EVENT15.03.2024 / 5.30pm7.00pm
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Exodus Crooks in conversation with Orphée Kashala

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Exodus Crooks discusses their exhibition, Epiphany (Temporaire), with curator Orphée Kashala.

The event begins with a tour of the exhibition, followed by a conversation during which Exodus and Orphée will discuss how they have developed the show in dialogue together. The discussion is chaired by Dr Ian Sergeant.

Epiphany (Temporaire) (9 February – 21 April 2024) is presented as part of Ikon’s 60th anniversary year.

About the speakers

Exodus Crooks is a British-Jamaican multidisciplinary artist, educator and writer whose art practice centres on the relationship with self. Observing the results of fractious domesticity, despair and passion, their art tends to appear as questions of self-actualisation and the role that religion and spirituality play in that journey to enlightenment.

Orphée Kashala is a UK-based Pan-African and Diasporic art curator and cultural producer. Kashala was a producer at Maokwo, Coventry (2020-2021), and was selected for the Emergence(y) project in Birmingham (2021), an Ort Gallery and ICF residency provision for emerging curators to develop their practices. His curatorial practice is a recourse to art and artists as mediums to lead the collective interrogation, interpretation and reckoning with human complexity. Kashala leans into contradiction and complication to untangle an intrinsically resistant, liberated, and decolonised counter-visuality.

Dr Ian Sergeant is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University of the Arts London and an independent curator-researcher. He has an MA in Contemporary Curatorial Practice and completed his practice-based PhD at Birmingham City University in 2022. Curated exhibitions, projects and events include The more things change…, Wolverhampton Art Gallery (2023); …Like a short cut through the brambles, Coventry Biennial (2023-24) Nation’s Finest, Putting Down Roots and Birthing, Birmingham 2022 Festival (2022); Interference:s, Coventry Biennial (2021); Cut & Mix, New Art Exchange (2021); Donald Rodney at Celine Gallery, Glasgow International (2021); Reimaging Donald Rodney, Vivid Projects (2016).
He is a director of performing and visual arts organisation Kalaboration CiC, on the board of directors for Vivid Projects, and a trustee with iniva.

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Events Room, First Floor

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Please note the exhibition tour is a walking tour, limited seating is available. The talk is seated.

This event is being photographed. Please speak to the photographer if you prefer not to be included. The talk will be recorded (audio) and will be available online after the event.

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1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2HS

Image Credits
1. Exodus Crooks. Photo by Chelsea Gordon. Orphée Kashala. Photo by Phillip Okeowo
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