For the opening weekend of Liverpool Biennial 2023, join us for an exclusive in-conversation event, followed by light refreshments, with author Christina Sharpe, artist Torkwase Dyson & Liverpool Biennial 2023 Curator Khanyisile Mbongwa to discuss and unpack themes from Liverpool Biennial’s 12th edition- ‘uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things’.

Christina Sharpe is a writer, Professor, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University in Toronto. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class (RGC), at the University of Johannesburg. Sharpe is the author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects and In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Her third book Ordinary Notes was published in April 2023.

Torkwase Dyson describes herself as a painter working across multiple mediums to explore the continuity between ecology, infrastructure, and architecture. Examining environmental racism as well as the history and future of black spatial liberation strategies, Dyson’s abstract works grapple with the ways in which space is perceived and negotiated, particularly by black and brown bodies.

Khanyisile Mbongwa is a Cape Town-based independent curator, award-winning artist and sociologist who engages with her curatorial practice as Curing & Care, using the creative to instigate spaces for emancipatory practices, joy and play.

Access provision at this event:

This event will include closed captioning, visual minutes and will be live streamed for those who are unable to attend in person.

If you require any of the above access provisions, please inform Liverpool Biennial prior to the event by emailing access@biennial.com.