New Models is a lecture series that invites practitioners from different disciplines to discuss how their work can change the models around which society is organised. These conversations will address how we can shift power structures, socio-economic forces and structural inequalities present in society today to give us new tools to rethink the world around us.
This is a dialogue between multiple voices including: Moira Stuart, Naga Munchetty, Grace Jones, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Jarobi White, Willie Dynamite, Edward Festus Mukuka Nkoloso, Matha Mwamba, Rosa-Johan Uddoh and Thandi Loewenson. We will be locating the right site, setting the right scene, making the right props, choosing the right outfit, engaging the right backing singers and running the right routines: rehearsing the revolution.
Rosa-Johan Uddoh (b.1993, Croydon) is an interdisciplinary artist working towards radical self-love, inspired by black feminist practice and writing. Through performance, writing & multi-media installation, she explores places, objects and celebrities in British popular culture, and their effects on self-formation. Rosa is the Stuart Hall Library Resident 2020, a lecturer in Performance at Central Saint Martins, London and co-founder of diasporic dance troop, DIDD.
Thandi Loewenson (b.1989, Harare) is an architectural designer/researcher who operates through design, fiction and performance to interrogate our perceived and lived realms and to speculate on the possible worlds in our midst. Mobilising the ‘weird’ and the ‘tender’, she engages in projects which provoke questioning of the status-quo, whilst working with communities, policy makers, artists and architects towards acting on those provocations. Thandi is a tutor at the Royal College of Art, London, a Visiting Professor at the Aarhus School of Architecture and a co-foundress of the architectural collective BREAK//LINE.
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