LADA Screens: Barby Asante – Online Screening

Biography and credits

Barby is inviting womxn of colour to create an iteration of A Declaration of Independence as part of the Brent Biennial 2020. See here for details of how to get involved

Barby Asante is a London based artist, curator, educator and occasional DJ. Her work is concerned with the politics of place, space memory and the histories and legacies of colonialism. Asante’s work is collaborative, performative and dialogic, often working with groups of people as contributors, collaborators or co researchers. Her artistic practice explores the archival, makes propositions, collects and maps stories and contributions of people of colour using storytelling, collective actions, and ritual, to excavate, unearth and interrogate given narratives, Asante’s work considers migration, safe spaces to gather in cities antagonistic to ones presence and how one maps the self as a contributor to narratives of society, culture and politics. Asante see’s these propositions maps, stories, collections and narratives as interruptions, utterances, presences that exist within the dominant cultural archive. By making these narratives and stories visible, asking questions and making proposals that disrupt this dominance she is interested in what these possibilities offer as we examine our present and envision our futures.

www.barbyasante.com