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Public Lecture by Zanele Muholi at UCLan

Making Histories Visible is pleased to announce a public lecture by award-winning South African photographer Zanele Muholi on Tuesday 17th March at the University of Central Lancashire. An internationally acclaimed visual activist, Muholi co-founded the Forum for Empowerment of Women (FEW) in 2002, and in 2009 founded Inkanyiso (www.inkanyiso.org), a forum for queer and visual…
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Suzanne Lacy: Social Practices and Performance

Suzanne Lacy is a visual artist whose prolific career includes performances, video and photographic installation, critical writing and public practices in communities. She is best known as one of the Los Angeles performance artists who became active in the seventies and shaped an emergent art of social engagement. Her work ranges from intimate, graphic body…
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February Newsletter

Last month, the Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR) hosted a showcase event introducing the research currently being undertaken at the institute. Speakers included IBAR staff and research students with presentations encompassing interdisciplinary projects developed both in the UK and internationally in the field of history, literature and visual arts. A number of events are…