Event Info
You are warmly invited to join us at Aberystwyth Arts Centre for a guided tour at 18:30 in Gallery 1 followed by a visit to the Round Studio to view a live online talk at 19:00 with the Artes Mundi shortlisted artist Anawana Haloba who is currently exhibiting with us.
Presented in partnership with British Council, Artes Mundi presents the third of six free At The Table talks series for AM11.
Anawana Haloba will be in conversation with Fatima Bintou Rassoul SY, curator and director of RAW Material Company, independent curator and researcher Nneoma Angela Okorie and writer and artist Kandace Siobhan Walker.
The At The Table series brings together the voices of the six AM11 artists alongside those of international curators, artists, historians, thinkers and writers in a series of roundtable discussions. The talks will centre on themes and ideas present in the artist’s work and the interwoven relationship between histories and practices, locally to internationally.
Imagining we are sitting around a table sharing conversation and exchanging ideas, this event is a chance to hear different concerns and perspectives while getting to know the artist and their work.
The talk will be interpreted in BSL and live captions will be provided.
Anawana Haloba (b. 1978) is an artist based in Oslo and Livingstone, currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Bergen. Haloba has been featured in solo and group exhibitions including at Centre Pompidou, National Museum of African Arts (Smithsonian), la Biennale di Venezia, 2009, and the Sharjah Biennial 08, 11 and 14th editions. She is an associate professor at Oslo National Academy of the Arts and a guest advisor at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam and co-founder of the Livingstone Office for Contemporary Arts (LoCA), a platform for exploring colonial and political histories in relation to language and contemporary art. Her work was included in the Berlin Biennale (2025) and she has a forthcoming major solo exhibition at the National Museum, Oslo.
RAW Material Company is a vibrant center for art, knowledge, and society based in Dakar, Senegal. Founded by Koyo Kouoh in 2008, it has grown into a leading platform for critical reflection on artistic practice and its role in shaping society. With a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach, RAW engages in curatorial projects, residencies, education, and international collaborations. Its work is carried forward by a dedicated team, including Fatima Bintou Rassoul SY — Curator and Director of Programs of RAW Material Company — and continues to foster artistic and intellectual growth across Africa and beyond.
Nneoma Angela Okorie is an independent curator and researcher concerned with equitable forms of cultural production, archival research, spatial relations, and public space strategies. Working primarily with text, sound and objects, her research-based practice tends to form and ideas that shift with each encounter; how they morph or mutate through engagement, use, and repetition. She is also a founding member of INCHIKOTA, an experimental lab developed for transdisciplinary collaborations through spatial research, publications, pedagogy, and gatherings.
Kandace Siobhan Walker is a writer and artist of Jamaican-Canadian, Saltwater Geechee and Welsh heritage. She is the author of two books of poetry Kaleido (Bad Betty Press, 2022) and Cowboy (CHEERIO, 2023). Her installation Dreamerism (2024) appeared in Jerwood Arts’ nationally-touring group exhibition Survey III. She lives in London.
