Until 21st May: our UK Exhibition, led by @D6culture 📍the Lit & Phil Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SE 📚 Bringing together new work by artists in residence Marcio Carvalho, Dimitris Chimonas and Mónica Rikić exploring our shared colonial heritage.

“(Dearly) Beloved”, with @abarata11 responds to mass graves of enslaved Africans discovered in Lagos & Lisbon. It speaks to absent figures in our collective memory via a tribute, an act of memorialising, remembering, & connecting with a difficult past. Lac @D6culture and partners

“(Dearly) Beloved” in the making, with artist @abarata11 preparing acrylic to sculpt at LAC - Laboratório Actividades Criativas. The artwork is a tribute, an act of memorializing, remembering and connecting with a difficult past. With @D6culture and partners

Presenting Akeelah Bertram @abarata11 with “(Dearly) Beloved". Responding to the mass graves of enslaved Africans discovered in Lagos and Lisbon, the sculpture speaks to absent figures in our collective memory to memorialise, remember & connect with a difficult past. @D6culture

Trailer, 2019. Video, sound & loop by Stelios Kallinikou. Unearthing narratives of spaces that lie beyond words; Acting as speculative scenarios through which intersections between territorial & ideological notions relating to 'landscape': space/place & time/ history are explored

Image features Bird II by Stelios Kallinikou, to be presented @ Lagos Cultural Centre in March via LAC Cultural Organisation. Stelios is interested in unearthing narratives of spaces which lie beyond words. In @Contestedesires he represents @xarkiscommunity & @XarkisFestival

This is Bird I by Stelios Kallinikou, to be presented @ Lagos Cultural Centre in March-April 5th. His works act as speculative scenarios, through which intersections between territorial & ideological notions relating to 'landscape', such as space/place & time/history are explored

As part of the capacity building session in LAC, Lagos, artists & cultural producers were allocated in small groups, to engage in conversations on heritage items that are meaningful to them. 📸 @arestlessart facilitated with @eccom_it, hosted by LAC lagos. #ContestedDesires

A moment drawn from our previous capacity-building workshop, while discussing intersections between culture & heritage. Facilitated by @cridamilano & @arestlessart, hosted by LAC - Laboratório Actividades Criativas team in Lagos, Portugal 📸 @christinaskar

Cypriot partners & team of @xarkisfestival spent this period to generate an alternative Artists Residency programme led by the team itself 💫 Image captures a moment from object-based mapping research on colonial heritage, with @christinaskar, Chris Savva & Eva #xarkisfestival