Elisa Adami

Foreword Afterall Journal Issue 54

Show Us the Money: ‘The Accursed Share’ at Talbot Rice Gallery

In this text, Afterall Research Fellow and Editor Elisa Adami and Project Coordinator Arianna Mercado reflect on the exhibition ‘The Accursed Share' on display at the Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh.

Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza on Gayatri Spivak’s ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’

In conversation with Afterall editor Elisa Adami and CSM Art Programme Director Alex Schady, artist Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza talked about her work in response to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s influential text Can the Subaltern Speak? for the Two Works series.

Issue 53

‘Medium/Metaphor/Milieu’ looks at the exhibitionary in and beyond exhibitions.

Museum as Preface: Walid Raad’s History of Art in the Arab World

Looking at three of Raad’s works, part of the larger, multi-volume project Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World , the article considers the (im)possibilities of writing an alternative history of art within the already defined frames of museums – institutions encompassing both the sedimentation of cultural practices stemming from colonial legacies and the stratifications of new formations of political and economic power.

On African Opera. A Conversation with Anawana Haloba

In this conversation with Afterall editors, artist Anawana Haloba discusses her research into African operatic traditions and philosophy, as manifested in her experimental opera How to (re)pair my Grandmother’s Basket (2021). Conceiving of ‘re-pair’ as a way of setting things together in their relationality, Haloba seeks to recuperate traditions that were ‘epistemologically disenfranchised’ following the rupture of colonialism.

Issue 52

Afterall is pleased to present issue 52, ‘New Politics’. We seem to experience yet another version of the discontents of civilisation, paralleled by the search for new political responses.

Decolonial Artmaking

Decolonial Artmaking: a conversation on the stakes, problematics and possibilities of decolonial artmaking in the 2020s, with artists Rachael Minott and Rosana Paulino. The event will be chaired by writer, researcher and curator Elisa Adami.