Re-Generated Futures
12 September 2015 | 3rd Floor Theatre Space, CLF Arts Café/Bussey Building, Peckham, London
AFRIPEDIA - Senegal & Côte d’Ivoire (2014)
Dir. Teddy Goitom, Benjamin Taft and Senay Berhe Film. Image courtesy of the artist. |
An Improvement (2014)
Dir. Shola Amoo Film. Image courtesy of the artist. |
‘Re-generated Futures’ is a special presentation by Project 27 in partnership with Busseywood, Adinkra Arts Collective/CLF, the Bussey building/CLF Art Cafe and TMC x Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival 2015. This collaboration continues Busseywood’s aim to spotlight local and international artistic production, whilst welcoming the voices of the millennial diaspora to the conversation to present new perspectives and directions within the community. An immersive double-event, ‘Re-generated Futures’ explores co-joined futures of 'regeneration' in London's shifting social and political landscape and creative black subcultures from across the globe.
The first section, ‘Regeneration: An Improvement?’ comprises film shorts, performance and a panel discussion. 'An Improvement' showcases testimonies from London’s social housing crisis, looking at place as palimpsest, interrogating urban construction – ‘redevelopment’ and the gentrification phenomenon. In Brooklyn, Spike Lee labels this process ‘Christopher Columbus Syndrome’. Focusing on South and East London, where re-development schemes are rapidly converting social housing into investment capital, we ask what defines ‘improvement’ in a Neo-liberal age, and who is it for? The shorts included Nick Street’s Alternative Channel 4 Ident (2013), Maya Yagoda’s ‘Ayslebury Estate’ (2014), Lewis Knagg’s ‘Four Walls: London’ (2015), Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s ‘Towards Estate’ (2012), and Shola Amoo’s ‘An Improvement’ (2015). The panel, hosted by Tamar Clarke-Brown welcomed Loretta Lees (Urban Geographer), and Tilly Harris (Creator of 'Mapify' app).
The second section, ‘Afroisms: There Are Many Ways of Being One’, a shorts screening and panel discussion brings together the Afropolitan saupers in downtown Soweto with the artists and designers on the shores of Dakar, Afropunk's latest offering - Queer Hip Hop from the sidewalks of New York and Afrofuturist Odysseys into the heart of the diaspora. The international film programme explores the full range of black subjectivity followed by with a salon style discussion aiming to get to the heart of these distinct subcultures and ask: how far the dogma of ‘ism’ can define us? Does the hyper-hetro-masculine Hip-Hop arena have space for the Queer voice? Has the value of the Afropolitan been underestimated?The shorts included Meja L. Shoba’s ‘Boys of Soweto’ (2013), Terrence Nance’s ‘You and I and You’ (2015), the UK premieres of Ja’Tovia Gary’s ‘Cakes Da Killa: No Homo’ (2014), and Teddy Goitom, Benjamin Taft and Senay Berhe’s ‘Afripedia: Senegal & Cote d’Ivoire’ (2014). The panel, hosted by Tega Okiti welcomed Chardine Taylor-Stone (Activist, Feminist Speaker and Punk Singer), Emma Dabiri (Academic, SOAS Teaching Fellow), and Minna Salami (Writer and Blogger at msafropolitan.com).
Busseywood is London's largest one-day African film festival and market, showcasing stories that are often over-looked in mainstream cinema. Previous festivals have welcomed the likes of established and emerging talent including Cecile Emeke (Strolling And Ackee And Saltfish) Frances Bodomo (Afronauts), Kibwe Tavares (Robots Of Brixton), Djibri Diop Mambety (Touki Bouki) and Biyi Bandele (Half A Yellow Sun).
Project 27 is a South-London based curatorial collective focused on full coverage of the marginal and unique creative experience. Bringing together fresh testimonies and emerging voices, we showcase the perspectives and multiple expressions of ‘the remainder’ – the affected 99% - whose voices are vital to well rounded discussion and collective futures. Founded in early 2015 by filmmaker/visual artist, Shola Amoo, independent curator/writer Tamar Clarke-Brown, and film programmer Tega Okiti, Project 27 arose from a vital urge to broadcast all that is being said and done within black creative communities. Project 27 is a fluid platform, supportive hub and prism to view our varied landscape.
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The first section, ‘Regeneration: An Improvement?’ comprises film shorts, performance and a panel discussion. 'An Improvement' showcases testimonies from London’s social housing crisis, looking at place as palimpsest, interrogating urban construction – ‘redevelopment’ and the gentrification phenomenon. In Brooklyn, Spike Lee labels this process ‘Christopher Columbus Syndrome’. Focusing on South and East London, where re-development schemes are rapidly converting social housing into investment capital, we ask what defines ‘improvement’ in a Neo-liberal age, and who is it for? The shorts included Nick Street’s Alternative Channel 4 Ident (2013), Maya Yagoda’s ‘Ayslebury Estate’ (2014), Lewis Knagg’s ‘Four Walls: London’ (2015), Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s ‘Towards Estate’ (2012), and Shola Amoo’s ‘An Improvement’ (2015). The panel, hosted by Tamar Clarke-Brown welcomed Loretta Lees (Urban Geographer), and Tilly Harris (Creator of 'Mapify' app).
The second section, ‘Afroisms: There Are Many Ways of Being One’, a shorts screening and panel discussion brings together the Afropolitan saupers in downtown Soweto with the artists and designers on the shores of Dakar, Afropunk's latest offering - Queer Hip Hop from the sidewalks of New York and Afrofuturist Odysseys into the heart of the diaspora. The international film programme explores the full range of black subjectivity followed by with a salon style discussion aiming to get to the heart of these distinct subcultures and ask: how far the dogma of ‘ism’ can define us? Does the hyper-hetro-masculine Hip-Hop arena have space for the Queer voice? Has the value of the Afropolitan been underestimated?The shorts included Meja L. Shoba’s ‘Boys of Soweto’ (2013), Terrence Nance’s ‘You and I and You’ (2015), the UK premieres of Ja’Tovia Gary’s ‘Cakes Da Killa: No Homo’ (2014), and Teddy Goitom, Benjamin Taft and Senay Berhe’s ‘Afripedia: Senegal & Cote d’Ivoire’ (2014). The panel, hosted by Tega Okiti welcomed Chardine Taylor-Stone (Activist, Feminist Speaker and Punk Singer), Emma Dabiri (Academic, SOAS Teaching Fellow), and Minna Salami (Writer and Blogger at msafropolitan.com).
Busseywood is London's largest one-day African film festival and market, showcasing stories that are often over-looked in mainstream cinema. Previous festivals have welcomed the likes of established and emerging talent including Cecile Emeke (Strolling And Ackee And Saltfish) Frances Bodomo (Afronauts), Kibwe Tavares (Robots Of Brixton), Djibri Diop Mambety (Touki Bouki) and Biyi Bandele (Half A Yellow Sun).
Project 27 is a South-London based curatorial collective focused on full coverage of the marginal and unique creative experience. Bringing together fresh testimonies and emerging voices, we showcase the perspectives and multiple expressions of ‘the remainder’ – the affected 99% - whose voices are vital to well rounded discussion and collective futures. Founded in early 2015 by filmmaker/visual artist, Shola Amoo, independent curator/writer Tamar Clarke-Brown, and film programmer Tega Okiti, Project 27 arose from a vital urge to broadcast all that is being said and done within black creative communities. Project 27 is a fluid platform, supportive hub and prism to view our varied landscape.
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