Blackness, Creativity & Subjectivity Panel

Friday 22 November 2024, 1pm

Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Speakers: Dr Renée Landell, Jacob V Joyce

All welcome

Join us for an exciting panel discussion with Dr Renée Landell and Jacob V Joyce, who will speak to the Race & Resistance community about Blackness, creativity, and subjectivity. Each contributor will present a short paper, which will be followed by a Q&A and group discussion to close the session. You can find the contributors titles and biographies below. We look forward to welcoming you all!

Black Hue-manity and the Terra-tones: Painting and Sounding Caribbean Resistance

Dr Renée Landell (she/her) is a literary and cultural theorist, visual artist, public speaker and a writer signed to Andrew Nurnberg Associates, a leading international literary agency. She completed a PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London with a thesis entitled ‘Wi Run Tings, Tings Nuh Run Wi’: Black Humanity and the Nonhuman World in Caribbean Neo-Slave Narratives’. Bringing ecocriticism and decolonial scholarship together, her thesis argues that the responses to, and demythologisation of, Western stereotypes by Caribbean writers is an attempt to reclaim Black humanity and promote positive ecological practices.

Cruising Despite Urgency: Instigating Intimate Mutiny in Community Focussed Art 

Jacob V Joyce’s (they/them) work ranges from afro-futurist world-building workshops to mural painting, comic books and performance art. They are currently a practice based doctoral candidate researching the history of Black British arts education at Westminster University. Joyce has been commissioned to paint murals by The Mayor of London, Transport For London, Google Kings Cross Offices, Whitechapel Gallery and a number of local councils across the UK. They have self-published several zines and illustrated international human rights campaigns for Out Proud African LGBTI, Amnesty International, Global Justice Now and had their comics in national newspapers. Former artist in residence at Gasworks, Serpentine, The Museum of Homelessness, Nottingham Contemporary and Tate Galleries Education department, Joyces work is concerned with amplifying historical narratives of equality and liberation.

Find out more: www.jacobvjoyce.com and via @jacobvjoyce on Instagram.

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