Event overview
An outdoor, interactive and multi-sensorial exhibition exploring how creative practices help build and sustain cultures of gender equality differently around the world
This ‘Covid-secure’ exhibition, which surrounds the College Green at the heart of campus, celebrates Global Gender and Cultures of Equality (GlobalGRACE), a four-year research project based at Goldsmiths and at partner institutions in Bangladesh, Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines and South Africa.
In each place, researchers have collaborated with local organisations and communities, and with artists and activists to investigate how people’s creative practices can challenge intersecting inequalities and engender more equitable ways of living together.
Each project has used participatory arts-based research methods, including filmmaking, photography, theatre, creative writing, dance and curation. For this exhibition, we have collaborated to produce research-based art.
The resulting installations and soundscapes are designed for interactive engagement. They refusing the fetishisation of objects that frequently underpins conventional ‘anthropological’ displays but also refute the modernist assumption that only white cube aesthetics are indicative of ‘Art’. Situated on campus but presented outside the walls of the academy, 'Dis/locating Cultures of Equality' intends to challenges the boundaries, form and political implications of traditional ‘scholarly’ work. Over the course of the exhibition, its contents will be shaped and changed by the local environment.
The exhibition is also shaped by the global coronavirus pandemic, which radically altered GlobalGRACE projects – and so much more besides – over the past two years. All elements are designed to be experienced outdoors, around an accessible route that circles the College Green. It uses QR codes, mobile phone-based apps, floor stickers and other devices that echo our local pandemic landscape and recently heightened reliance on mobile and digital technologies. Across the exhibition site, crossed wires become connecting threads, generating new ideas and perspectives that link project themes and sites.
Each installation is accompanied by a soundscapes accessed via the Echoes app, which is free to download and can run on campus WiFi. In Echoes, audio clips play based on location, allowing visitors explorations to be further guided by dis/located sound.
The exhibition runs until October 22.
Visit the GlobalGRACE project website
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Sep 2021 | 8:00am - 9:00pm | |
| 21 Sep 2021 | 8:00am - 9:00pm | |
| 22 Sep 2021 | 8:00am - 9:00pm | |
| 23 Sep 2021 | 8:00am - 9:00pm | |
| 24 Sep 2021 | 8:00am - 9:00pm | |
| 25 Sep 2021 | 8:00am - 9:00pm | |
| 26 Sep 2021 | 8:00am - 9:00pm | |
| 27 Sep 2021 | 8:00am - 9:00pm | |
| 28 Sep 2021 | 8:00am - 9:00pm | |
| 29 Sep 2021 | 8:00am - 9:00pm | |
| 30 Sep 2021 | 8:00am - 9:00pm | |
| 1 Oct 2021 | 8:00am - 8:00pm | |
| 2 Oct 2021 | 8:00am - 8:00pm | |
| 3 Oct 2021 | 8:00am - 8:00pm | |
| 4 Oct 2021 | 8:00am - 8:00pm | |
| 5 Oct 2021 | 8:00am - 8:00pm | |
| 6 Oct 2021 | 8:00am - 8:00pm | |
| 7 Oct 2021 | 8:00am - 8:00pm | |
| 8 Oct 2021 | 8:00am - 8:00pm | |
| 9 Oct 2021 | 8:00am - 8:00pm | |
| 10 Oct 2021 | 8:00am - 8:00pm | |
| 11 Oct 2021 | 8:00am - 8:00pm | |
| 12 Oct 2021 | 8:00am - 8:00pm | |
| 13 Oct 2021 | 8:00am - 8:00pm | |
| 14 Oct 2021 | 8:00am - 8:00pm | |
| 15 Oct 2021 | 8:00am - 8:00pm | |
| 16 Oct 2021 | 8:00am - 8:00pm | |
| 17 Oct 2021 | 8:00am - 8:00pm | |
| 18 Oct 2021 | 8:00am - 8:00pm | |
| 19 Oct 2021 | 8:00am - 8:00pm | |
| 20 Oct 2021 | 8:00am - 8:00pm |
Accessibility
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