Tag: activism
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Catalyst: Art as Activism
Encompassing four solo shows this exhibition challenges our views on climate change, disability, identity and migration. Studio International spoke to artists Eilidh Appletree, Taraneh Dana, Kasia Oleskiewicz and Molly Wickett at Summerhall Arts in Edinburgh the day before the show…
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Isabel Rock: Things Fall Apart, The Centre Cannot Hold
Mutant crocodiles, slugs, rats and pigs populate a post-apocalyptic world, but despite the humour, Rock is deadly serious in her attempt to draw attention to the climate crisis and the state of our prison service
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Zanele Muholi
Anger, hurt, vulnerability, love, togetherness, celebration, passion … South African visual activist Zanele Muholi captures and evinces every imaginable emotion at high intensity
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Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990
From women’s lib to the Greenham Common camps, this powerful show covers to two decades in which women rose up in protest – and their concerns are as relevant today as they were 50 years ago
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Alberta Whittle – interview: ‘No one can find Barbados on a map, whereas everyone can find the UK. That level of inattention galvanises so much of my work ’
The artist talks about the erasure of black people in everyday society, and how this informs and motivates her to challenge herself, and her audience, with her filmic and performative installations
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Edmund Clark: ‘The intervention, the control, the censorship is part of what I do’
Edmund Clark discusses his recent residency at the UK’s only wholly therapeutic prison, HMP Grendon; his time spent on Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan; and how intervention and censorship have become a part of his work
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