Histories Archives

Okay Keskidee! Let Me See Inside

A personal account of Black community spaces in the UK, focusing on Caribbean diaspora. By visiting the site of the former Keskidee Centre that is

Image of a statue of an angel with wings holding a cross in the background and in the foreground, a hand slightly covering the lens on the left side of the frame and the entire right side of the frame is tinted red.

Circe’s Dream

Circe’s Dream is part of a larger body of work that reimagines the myth of Medea through the lens of her displacement from Colchis (modern-day

Image from inside a cave looking up and out to the walls of the cave and the sky that is a gradient of grey, to pink, to blue. The grey and pink being clouds, and the blue being the sky.

Siticulosa

Siticulosa explores the journey that historical artefacts undergo over time, from everyday objects and works of art, to archaeological treasures of high historical and sometimes

Being Blue

In 2023, Fowler embarked on a residency at Prospect Cottage, the former home of artist, filmmaker and activist Derek Jarman (1942 – 1994). Jarman moved

Afterthoughts of a Walk on the Naze

In the year of his death, my great-uncle, the artist Nigel Henderson, wrote a letter addressed to my future self. In his letter, he asked

A Pledge

A Pledge is a work that explores the interconnected states of generational trauma, mental and physical health and communal agency. The film begins with the

A Letter (Side B)

A Letter (Side B) looks at the affective impact of history, immigration and geographical separation on two brothers living in Britain and Ghana. Through the

MASCON: A Massive Concentration Of Black Experiential Energy

Think of Mascon: A Massive Concentration Of Black Experiential Energy as an audiovisual investigation into the gestures, geometries, grammars and geographies that compose the forms

4 ayes

A frolic through the foreafter “in the aye”; A tale told in four ayes The four-abend of the other ayes; An oculists nightmare; A random

3rd aye

The long-unawaited treacle-trequel of the “aye” heterology following the unfathomably suckercessfool prequel-equal-sequel, “i 2 aye” (over 40 awards at over 50 festivals in 1st 6

Berlin Mirror (2042 Retrospective)

Berlin Mirror (2042 Retrospective) is Chapter 10 of Lawrence Lek’s Bonus Levels (2013-2016), a series of site-specific video games based on alternate versions of real

Pyramid Schemes

“Pyramid Schemes” is a powerful treatise on architecture in eleven chapters. Narrated by a computer-simulated voice, the video opens with the premise that “architecture is

QE3

QE3 forms Chapter 11 of Lawrence Lek’s Bonus Levels (2013-2016), a series of site-specific video games based on alternate versions of real places. Conceived as

N’importe Quoi (Extérieur – Jour)

The second part of the N’importe Quoi series, the first being N’importe Quoi (for Brunhild), also comprises footage of Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari at her home in

Images Were Burning

A reflection on images of violence, the film strings together excerpts from Medoidze’s writing and archive footage. Filmed in the vicinity of Hotel Tbilisi, during

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