Research Network: Ghost Empire 

Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) is a leading UK contemporary visual arts organisation which creates exhibitions, publications, digital initiatives, education and research projects. Iniva explores the politics of race and global identities through the visual arts to challenge the status quo. Iniva was established in 1994 to address an imbalance in the representation of culturally diverse artists, curators and writers.Iniva also runs the Stuart Hall Library, which was renamed in 2007 in honour of the renowned cultural theorist and inaugural chair of our board. The development of the collection takes Hall’s work as a guiding principle, and in keeping with this, the library collects around art which takes issues such as cultural identity as its theme. The book collection includes over 10,000 volumes. The library holds over 4,000 group exhibition catalogues, 3,500 works on individual artists, and 2,500 contextual, historical or theoretical works as well as over 200 periodical titles and over 200 zines.Iniva is a registered charity and an Arts Council England National Portfolio organisation.

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Join us for an evening with filmmaker Susan Thomson and respondent, artist and curator Sunil Gupta, pioneering documenter of LGTBQ stories and relationships.
Currently half of the countries which criminalize homosexuality use British colonial laws from the 19th and early 20th century. The films explore the lingering of a ghost empire, which continues its rule across several nations. While the films deal with various colonial legacies, they also reflect on a wider question of time and the unusual time zones created by the existence of old laws within a contemporary setting.
The trilogy of films follows the legal challenges to these laws happening in three different continents, focusing on Northern Cyprus, Singapore and Belize. Susan Thomson will introduce the trilogy and then screen Ghost Empire § Cyprus in its entirety, followed by Q&A with Sunil Gupta.
Susan Thomson is a writer and filmmaker based in Dublin. Her artist book The Swimming Diaries is available from Artbook @ MoMA PS1, New York, the ibookstore and is held in the collection of the Live Art Development Agency, and she has written for many publications including Circa, the Times, Women’s News, GCN and JSTOR.  She is currently directing a trilogy of documentary films on British postcolonial LGBT issues, Ghost Empire, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. 
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Sunil Gupta is a photographer, artist, educator and curator currently enrolled in a doctoral programme at the University of Westminster. Educated at the Royal College of Art he has been involved with independent photography as a critical practice for many years focusing on race, migration and queer issues. His latest book, “Delhi: Communities of Belonging" was published by The New Press, New York 2016. His latest show, “Sunil Gupta: In Pursuit of Love” is at Peltz, Birkbeck, University of London Sep-Oct 2017. 
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