Tate Encounters is a three-year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through the Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme. The project started in April 2007 and involves three collaborative institutions: Tate Britain, London South Bank University and the University of the Arts London, through Wimbledon College of the Arts.
The project aims to provide an in-depth account and analysis of the reciprocal meanings of a sustained encounter between London South Bank University (LSBU) students who have a migrant family background and an important national cultural site. The project will develop knowledge and understandings of how narratives of Britishness are contained, constructed, and reproduced within the curatorial practices and collection of Tate, and of how such notions are received and valued by different migrant and diasporic family members within the context of the active material/visual cultural practices of everyday life. From this encounter the project will develop new curatorial and educational perspectives relevant to wider and more culturally diverse audiences and will contribute towards cultural change within the Museum and Galleries sector.
ISSN 1757-0530
Header image credit: The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon, 1881-1898, Oil on canvas, 279.4 x 650.2 cm, Museo de Arte de Ponce. Fundación Luis A. Ferré, Inc., Ponce, Puerto Rico
