(Re)Introducing: EMPIRE LINES
EMPIRE LINES uncovers the unexpected, often two-way, flows of empires through art. Interdisciplinary thinkers use individual artworks as artefacts of imperial exchange, revealing the how and why of t...
14 Helmi 20231min
Kiti Cha Enzi (Swahili Chair of Power), East Africa (19th Century)
Dr. Sarah Longair unseats European powers' efforts to control the East African coast, through a Kiti Cha Enzi, or Swahili Chair of Power, produced in the 19th century. Intricately decorated with an iv...
5 Tammi 202315min
Thabo, Thabiso and Blackx, Araminta de Clermont (2010)
Dr. Chris Spring tears up stereotypes of African textiles, through Araminta de Clermont's 2010 photograph, Thabo, Thabiso and Blackx. Three young men wait at a bus stop near Cape Town in South Africa,...
22 Joulu 202222min
We Came Here, Harold Offeh (2022) (EMPIRE LINES x Van Gogh House)
We're back offline, and in the artist's bedroom at Van Gogh House in London, as Vaishnavi Mohan pins down Harold Offeh's sound installation, We Came Here, an imagined conversation on migration between...
8 Joulu 202218min
Indigenous Intermediary Geua in ‘Photographs Mainly of Port Moresby’, George Lawes, (1880s)
Deborah Lee-Talbot exposes the political agency of Indigenous women in British New Guinea, through a photograph of the Papuan Geua, taken in the 1880s. In her European 'Mother Hubbard' dress, and neck...
24 Marras 202217min
The Luxborough Galley on Fire, 25 June 1727, John Cleveley the Elder (c. 18th Century)
Dr. Helen Paul bursts the South Sea Bubble, tracing the triangular trade of slavery between London and Britain's colonies in South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, via John Cleveley's 18th century pai...
10 Marras 202216min
Vinyl Record of Drive My Car, The Beatles (1965)
James Marriott traces the flows of Britain's global oil empire in the 20th century, from a village in Nigeria to The Beatles' 1965 vinyl, Drive My Car. Penned by Paul McCartney and John Lennon in 1965...
27 Loka 202217min
My Reality is Different, Nalini Malani (2022) (EMPIRE LINES x Holburne Museum, National Gallery)
We're back offline, and into the deep black exhibition space of Bath's Holburne Museum, where artist Nalini Malani coats fresh layers upon classical paintings from the National Gallery in her new inst...
20 Loka 20229min
