an interview
with Orsod Malik
with Orsod Malik
On the Grenadian
Revolution Exhibition
This is an interview with Orsod Malik, who
curated an exhibition entitled Shifting
the Centre: Grenada as Reference at the Black Cultural Archives
based in Brixton, London. Grenada was home to the first revolutionary
government in the English-speaking Caribbean between 1979-1983, and the
exhibition brings together archival materials that tell the many stories of
this revolutionary moment.
The exhibition website describes the project as:
Shifting the Centre is an archival activation project dedicated to excavating the radical observations, emancipatory dreams, and revolutionary practices of anticolonial thinkers to develop counter approaches that can be applied to artistic, teaching, and organising work. By repositioning the centre away from Europe, we can ask: what realisations occur when those resisting dominant forces are the protagonists of world history?
We spoke to Orsod about the exhibition, the archives he worked with, and his broader thoughts on anticolonial archiving.
The interview is by Sara Salem and Mai Taha, at the Black Cultural Archives.
The exhibition website describes the project as:
Shifting the Centre is an archival activation project dedicated to excavating the radical observations, emancipatory dreams, and revolutionary practices of anticolonial thinkers to develop counter approaches that can be applied to artistic, teaching, and organising work. By repositioning the centre away from Europe, we can ask: what realisations occur when those resisting dominant forces are the protagonists of world history?
We spoke to Orsod about the exhibition, the archives he worked with, and his broader thoughts on anticolonial archiving.
The interview is by Sara Salem and Mai Taha, at the Black Cultural Archives.
Curated by International Curator Forum’s Orsod Malik and hosted by Black Cultural Archives
Orsod Malik
Orsod Malik is a UK-based Sudani curator, writer, content producer and digital strategist. He is the founder of @code__switch an archive/continuum of radical internationalism dedicated to drawing links between anticolonial struggles and thought across space and time.
Orsod’s curatorial practice focuses on developing methods to explore cultural and political entanglements found in the materials he works with. Orsod is the Programme Curator at the Stuart Hall Foundation, and was the 2021 Archivist-in-Resident at the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD). Orsod is the International Curators Forum’s Curator and Digital Strategist and the curator of Shifting the Centre: Grenada as Reference.
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