An evening with JA Projects and Friends

21 Mar 2024 6.30-7.30pm

Overview

Join the creatives at the award-winning studio, JA Projects, for a special lecture and discussion exploring the intersection between people, place and time.

Part lecture, part performance, this unique event will use film, audio and installation to creatively explore some of the themes of Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change.

Expect innovative presentations from the JA Projects team on their recent work, screenings of specially commissioned films, and performances of audio pieces, interspersed with accounts from the communities which the practice has worked with.

Founded by architect and artist Jayden Ali, JA Projects’ multidisciplinary work covers art, urban strategy, architecture and performance. Their collaborative commission for the Venice Biennale 2023 was awarded a Special Mention for National Participation. They have created large sculptural works, reimagined changing neighbourhoods, designed socially resilient buildings and produced immersive cultural moments.

The studio is also responsible for the design of Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change, an exhibition which brings together over 100 major contemporary and historic artworks as part of a conversation about art and its role in shaping narratives of empire, enslavement, resistance, abolition and colonialism.

Speakers:

Yomi Ṣode is an award-winning Nigerian British writer. He is a recipient of the 2019 Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship and was shortlisted for The Brunel International African Poetry Prize 2021.

Alvaro Barrington While Barrington considers himself primarily a painter, his artistic collaborations encompass exhibitions, performances, concerts, fashion, philanthropy and contributions to the Notting Hill Carnival in London. An unwavering commitment to community informs his wide-ranging practice. He has exhibited widely and in May 2024 will be the next artist to create a new installation for the Tate Britain Commission.

Rahemur Rahman is a filmmaker, designer, and academic. Graduating from Central Saint Martins School of Art & Design in 2014, Rahman made history in 2019 being the first British Bangladeshi to show at London Fashion Week. Rahman was nominated for the Change Makers Prize by the British Fashion Council in 2021 for the People Category and is the first British Bangladeshi to be in a fashion exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2022. Rahman's artistic canvas extends to the screen, co-directing documentaries that illuminate the resilience of marginalised communities.
 

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