Talks: Raju Rage - Art In The City

UWE and Arnolfini present Raju Rage, an interdisciplinary artist who is proactive about using art, education and activism to forge creative survival. Currently presenting work as part of Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance, Act 3, 2019

Raju Rage (b. 1978 in Nairobi, Kenya)

Raju Rage is proactive about using art, education and activism to forge creative survival. Based in London and working beyond, they explore the spaces and relationships between dis/connected bodies, theory and practice, text and the body and aesthetics and the political substance. Their current interests are around value, conditions, sustainability, care and resistance. They are a member of Collective Creativity arts collective, A Peoples Art Collective and a creative educator with an interest in radical pedagogy.

Raju has a theirstory in activism, self and collective organised queer/transgender/ people of colour movements and creative projects in London and beyond from which their politics and works draw on and from.

Group Exhibitions:

Group exhibitions include: Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance, Act 3, Bristol, UK 2019; Transitional States, UK, Italy, Spain 2018; Title tbc, Holding Space, Showrooms 2018, Habits of Care / Take Care, Blackwood Gallery Toronto Sept 2017; Krisis – Something Human, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham Oct 2016, Let Them Eat Cake //// May One Without Hunger Lift The First Knife, Block Universe 30 May 2016; Ruptures – Between the City and The Art World, London Dec 12 2015, GFest Asian Futures: Menier Gallery November 2015; Contemporary Rites, Iniva, London, Nov 2014; What is Queer Today Is Not Queer Tomorrow’, nGbK, Berlin, Aug 2014

Entrance is free to UWE art students (on presentation of a valid ID card).