Free. In English. No step free access.

British artist Harold Offeh is known for his innovative explorations of performance, identity, and cultural narratives. Offeh's work delves into the concept of performance, examining its actions, relationships, and audience engagement. 

In this talk, Offeh will discuss his research into notions of authenticity and self-representation including his projects "The Real Thing," and “Reading the Realness” through which he investigates narrative techniques in popular culture and the marketing of queer and black ‘authentic’ subjectivities.

The talk will be followed by Q&A with the audience.

Harold Offeh works in various media, including performance, video, photography, social arts practice and pedagogy. His work explores the concepts and questions that are raised by the inhabiting or embodying of histories. Humour plays an important role in his playful yet biting performative excavations of identity within historical and contemporary cultural tropes. He has exhibited widely at venues in the UK and internationally, including Tate Britain and Tate Modern, South London Gallery, Turf Projects, London, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Wysing Art Centre, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, MAC VAL, France, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark and Art Tower Mito, Japan.