reveal the filmmaker’s ambivalent relationship with labour, the maternal and the domestic. Jemma Desai is a curator and founder of 'I am Dora', an itinerant...

Nazmia Jamal | 'Don't break down, break out' | Symposium Saturday 20 May, 2017 A symposium addressing historic and contemporary forms of political activism and art-making, in a programme of screenings, performances, and discussions, taking as a starting point the publication within this exhibition 14 Radnor Terrace: A Woman’s Place. With contributions by Amy Tobin, Harry Giles, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski...

Fran Cottell And Maisie Richards Cottell | A Piece of Land: Alternative communities and living Saturday 27 May 2017 An afternoon of presentations considering alternative structures of collective living and models of domestic life. Fran Cottell and her daughter Maisie Richards Cottell will discuss 'House Projects' (2001 - present); a series of architectural installations built in the artists' home,...