Trading Faces: Recollecting Slavery
The project Trading Faces: Recollecting Slavery is being managed by a consortium including the Talawa Theatre Company
, Future Historiesand the Victoria and Albert Museum's Theatre Collections. The project seeks to explore how the slave trade impacted on London's wealth and cultural life, and in particular on the history and practice of performance, and what that reveals about the histories of London's diverse population. The project will preserve, encode and enable public access to the Talawa archive and to commemorate the bicentenary of the parliamentary abolition of the Slave Trade the project is developing an online exhibition and a TIE production. The online exhibition, led by Future Histories, will make use of documents, video and audio material from the Talawa, Future Histories and Victoria and Albert Theatre Museums archives to explore the legacy of the slave trade through the aesthetics, politics and narratives of performance.
For more information about this project please email: Alda Terracciano
.
