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Tate Modern Talk | Performance

Otherwise Gazes: A Future in Common

3 December 2023 at 18.00–20.00
Collage image with a row of hands at the top sprinkling images of faces that fall in lines down the image.

Zohra Opoku, “To me belongs mankind, given wholly to me . . .,” 2021. Indigo-dyed linen, monotype print, screenprint, thread. Courtesy the artist and Mariane Ibrahim, Chicago

Join us in a visual, discursive and lyrical journey to a future in common with the artists and activists creating space for dreaming the world anew

Join magical realist artist, designer and co-founder of Space Black Rayan Elnayal, afrofemcentrist painter Shannon Bono and others for an expansive evening.

The talk will imagine how photography, art and exhibition making can become sites for community building by encouraging us to explore a radical imagination of what it means to be together. It will delve into indigenous ways of seeing and being, and practising new models of collaboration. It invites us to ask ourselves – what are the many paths we have taken to get here? Where are the many places we will go?

The talk will be interspersed with an inspiring and uplifting selection of musical and poetic performances from talented emerging artists, poet Phoenix Yemi and soul musician, THABO.

We invite you to unwind, relax and groove with us before the talk at the Corner Café with a playlist curated by Touching Bass.

What might it mean to cultivate an Otherwise Gaze?

The term is being developed by photographer, visual artist and curator of this event, Fikayo Adebajo to ask the question - when the colonial gaze has been returned, where do we look to next? An Otherwise Gaze is a methodology for being in communion with ourselves and others with the aim of transforming our inner landscapes and the world around us. It is an embodied and communal exploration of being beyond the burden of representation, and a call to action to look into alternatives glittering with the possibility of what may come to pass when we hold each other tightly and dream softly beneath the moonlight.

Rayan Elnayal

Rayan is an artist, designer, and educator whose interest in magic realism was developed during her architecture thesis. Her art combines her research and architectural background to imagine futuristic visuals deeply rooted in Sudan, the SWANA region, and their diasporas. It serves as a speculative design exploration of futuristic aesthetics that embrace our cultural heritage to challenge Euro-centric design principles. In addition to her artistic pursuits, Rayan is also co-founder and director of Space Black, a creative studio challenging conventional norms within the built -environment profession.

Shannon Bono

Shannon Bono (b.1995, London) is a painter embodying an afrofemcentrist consciousness, sharing muted narratives and projecting the black women’s lived experience through her own lens. She is invested in producing layered, figurative, compositions embedded with symbolism that centralise black womanhood as a source of knowledge and understanding. Enamoured by African spiritually, Christian iconography and renaissance art she employs its purpose of cultural impact for an improved society within her works.

Phoenix Yemi

Phoenix Yemi is a poet and founder of Black Geographies, a night of music and poetry dedicated to the power of language as a tool of resistance. She writes A Worm Moon, a monthly poetry newsletter for Worms Magazine, and has had her work published in New Currency, Sweet Thang Zine, Mania, and by Reference Press. She is currently the poet in residence at Reference Point.

THABO

For over a decade THABO has been performing soulful music that has its own charm and purpose, touching on subjects like climate change and other social challenges. He has collaborated with Naughty Boy and Idris Elba - and also been on tour with Seal and Anthony Hamilton.

More recently, collaborations with Julian Knxx (Roots for a Crown, Cool Burn) and Akeelah Bertram (Ultiverse, Light Organ) have expanded his practice and birthed a philosophy rooted in Bantu culture and tradition.

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