On our 'Entangled Pasts' - and how to move forward
An 'Art, Colonialism and Change' exhibition will open at the Royal Academy in London, as new crimes make our present as bleak as the times in focus.
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Dear readers,
Since 2006, I have been working as a journalist and researcher on international relations between Europe, the Americans, the Caribbean, South West Asia and Africa, and how these relations are indeed marred with heavy past entanglements.
I focused on politics, but also history and the arts, going from Paris to London; Miami to Port-au-Prince, Haiti; New York to Tunis; Nairobi to Dakar; Mogadishu to Bangui; Algiers to Erbil; Niamey to Kampala; Istanbul to Bristol…
All places haunted by the consequences of colonialism and how to recover from the damages done.
So, when the opportunity to work with the Royal Academy again (my first event there was a discussion with the brilliant Guyanese British artist Hew Locke, in July 2023), I was both inspired and honoured.
Here are a few details about it:
Talk at The Royal Academy, London, Feb. 2024
Art and revolution
As part of the 'Entangled Pasts, 1768–now - Art, Colonialism and Change' exhibition - 3 February - 28 April 2024:
Week 1: Art and revolution with Melissa Chemam
An introduction to the history of the long relationship between art and conflict, from revolutions such as the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution, to the present day.
Melissa Chemam is a journalist, broadcaster and writer on art, music, social change, multiculturalism, African affairs, North/South relations, and activism. She is the author of the book Massive Attack - Out of the Comfort Zone (2019), and has been published by BBC Culture, Al Jazeera, RFI English, Art UK, CIRCA Art Magazine, the Public Art Review, the New Arab, The Independent, Reader’s Digest, UP Mag and Skin Deep. She also worked as a journalism lecturer and as the writer in residence at the Arnolfini art centre, in Bristol, from 2019 to 2022.
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