Join us at iniva on Monday 20 May from 1pm – 7pm for an Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon with a focus on Palestine. In light of the current obliteration of universities, galleries, cultural centres, archives, artists, playwrights, writers, photographers and poets in Palestine, we will edit and create Wikipedia content on Palestinian artists, cultural organisations and heritage.

We will use material from Stuart Hall Library, as well as online resources, articles, books and any other sources you may wish to bring. Please feel free to come for the whole day or drop in for an hour. We will give an introduction at the start of the session, which will be repeated at 3pm and 5.30pm, but there will be people on hand to support you and help you get started whenever you arrive.

No previous Wikipedia experience is needed but it’s essential to bring your laptop, power cord, and make sure to create a Wikipedia account before the event.

If you want to get involved with advance preparation of suggested entries for artists or organisations, materials to work from, or planning and organisation, please get in touch with Library and Archive Manager, Tavian Hunter, thunter@iniva.org.

This is a joint collaborative event between Art+Feminism, UAL’s Decolonising Arts Institute and iniva as part of iniva’s programme Transformation of Silence.

Accessibility

It is free to attend this event and everyone is welcome. If you have accessibility requirements or questions please email library@iniva.org.

Co-Hosts

Clare Qualmann (she/her) is an artist/researcher whose work focuses on socially engaged, site specific, and experimental modes of contemporary creative practice, often using walking.  She is Associate Professor at The University of East London where her teaching and research explore the interconnections between art, activism and the radical potentials of participation. Clare first edited wikipedia at an Art+Feminism event in 2016 and has since organised a series of wikipedia edit-a-thons.

Gargi Bhattacharyya (they/them) is Professor of Anti/Post/Decolonial Theory and Praxis in the Decolonising Arts Institute at University of the Arts London and recently worked as Professor of Sociology at University of East London. Their work focuses on questions of systemic inequality and injustice and processes of imagination and collaboration that seek to navigate, bypass and overturn such structures. Gargi is the author of Empire’s Endgame (Pluto, 2021), We, the heartbroken (Hajar, 2023), The Futures of Racial Capitalism (Polity, 2023), Rethinking Racial Capitalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), Dangerous Brown Men (Zed, 2008) and Traffick (Pluto, 2005).

About iniva

iniva is an evolving visual arts organisation dedicated to nurturing and disseminating radical and emergent contemporary artistic practice centring Global Majority, African, Asian, & Caribbean diaspora perspectives. For 30 years it has been iniva’s mission to be an agent for change in the cultural sector, advocating for social justice through the support of artists and communities as well as via the forms of exchange that advance our desire to understand each other and respect the cultural values that challenge cultural ‘norms’.

Transformation of Silence into Words & Action is the title of an essay by poet, feminist, activist & educator Audre Lorde. Under this banner, we come together to build understanding about the situation in Palestine and Israel through the works of artists, writers and other cultural producers.