colonialism Archives

Walter Spies: Tourism as Progress?

07/05/2025

Spies legacy returns home as Michael Schindhelm's meditation on tourisms, Roots, reaches Bali...

Image shows treated and processed photographic work by Julio Etchart and Holly Birtles

Reclaiming the Truth: Deconstructing colonial museums and public spaces

03/04/2025

Collaborative visual project by Julio Etchart and Holly Birtles...

The Tourist Mindset: Michael Schindhelm’s Roots

22/10/2024

A review of Michael Schindhelm's ROOTS installation at ...

Colonialism, Audience and Art’s Ability to Teach

30/11/2022

An interview with Larry Ossei-Mensah...

Livien Yin, Poppies, 2022, Acrylic on linen, 137.2 x 106.7 cm; (54 x 42 in.)

Routes of Life, Ghosts of History

20/07/2022

Post-colonialism is alive and well. As a discourse it has parallel pathways to power and capital through institutions and histories. It is a lens to scrutinise how facts are used to build myths and...

Clothing the New World Church

28/01/2021

Maya Stanfield-Mazzi’s book provides the first broad survey of church textiles of Spanish America, demonstrating that, while overlooked, textiles were a vital part of visual culture in the Catholic...

Trump gives the 2018 State of the Union address with Vice President Pence and Speaker Ryan in the background.

SOTU 2018: Donald Trump Colonises America

08/02/2018

Donald Trump's State of the Union speech last week revealed many things and (surprise) more than a few echoes of colonialism....

Art Resistance Journal Third Text Relaunches

27/11/2015

Editor of seminal counter-institutional art journal Third Text announces relaunch....

A picture of a hostel interior with Mugabe poster, Mbare, ZImbabwe

A Commonwealth Of Homophobia

28/07/2014

42 of the 53 countries that make up the Commonwealth continue to criminalise homosexuality...

Single Women, Sex and Colonial Religion

27/01/2013

Research reveals how single women shaped the religious culture of colonial Latin America...

Childishness and Cockroaches: An Academic in Africa

28/08/2012

Just as we were about to start, Andrew appeared on the other side of the fence, waxing wroth. Why had we broken into his field, who did we think we were, we had no permission to play there etc.,...