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Historian of modern and contemporary British, Irish, and Sri Lankan art. Research on gender, sexuality, and race.
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at explores African diasporic artists creating surreal sci-fi worlds— ft: Lina Iris Viktor’s ‘Eleventh’ (2018) which considers the Libyan Sibyl as abolitionist symbol; Ellen Gallagher’s ‘Watery Ecstatic’ (2021) imagines a mythic Black Atlantis

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In Munich to give a lecture at on and Northern Ireland’s queer and feminist art. Pictured: ‘The Druithaib’s Ball’, 2021, detail, installed at , coming to in 2023.

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. at explores queer ecologies: challenging the claim that LGBTQ+ people are “unnatural”, considering how climate change disproportionately impacts marginalised communities, refusing gender/race binaries to imagine alternative forms of collectivity.

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Penny Goring at explores feminist violence: occult dolls, anti-capitalist posters, traumatic drawings. Intensely powerful and extremely witty. Pictured: ‘Emotive Title (Super Virulent Hyperdeath Virus Targeted at You Know Whose)’, 2017, detail / ‘Antiraptors’, 2014.

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Britta Marakatt-Labba’s show explores how the Sámi people, indigenous to Scandinavia, have experienced & resisted colonialism & climate change. ‘Garjját/The Crows’ (1981/2021, details) documents protests against the expansion of a Norwegian hydropower plant in Áltá.

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.’s current show considers the politics of plants: their implication in imperial histories and anti-colonial struggles, as well as their connection to spiritual or shamanic practices in certain forms of Indigenous knowledge.

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Harvey Shepherd's chapter, ‘Monstrous Ecology: Regional Iconographies and Bourbon Authority in Depictions of the Beast of Gévaudan, 1764-5’, considers how eighteenth-century rural French folklore reveals structures of political power and violence: https://t.co/sdScXZZ9k9

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Love monuments show. Ft: ’s ‘A Proposal for a Parakeet’s Garden’ (2021) on ecology, migration, colonial histories / Jala Wahid’s ‘The Profitless Gift’ (nd) on the UK’s Greater Kurdistan occupation / ’s ‘NHA 7’ (2021) on psychedelics & magic

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Keith Piper’s digital printed banners ‘Jet Black Futures’ (2021-22) at offer prophecies of a future in which the transatlantic triangle is inverted, borders dissolve, the earth’s axis tilts, monuments are re-purposed, the Global North is abandoned, majority rules.

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. installation ‘The Druthaib’s Ball’ (2021) at is powerful, complex, witty. Marking partition’s centenary, the installation creates an illegal bar full of feminist-queer protest & community — an anti-sectarian, otherworldly & magic space.

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