Then and Now: the changing context of debate?

Artist Roshini Kempadoo discusses key debates around identity politics as seen through Iniva's (Institute of International Visual Arts) Archives with Karen Alexander, Nina Mangalanayagam and Ashwani Sharma.

Roshini Kempadoo is a photographer, media artist and lecturer at the University of East London. Her research and artwork are concerned with re-interpretations of historical and contemporary material of the Caribbean and Britain. She uses digital media and networked environments to explore colonial and postcolonial Caribbean and Britain.

Karen Alexander is an independent film curator, writer and freelance consultant. Her key areas of interest include representation, gender, identity and independent cinema.

Nina Mangalanayagam is currently exhibiting the the Entanglement: the Ambivalence of Identity exhibition at Rivington Place. She recently graduated with an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art and won the Jerwood Photography Award in 2005.

Ashwani Sharma is principal lecturer in media and cultural studies at the University of East London (UEL). He has recently been researching and publishing in the areas of racial anxiety, media post 9/11 and postcolonial racism; popular culture, urban space and globalization; visual and digital culture, archives, memory and postcolonialism; race, cultural theory and psychoanalysis.

This event responds to Iniva's current exhibition at Rivington Place 'Entanglement: the Ambivalence of Identity' on until 19 November 2011