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I Am Not Just Passing By…

June 2021

Article written by curator Harriet Zhang.

I am not just passing by…

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Introducing Hongxi Li (@sassyli), a London-based Chinese artist whose concept-driven practice examines how social systems shape behaviour, emotion, and the body within post-communist and Sino-capitalist contexts. Drawing on familiar objects from furn

Introducing Hannan Jones (@hannannannanananannnn), an Algerian-Welsh artist raised in Whadjuk Noongar Boodja, Western Australia and based in Glasgow. Research-led and process driven, she practices at the intersections of moving-image, installation an

Introducing Emma Korantema (@emmakorantema), a Ghanaian-British musician, writer and multidisciplinary artist from South London. A former doctor, she uses music as an autobiographical form of inquiry into the body, power and liberation, exploring how

WIP: Sharing Space led by Diasporas Now artist Paola Estrella (@py_star) at @icalondon joined by ICA Creatives Elie Arden (@elie.arden), Jiho Lee (@whataholiday.jiho) and Sofia Pomeroy (@sofipomeroy).

They collectively presented a performance about

Our 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙭 𝘿𝙞𝙖𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙨 𝙉𝙤𝙬 programme wrapped up the year with a high-energy performance-making workshop led by avant-garde interdisciplinary collective BULLYACHE (@bullyache_).

Participants were invited into the

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Artist, musician, and writer Flora Yin Wong joins 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘳 for 𝘊𝘖𝘋𝘈 – an offering of live art and music curated by @diasporas_now

@floraytw will perform a live instrumental set for 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘳, as

Multidisciplinary visionary Haroon Mirza joins 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘳 for 𝘊𝘖𝘋𝘈 – an offering of live art and music curated by @diasporas_now

Haroon Mirza is a @labiennale @calderfoundation @hauskonstruktiv award-winning artist rep

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