Imagining An(O)ther World: Women's Narratives, Internationalism, and resistance in the artwork/Arrival
A public lecture by Roshini Kempado, Photographer, Media Artist, and Lecturer
20 October, 2010. 4–6pm
Jackman Humanities Building, University of Toronto. 170 St. George Street, Room 100ARefreshments provided
Caribbean Studies and Diaspora and Transnational Studies invites you to
A public lecture with Roshini Kempado.
Roshini Kempadoo is a London-based Photographer, Media Artist, and Reader in Media Practice at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of East London. Her research and artwork re-interprets and re-imagines contemporary and historical experiences of the everyday. She explores the link between British and Caribbean culture through the use of photographs, digital media, and networked environments.
Recent exhibitions include: Staging Citizenship: Cultural Rights in the Americas (2009) 7th Encuentro, Museo de Artes, National University of Colombia, Bogotá; Liminal: A question of position (2009) Rivington Place, London; Art & Emancipation In Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario And His Worlds, (2007) Yale Center for British Art, USA; and the retrospective exhibition Roshini Kempadoo work: 1990 – 2004, (2004) Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery, London. Recent publications include: ‘Interpolating screen bytes: Critical commentary in multimedia artworks.’ 2010 Journal of Media Practice, 11(1); and ‘Back Routes: historical articulation in multimedia production,’ in Alan Grossman and Áine O'Brien (eds.) 2007 Projecting Migration: Transcultural Documentary Practice.
Roshini is currently researching decolonization and resistance in Trinidad and Mauritius for a photographic and multimedia artwork Domino Effects (2010); contemporary economic migration to Southern Europe from North Africa for the multi-screen artwork Arrival (2010); and writing a book chapter for Helen Thornham and Elke Weissmann (eds.) 2012 Renewing Feminism: Stories, Fantasies and Futures. Roshini has degrees in Visual Communications, Photographic Studies and was awarded her PhD from Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2008.
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