Free entry
12 Feb 2025 - 4 May 2025
Gallery 2
| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | 11am–6pm |
| Wednesday | 11am–6pm |
| Thursday | 11am–9pm |
| Friday | 11am–6pm |
| Saturday | 11am–6pm |
| Sunday | 11am–6pm |
On the 18, 19, 20, 21, 26, and 27 Mar the film programme will shown in the Zilkha Auditorium.
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Please note, there is low lighting in the exhibition space. Seating in Gallery 2 includes sofas, chairs with backs, stools, and beanbags.
Accompanying the exhibition Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker, a free hour-long programme of contemporary artists’ film invites us to reflect on the concerns within Rodney’s work and its relevance and influence today. Taking its title from a statement in one of Rodney’s sketchbooks, the programme explores the politics of the body, particularly as it is impacted by modern technologies and mediated by constructs of race, gender and disability.
Contributing artists include: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Hannah Black, James Gregory Atkinson, Yazan Khalili, Carolyn Lazard, Zinzi Minott, Shahryar Nashat and Camara Taylor.
The programme is curated by Richard Birkett, author of Donald Rodney: Autoicon (Afterall, 2023).
Please note some films contain images of nudity and sexual references. All films are captioned and visitors are welcome to enter Gallery 2 at any time during the screenings. On occasion, when there are other events in Gallery 2, films may be screened in the Zilkha Auditorium and Studio .
Shahryar Nashat, Present Sore, 2016HD colour video (vertical format) with sound, 8 mins 12 secs. Courtesy of the artist and Sylvia Kouvali, London/ Piraeus, Gladstone Gallery, New York/Brussels/Seoul and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles.
Camara Taylor, suspiration!, 20212K video with sound, 23 mins 43 secs. Courtesy of the artist.
Hannah Black, The Neck, 2014HD colour video with sound, 3 mins 28 secs. Courtesy of the artist and Arcadia Missa, London
James Gregory Atkinson, 6 Friedberg-Chicago, 20214K Video with sound, 6 mins 16 secs. Courtesy of the artist.
Carolyn Lazard, Pre-Existing Condition, 2019HD colour video with sound, 6 minutes. Courtesy of the artist
Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, A Lament for Power, 2020HD colour video with sound, 13 mins 16 secs. Courtesy of the artists. Commissioned by Art Exchange, Colchester; supported by Arts Council England.
Yazan Khalili, All The Images Looked Real, 2019HD colour video with sound, 6 mins 42 secs. Courtesy of the artist.
Zinzi Minott, Fi Dem III: Ancestral Interference, 2020HD colour video with sound, 10 mins 36 secs. Courtesy of the artist. Commissioned by Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival; Spike Island, Bristol; and Transmission, Glasgow.
Donald Rodney (b. 1961, West Bromwich; d. 1998, London) was a British artist. He was born to Jamaican parents, and grew up in Smethwick, on the outskirts of Birmingham. He studied Art Foundation at Bournville School of Art, Birmingham (1980–81); BA Fine Art at Trent Polytechnic in Nottingham (1981–85); and completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Multi-Media Fine Art at Slade School of Fine Art in London (1987). Rodney first gained visibility as a member of the BLK Art Group in the early 1980s, through a series of exhibitions titled The Pan-Afrikan Connection (1981–84). Rodney’s solo exhibitions include Reimagining Donald Rodney, Vivid Projects, Birmingham (2016); Donald Rodney – In Retrospect, iniva, London (2008); 9 Night in Eldorado, South London Gallery (1997); Cataract, Camerawork, London (1991); Critical, Rochdale Art Gallery (1990); Crisis, Chisenhale Gallery, London (1989); The First White Christmas & Other Empire Stories, Saltley Print and Media, Birmingham (1985); and The Atrocity Exhibition & Other Empire Stories, Black Art Gallery, London (1986). Rodney’s work is in the collections of Tate Gallery, London; Arts Council England; the British Council; the Government Art Collection; Museums Sheffield; the National Galleries of Wales; South London Gallery; Wolverhampton Art Gallery; and Birmingham City Art Gallery.
Shahryar Nashat is an artist based in Berlin. He has had solo exhibitions at MASI Lugano (2024); The Art Institute of Chicago (2023); The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (with Bruce Hainley, 2023); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2020); Swiss Institute, New York (2019); Kunsthalle Basel (2017); Portikus, Frankfurt (2016); and Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (with Adam Linder, 2016).
Camara Taylor is an artist based in Glasgow. They work with their various selves, collaborators and organisations to produce still and moving images, texts and other things, their projects tending towards the accumulation and dissolution of image, language and presence. Recent exhibitions include Soft Impressions, DCA Dundee (2024); [mouthfeel], Tramway, commissioned by Glasgow International (2024); backwash, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2022); a rant! a reel!, Cubitt Gallery, London; and slow breath, The Newbridge Project, Gateshead (both 2021).
Hannah Black lives and works between Marseille and New York. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at OCT0 Productions, Marseille (2024); The Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (2022); Luma Westbau, Zürich (2021); Kunstverein Braunschweig (2019); Performance Space, New York (2019); CAC – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2018); and Chisenhale Gallery, London (2017). Her books include Tuesday or September or The End (2021), Dark Pool Party (2016), and Life (with Juliana Huxtable,2017).
James Gregory Atkinson is an artist based in Frankfurt. He has held solo exhibitions at Frankfurter Studiengalerie 1.357 (2023); Dortmunder Kunstverein (2021–2022); and Goethe-Institut, Seattle (2021). His films have been screened at festivals and venues including Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2024); PalaisPopulaire, Berlin (2023); Berlinale 72. Internationale Filmfestspiele (2022); and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main (2022).
Carolyn Lazard is an artist and writer based in Philadelphia and New York. They have held solo exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary (2023); ICA Philadelphia (2023); and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2022). Lazard’s work has been included in the Whitney Biennial (2024 & 2019); NGV Triennial (2023); Venice Biennale (2022); and Greater New York (2021. Lazard is a 2019 Pew Fellow, a 2020 Disability Futures Fellow, a 2021 United States Artists Fellow, and a 2023 MacArthur Fellow.
Working together since 2014, Larry Achiampong and David Blandy’s collaborative practice is rooted in an interest in popular culture and the post-colonial position. They were shortlisted for the Film London Jarman award in 2018 and their first museum exhibition, Genetic Automata, was held at Wellcome Collection, London in 2023. Their work has been shown at institutions including Tate Modern, London; Le Crédac contemporary art centre, Ivry-sur-Seine, France; The Baltic, Gateshead; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield; FACT, Liverpool; and Centre Pompidou Metz, France.
Zinzi Minott is an artist based in London who explores the relationship between bodies and politics. Her practice moves between film, sound, sculpture, prints, performance and object based work. She has been an artist in residence at La Becque, Switzerland (2023); Serpentine Gallery, London (2018); and Tate, London (2017) and was shortlisted for the 9th edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women (2023).
is an artist based in London who explores the relationship between bodies and politics. Her practice moves between film, sound, sculpture, prints, performance and object based work. She has been an artist in residence at La Becque, Switzerland (2023); Serpentine Gallery, London (2018); and Tate, London (2017) and was shortlisted for the 9th edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women (2023).
