About this Event
The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain was a groundbreaking exhibition curated in 1989 by Rasheed Araeen, whose work is currently on show at Downing’s Heong Gallery. A landmark moment in British art history, the show highlighted the contributions and creativity of African and Asian artists who had been marginalized by the mainstream art world in post-war Britain. The Other Story explored social issues of race, identity, and the politics of representation. It continues to encourage discussions on post-colonialism and multiculturalism in the arts, as well as on diversity and inclusion in the art world today.
For this roundtable discussion, Dr Saul Nelson (Teaching Associate in Twentieth-Century Art, University of Cambridge) and Alina Khakoo (PhD student on the Criticism and Culture programme at the University of Cambridge) will be in conversation with a number of artists involved in the 1989 exhibition, including Eddie Chambers, Gavin Jantjes and Keith Piper.
About the exhibition:
Rasheed Araeen: A British Story condenses Araeen’s artistic career into a representative selection of work across painting, collage, sculpture, and participatory installations. Works include Zero to Infinity, and his ‘Reading Room’ installation, which will offer visitors the opportunity to engage with the artist’s own writings, many of which were first published in the journal Third Text, which he founded in 1987. The show emphasizes the indivisibility of Araeen’s formal artistic language from his post-colonial political awareness and highlights his imaginative artistic responses to British political and cultural life over the last fifty years.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Howard Theatre, Downing College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
