Organised by Whitechapel Gallery
Join contributing artist Alberta Whittle in a discussion with Moving Bodies Moving Images curator Lydia Yee, exploring her methods for comprehending global issues through art.
Made during the height of the nationwide lockdown, Whittle’s video piece RESET responds to a landscape of adversity, composed amidst the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and the climate emergency. Connecting xenophobia, ecological breakdown, and fear of contagion as contributors to inequality, RESET promotes empathy and healing in the faces of seemingly monolithic issues. A focal point of the Moving Bodies Moving Images exhibition, dance figures in the piece as an act of reclamation, with performer Mele Broomes dancing through in a sparse domestic interior and through the landscaped grounds of a British stately home, reclaiming space usually associated with whiteness and privilege.
The discussion will include opportunities for audience members to join the conversation through a live Q+A. The talk will be followed by a performance by Mele Broomes in the gallery space, performing an extended version of her choreography for RESET.