Do you remember Olive Morris? the art of collective remembrance - Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre
Open Lecture
Ana Laura Lopez will discuss her practice in the context of ongoing project entitled ‘Do You Remember Olive Morris?’. At the forefront of political struggles in the 1970s, Olive Morris was a member of the Brixton Black Panthers Movement and a founding member of several Black women’s organisations. Initiated by Ana Laura Lopez in 2006, the project is an investigation of Morris’ life and legacy,and is the result of a collaboration with community activist Liz Obi, together with a group of women meeting monthly as the ROC (Remembering Olive Collective).
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TrAIN Open Series
The TrAIN Open series is a forum for invited speakers to present exhibition, publication, and research projects in the form of lectures, discussions and screenings.
Taking place at fortnightly intervals on Wednesday evenings during the academic term, the series is open to the public, as well as staff and students across the University of the Arts London.
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Ana Laura Lopes de la Torre
Guest Speaker
Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre is an artist and writer from Uruguay, based in London since 1996. Often taking as a starting point the overlooked or the underrated, her work creates visible and unexpected connections between things, people and places.
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