As part of the public programme for the British Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale
Friday 24th May 2024, 10am-4pm
To be held in the Androne room at Ca’ Bottacin (NICHE Centre for the Environmental Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Calle Crosera, Dorsoduro 3911, Venice 30123, Italy.
For those who cannot attend this study day in person, this event will be livestreamed.
Please RSVP via the livestream option using this Google Docs Form, by Thursday 23rd May, at 5pm (CET).
Language: English
As part of the public programme for the British Pavilion 'Listening All Night To The Rain' at the 60th Venice Biennale, iniva presents Unseen Guests, a commission of eight artists based in the UK and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) working across new media, audiovisual and writing, with the aim to create new works in dialogue with the films of artist John Akomfrah.
Developing new commissions are the artists Ibiye Camp, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Gladys Kalichini, Rodrigo Nava Ramirez, Shamica Ruddock and Helena Uambembe, alongside writers Yaa Addae and Alexis G. Tayie. They will be joined for the day by Matteo Stocco of the Metagoon project, and Maria Madeira, featured artist of the inaugural pavilion for Timor-Leste.
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The Unseen Guests Study Day in Venice will bring together iniva’s commissioned artists and Venice’s scholarly and visual arts community. It will facilitate a shared exploration of climate justice and anticolonial thinking, putting particular emphasis on diverse forms of archival research with relevance to the theme of water.
The Unseen Guests group of artists and writers have been working together with Pan-African cultural archives throughout the UK and SSA, investigating documentations of anticolonial events and testimonies of climate change. By bridging conversations that depart from diverse perspectives, the Study Day will become a catalyst for forging lasting connections and networks while fostering future collaborations within and beyond the event. It is designed to allow for collaborative reflections and investigations of John Akomfrah’s contribution to the British Pavilion, while approaching the wider context and themes of the Venice Biennale.
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As part of the public programme to accompany the British Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, with the support of British Council and Arts Council England, the Unseen Guests Study Day in Venice is presented by iniva, in collaboration with NICHE and the UNESCO Chair at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the Department of Art History at The Open University (United Kingdom).
