Join us for a conversation about the politics of archiving and how this touches on care, ethics, community and access.
For the conversation, we welcome artist and Cinenova Working Group member Moira Salt and Sheffield-based artist duo Ella Barrett and Jashan Walton of White Teeth.
This event is part of Rhea Storr’s exhibition, Subjects of State, Labours of Love, which explores the shared joys, celebrations, struggles, oppressions and complexities experienced by Caribbean heritage communities.
Access Information
This event will take place on the ground floor of our building and is wheelchair accessible. There are accessible toilets on the same floor. If you have any questions or if there is anything we can do to improve your visit please email rosie.thompson@sitegallery.org.
Image: Martin Williams Print (Alicia Barrett).
Artists
Moira Salt
Moira Salt is a multimedia artist, using film and sound, performance, found objects, printmaking, and installations. Moira’s practice looks at B/black diasporas, particularly women, and their connection to memory, myth, and land. She has been commissioned by Sustran’s, 2021, was the 2023 recipient of the David Dale studio residency, and is currently a participant of Syllabus VII 24/25. She has been a member of the Cinenova Working Group since 2021, and is currently a Trustee.
Cinenova
Cinenova is a volunteer-run organisation preserving and distributing the work of feminist film and video makers. Cinenova was founded in 1991 following the merger of two feminist film and video distributors, Circles and Cinema of Women, each formed in 1979. Cinenova currently distributes over 300 titles that include artists’ moving image, experimental film, narrative feature films, documentary and educational videos made from the 1910’s to the early 2000’s. The thematics in these titles include oppositional histories, post and de-colonial struggles, representation of gender, race, sexuality, and other questions of difference and importantly the relations and alliances between these different struggles.
The Cinenova Working Group, founded in 2010, oversees the ongoing work of preservation and distribution, as well as special projects that seek to question the conditions of the organisation.
White Teeth
White Teeth 98 are an audio-visual art practice formed by archivist & curator Ella Barrett and filmmaker & photographer Jashan Walton. Grounded in visual documentation, oral histories and community centred practices, they seek to uncover untold stories of the global majority. Experimenting with mediums of archive, their installation work conveys time textually, approaching history as physical and present, linking to ideas of ‘a living archive’.
Their work has respectively been shown by Worldwide F.M (2024), DocFest (2024), Dig Where You Stand (2024) No Bounds (2024), SADACCA (2023).