7th May 2014 5:30pm-6:30pm
Sallis Benney Theatre
"In conversation" event
Yinka Shonibare MBE discusses his new site-specific installation The British Library in Brighton Museum's Old Reference Library for HOUSE2014 (which runs from the 3rd to the 25th May) with this year's Brighton Festival guest director Hofesh Shechter.
The installation explores the impact of immigration on all aspects of British culture and considers notions of territory and place, cultural identity, displacement and refuge. The Library becomes a repository for those, both celebrated and unfamiliar, who as immigrants to this country, made unique contributions to what we regard as ‘British’ culture. Filled with books colourfully bound in Shonibare’s trademark wax cloth (itself a cross-cultural hybrid of Indonesian design and Dutch manufacture), the gold embossed spines identify individuals such as T.S. Eliot, Henry James, Hans Holbein, Kazuo Ishiguro, Zaha Hadid, Mick Jagger, Darcey Bussell, George Frideric Handel, Hammasa Kohistani, Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher, Amartya Sena, Anish Kapoor and many more.
Yinka Shonibare MBE’s work makes visible the cultural influences of colonisation and explores the rich complexity of post-colonial cultures. The British Library asks us to evaluate our attitudes to immigration and immigrants.
You can buy tickets for this event through HOUSE2014
Complimentary tickets for students: We have a limited number of free tickets for students. To secure a ticket please send an email titled 'YINKA TICKETS' containing your full name/s to j.mansfield@brighton.ac.uk
