Donald Rodney, Flesh of My Flesh, 1996
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Gallery 2
| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | 11am–6pm |
| Wednesday | 11am–6pm |
| Thursday | 11am–9pm |
| Friday | 11am–6pm |
| Saturday | 11am–6pm |
| Sunday | 11am–6pm |
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About This Event
This event takes place in Gallery 2 at Whitechapel Gallery, located on the ground floor.
This event lasts approximately 1.5 hours. There are no rest breaks currently scheduled during this event.
You must purchase a ticket to attend the event. Concession tickets are available. If you require a Personal Assistant to support your attendance, we can offer them a seat free of charge, but it must be arranged in advance.
If the ticket price affects your attendance, please email tickets@whitechapelgallery.org to be added to the guest list (no questions asked, but dependent on availability).
This event is suitable for those over the age of 16
We are unable to provide British Sign Language interpretation for this event
We are unable to provide live closed captioning or CART for this event.
An audio recording of the event can be obtained by emailing publicprogrammes@whitechapelgallery.org following the event.
Transport
To the best of our knowledge, there are no planned disruptions to local transport on the date of the event.
Our nearest train station – Aldgate East Underground (1 min) is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are Whitechapel (15 min), Shoreditch High Street (15 min) or Liverpool Street (15 min).
Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available at the top of Osborn Street in the pay and display booths for an unlimited period. Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis.
Live Recording
Please note: we audio record all events for the Whitechapel Gallery Archive and possible future online publication via Soundcloud.
Join us for a gathering of artists and practitioners as we explore Donald Rodney’s influential, acerbic practice, in the context of broader dialogues around the politics of care and sickness, the artist-as-patient, and where the medical and the social meet.
Chaired by Jameisha Prescod, in this discussion Virginia Nimarkoh, Jamila Prowse, and Alinta Sara will examine Donald Rodney’s legacy and influence, and his singular ability to connect deeply personal experiences, with wider injustices surrounding racial identity, chronic illness and masculinity, and Britain’s colonial past.
Following starting provocations from each of our speakers, the conversation will move between the personal, the patient experience, and the wider socio-political implications and commentaries in work, cementing Rodney’s place as a vital figure in British art and interrogator of the human condition.
This panel accompanies our current exhibition, Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker.
Attendees to this event can access an exclusive 20% discount on Donald Rodney: A Reader – the accompanying book to the Visceral Canker exhibition. The Reader brings together crucial perspectives from leading art historians, artists and peers, illuminating Donald Rodney’s enduring influence on contemporary art and cultural discourse.
To redeem this discount, please select the “Admission + Book” option when purchasing your ticket – your Reader will be available to collect from the info desk on the night of the event.
Virginia Nimarkoh is an artist and social entrepreneur based in London. Her art practice spans photography, video, curating, and writing. Her current work explores ideas of utopia in relation to community action, architecture, and public space. For the past decade she has been working to build food equality at a local level. She founded and runs a social enterprise supporting people in financial need in south London.
She took part in (Re:)Thinking the Street: Urban Encounters at Tate Britain. Museum of London commissioned Virginia Nimarkoh and Fan Sissoko to work with The Advocacy Academy and create We The People (2019), an intergenerational short film, exploring active citizenship in Brixton, south London. Her work was recently published in Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s-90s Britain (2024) and Walking in Cities: Navigating Post-Pandemic Urban Environments (2024).
Website: www.virginianimarkoh.net
Jameisha Prescod is a filmmaker, writer and content creator born and raised in London. As the founder of You Look Okay to Me, they centre their work around chronic illness and disability by using digital creativity to uncover powerful human experiences. Through their online content, films and written work Jameisha explores how the theme of illness collides with social and cultural identity.
Instagram: @cinejamographer / @youlookokaytome
TikTok: @jamprescod
Website: www.jameishaprescod.com
Jamila Prowse is an artist and writer, propelled by curiosity and a desire to understand herself through making. Informed by her lived experience of disability, mixed race ancestry and the loss of her father at a young age; her work is research driven and indebted to Black feminist and crip scholars. She is an active participant in a rich and growing contemporary disabled artistic community and has been ongoingly researching, programming and creating around cripping the art world since 2018. Self taught, Jamila is drawn to experimenting with a multitude of mediums in order to process her grief and radical hope.
Viewing her practice as grief work, Jamila uses visual art making as a way to process complex family histories, loss, trauma and the isolation of being a bedbound, disabled, autistic person. Often incorporating oral histories into the conception of her works; the location of voice is vital in her explorations. She embeds creative access adjustments from the outset of each project – seeing access as a method of artistic articulation.
She is currently articulating through moving image, painting, photography, textiles and performance. Previous exhibitions and talks include TULCA Visual Arts Festival, (Galway Ireland), Ormston House Gallery, (Limerick, Ireland), Somerset House, South London Gallery, Studio Voltaire (London, UK) and Hordaland Kunstsenter (Bergen, Norway). Her writing has appeared in Frieze, Art Monthly, British Journal of Photography and elsewhere.
Instagram: @jamilaprowse
Website: www.jamilaprowse.com
Alinta Sara is an independent curator, researcher, and lecturer in French and African Art History at Imperial College London. She is also a co-founder of Bokantaj, an initiative dedicated to fostering cultural exchange from a “South-South” perspective. Alinta’s curatorial practice often combines oral histories with visual arts, creating engaging and innovative experiences for audiences.
Throughout her career, Alinta has worked as a workshop producer with several galleries, including the October Gallery and Tate Modern. Her curatorial projects include Divinations of Worlds to Come at the Agency Gallery, Our Journey, Our Story at the Black Cultural Archives, and The Colour of Pain at the CLCC at Imperial College. She also managed the Sickle Cell Society heritage project, Our Journey, Our Story, exploring the history of sickle cell anaemia in the UK.
Alinta’s recent work includes contributing to the Artist Legacies in Museums project for Art360 and receiving an Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Grant. Her current research focuses on the visibility of Black bodies in Moroccan art practice, examining how race, history, and colonial legacies influence visual narratives.
Instagram: @alintasara
Website: www.bokantaj.org
