It Will End in Tears, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x Barbican)
Contemporary artist Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, and curator Diego Chocano, slip between places and times, reconstructing the landscape of Botswana in the centre of the city of London, through their film...
21 Nov 202418min
M Street, Sylvia Snowden (1978-1997) (EMPIRE LINES x White Cube Paris)
Contemporary artist Sylvia Snowden figures different approaches to expressionism, layering Western European and African American art histories, through their paintings of M Street, in Washington DC (1...
14 Nov 202413min
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging, Jessica J. Lee (2024) (EMPIRE LINES Live at Invasion Ecology)
In this special episode, writer Jessica J. Lee joins EMPIRE LINES live with visual artist and researcher Iman Datoo, to explore the languages of ‘natural’ history and invasive species through their bo...
7 Nov 202458min
A Right of an Exile, Kedisha Coakley (2024) (EMPIRE LINES Live at Hepworth Wakefield)
In this special episode, artist Kedisha Coakley joins EMPIRE LINES live at the Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire, connecting their work from Jamaican and Black diasporic communities across the UK, ...
24 Okt 20241h 2min
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 Okt 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Aug 202420min
