Sepake Angiama
Sepake Angiama is the artistic director of the institute for international visual arts which is home to the Stuart Hall Library, a rich resource for a globalised discourse on the curatorial and artistic practice of artists and curators from Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Diaspora. iniva's primary focus is a radical transformation of the cultural landscape that is reflective of contemporary society. We partner with key organisations who are aligned with iniva's mission to create space for emergent subjectivities and other ways of making, being and knowing. What could it mean to think from the archipelago, the subaltern, embodied epistemologies and cosmologies, to speak from the side lines, to work within the margins, to decentre whiteness and to think and be otherwise?
She is the initiator of under the mango tree, a gathering of practices of unlearning and processes of institutional decolonisation, centring indigenous knowledge that operate within artist-led project spaces, libraries, and schools. The gathering brings together discourses that build upon radical education practices in order to destabilise canonical forms of knowledge. Other projects include, ...And Other Such Stories - Chicago Architecture Biennial (2019) School of Darkness (2019) All Good Things Must Begin (2018) We Summon All Beings Here Past, Present & Future(2018) aneducation - documenta 14 (2015-2017) What can we achieve together? (2009-2012), a series of actions and projects that explore cooperative strategies including Centre for Cooperative Living (2010), a communal moestuin (vegetable garden) on a private balcony to investigate the question ‘What can you achieve by getting to know your neighbour?’, A Space Between (2011) and collaborative project [...] at the PUBLIC SCHOOL Brussels (2010), addressing alternative possibilities for the dissemination and distribution of ideas through a process of publishing artworks and Drawn to Dance (2005) a choreographed intervention at Hayward Gallery.
At the Royal College of Art she co-organised the Office of Real Time Activity, a parasitical organisation investigating the notion of institutional time. Other exhibitions and projects include;- We Are Technology(2008) Pauza Gallery in Karkow; Remember a Future Past (2007), and The House that Herman Built (2008)for which she received the Monique Beudert Award.
Previously she was the Head of Education at the International Foundation Manifesta, the Head of Education for documenta 14 and co-curator of the Chicago Architecture Biennial.