Seminar:- Alchemy...

An evening of talks and discussion about the importance of recycled, ready-made and found-object media in contemporary art practice in Africa and Europe. With writers, practitioners and curators from Africa and Europe.

Speakers include:-
Romuald Hazoumé, the featured artist, in conversation about his new project, ARTicle 14.

Dilomprizulike, also known as the self-styled 'Junkman From Afrika' and for his Junkyward Museum of Awkward Things situated in Lagos. Drawing materials from the piles of used surplus clothes found on the streets of African cities, he fashions installations and performances that look at what he describes as 'the alienated situation of the African in his own society.'

Oliver Sumner, Head of Education at Camden Arts Centre, speaks about Ethiopian artist Assefa Gebrekidan’s recent residency. Combining light, heat and sound elements, Assefa takes found materials, often plastic containers reminiscent of water carriers in Ethiopian markets, and transforms them into intensely coloured and vibrant abstract constructions, referring in part to the stained glass of the Orthodox church and also to the shapes of missiles from the ongoing war in Ethiopia.
Dr. Nicholas Saunders’ research interests include a study of recycling in the Trench Art of the First World War. He is currently Reader in Material Culture, at University College, London.
Ending with drinks and canapés in the presence of the artists, and a special screening of a new film about the bottle-top cloths of sculptor El Anatsui.

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