Resistance as an Act of Public Pedagogy Rikki Wemega-Kwawu, Laiwan, Linda Mvusi, Shaheen Merali, Zainub Verjee with Narendra Pachkhédé
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Western Front Gallery 303 East 8 Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia V5T 1S1
Panel, "Resistance as an Act of Public Pedagogy," 2021
Clockwise from top: Zainub Verjee, Laiwan, Shaheen Merali, Linda Mvusi, and Rikki Wemega-Kwawu.
Resistance as an Act of Public Pedagogy
Rikki Wemega-Kwawu, Laiwan, Linda Mvusi, Shaheen Merali, Zainub Verjee with Narendra Pachkhédé
With Centre A, Western Front is pleased to co-present an online panel discussion that brings together five artists with African origins—Rikki Wemega-Kwawu, Laiwan, Linda Mvusi, Shaheen Merali, and Zainub Verjee—for an active engagement about the panellists’ practices, experiences of resistance, and histories of decolonization. The event will be moderated by Narendra Pachkhédé.
The program is organized in conjunction with Centre A’s current exhibition Speech Acts: Zainub Verjee, an excerpt of Verjee’s practice where language becomes the materiality of the form and its meaning. The exhibition represents her sustained and long-term engagement with issues of resistance, activism, artists’ labour, and discourse making—speech, listening, and writing. Verjee’s practice is of particular significance to Western Front, having served as Executive Director from 1991-1998.
Free to attend, hosted on Zoom. Reservations required.