From River To River | The European Pavilion In Rome
As part of programme of The European Pavilion in Rome, the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), London is proposing three reading sessions organised from 17 to 19 November 2022, in collaboration with and hosted by NERO. The sessions will be held in English and can accomodate a maximum of 15 persons. To participate, send an email to theeuropeanpavilion@culturalfoundation.eu.

The sessions bring together some of the Associates from their Archipelagos in Reverse research network, who have been involved in iniva’s DRIFT pavilion project through their contribution to a special issue of STUART papers, thinking through fluidity of notions of nationhood.
During the sessions, participants will be invited to discuss ideas and texts taking inspiration from the texts written by contributors Rohan Ayinde, Kaitlene Koranteg, Rahila Haque, Lola Olufemi, Cairo Clarke, and Adjoa Armah. No prior reading is required to participate in the session: we will read all the texts together.
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This session weaves together questions of migration and movement in relation to sound and water with curator and writer ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ผ ๐๐น๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ฒ. Thinking about sound as movement and how water connects to departures and arrivals.
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Writer and artist ๐๐ฑ๐ท๐ผ๐ฎ ๐๐ฟ๐บ๐ฎ๐ต leads readings to consider what it means to belong to a diaspora? How can you create space for yourself in spaces where you are othered? And what does it mean to have the archipelagic as a part of your practice?
๐ฆ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐, ๐ญ๐ต ๐ก๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ญ๐ฐ:๐ฌ๐ฌ–๐ญ๐ฑ:๐ฌ๐ฌ โ ๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป & ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐น๐ฒ๐๐๐ป๐ฒ๐๐
Feminist writer ๐๐ผ๐น๐ฎ ๐ข๐น๐๐ณ๐ฒ๐บ๐ถ proposes to address the topic of imagination and borderlessness through questions such as: How do you unbuild a nation? Who gets to imagine borderlessness and how multiple imaginaries of nations can coexist?
Location:
NERO
Lungotevere degli artigiani 8/b
00153 Rome
Italy
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Rose Nordin is a graphic designer and artist based in London and is currently in residence at Somerset House Studios, London. She is a founding member of OOMK (One of My Kind) art publishing collective, focused on supporting self– publishing as โa vehicle to an independent validation to onesโ own culture, history, politics and sense of selfโ [John La Rose]. Collectively, OOMK runs community Risograph press called Rabbits Road Press. Rose initiated STUART publishing platform in 2021.
Lola Olufemi is a Black feminist writer and CREAM/Stuart Hall Foundation researcher who works and organises in London. Her work focuses on the uses of the feminist imagination and its relationship to cultural production, political demands and futurity. Adjoa Armah is an artist, writer, curator, and educator with a background in material anthropology and design. Based between London and Accra, her practice is concerned with the entanglement between narrative form, archival practice, mapping and spatial consciousness, pedagogy, Black ontology, ethnology, and the political.
Cairo Clarke is a curator and writer based in London and Napoli. Her work is informed by slowness, it centres forms of knowledge production and dissemination that slip between the cracks, are formed on unstable ground and take on multiple temporalities. Supporting strands of theorising taking place in autonomous spaces and holding space for the mess. Sepake Angiama praxis stems from radical pedagogies, black feminist thought, rethinking human/non–human relations rooted in how we might reimagine and inhabit the world otherwise. She is the artistic director of the Institute of International Visual Arts (iniva), dedicated to developing artistic research, radial education practices, collective study, publishing and community led commissioning that reflects on the social and political impact of globalisation.
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Conceived and designed by Rose Nordin, STUART is a publishing platform
initiated in 2021, documenting thoughts from researchers, writers and visual
artists through collaborations that reflects thematically on selected texts and
archived ephemera from the Stuart Hall Library. The papers seek to work
through Live Archiving of thought and hosts unfinished or personal reflections
amidst quotes, notes and marginalia of ancestral whispers; from the thinkers
that unite our work and thinking.
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The European Pavilion is a programme by the European Cultural Foundation
that provides spaces for experimentation and reflection on Europe. Every two
years, together with foundation partners, the European Cultural Foundation
supports cultural organisations across Europe that are developing new artistic
programmes and commissions offering fresh perspectives on Europe and
imagining our shared future. All projects are then presented on the occasion of a
major art event, which is happening this year in Rome across seven different
venues.
Over the course of three days, artists, thinkers and researchers from across the
continent come together in programme that offers panel discussions, talks and
workshops, music performances, a virtual reality environment, as well as
sculptural and multimedia installations.
Discover the full programme here.
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Studio Rizoma, and generously hosted by our partners Bibliotheca Hertziana โ
Max Planck Institute for Art History, Goethe–Institut Rome, German Academy
Rome Villa Massimo, Acadรฉmie de France ร Rome Villa Mรฉdicis, Istituto
Svizzero (Swiss Institute), Museo delle Civiltร , and NERO.
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