Doing the Work

Doing the Work 26 Jul 2022

Doing the work: Embedding anti-racism and decolonisation into museum practice

‘Doing the Work: Embedding Anti-Racism and Decolonisation in Museum Practice’ was a series of seven closed, online workshops for museum professionals that took place in 2021. It was co-produced by…

Harold Offeh, Reading the Realness, 2017. Performed at Tintype Gallery with six students from Kingston University. Image courtesy: the artist and Tintype Gallery. Photo: Jo Addison

Doing the Work 12 Aug 2021

Doing the Work: Rethinking ‘Engagement’, 6 July 2021

Part of ‘Doing the Work’, an online CPD workshop series co-produced by the Contemporary Art Society and the Decolonising Arts Institute (University of the Arts London). Read more. This workshop focuses on the practices and ethics…

Rina Banerjee, 'In turmeric Yellow, another world apart from ours, bathed in humans as resources, natural riches seated in natures warm throne, golden and delicious, encrusted in sugary plants and rambunctious animals waited, watched when small factories tired in the business of making money could not make me a mango' (2020). Acquired by the Contemporary Art Society for The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, 2020. Courtesy of the artist.

Doing the Work 29 Jun 2021

Doing the Work: Collecting Practices and Acquisition Strategies, 26 May 2021

Doing the Work 18 May 2021

Doing the Work: Interpreting Artworks, 27 April 2021

Part of ‘Doing the Work’, an online CPD workshop series for curators co-produced by the Contemporary Art Society and the Decolonising Arts Institute (University of the Arts London). Read more. This workshop focuses on interpretation practices in…

Matthew Krishanu, Corvus, 2019. Installation view at The Stuart Hall Library, Iniva, London, 2019. Photograph by George Torode.

Doing the Work 31 Mar 2021

Doing the Work: Documenting Collections, 24 March 2021

The act of cataloguing an artwork has a huge impact on its status in a collection, however very few resources are given to this area of museum work and it has yet to become the subject of serious and sustained scrutiny in efforts to decolonise museums and root out racist museal practices.

Sonia Boyce, Six Acts, 2018, performance documentation at Manchester Art Gallery. Courtesy: the artist and Manchester Art Gallery; performer: Lasana Shabazz; photograph: Andrew Brooks

Doing the Work 16 Mar 2021

Doing the Work: Interventionist Practices, 24 February 2021

Claudette Johnson, Standing Figure, 2017. Acquired by the CAS for Rugby Art Gallery and Museum through the Rapid Response Fund, 2020. Courtesy the artist and Hollybush Gardens, London. Photo: Andy Keate.

Doing the Work 2 Feb 2021

Doing the Work – Curation and Display: The Stories We Tell, the Knowledge We Produce, 20 January 2021

This first workshop in our Doing the Work series focused on curation and display in museums and galleries

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