This September, we hosted Re-Symposium in Glasgow, recontextualizing and exploring the legacy of empire within curatorial, craft, and creative practices.
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Location:
St. Mungo Museum of Religious Life & Art2 Castle St
Glasgow
G4 0RH
‘Re-’ is a prefix and a jumping off point for the past, present and possible futures.
Revisiting, reimagining, reviewing, reconceptualizing, re-envisioning, revising, redefining, rethinking, reconceiving, reexamining...
The Re- Symposium invited you to recontextualise and explore the legacy of empire within curatorial, craft and creative practices. Showcasing the practices of curators, makers and organisations to discuss creative strategies, new approaches to language and working, and possible routes for rethinking our living history.
Learn more about the speakers.
The springboard for the event was Historic Environment Scotland’s recent report ‘Surveying and Analysing Connections between Properties in Care and the British Empire, c.1600–1997’. We wanted to explore ways to re-look at colonial legacies and disrupt ways of seeing, listening, thinking and making.
We imagined the Re- Symposium as a place to come together to converse, be inspired and explore ways to decentre old narratives and embrace intersectional thinking and practice.
The Re- Symposium is a partnership between Craft Scotland and Historic Environment Scotland.
If you have any questions please email programmes@craftscotland.org.
