In 2015, Autograph ABP brought together a collective of young, aspiring cultural producers to create a series of multimedia productions and events in response to the 19th century photographs unearthed as part The Missing Chapter archive research project. This showreel introduces their programme.
Healing Through Archives: Community was a workshop event organised and facilitated by TMC Collective member Abira Hussein in partnership with Kinsi Abdulleh, Numbi Arts. With the aim of creating a new archive of the Somali diaspora in the UK, participants were invited to share their earliest family photographs.
Lara Akinnawo’s short film Systematic Remembering explores the making of history and our responsibility as active agents of research. In this virtual reality, two avatars embody both the search engine, and the search results.
Short excerpt from Shanice Martin’s 30min experimental video essay Black Screens (2015), which explores Black British television and the representation of Black British people and cultures on T.V. between 1980 and 2000, with a voice-over feat. Nadine Marsh-Edwards and Campbell X in conversation.