WHEN: Wednesday 26 October, 6–7.30 PM
WHERE: Møllendal paviljong, at Møllendal Allmenning located between the KMD building in Møllendalsveien and Puddefjorden.

Drawing on her own writing practice, resulting in books such as ‘Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power’ (Pluto Press, 2020) and ‘Experiments in Imagining Otherwise’ (Hajar Press, 2021), she will hold a lecture followed by a Q&A on Wednesday 26 October in the intimate space of Møllendal paviljong.

Using an experimental mode, this public lecture will explore ongoing research related to the utility, location and efficacy of the imagination in black cultural production in the UK, with a specific focus on the relationship between imagining, political organising and temporality. Infusing academic and creative forms of writing, it will use the archive as basis for an argument against chronology in order to illustrate the affective possibilities inherent in temporal chaos, fragmentation and an iterative orientation to the past/present/future.

Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and Stuart Hall foundation researcher from London based in the Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media at the University of Westminster. Her work focuses on the uses of the feminist imagination and its relationship to cultural production, political demands and futurity. She is author of Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power (Pluto Press, 2020), Experiments in Imagining Otherwise (Hajar Press, 2021) and a member of 'bare minimum', an interdisciplinary anti-work arts collective.

Further online references: https://lolaolufemi.co.uk/

This lecture is part of the workshop “The Community of Writers”, organised by Curatorial Practice at The Art Academy – Department of Contemporary Art, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen. “The Community of Writers”  is part of the research project Interweaving Structures: Fabric as Material, Method, and Message, a collaboration between the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, The Faculty of Fine Arts, Music and Design at the University in Bergen and the PhD School at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow.