Join photographers Emi O’Connell and Jermaine Francis as they discuss their works in the exhibition Performing Histories / Histories Re-imagined. Learn how they used memory and ‘the archive’ to interrogate disturbing practices by religious institutions in the past.
In and then I ran, Emi O’Connell uses self-portraits, image, and text, to create an imagined visual archive of her grandmother’s memories running away from a mother and baby home in 1964, Ireland. Jermaine Francis explores the Bryan Heseltine archive housed at the Bodleain Library, Oxford. Once Upon a Time unravels the methods the Anglican Church and its missionary programme used to indoctrinate Black slaves in the Caribbean.
Performing Histories / Histories Re-imagined offers an insight into artistic practices that critically engage with the archive to re-address history and position neglected histories at the centre.
Their discussion will be chaired by Vivienne Gamble, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Peckham 24.
After the talk, please join us for a drinks reception to celebrate the exhibition Performing Histories / Histories Re-Imagined from 3.00pm to 4.00pm.
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Tickets are ‘pay what you can afford,’ suggested donation of £3 or £5.
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Performing Histories / Histories Reimagined is co-curated by Peckham 24 and Impressions Gallery.
Photo: and then I ran from the series and then I ran, 2023 © Emi O’Connell.
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