Findings report Author: Anna Colom Executive Summary From the 21st to the 26th May 2019, The Open University, Counterpoints Arts and the Tate Exchange organised and hosted the annual week of...
On Saturday May 26th I participated in a ‘Long Table’, a conversation among artists, academics, curators and others, held as part of the ‘Who Are We?’ programme of events organised...
Illegal human ‘I see you’ve brought your colours’ they hiss and I shrunk under my technicolored coat I know what they really mean. Why isn’t my soul as dark as my skin? And I...
Not my problem The streets dirty them until they grey with the buildings. Pavements. ‘Can you spare any change please?’ ‘Who?’ ‘What?’ He can’t be speaking to me. Must be that woman with the posh...
I What does it Matter? “…you don’t worry about dirt in the garden because it belongs in the garden but the moment you see dirt in the bedroom you have to do...
This is a response piece by a 'roaming' resident at Who Are We? project. Lullabies at The Consul Vem kan segla förutan vind? Vem kan ro utan åror? Vem kan skiljas från vännen...
This is a response piece by a 'roaming' resident at Who Are We? project. Floorplans These are the lines I remember I’ll draw them in the sand and these the ones I would...
This is a response piece by a 'roaming' resident at Who Are We? project. Gresham’s Wooden Horse Your mug of tea (made just how I like it) was sent to the lab...
This is a response piece by a 'roaming' resident at Who Are We? project. Stitching migrating proverbs When you darned you wove in this to warm my soles- knowing I’d walk away: ‘if you are...
This is a response piece by a 'roaming' resident at Who Are We? project. Hostile environment procedures: Open your pencil case- we are scanning your crayons for prints and before you complete Algebra2 we...
Graham Harvey, The Open University On 25 May I met with Claudia Zeiske amidst the buzz of creativity and conversation at the Tate Exchange’s “Who are we?” project. Our conversation largely...
Graham Harvey, The Open University Questions about the role of narratives, art and work in constructing communities structured my conversation with Isabel Lima at the Tate Exchange’s “Who are we?” project....
Little did the Spanish teacher featuring in this video know that as she was teaching others around the table about the Spanish saying that proclaims that every day is an...
The connection between Cheshire cheese and the cheesy grin of Alice in Wonderland’s Cheshire cat may be hard to establish but it helps to provide a local account of the...
The survival of sayings seems to go beyond the extinction of elements mentioned in the sayings themselves. ‘Dead as a dodo’ is still commonly used to refer to lifeless beings,...
Sayings say more than the words may suggest. Over time and through repetition a saying becomes a rich tapestry, woven from and for the social fabric of particular peoples, coloured...
This is a response piece by a 'roaming' resident Who Are We? project poet Edin Suljic, written on 23rd May: The Box Once I had some little things, those little parts of our lives,...
Dialogue between Bern O’Donoghue (BO'D) and Vicki Squire (VS) VS: Hi Bern. I’d like to start our dialogue with a personal question for you, so as to understand more about your installation, Dead...
AP/LP: On your website you describe yourself as an illustrator and visual facilitator. How do you see these roles in relation to your artistic practice- in what sense do they...
A conversation between Natasha Davis (ND), Alena Pfoser (AP) and Sara de Jong (SdJ) AP / SdJ: You have been a very prolific artist in the last years since you moved from...
with Gil Doron by Tom Green, Counterpoints Arts The Counterpoints Arts’ team reflects on the politics of curation and the ebbs and flows of creative production with many of the...
A conversation with Laura Malacart (LM) and Sara de Jong (SdJ) SdJ: What were the sources of inspiration for developing your current installation for the Who are We? Project? What discoveries did...
A conversation about family history, displacement and belonging between Jillian Edelstein (JE) and Alena Pfoser (AP) AP: Your piece for Who Are We? is called ‘Searching for Great Aunt Minna’. How would...
A conversation between Umut Erel (UE) and Behjat Omer Abdulla (BA) From a Distance: What would it mean to experience our own privileged lives as inextricably tied up with the exposed lives...
First blog entry by Elena Marchevska ‘We’ is an important pronoun in time of ‘us’ and ‘them’… It is a pronoun that offers a way forward. It is that ‘something’ that...
A conversation about visual arts, mapping and identity between Gil Mualem-Doron (GD) and Giota Alevizou (GA) The Union Jack has never been officially adopted as the emblem of the United Kingdom...
A Conversation with Alia Syed (AS), Sara de Jong (SJ), Umut Erel (UE) & Olga Jurasz (OJ) OJ: Alia what inspired you to make On a Wing and a Prayer? AS: I had been asked...
The Counterpoints Arts’ team reflects on the politics of curation and the ebbs and flows of creative production with many of the artists and cultural practitioners in their network. I first met...
Blog entry by Elena Marchevska Who are we? opened its doors to the Tate Exchange public today. The project went through a month’s long journey of negotiations, agreements and disagreements, measuring, understanding...
by Lizzy Willmington, Counterpoints Arts Times of political upheaval are often thought to provoke new forms of artistic and creative resistance. Pundits occasionally suggest that one of the benefits of politically turbulent...