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....