Race, racism and the arts in Britain

In the April 2018 edition of Suite (212), returning host Juliet Jacques talks to artist, musician and filmmaker Larry Achiampong and dancer/performer Alexandrina Hemsley (of Project O) about race, racism and the arts. (Cover image: 'Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features' by Adrian Piper, 1981) WORKS REFERENCED: LARRY ACHIAMPONG & DAVID BLANDY: Biters - http://www.larryachiampong.co.uk/list-of-artworks/biters LARRY ACHIAMPONG & DAVID BLANDY: Finding Fanon, parts I-III - https://vimeo.com/138951543 LARRY ACHIAMPONG: Relic Traveller - http://larryachiampong.co.uk/list-of-artworks/voyage-of-the-relic-traveller ALEXANDRINA HEMSLEY: Feminist Shakedown - http://feministshakedown.tumblr.com/ ALEXANDRINA HEMSLEY & SEKE CHIMUTENGWENDE: Black Holes - www.blackholes.co.uk JAY BERNARD: Surge - Side A - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/05/speaking-out-jay-bernard-surge-side-a-poet BLACK AUDIO FILM COLLECTIVE: Handsworth Songs, Part I (1986) - http://unrealisedfutures.tumblr.com/post/134049237625/black-audio-film-collective-handsworth-songs RENI EDDO-LODGE, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People abour Race [2014 blog post] - http://renieddolodge.co.uk/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race/ STUART HALL & MAGGIE STEED: It Ain't Half Racist Mum - http://unrealisedfutures.tumblr.com/post/133964781230/stuart-hall-it-aint-half-racist-mum-1979 CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS: Women Who Run with the Wolves - https://medium.com/@kami_leon/13-reasons-why-you-should-read-women-who-run-with-the-wolves-instead-36435ea32b4 ADRIAN PIPER: 'Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features' - http://adrianpiperarted.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/self-portrait-exaggerating-my-negroid.html NIKESH SHUKLA (ed.): The Good Immigrant - https://unbound.com/books/the-good-immigrant/ Sutapa Biswas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutapa_Biswas Sonia Boyce: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/sonia-boyce-ra Octavia Butler: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/mar/16/guardianobituaries.bookscomment Lubaina Himid: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/lubaina-himid-2356/turner-prize-2017-biography Sabrina Mahfouz: http://www.sabrinamahfouz.com/ Pauline Mayers: https://paulinemayers.wordpress.com/ Wangechi Mutu: http://www.ubu.com/film/mutu.html Network 11 (Junior Boakye-Yiadom, Beverly Bennett and others): https://ntwrk11.wordpress.com Kamile Ofoeme: https://vimeo.com/user35307978 Selina Thompson: http://selinathompson.co.uk/ Akeim Toussaint Buck: http://www.toussainttomove.com/ Priyamvada Gopal's response to the Daily Mail - https://medium.com/@zen.catgirl/my-heartfelt-thanks-to-the-hundreds-of-people-who-have-sent-their-solidarity-and-support-via-email-5f9739ec5dba Ash Sarkar on the BBC and Enoch Powell - https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/bbc-enoch-powell-rivers-of-blood-racism-brexit-wrong-to-run-it-a8302766.html Kit de Waal interview (Guardian) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/24/kit-de-waal-interview-the-trick-to-time Tate, 'The Other Story' exhibition (1989) - http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/no-12/the-other-story-and-the-past-imperfect Tate Modern, 'Soul of a Nation' exhibition (2017) - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/16/soul-of-a-nation-art-in-the-age-of-black-power-tate-modern-review