DIVERSE ACTIONS

A 3 year project led by Live Art UK to promote better representation of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic artists in the Live art sector in the UK. As part of this role I was able to curate, produce and deliver the event SKIN in the GAME (Z-Arts, Manchester, Nov 2019)

The event marked the first part of the culmination of 3 years of Diverse Action’s activity, the second part being the publication of a culminate text ‘Vanishing Points’ (Spring 2020 edited by Salome Wagaine). SKIN in the GAME was an exciting programme of discussion by minoritised Artists and leaders working in interdicpslinary arts practises and roles. They interrogated through a series of talks, workshops and performances how the tropes and mechanisms of archetypal diversity structures may feed into an ecology of ghettoisation and stagnation within the cultural and wider political landscape. I wanted to question why spaces still need to be reserved for representative making and leadership. SKIN in the GAME was not a diversity day (disclaimer) and didn't provide utopian resolutions to these questions but together we will created an open and safe space for this discursive honesty.

SITG featured an amazing group of artists and arts workers: Harold Offeh, Paula Akpan, Chanje Kunda, Annie Jael Kwan, Jade Montserrat, Hetain Patel and Hardeep Pandhal, Season Butler, Jack Tan, Nima Séne, Alexandrina Hemsley and Dr Cecila Wee.