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 Aug 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 Juli 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 Juli 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 Juni 202417min
Taboo Durag, Paul Maheke (2021) (EMPIRE LINES x Mostyn, Glasgow International)
Contemporary and performance artist Paul Maheke moves between France, Congo, and Canada, exploring the ‘archive of their body’ through drawing and dance, via Taboo Durag (2021).To Be Blindly Hopeful e...
13 Juni 202416min
Ingrid Pollard: Carbon Slowly Turning (2022) (EMPIRE LINES x Invasion Ecology)
In this special episode, EMPIRE LINES returns to Ingrid Pollard’s 2022 exhibition, Carbon Slowly Turning, the first major survey of her career photographing Black experiences beyond the city and urban...
30 Maj 202414min
Twist, LR Vandy (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x October Gallery, Chatham Ropery)
Artist LR (Lisa) Vandy shows EMPIRE LINES the ropes in a studio visit to Chatham’s Royal Navy Dockyard in Kent, unravelling entangled imperial and industrial relationships, dance in the African diaspo...
16 Maj 202430min
Melted into the Sun, Saodat Ismailova (2024) (EMPIRE LINES x Fondazione In Between Art Film, Venice Biennale)
Filmmaker Saodat Ismailova traces stories of spirituality, dissent, and environmental extraction around the Aral Sea from post-Soviet Uzbekistan and Central Asia, via Melted into the Sun (2024). Uzb...
2 Maj 202415min
