Between Tides: Gatherings on Return

On Friday, May 8, join us at Ocean Space as the exhibition Tide of Returns opens into activations, an exhibition publication launch, and conversations on return as irreducible complexity, lived practice, and refusal—as solidarity in minor keys.

• 10 – 11:15am | Tide of Returns - Artists’ talk
  Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll and Verena Melgarejo Weinandt in conversation with Mark Rappolt, Editor-in-Chief of ArtReview with welcome remarks by TBA21 co-director Markus Reymann and Repatriates artist Samson Ogiamien.

• 11:15 – 11:35am | Book Launch
   Tide of Returns exhibition publication (Hatje Cantz/TBA21), introduced by Christopher Williams-Wynn, art historian and Tides of Returns publication co-editor. 

• 11:35am – 12:45pm | Between Tides: Gatherings on Return, part II
  This gathering carries the unfinished work of repatriation—as ongoing process, sometimes ceremony, sometimes argument, always relation—into a Biennale opening week alive with protest against the war crimes of nation states. How, in chorus with the strike, do we speak as multiplicitous solidarities and circulate countervoices in spite of the dehumanizing enclosures of colonial violence. These questions are held in an open conversation with In Minor Keys co-curator Rasha Salti, anthropologist and filmmaker Jesse Weaver Shipley, Manchester Museum director Georgina Young, moderated by artist Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, with an introduction by curator Wietske Maas.

• 12:45 – 1pm | Listening Movement
  Program concludes with a sonic activation by artist Laimi Kokololo and Jesse Weaver Shipley.

Between Tides: Gatherings on Return is researched and convened by Wietske Maas and Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll in collaboration with TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space.