These are a series of online dialogues with 5 or 6 artists and academics focused around a particular theme, text, artwork or video. We hold approximately five of these each year.
Over 17 academics, artists, choreographers & writers have been invited to be part of these collective dialogues. For each dialogue we will use excerpts from texts, audio and video as the starting point for each conversation.
Facing Reality (1958) by C.L.R James, Grace Lee Boggs & Cornelius Castoriadis, pp.24-28. The American Revolution (1963) by James Boggs, chapter 2.
The Black Jacobins (1938) by C.L.R. James & Beverley Mullings. “Caliban, Social Reproduction & Our Future Yet To Come”, Geoforum 118 (2021), pp.150-158.
The Black Jacobins (1938) by C.L.R. James. “Culture on the Edges: Creolization in the Plantation Context” by Michel-Rolph Troulliot. Plantation Society in the Americas 5 (1998), pp.8-28. A short clip of Lia Rodrigues’ work Encantado.
D’Angelo’s Voodoo, album; a recollection made by D’Angelo in a 2000 Vibe magazine interview with the writer dream hampton; and an observation made by the studio engineer for Voodoo, and a close collaborator with D’Angelo on the project, Russell Elevado, in a 2007 Red Bull Music Academy interview. You can also listen to the in conversation Listen to D’Angelo with commissioned artist Edward George and Dhanveer Singh Brar, Leeds, February 2024.
You can also click on each day below to see a selection of the excerpts for that day.
Please note that these sessions are private and contributions and dialogues are only open to those involved in the project
Dhanveer Singh Brar
Seb Franklin
Jeremy Glick
Laura Harris
Annie McClanahan
Nick Ridout
Stephen Ward
Text excerpts (PDF)
Brian Bartell
Dhanveer Singh Brar
Adriana Garriga-Lopez
Aaron Kamugisha
Beverley Mullings
Nick Ridout
Text excerpts (PDF)
Olive Demar
Neve Harrington
Jeremy Nedd
Nick Ridout
Arabella Stanger
Text excerpts (PDF)
Tony Bolden
Dhanveer Singh Brar
Douglas Kearney
Emily Lordi
Francesca Royster
Text excerpts (PDF)
Over 20 artists, academics, writers, curators have been invited to be part of these collective dialogues, Monday 24th – Thursday 27th April.
Monday and Tuesday’s participants will read a text written by Syliva Wynter as the starting poing for their collective dialogues. Wednesday and Thursday’s participants have contributed a short work (7 mins) – video, audio, text or other shareable in response to the research themes. These have been shared among participants and act as a starting point for a two 2-hour collective dialogues between 5-7 participants.
Please note that these sessions are private and contributions and dialogues are only open to those involved in the project.
Luis Rincon Alba
Shane Boyle
Nicole “Fadeke” Castor
Nisha Ramayya
Nick Ridout
Deborah Thomas
Text excerpt (PDF)
David Austin
Dhanveer Singh Brar
Christine Okoth
Romy Opperman
Arabella Stanger
Claire Tancons
Text excerpt (PDF)
Dhanveer Singh Brar
Christine Capetola
Derrais Carter
Kayo Chingonyi
James Goodwin
Kelina Gotman
Jazwinder Blackwell-Pal
Vanessa McAuley
Vincent Moystad
Nick Ridout
Jatun Risba
Martin Young
Over 10 artists, academics, writers, directors were invited to contribute a short work (7 mins) – video, audio, text or other shareable in response to the research themes. These were shared among participants and acted as a starting point for a two 2-hour collective dialogues between 5-7 participants, Monday 20th March and Tuesday 21st March.
Please note that these sessions were private and contributions and dialogues were only open to those involved in the project.
Matt Cornell
Nancy Mauro-Flude
David Pledger
Nick Ridout
Yuji Sone
Elizabeth Stevens
Robert Walton
Deirdre Coleman
Alvin Eng Hui LIM
Jazmin Llana
Paul Rae
Nick Ridout
Over 20 artists, academics, writers, directors were invited to contribute a short work (7 mins) – video, audio, text or other shareable in response to the research themes. These were shared among participants and acted as a starting point for a series of 2-hour collective dialogues between 5 participants, Monday 7th – Wednesday 9th June, plus an 8-hour dialogue between 9 participants on Thursday 10th June. Thursday’s participants had been involved in the project in 2020.
Please note that these sessions were private and contributions and dialogues were only open to those involved in the project.
Lisa Blackman
Peter Eckersall
Neve Harrington
Nicol Parkinson
Fiona Templeton
Ron Athey
Camille Barton
Eirini Kartsaki
Ashwani Sharma
Maurya Wickstrom
Jamila Johnson-Small
Louis Moreno
Dani Ploeger
Paul Rae
Nisha Ramayya
Maki/åbäke
Alan Page Arriaga
Emma Bennett
Andrea Božić
Martin Harries
Joe Kelleher
Nicholas Ridout
Kyla Wazana Tompkins
Julia Willms
Over 20 artists, academics, writers, directors were invited to contribute a short work (7 mins) – video, audio, text or other shareable in response to the research themes. These were shared among participants prior to the dialogue and acted as a starting point for this series of collective dialogues between six participants, Monday – Thursday, week beginning 20th July 2020, from 6-8pm (BST).
Please note that these sessions were private and only open to those involved in the project.
Shane Boyle
Dhanveer Singh Brar
Zack (Dada Bots)
Eirini Kartsaki
Carrie Noland
Nick Ridout
Andrea Božić
CJ (Dada Bots)
Joe Kelleher
Shaka McGlotten
Simon Vincenzi
Miet Warlop
Julia Willms
Maki/åbäke
Treena Balds
Emma Bennett
Edit Kaldor
Alan Page
Nick Ridout
Ant Hampton
Martin Harries
Joe Kelleher
Julie Ezelle Patton
Holly Pester
Fiona Templeton
Collaborations Fund of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)
The Centre for Public Engagement, QMUL
Strategic Research Initiative, School of English and Drama, QMUL
In collaboration with
performingborders
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