LUX Scotland and Mother Tongue present AfroScots

AfroScots is a screening programme of moving image and sound encompassing the work of Black artists, who have – in the present and historically – lived, worked or studied in Scotland. The programme takes the relatively new term, AfroScots, as a means to draw a line around a group of practitioners working across three generations. Through bringing work by Irineu Destourelles, Maud Sulter, Camara Taylor, Tako Taal and Alberta Whittle into the same space and in dialogue with one another, the programme aims to open up new understandings and readings of the works, and the potential shared ground between them.

The process of curating the programme has attempted to recoup works, whilst also being a context to which some of the participating artists have chosen to respond to with new work. In common, the selected works express the negotiation of new and in-flux identities, with shared themes of interpersonal relationships and language. Moreover, the programme seeks to open-up discussions around the diversity of the arts in Scotland, and to ask questions around presence and visibility.

Following the screening, Tiffany Boyle from Mother Tongue will be in conversation with artist Alberta Whittle and musician Cass Ezeji.

AfroScots is curated by Mother Tongue and was developed in 2017 with support from Galerie de l’UQAM and the British Council Canada. It is presented at Edinburgh College of Art in partnership with ECA’s Global Contemporary Research Group and with the kind support of British Council Scotland and the Hope Scott Trust.