Art of the African Diaspora: A Conversation with Osei Bonsu, Paul Goodwin & Evan Ifekoya

Join the Decolonise History of Art working group for “Art of the African Diaspora: A Conversation with Osei Bonsu, Paul Goodwin and Evan Ifekoya” taking place on Monday the 26th of October 6-7pm. Register via the Eventbrite link below.

Osei Bonsu is the Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, London. He has worked as a critic, curator and art historian developing projects focused on transnational histories of art. Based between London and Paris, he has curated numerous shows internationally and is also a contributing editor at frieze magazine.

Professor Paul Goodwin is an independent curator, urban theorist and researcher whose work focuses on interdisciplinary fields of contemporary art and urbanism, with a particular focus on black and diaspora artists and visual cultures. Having worked as a curator at Tate Britain from 2008-2012 Goodwin has worked on many curatorial projects both in Britain and abroad. Within the field of contemporary art, Goodwin has focused on processes of migration, globalisation and transnationalism and how they are yielding new forms of artistic and curatorial practices.

Evan Ifekoya is an artist and energy worker who through sound, text, video and performance places demands on existing systems and institutions of power, to recentre and prioritise the experience and voice of those previously marginalised. Through archival and sonic investigations, they speculate on blackness in abundance; the body of the ocean a watery embodied presence in the work. They established the collectively run and QTIBPOC (queer, trans*, intersex, black and people of colour) led Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.) in 2018. In 2019, they won the Kleinwort Hambros Emerging Artists Prize and in 2017 the Arts Foundation award for Live Art sponsored by Yoma Sasberg Estate. They have presented exhibitions and performances across Europe and Internationally, most recently: Liverpool Biennial (2021); Gus Fischer New Zealand (2020); De Appel Netherlands (2019); Gasworks London (2018).

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