Exiles and Émigrés

Frank Davis Memorial Lectures 2021-2022

Photograph of a black woman standing with her hands on her hips against a backdrop of a bookcase. i Image: Antony Françin, 2019

Exiles and Émigrés explores the ways art and art practices relate to issues of homeland, exile, diasporic identity, the ‘post-colonial’, the ‘decolonial’, critical thinking about performance, exhibiting, and museum displays. We are proud to be inviting speakers to talk about issues ranging from decolonising French museums to the curating of Sàmi art in the context of the Scandinavian pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022, performance and protest inside and outside of Iran to what it is like to be an Israeli artist based in London’s East End for many decades.

Events in this series

Photograph of a black woman standing with her hands on her hips against a backdrop of a bookcase.
Watch now

Research

Decolonizing the Museum?

2:30pm, 6 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

This lecture discusses a series of practices and experiments initiated by Françoise Vergès around the decolonisation of the museum for the ‘Museum without Objects’ (Réunion Island, 2004-2020), ‘The Slave in the Louvre: An Invisible Humanity’ (Paris ...

Organisers

Citations