In Conversation and Book Launch: Mmm, Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet
Tuesday 17 February, 7-8.15pm (exhibition open from 6.30pm)
Join us for an in conversation between Harold Offeh and Sepake Angiama to celebrate the new publication Harold Offeh: Mmm, Gotta Try a Little Harder, it Could Be Sweet.
Artist Harold Offeh will be in-conversation with Sepake Angiama, Artistic Director of Institute for International Visual Art (inIVA) and one of the contributors to the book. There will also be an opportunity to visit Offeh’s exhibition prior to the event.
About the exhibition
Harold Offeh: Mmm, Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet
The first major solo exhibition of Harold Offeh’s work in a UK institution, this exhibition will explore two decades of the artist’s videos, performances and projects that have taken place across the world.
For more than twenty years, Offeh (b. 1977, Ghana) has been making playful, provocative performance and video works that explore subjects ranging from pop culture to identity and conformity.
About Harold Offeh
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Harold Offeh
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About Sepake Angiama
Sepake Angiama is a curator and educator living and working in London. She is the Artistic Director for the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva) which is a leader in the discourse of the political and social implication of globalisation. The Institute is the home of the Stuart Hall Library that centres artistic research, collective study, experimentation, play and dialogue with African, Asian and global majority diaspora artists and their communities. Angiama’s previous writing has focussed on speculative fiction, architecture and radical education.
Access
- The galleries, where exhibitions are shown, and all areas of the Clore Learning Studio (level -1), the Research Space (level 1) and the Ede Room (level 2) are fully accessible.
- We have wheelchair accessible toilets on the lower ground (level -1), ground and first floor (level 1).
- There is a lift giving access to all floors located past the galleries, just beside the Clore Learning Studio on the ground floor.
- Kettle’s Yard welcomes assistance and service dogs in all areas.
- We have large-print versions of the wall text available.
- We can lend visitors small folding seats for taking around exhibitions or using at non-seated events. Please ask a Visitor Assistant for help finding a seat.
