Event Details

- This event will be held in Bowland North Seminar Room 6 -

Run in collaboration with and funded by FASS Decolonisation, this workshop is aimed at students and staff members interested in decolonial arts-based research methods. The workshop will be run by Dr Kerstin Hacker, Senior Lecturer in Photography, Anglia Ruskin University. Dr Hacker will be talking about her recent study emerging from her longstanding work with Zambian photographers and artists titled Shooting in Africa: (Re)negotiating Zambia’s Colonial Library Through Photographic Practice. She will reflect on the critical debate around historic visual material in a decolonial context and will encourage the audience to engage in critical reflection and unlearning of established narratives.

In the workshop, we will explore visual archival material and develop alternative visual narratives through collage and the integration of text and image. Participants will be working with materials from the Zambia Belonging archive and the Royal Commonwealth Society archive. This workshop will allow us to discuss boundaries and ethical consideration in depictions of the ‘other’ and self in various contexts.

Bio: Dr Hacker has received funding from British Council Educational Partnership in Africa Grant and has conducted critical creative practice research over the last two decades with the wider Zambian photographic community. Most recently, her research was recognised through the Affect and Colonialism Web Lab Fellowship (2022) at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Cambridge Visual Cultures Fellowship (2023) at the University of Cambridge.