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Maud Sulter Live Programme: Call and Response

'Call and Response' was directly inspired by Maud Sulter's groundbreaking 1988 essay of the same name. The event will brought together artists, writers, performers and scholars to contribute reflections on Maud's work and legacy through presentations relating to both their own and Maud's practice, including Marlene Smith, Sabrina Henry, Sekai Machache, Susannah Thompson, Adebusola Ramsay.

In Sulter's essay, the artist writes 'Who makes Black women's work visible if not other Black women?,' later declaring: 'No longer being afraid of our erotic, and the source of our creativity: we can go forward to a passionate future. As Blackwomen, as friends.'. This event echoed Sulter's sentiment of re-centring practices of black, female and queer practitioners, whilst reflecting on personal and shared dialogues between the artists and their work.

Presentations were followed by an in-conversation moderated by curator, researcher and writer, and co-founder of the independent curatorial project Mother Tongue, Tiffany Boyle.