Artist Harold Offeh will be in-conversation with Sepake Angiama, Artistic Director of Institute for International Visual Art (inIVA) and one of the contributors to the book. There will also be an opportunity to visit Offeh’s exhibition prior to the event.
£12 (£9 Friends, £6 students and Open House Community card holders), booking required.
About Harold Offeh
Harold Offeh is an artist working in a range of media including performance, video, photography, learning and social arts practice. Offeh is interested in the space created by the inhabiting or embodying of histories. He employs humour as a means to confront the viewer with historical narratives and contemporary culture. He has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally including Tate Britain and Tate Modern, South London Gallery, Turf Projects, London, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Wysing Art Centre, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, MAC VAL, France, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark and Art Tower Mito.
He studied Critical Fine Art Practice at The University of Brighton, MA Fine Art Photography at the Royal College of Art and recently completed a PhD by practice exploring the activation of Black Album covers through durational performance. He lives in Cambridge and works in London, UK. He previously held the role of Reader in Fine Art at Leeds Beckett University and was a visiting tutor at Goldsmiths College and The Slade School of Art, UCL, London. He is currently a tutor in MA Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art.
About Sepake Angiama
Sepake Angiama is a curator and educator living and working in London. She is the Artistic Director for the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva) which is a leader in the discourse of the political and social implication of globalisation. The Institute is the home of the Stuart Hall Library that centres artistic research, collective study, experimentation, play and dialogue with African, Asian and global majority diaspora artists and their communities. Angiama’s previous writing has focussed on speculative fiction, architecture and radical education.
Source: Kettle’s Yard
