« Sans la culture, on ne peut pas vivre »

L’entretien suivant avec feu Teresa Maffeis a eu lieu à Nice en octobre 2021. Je l’ai rencontrée en juillet 2021, vers la fin d’une visite de recherche de trois mois au sein de l’université Côte d’Azur, dans le cadre du Programme de pratiques de recherche avancées. Mon projet consistait en une exposition-recherche intitulée « Rewinding Internationalism », réalisée en trois expositions à Netwerk Aalst, en Belgique (février-mai 2022), au Van Abbemusuem, aux Pays-Bas (novembre 2022-avril 2023),..

Conceptualism - Intersectional Readings, International Framings: Situating 'Black Artists and Modernism' in Europe

Edited by Nick Aikens, susan pui san lok and Sophie Orlando, this e-publication includes a collection of revised and expanded papers from the conference Conceptualism: Intersectional Readings, International Framings, Black Artists & Modernism in Europe Since 1968 that took place at the Van Abbemuseum in December 2017. The conference and the accompanying e-publication gathers artists, curators and academics to consider two broad, overarching questions: Firstly, how to rethink conceptualism intersectionally and internationally as a strategy rather than as a movement; and secondly how to situate ‘black artists’ and ‘modernism’ within Europe? The conference and corresponding publication includes key note lectures by Iris Dressler and Valerie Cassel-Oliver. Sections on ‘Intersectional Readings’ and ‘International Framings’ are accompanied by a focus on the work of Nil Yalter, stanley bouwn, David Medalla and Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc. The e-pub is free to download and includes recordings of the original presentations

On “Past Disquiet” and “NIRIN” A conversation between Rasha Salti, Nick Aikens, Kristine Khouri and Anthony Gardner

In this panel discussion curators Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti, and art historian Anthony Gardner discuss two recent exhibition projects. The ‘Past Disquiet: The Ghosts Narratives and Ghosts from The International Art Exhibition for Palestine, 1978’ was a ten- year research project carried out by Khouri and Salti that resulted in a series of exhibitions between 2015-2018, and NIRIN, curated by artistic director Brook Andrew (2020) – positioned as a ‘first-nations led’ exhibition, that was realized in under two years and responding to the specific context of the Sydney biennial. The discussion aims to address the exhibitions themselves. The focus is less on what these exhibitions were ‘about’. Rather, to explore the relationship between the form of the exhibition, the research and the object of study. By looking closely at the Past Disquiet and NIRIN, Khouri, Salti and Gardner address how might we come to understand the affordances of the exhibition and the ways in which they bring forth and speak with different political imaginaries, as well as institutional and exhibition histories. The discussion turns to specific strategies and display devices within the exhibitions – from the ways in which images of art works migrated in different forms across ‘Past Disquiet’, to close readings of vitrine cases in NIRIN that formed dialogues with institutional contexts and exhibition histories – both emancipatory and exclusionary. What emerges from the conversation is a series of reflections and speculations from the contributors on how we might consider the exhibition in relation to notions of repair, restitution, emancipation and forms of instituting

The Place Is Here : The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain

"The publication developed from the exhibition and research project The Place Is Here (2016–19), which traced the urgent and wide-ranging conversations taking place between black artists, writers, and thinkers in Britain during the 1980s. Within the context of Thatcherism and a racist art establishment, a new generation of black artists and intellectuals produced some of the most compelling ideas and images in recent British cultural history. Across four exhibitions, The Place Is Here brought together over one hundred works by forty artists and collectives, spanning painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video, and expanded archival displays. Richly illustrated, the book includes thematic essays, close readings of works, and a series of panel discussions bringing together key scholarly, critical, and artistic voices foundational to art in Britain in the 1980s. The result is an intergenerational dialogue around pressing intellectual, political, and aesthetic debates, highlighting the significance of the work of these artists for the present." -- Publisher's website

Understanding patients' adherence-related beliefs about medicines prescribed for long-term conditions: A meta-analytic review of the Necessity-Concerns Framework

Patients' beliefs about treatment influence treatment engagement and adherence. The Necessity-Concerns Framework postulates that adherence is influenced by implicit judgements of personal need for the treatment (necessity beliefs) and concerns about the potential adverse consequences of taking it