DECEMBER
4.–12.12.2020
With Petri Saarikko I was invited to Rabat, Morocco for a short artist residency at Le Cube - Independent Art Room as part of our participation in the group exhibition Leave No Stone Unturned [Remuer la terre] which was curated by Clelia Coussonnet. We participated with the Remedies Universe project Remède Remedies video that we produced in collaboration with the Le Centre D'Art in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 2016.
OCTOBER
7.10.2019, 9:00-19:00, Turkum, FI
I was invited to participate to one of the panels (together with Lauri Mattila and inaway) of the Performanssipäivä (Performance Day) by the Arts Promotion Center Finland and MUU ry.
MAY
1.6.–27.7.2019, Centro Cultural Helio Oiticia, Rio de Janeiro
Nome Próprio is my first solo exhibition in Brazil and was curated by Sabrina Moura. The public program was curated by Lorena Vicini. The exhibition brings together a selection of my Demounting Louis Agassiz project. The public talk on the 1.6. at 4pm is held by Prof. Maria Helena P.T. Machado, Sabrina Moura and me.
The exhibition Nome Próprio is supported by the Pro Helvetia Foundation in the context of the program «COINCIDENCIA – Cultural Exchanges between Switzerland and South America», in partnership with Frame Contemporary Art Finland and Capacete. The public programs have the support of the Goethe-Institut Rio de Janeiro.
APRIL
15.4.2019, 9:15–17:00, University of Helsinki
I was invited to participate to one of the panels of The Arts for Justice, Indigenous Coalition Building and Artistic Practices seminar organized by Indigenous Studies and Environmental Humanities Programs at the University of Helsinki and University of the Arts Helsinki.
MARCH
21.3.2019, New York Times, Bosten Globe, 20min, CNN, Huff Post...
Tamara K. Lanier, great-great-great grand-daughter of enslaved Renty is suing Harvard University for the ownership of the daguerreotypes of her ancestors.
The daguerreotypes were commissioned by Louis Agassiz (1803-1873), who was a proponent of "scientific" racism and a pioneering thinker of segregation and “racial hygiene”. Agassiz ordered Renty and other enslaved men and woman to be photographed on a South Carolina plantation, “to prove the inferiority of the black race”.
We have known Tamara since 2012 after her daughters found the petition website http://www.rentyhorn.ch I started in 2008 as part of my ongoing artistic work (started with Rentyhorn, 2008) which sprung from the Demounting Louis Agassiz campaign Hans Fässler founded in 2007 and after he invited me to become a member of the transatlantic committee of "Demounting Louis Agassiz".
In 2017 we met Tamara in Staten Island, NY and wanted to portray her while holding Renty’s photo in response to her not even getting the copyright to her ancestor's photographs at first. I posed the question, who should have the right to own these images today and who should have the right to show them and how? I am glad that you Tamara act and stand up for your ancestors and I wish you all the strength and love. I will continue to do so too and defend the dead which are still alive through us.
13.3.2019, 6-7.30 pm, Göteborgs Konsthall, SE
My video I Love JaNY, screes within the Black Light part 2: Black Women exhibition film programme curated by Temi Odumosu.
What does it mean to know and experience the world in (under) a “black light”? This programme engages themes of presence, absence, memory, and illumination through African and African diasporic filmmaking. The moving images presented here explore blackness conceptually in the way Édouard Glissant describes as ‘a knowledge becoming’; travelling along deep historical pathways, moving through and between embodied realities, and even reimagined in dreams. These images are sensitive, bold, and heartfelt. Truth and fiction are woven into stories, that offer points of connection.
FEBRUARY
24.2.2019, 12–2pm, Dublin, IR
Lecturing about my art practice and research at the "UCD School of Sociology Series in association with MA Race, Migration & Decolonial Studies & UCD Parity Studios".
JANUARY
30.1.2019, 4-6pm, BGI’s Kallio Kunsthalle, Wellington
Welcome to our open studio to see what we have been working on for the past several weeks. I have been working collaboratively on an artwork called Waiting for Te Whiti. This is my first collaboration with Te Āti Awa wood carver, Ihaia Puketapu. Te Whiti o Rongomai III (Te Āti Awa, 1830s-1907) was a spiritual leader of Parihaka in Aotearoa New Zealand and forerunner of the passive-resistance movement.
Support by Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Wellington City Council, BGI.
7.9.2019-5.1.2020
Silhouettes and Shadows
Curated by Arja Elovirta
Art Museum Kerava
Kerava, FI
14.11.2019–31.1.2020
Leave No Stone Unturned [Remuer la Terre]
With Petri Saarikko
Curated by Clelia Coussonnet
Le Cube - Independent Art Room
Rabat, MA
23.8.–20.10.2019
Ballarat International Photo Biennial
To The Moon & Back
Curated by Rebecca Najdowski & Colleen Boyle
Ballarat, AU
13.7.–29.9.2019
Healing Garden
Newhouse Centre for Contemporary Art
Snug Harbor Botanical Gardens
Staten Island, US
23.–29.9.2019
ASILO Art Festival
MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome
Rome, Italy
Summer 2019
Classic Works of Fine Art at the Manor
Curated by Veikko Halmetoja
Serlachius Museum
Mänttä, FI
11.9–14.9.2019
Young Dance - International Dance Festival
Rongoā Remedies video screening at Gallery Malte Frank
Curated by founder and director Anu-Maaria Calamnius-Puhakka
Zug, Switzerland
22.6.–8.9.2019:
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago
Curated by Tatiana Flores
June 22 – September 8, 2019
Delaware Art Museum
USA
1.6–27.7.2019
Nome Próprio
Curated by Sabrina Moura & Lorena Vicini
Centro Helio Oiticica
Rio de Janeiro, BR
April 2019
Film for Friday Talk
Tate St Ives, UK
1.2.–5.5.2019
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago
Curated by Tatiana Flores
Portland Museum of Art
USA
7.4.–12.5.2019
Coming Home II
Gallery Lokal
Helsinki, FI
14.–17.3.2019
Free Zwarte Piet
Gallery Lokal at Collectible Fair
Brussels
13.3.2019, 6-7.30 pm
Black Light part 2: Black Women
Exhibition film programme curated by Temi Odumosu
Göteborgs Konsthall, SE
18.1.–6.2.2019
Contentious Subjects/Ashamed Objects
Curated by Suzana Milevska
Galleria del Progetto, Politecnico di Milano
Milan, IT
13.10.2018–13.1.2019
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago
Curated by Tatiana Flores
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
USA