House of Weaving Songs, Dhaqan Collective (2024) (EMPIRE LINES Live at the Eden Project, Cornwall x Counterpoints Arts, Art Reach)
In this special episode, Fozia Ismail and Ayan Cilmi from the feminist art collective Dhaqan Collective join EMPIRE LINES live at the Eden Project in Cornwall, alongside artists Kaajal Modi and Sovay ...
10 Loka 20241h 21min
Innocence, Permindar Kaur (1993) (EMPIRE LINES x John Hansard Gallery, Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2024)
Artist and sculptor Permindar Kaur moves between the Black British Arts Movement, the Young British Artists (YBAs), and Barcelona in the 1990s, exploring the ambiguities of Indian and South Asian cult...
26 Syys 202418min
Scottish Mission Book Depot Keta, El Anatsui (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh Art Festival 2024)
Curator Tessa Giblin deconstructs El Anatsui’s monumental, sculptural textiles, unravelling the ties that still bind post-colonial Ghana, Nigeria, and Scotland in the 21st century.Born in 1944, betwee...
12 Syys 202417min
Sekondi Locomotive Workshop, Ibrahim Mahama (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x Fruitmarket, White Cube)
Artist Ibrahim Mahama ‘time travels’ between British colonial and independent Ghana, tracing railway lines across African and European countries in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in the 20th century. ...
29 Elo 202420min
Br’er Rabbit and the Tar Baby, Sequoia Danielle Barnes (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh Art Festival 2024)
Artist and academic Sequoia Danielle Barnes redresses the ugly side of kitsch and ‘cute’ toy cultures, telling histories of trickster rabbits from Peter Rabbit to Bugs Bunny, appropriated from Black S...
15 Elo 202421min
Casa de Maria, Beatriz Milhazes (1992) (EMPIRE LINES x Tate St Ives, Turner Contemporary)
Contemporary artist Beatriz Milhazes collages arabesques from Baroque Portugal and Brazil’s many indigenous communities, tracing religious and natural patterns in Roman Catholicism, Islamic architectu...
25 Heinä 202413min
Avi-Alarm, Hanna Tuulikki (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Invasion Ecology)
Artist Hanna Tuulikki connects plantation landscapes in Finland, Scotland, and across the South West of England, making kin across species and with birds. Glasgow-based artist, composer, and performer...
11 Heinä 202417min
The Time is Always Now, Ekow Eshun (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x National Portrait Gallery, The Box)
Curator Ekow Eshun reframes the Black figure in historic and contemporary art, surveying its presences, absences, and representations in Western/European art history, the African diaspora, and beyond,...
27 Kesä 202417min
