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Camera rolls and mixtapes
06 October 2023, 4:30 pm–6:00 pm
Camera rolls and mixtapes: family history, analogue archives, and diasporic placemaking (image from the series 'Appearing Acts' by Carô Gervay)
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All | UCL staff | UCL students
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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This event is supported by the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London and the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation, University College London
Location
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Common Ground, G11UCL Wilkins BuildingGower Street, South WingLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
Join two artist-researchers, Hodan Elmi and Carô Gervay, as they discuss how they combine creative practice and archival research to explore diasporic placemaking and revitalise the practice of family history. They will also reflect on their experiences of dealing with British cultural institutions when bringing this work to wider audiences.
The event will be chaired by Pragya Dhital (IES SAS and SPRC UCL) and followed by a drinks reception.
About the Speakers
Hodan Elmi
Interdisciplinary Artist, DJ, and Researcher
Hodan's doctoral research traces the emerging sounds of the Somali diaspora in the UK and Europe. She will discuss how her research has evolved through collaborations with social enterprises, galleries, and Somali artists working across different media: evolving soundscapes, ongoing field recordings, and music.
Carô Gervay
London-based artist working across analogue photography, sound, performance, video and participation
Carô Gervay explores photography as a performative and relational process that produces new spaces of memory, connection and potential for critical action between the UK, France and Vietnam. She creates collective experiences where imagination and memory are at play. She grew up in the Paris banlieue with family from France, Vietnam and Algeria, and has lived in London since 2006. She is co-director of the Gate Darkroom, a community darkroom based at Thames-Side Studios in Woolwich, London.
Carô recently took part in the exhibition No Place like Home at the Museum of the Home with other diasporic Vietnamese artists. She also took part in 'live' archiving sessions organised by the An Viet Archives, at Hackney Archives, and spent some time at les Archives d'outre mer (the French overseas/colonial archives). She will be presenting her practice and through projection, text and artists’ books.