Artist Ângela Ferreira joins curator Andrew Renton for a conversation on Slits Are Girls, Ferreira’s new commission at The Showroom. Together they will explore how the exhibition brings into dialogue two distinct yet resonant histories of punk: the early emergence of The Slits in West London and the anti-apartheid resistance embodied by National Wake in late-1970s South Africa.
The discussion will consider how local histories surrounding The Showroom – where punk’s formative energies first emerged – connect to wider global movements of resistance, and how the exhibition maps these crossings through material and form.
Drawing on more than three decades of collaborating together, Renton and Ferreira will reflect on punk’s continuing relevance as a language of refusal, experimentation and social critique.
