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Join us for a conversation between Baltimore-based artist Ada Pinkston and transfeminisms co-curator Christine Eyene followed by a performance by the artist.

Ada Pinkston is an American multimedia artist, educator, and cultural organiser. Her art explores the intersection of imagined histories and socio-political realities on Black bodies, using monoprint, performance, video, and collage.

The conversation will look at Pinkston’s video and photographic series LandMarked (2018-22) presented in the first chapter of transfeminisms. The work features the artist performing on vacant plinths where Confederate monuments previously stood, in Baltimore, Maryland. Part 5 of the series is a tribute to Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977), a prominent African American voting and women’s rights activist.

Taking these works as point of departure Pinkston and Eyene will discuss the artist research on how history is manipulated by statues and monuments, and how she challenges these grand narratives by reinserting marginalised voices within them. They will also address the notion of embodied memories and relate it to other contexts as witnessed in South Africa and Britain.

The questions addressed in her performance Nation State Dominion (2012-ongoing) – featuring portraits of white male American presidents and Barack Obama – are all the more relevant today in light of the recently announced historical US presidential campaign of a woman candidate of Black and South Asian heritage.

This event is part of transfeminisms – chapter 3: Fragile Archives, ‘Black Voices’ public programme.

Ada Pinkston and Christine Eyene in conversation

Followed by a performance by Ada Pinkston

Wednesday 24 July, 6.30-7.30 PM

Mimosa House

47 Theobalds Road

London WC1X 8SP

Free event, book here.