- 27 March 2025
- 3:00 – 4:00 pm
- Online
The case studies for this last event are in the exhibition catalogue that was produced on the occasion of the 2011 display at Tate Britain to celebrate the three exhibitions that Lubaina Himid curated in the 1980s to showcase Black and Asian women artists, working in the UK at the time, against the racism and sexism of the British art world establishment. Thin Black Line(s) indeed took its name from the 1985 exhibition held at the ICA. What is particularly interesting in the catalogue is the way in which Lubaina retraces the history of how these exhibitions came about through a series of personal letters addressed to Susan Walsh, at that time Research Fellow in Contemporary Art at the University of Lancashire. The aim of this final event will be to explore how these kinds of intimate sources can expand upon the research in the field of exhibition histories.
Readings:
Thin Black Line(s) [Exhibition Catalogue, Tate Britain, London, 2011–2012] (Preston: University of Central Lancashire, 2011). Online here.
Additional Resource:
“Late at Tate: Lubaina Himid, Claudette Johnson and Paul Goodwin on Thin Black Line(s)”, audio: https://www.tate.org.uk/audio/late-tate-lubaina-himid-claudette-johnson-and-paul-goodwin-on-thin-black-lines
If you have any questions, or have difficulty accessing the books online, at the PMC library or through your institution, please write to the organiser at [email protected]
Image credit: Lubaina Himid, Thin Black Line(s). Exhibition Tate Britain, 2011. Digital image © Lubaina Himid. Photo © Tate
About the speaker
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Claudia Di Tosto is a PhD candidate in history of art at the University of Warwick in collaboration with the Paul Mellon Centre. She is researching the history of the British Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale through the lenses of global and national art histories, exhibition history and postcolonial theory to explore the Pavilion as a site of national self-definition and redefinition. Prior to starting the PhD, she worked for various institutions such as: IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin, Ireland); V&A (London, UK); Vatican Museums – Modern and Contemporary Art Department; and MAXXI – National Museum of 21st-Century Arts (Rome, Italy). Most recently, she was the co-convenor of the Doctoral Researchers Network at the Paul Mellon Centre for the academic year 2022/23 and held a position as associate lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
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