Art
Why Are We Not Here?
Curated by artists Anika Deb and Stacey Olika at Rising Arts Agency, this exhibition explores issues of institutional racism and marginalised representation in arts institutions.
At last year’s artist-run Multiverse Summit held at Eastside Projects, Birmingham, The White Pube delivered a hard-hitting provocation to all artist-led spaces within the UK, challenging their complacency and unacknowledged racial bias.
Urging artist-led spaces to tackle institutional racism and the lack of presence of people of colour within the arts at all levels it triggered a direct response from Test Space, Bristol which, as a first step, has initiated the project, Why Are We Not Here?
is needed now More than ever
This exhibition – which takes place during Open Studios, the busiest event in Spike Island’s year, where upwards of seven thousand people will visit the space over the early May Bank Holiday Weekend – will be showing the work of seven artists working with sound, installation, print, poetry and painting mediums, including a programme of talks and workshops that will further question the complacency of arts institutions.
Featured artists: Courtenay Welcome, Donnell Asare, Kiara Corales, Nadia Lloyd, Nick Ogri, Fatima Murtala, Leeza Awojobi, and Jasmine Thompson.
May 4-12, 12-5pm daily. Preview Fri 3, 6-9pm.
Kids workshop, Monday 6 May, 11-12am
Youth Workshop, Wednesday 8 May, 4-6pm
Panel Discussion, Thursday 9 May, 6.30-8pm.
For more info, visit topfloortestspace.wordpress.com
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