I’m very excited to be taking part in the Finissage Party for ESEA Futures – a co-presentation between Bloc Projects and Platform Asia. There’s still just about time to go see the exhibition, and then join us at Gut Level tomorrow evening for a live performance by Sayang, followed by an ESEA-flavoured DJ set from me.
Refugee Week is shaping up to be an exciting one. I’m taking part in a panel on 21st June as part of the amazing Mamawe Afro-Pean Festival, where I’ll be discussing ancestral practices of dance and drumming in the context of Frantz Fanon’s theory of embodied colonialism. Then in the evening, I’m launching a new project DiaspoRIDDIM, alongside my good friend DJ Disorientalist, which is dedicated to promoting the exciting new music that is created when borders are crossed and cultures are carried, blended and reborn in sound. This event is part of Migration Matters Festival, as well as being the official afterparty for Mamawe. On Wednesday 25th June, I will be taking part in a second event for Migration Matters – Cambodia: Legacies of Conflict and Resilience, which will continue an evolving conversation with Charles Fox and Dayanny So (Nomad Maison). I’ll then be rounding off the week by presenting some of my work on Friday 27th June at Fanon 100 (Birkbeck).
THREAD is being exhibited at the Eroteme event on April 17th to mark the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge fifty years ago. It will once again be shown alongside work by Dayanny So and Charles Fox.
Thread is being exhibited at Holocaust Centre North, alongside work by Dayanny So and Charles Fox, as part of an event to mark the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge and the start of the Cambodian genocide 50 years ago. The opening is on 31st March, and the works will be exhibited until 3rd April.
In Our Time on Maurice Merleau-Ponty, originally broadcast on 27th March. Melvyn Bragg’s guests are Tom Baldwin, Timothy Mooney, and me.
Komarine Romdenh-Romluc 