The place is here : the work of black artists in 1980s Britain /
"The publication developed from the exhibition and research project The Place Is Here (2016-19), which traced the urgent and wide-ranging conversations taking place between black artists, writers, and thinkers in Britain during the 1980s. Within the context of Thatcherism and a racist art estab...
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Berlin, Germany :
Sternberg Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Nick Aikens, Elizabeth Robles
- We Will Be / Susan pui san lok
- A Complex Unity : Articulating the 1980s / Nick Aikens
- The Urgency of the Now / Deborah Cherry
- Encounters with Art History / Laura Castagnini, Alice Correia, Priyesh Mistry, Elizabeth Robles
- Van Abbemuseum Exhibition/Images
- Reframing Art History / Elizabeth Robles
- Blk Art Group Research Project
- All the Rage : For Oluwale and Destruction of the National Front / Sonia Boyce
- Vanley Burke Archive
- On Dreaming Rivers : The Possibilities of Becoming / Chandra Frank
- Gavin Jantjesʼs A South African Colouring Book / Amna Malik
- Nottingham Contemporary Exhibition/Images
- The Place Is Here, the Time Is Now : Lubaina Himidʼs Toussaint LʼOuverture / Dorothy Price
- The Archive / Nick Aikens, June Givanni, Sarnia Malik, Marlene Smith
- June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive
- Bearing Witness / Sunil Gupta, Gail Lewis, Michelle Williams Gamaker
- Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art Exhibition/Images
- Mona Hatoumʼs Roadworks and Measures of Distance / Leon Wainwright
- Said Adrusʼs Zeitgeist, Chila Kumari Burmanʼs Convenience Not Love and Pratibha Parmarʼs Sari Red / Ashwani Sharma
- South London Gallery Exhibition/Images
- Making Histories Visible
- Processes of Identification / Evan Ifekoya, Claudette Johnson, Raisa Kabir, Raju Rage, Rehana Zaman
- Contributors
- Exhibition Checklists and Image Credits
- Acknowledgements
- Colophon
- Selected Archives.