Event overview
The history, experience and achievements of predominantly Black individuals and communities with non-hetronormative sexualities and non-conforming gender identities do not appear in their rightful place in both Black and queer heritage, history and archival records of people’s lives. The compound impact of racism, homophobia, transphobia and hetrosexism operates to exclude people altogether, or to deny an essential element of somebody’s identity.
The rukus! Black LGBTQ Archive, launched in 2005 aims to dis/entangle these multiple silences, omissions and intimate tensions by generating collecting, preserving and make available to the public historical, cultural and artistic materials relating to our lived experience in contemporary Britain.
This informal power –point presentation will highlight one of my key concerns which is - queer history, heritage and archives risk becoming locked into staid notions of identity politics and representation and inadvertently deny other ways in which our multidimensional Black queer heritage and histories, can be articulated.
The rukus! Black LGBTQ Archive therefore acts as both a physical repository and theoretical testing ground to question notions of heritage and history with a focus on not what an archive is, but more importantly what a living archive and heritage can do and become.
Biography:
Ajamu is an artist and archive curator whose work has been shown in galleries, museums and alternative spaces nationally and internationally. Work has been shown in a wide variety of journals and publications. He studied at the Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, The Netherlands, and is currently an MPhil/PhD candidate at Royal College of Art, London.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Oct 2017 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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