business as usual: hostile environment

2020
Country: UK
Duration: 16 mins
|4 Seconds
Colour,
Sound: Stereo
Ratio: 16:9
Available Format/s: HD ProRes
Original Format: 4K Video / 2K Video / HD Video

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‘Business as usual’ is a set phrase used commonly in the business realm to manifest an ‘on going and unchanging state of affairs despite difficulties or disturbances’. It also serves to title Alberta Whittle’s first solo show at Tyburn Gallery, London. The artist adding a good deal of sarcasm on to it, humorously appropriates and reinterprets the tranquilizing sentence to refer to the lethargic and stagnant nature of the art institutions governed by good intentions and mainly lack of commitment towards creating real spaces for diversity and inclusion within the arts and about the business of colonialism and its legacies today.

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