Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art

Plots and Plantations - Performance and In Conversation Imani Mason Jordan and Rehana Zaman

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Dates and Opening times

Sat 20 June, 6 - 9pm

Venue

The Warehouse, Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle Street, G3 8AW

Accessiblity

Level Access, Step Free: The venue has ramped or level access and/or lifts to upper floors

Toilets: The venue has toilets available for visitors

Accessible Toilets: The venue has a wheelchair accessible toilet

Hearing Loop: The venue has a hearing loop available

Refreshments: There is a cafe or somewhere you can purchase refreshments

Baby Change: The venue has baby changing facilities

Parking: Accessible parking

Join artist Imani Mason Jordan and Rehana Zaman for an in conversation to mark the summer solstice. As part of the discussion they will draw upon their shared interest in the writing of Sylvia Wynter, plantation economies and notions of the 'irruptive'. The event will also feature a new performance by Imani referring to their newly published poetry work PIVOT which will be available to buy at the event.

PIVOT is an experimental, book-length poem that explores the profound act of turning, with the Haitian Revolution as its central axis. Moving beyond historical narrative, it examines this epochal event through moments of rupture and radical reorientation. The work reflects on international revolt, revolutionary fervour, and forms of relation forged in the aftermath of transatlantic enslavement and European colonialism.

Plantation is a new solo exhibition by Rehana Zaman, examining land use, labour, and environmental collapse through the lived experiences of agricultural workers.

Imani Mason Jordan

Imani Mason Jordan is an artist and interdisciplinary writer whose practice combines performance, oration, poetry, and critical theory, exploring themes of Black geographies, the afterlives of transatlantic slavery, abolition, and radical resistance.