Contested Desires at the Great North Museum: Hancock
Great North Museum: Hancock, Barras Bridge, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Dates: until Tuesday 29 July, seven days a week
Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm | Saturday, 10am-4pm | Sunday, 11am-4pm
From the main entrance, head all the way to the back of the museum. Here take the stairs or lift to level one where you'll immediately find the exhibition in Halls 2 and 3.
What are the impacts of colonial heritage today and whose stories do we hear?
CONTESTED DESIRES: Constructive Dialogues is an ambitious conversation between contemporary artists and the museums, archives and communities that shape our colonial histories. From Europe to Africa to South America, the artists explore complex and interwoven themes of identity, appropriation, power and memory.
Andreas Mallouris (Cyprus), Elisabeth Efua Sutherland (Ghana), Isaac Nana Opoku (Ghana), Maria Luigia Gioffre (Italy), Patrick Ziza (UK), Paul Nataraj (UK) and Rafael Guendelman Hales (Chile), bring CONTESTED DESIRES to the North East of England for a special exhibition at the Great North Museum: Hancock. By inviting us to consider new perspectives on the legacies of Europe’s colonial past, they also look to the future and the choices to be made.
The UK exhibition and programme is part of CONTESTED DESIRES, a large-scale cultural project exposing the problematic legacy of European colonisation found in museums and heritage sites, aiming to encourage a deeper understanding of colonialism and its legacies. CONTESTED DESIRES aims to facilitate environments of care where artists, partners and communities can be supported to reveal and challenge the colonial roots of many of today’s global injustices. Prior to the exhibition, the artists will take part in residencies at D6’s studios in Newcastle to develop their artworks in the context of the North East and connect with local audiences.
CONTESTED DESIRES - Conference
As part of the exhibition and wider conversations addressing decolonisation, we invite you to a day of thought-provoking discussions and connections around contemporary art, heritage and community. The conference takes place at The Word in South Shields on Thursday 17 July. Find out more here.
Partners and funders
CONTESTED DESIRES is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. In the UK we are grateful for support from Arts Council England, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Newcastle Cultural Investment Fund.
Special thanks to the Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle University, Sangini, South Tyneside Cultural Partnership, Tyne Coast College and North East of England African and Caribbean Community Association for supporting the exhibition and programme in the UK.
D6: Culture in Transit is part of CONTESTED DESIRES: Constructive Dialogues, a Creative Europe funded international programme with 22 artists and 20 arts and heritage partners across Chile, Cyprus, Ghana, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia and the UK.
Find out more about CONTESTED DESIRES here.
Dates: until Tuesday 29 July, seven days a week
Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm | Saturday, 10am-4pm | Sunday, 11am-4pm
From the main entrance, head all the way to the back of the museum. Here take the stairs or lift to level one where you'll immediately find the exhibition in Halls 2 and 3.
What are the impacts of colonial heritage today and whose stories do we hear?
CONTESTED DESIRES: Constructive Dialogues is an ambitious conversation between contemporary artists and the museums, archives and communities that shape our colonial histories. From Europe to Africa to South America, the artists explore complex and interwoven themes of identity, appropriation, power and memory.
Andreas Mallouris (Cyprus), Elisabeth Efua Sutherland (Ghana), Isaac Nana Opoku (Ghana), Maria Luigia Gioffre (Italy), Patrick Ziza (UK), Paul Nataraj (UK) and Rafael Guendelman Hales (Chile), bring CONTESTED DESIRES to the North East of England for a special exhibition at the Great North Museum: Hancock. By inviting us to consider new perspectives on the legacies of Europe’s colonial past, they also look to the future and the choices to be made.
The UK exhibition and programme is part of CONTESTED DESIRES, a large-scale cultural project exposing the problematic legacy of European colonisation found in museums and heritage sites, aiming to encourage a deeper understanding of colonialism and its legacies. CONTESTED DESIRES aims to facilitate environments of care where artists, partners and communities can be supported to reveal and challenge the colonial roots of many of today’s global injustices. Prior to the exhibition, the artists will take part in residencies at D6’s studios in Newcastle to develop their artworks in the context of the North East and connect with local audiences.
CONTESTED DESIRES - Conference
As part of the exhibition and wider conversations addressing decolonisation, we invite you to a day of thought-provoking discussions and connections around contemporary art, heritage and community. The conference takes place at The Word in South Shields on Thursday 17 July. Find out more here.
Partners and funders
CONTESTED DESIRES is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. In the UK we are grateful for support from Arts Council England, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Newcastle Cultural Investment Fund.
Special thanks to the Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle University, Sangini, South Tyneside Cultural Partnership, Tyne Coast College and North East of England African and Caribbean Community Association for supporting the exhibition and programme in the UK.
D6: Culture in Transit is part of CONTESTED DESIRES: Constructive Dialogues, a Creative Europe funded international programme with 22 artists and 20 arts and heritage partners across Chile, Cyprus, Ghana, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia and the UK.
Find out more about CONTESTED DESIRES here.
