Kaleidoscope Talk: Soft Borders, Hard Walls with Deeqa Ismail
Thu 21 May
6 - 7:30pm
Online Event
hosted by Bloc Projects as part of Kaleidoscope Network
Free to Bloc Projects Members
Bloc Projects is pleased to host an artist talk with Deeqa Ismail for members of Bloc Projects and the wider Kaleidoscope Network.
In Soft Borders, Hard Walls, Deeqa Ismail will explore how her artistic practice connects with family archives, particularly through materiality and sound, to create sonic worlds that extend beyond time and space. She will consider what diversity in spaces looks like for emerging artists beyond the performative and institutional framework, drawing on her experience as a Somali-British artist and curator from London, now living in the North West. She will interrogate the gap between institutional claims of inclusion and the realities faced by emerging artists navigating hybrid cultural identities. Deeqa has taken part in exhibitions and public programmes at Tank Gallery in South London, KALEID Editions in East London and Agora Collective in Berlin, Germany. She is currently doing a practice-based research degree at Manchester School of Art and Design.
Deeqa Ismail (b. 1988, Hargeisa, Somalia) is a Somali-British artist based in Stockport, Manchester. She works with sculpture, printmaking, sound, video, and installations, often incorporating analogue processes and Somali sonic archives. Her work explores both shared and personal experiences of hybrid identity and the in-between spaces.
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