Priyanka D’Souza, It was then that Gregor decided with a firmness that only comes with experience, that he really did not like cockroaches, 2017. Gouache, siyah kalam, and charcoal on wasli paper. 7.5” x 24”.
Autumn 2021
The life and voice of objects
Running from September to December 2021, Delfina Foundation’s fourth season of Collecting as Practice brings together international and UK-based creative practitioners to explore the agency of artists and objects, unpacking the ways in which collections are shaped, maintained and framed.
Building on the themes from previous Collecting as Practice seasons, the programme is grounded in current and urgent debates around representation, restitution and contentious heritage. Using means such as fiction and performativity to unpack histories and violences of colonial collections the residents examine links between ethnographic and natural history collections, disability, environmental and capitalist paradigms; questioning who has the right to categorise, interpret, preserve and propose alternative future lives for objects.
Once again, Delfina Foundation has invited Rose Lejeune to collaborate with our team to curate this season, in which the international and UK associate artists and curators will be working in collaboration with UK and international institutions, archives and collections, incubating durational research, challenging institutional strategies and creating new work.
Supported by Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation, the season’s public programme will showcase the outcomes of our UK associate artists alongside a series of other events.
International residents
Hera Chan
London: 24/09/2021 — 24/10/2021
Musquiqui Chihying
London: 20/09/2021 — 19/12/2021
Priyanka D’Souza
London: 20/09/2021 — 19/12/2021
Rado Ištok
London: 20/09/2021 — 17/10/2021
Ulrik Lopez
London: 27/09/2021 — 19/12/2021
Nolan Oswald Dennis
London: 20/09/2021 — 19/12/2021
UK associates
Khairani Barokka
London: 17/05/2021 — 19/12/2021
Shiraz Bayjoo
London: 17/05/2021 — 19/12/2021
Harun Morrison
17/05/2021 — 19/12/2021
Leung Chi Wo + Sara Wong
London: 20/09/2021 — 19/12/2021
Collector-in-residence
Colleen Ritzau Leth
London: 08/11/2021 — 14/11/2021
Public programme
Digital Restitution and its Discontents
21/12/2021
Broadcast
Seeds of Empire
14/12/2021
With UK associate artist Shiraz Bayjoo
Talk
Spirit Records, Broken Records
13/12/2021
With UK associate Harun Morrison
Listening session
Making Regna
09/12/2021
With UK associate Khairani Barokka
Talk
gods cannot be seen but can be heard
10/12/2021
With artist-in-residence Ulrik Lopez
Sound installation
Restitution and the Non-Returnable
01/12/2021
Talk
Empire through the Lens
23/11/2021
Talk
Anthropomorphic Trouble
20/11/2021 — 21/11/2021
Performance
Terra-Tire Sessions
16/11/2021
Broadcast
Show and re-tell
19/10/2021
Talk
Hungry Listening
19/10/2021
Broadcast
The Record as Artwork
21/09/2021
Broadcast
PLATFORM
Selected outcomes and documentation of the programme will be published on our PLATFORM and featured here.
Delfina Presents: Nolan Oswald Dennis
Exploring the material and metaphysical conditions of decolonisation
Video
Making Regna
Artist Khairani Barokka presents her project exploring decolonisation, disability, and visual cultures
Video
Digital Restitution and its Discontents
Interrogating the issues surrounding the digitalisation of collections
Audio
Delfina Presents: Shiraz Bayjoo
On colonisation, landscapes and living collections
Video
Resident’s Room: Musquiqui Chihying
Midway through his residency our artist-in-residence shares some reflections
Insight
Resident’s Room: Priyanka D’Souza
Our artist-in-residence introduces her practice, interests and current experimentations
Insight
Delfina Presents: Rado Ištok
Considering heritage, collections and what artefacts in Slovakia might reveal about the country itself
Video
Please follow the link to view all autumn 2021 season residents (including those not working under the Collecting as Practice programme).
