Rendering the Real

Sireita Mullings
22 March 2012 to 27 April 2012

When Stuart Hall spoke about Black artists in the UK diaspora as having had three distinct moments in post war history, he suggested that artists during the 90s operated in a problem space which was defined by the 80s and that the possibility of an emerging “Fourth Moment”, at the time of his writing would have been too early for discussion.

Sireita Mullings invites fellow arts practitioners to interrogate how the ‘now’ is constructed. She argues that the ‘Fourth Moment’ is largely defined by the significant work of practitioners who engage communities perceived as ‘at risk’, ‘disengaged’ ‘marginalised’ or ‘hard to reach’. She asks, “How do practitioners and their participants navigate this type casting and the lived experiences of political categorising within formal and informal arts learning spaces?”

As an extension of her photographic practice and PhD research titled ‘Postcolonial legacies of marginalisation as rendered in the visual works of young people living in Lambeth’, the exhibition and symposium invites us to identify and discuss some of the characteristics that construct and define current arts practice and assess, if any, the link between the past and present.

A series of talks and events will accompany the exhibition:
Panel discussion. Fri 30th March, 6.30 – 8.30pm

Post-colonial legacies: linking the past with the present visual practices
Panel discussion. Fri 13th April, 6.30 – 8.30pm

Negotiating marginal positions within photographic practices
Visual Residue: Symposium and Workshop Sat 21st April, 10.30am – 4.30pm

Sharing the perspectives and experiences of practitioners, researchers, educators and participants.Followed by a closing drinks reception 4.30-7.00pm

For more information contact Info@198.org.uk