I presented a paper on my museums research at the University of Manchester-AHRC-Manchester Art Gallery ‘Rethinking Art Galleries and Museums: Interventions, Collections and Communities’ workshop on 22 January 2022.

I was part of the ‘Troubling Legacies: Institutional Infrastructures, Advocacy, Anti-racism’ afternoon session, and spoke about the research I conducted during my ZK/U residency on the performative participation of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, and also my membership of the Museum Detox group.

The workshop explored the role of art galleries and museums and their relationship to communities in a moment of intense public scrutiny and accountability around issues of structural inequality and representation. 

The workshop brought together international speakers whose practice is geared toward strategies of decolonisation, advocacy, co-curation, new publics, and experimental museology. It aimed to inform best practices moving forward by exploring both what works and what doesn’t, examine and harvest the moments of tensions as fruitful sites of progress, and build new relationships / exchanges that will continue into the future.