A Collage of Constellations: “Now & Then…Here & There: Black Artists & Modernism”

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Image: Yeu-Lai Mo, Spitting, 1996, colour photograph, 500 x 605mm, Image courtesy of the artist

From 6-8 October 2016, BAM in partnership with Iniva presented the Now & Then…Here & There: Black Artists and Modernism conference at Chelsea College, University of the Arts, London and Tate Britain, alongside BAM leader Sonia Boyce’s curated exhibition, Now! Now!…in More Than One Place. In this report commissioned by Iniva, I discuss the extremely rich programme, from which, the notion of “collage” and the imagining of “constellations” began to be mapped out in new, exciting ways.

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