Category: Art
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How can we go forward if we don’t make peace with our past?
How can we go forward if we don’t make peace with our past?
Skin Deep's Nkenna Akunna meets Shingai to have an honest conversation about growing up, ancient civilizations and dealing with grief.
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On Obibini and Cultural Influences: In Conversation with Arts Foundation Futures Winner, Kwame Asafo-Adjei
On Obibini and Cultural Influences: In Conversation with Arts Foundation Futures Winner, Kwame Asafo-Adjei
Nominating Kwame Asafo-Adjei for the Arts Foundation Futures award, Robert Hylton interviews the now winner on cultural identity, dance and the influences he draws from.
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What happens when the people at the bottom of the empire tell the story?
What happens when the people at the bottom of the empire tell the story?
On basking in the glory of history being made on stage in Lynette Linton and Adjoa Andoh's Richard II revival.
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Touching Bass’ first label release – from Hiatus Kaiyote’s Clever Austin
Touching Bass’ first label release – from Hiatus Kaiyote’s Clever Austin
It isn't very often that music can move you to tears while simultaneously making you screw up your face with equal parts confusion and delight.
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Skin Deep meets Palestinian singer, songwriter and rapper Maysa Daw
Skin Deep meets Palestinian singer, songwriter and rapper Maysa Daw
Skin Deep’s Courtney Yusuf caught up with Maysa ahead of the release of their new album, ‘Ben Haana wa Maana’.
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Chant Down Babylon: we chat to curators Tobi Kyeremanteng & Ruthie Osterman
Chant Down Babylon: we chat to curators Tobi Kyeremanteng & Ruthie Osterman
In a celebration of Black and Brown lives and experiences, Skin Deep's Nkenna Akunna chats to Tobi and Ruthie on the creation of Babylon Festival.
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The Object of My Gaze
The Object of My Gaze
Marcia Michael’s recent project ‘I Am Now You - Mother’ visualises matrilineage through the body of her mother as a way of telling our own stories.
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The Moon Is A Meme
The Moon Is A Meme
As part of Freeword’s THIS IS PRIVATE series, Zia Ahmed’s visual poem ‘The Moon Is A Meme’ explores the experiences of a young British-Asian Muslim man to respond to the notion of privacy in an era of surveillance.
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In conversation with Last Yearz Interesting Negro
In conversation with Last Yearz Interesting Negro
Our Skin Deep resident reviewer Nkenna Akunna spoke to performance artist Jamila Johnson Small.
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Rolling Hills: brand new video from South London duo Sawa-Manga
Rolling Hills: brand new video from South London duo Sawa-Manga
The premier a visual feast, the debut music video from Sawa-Manga, blurring the line between the realm of visions and the waking day.
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Bontoc Eulogy: Encountering the Philippines at the St Louis World’s Fair
Bontoc Eulogy: Encountering the Philippines at the St Louis World’s Fair
An Interview with filmmaker Marlon Fuentes, on how he has used film made to serve American imperialists to tell the story of those they colonised.
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Lubaina Himid: The Colours of Our Past
Lubaina Himid: The Colours of Our Past
An interview with Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid. Through three of her exhibitions we understand her pioneering role in the black British contemporary art scene.