Stuart Hall (1932–2014) was one of the most prominent and influential scholars and public intellectuals of his generation. Hall taught at the University of Birmingham and the Open University, was the founding editor of
Reconstruction Work: Histories, Archives, and Diaspora
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Published:June 2024
Hall returns to the “creolising moment,” addressing the question of how his generation of West Indian migrants were captured through the prism of photography at the moment of their arrival in Britain.
Hall deconstructs, object by object, the iconography of the Caribbean front room, reassembled as an installation by Michael McMillan that Hall identifies as “a creative cultural act . . . of that doubly-inscribed, hybrid or creolised kind . . . a cumulative migrant space, the result of a movement between two places, two cultures.”
Hall shows how making artworks, creating new archives, curating exhibitions, writing new art histories, and reimagining the museum are all part of the “critical work” required to unsettle and disturb the grain of official culture and established museum historiography.
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