2.30-4pm

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Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton Street London N1 6SH (map)

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Artist Tanoa Sasraku, and curator and organiser Eliel Jones, discuss Sasraku’s exhibition Liths at Peer, in relation to her wider practice.

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BIOGRAPHIES
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Eliel Jones is a curator, writer and organiser based in Brussels. He is currently Curator, Performance and Time-based Media at Kanal, Brussels. Jones’ research interests and methodologies stem from intersectional approaches to queer and feminist discourse and are guided by his involvement in direct community action and solidarity, such as through his organising work with Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants. Other curatorial projects include: Queer Correspondence, a worldwide mail-art initiative; Do You Host?, Ujazdowski Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland; Acts of Translation, Mohammed and Mahera Abu Ghazaleh Foundation, Amman, Jordan; and Experiments on Public Space, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA. He has previously held curatorial positions at organisations including Cell Project Space and Chisenhale Gallery (both in London). Jones regularly writes on contemporary art and performance for various international publications, and is a visiting lecturer in Fine Art and Curating courses in the UK.‍‍

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Tanoa Sasraku (b. 1995, Plymouth) lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions include Tanoa Sasraku, Vardaxoglou; Terratypes, Spike Island, Bristol; Radical Landscapes, Tate Liverpool; and Testament, Goldsmiths CCA, London (all 2022). A Tower to Say Goodbye, General Release, Chelsea Sorting Office (2021); Recession Grimace, Klosterruine, Berlin, (2020); Tanoa Sasraku: O’Pierrot, LUX Moving Image, London (2020); Resist: be modern (again), John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK; Nashashibi/Skaer – Thinking through other artists, Tate St Ives, UK (both 2019). In 2021, Sasraku was awarded the Arts Foundation Futures Award for Visual Arts and is currently enrolled at the Royal Academy Schools.


With thanks to Hoxton Hall.