Decolonizing Culture

How to handle ‘refugee heritage’ from an architectural perspective

From Raqs Media Collective to Kapwani Kiwanga, five respondents discuss the projects that have informed their thinking around decoloniality

How monolingualism is the carbon monoxide of culture

The radical filmmaker, teacher and writer talks essentialism in identity politics and why her films are neither documentary nor fiction

Many of the streaming giant's curated playlists complicate Western obsessions with ‘world’ and ‘exotic’ music

Naeem Mohaiemen on the ‘soft dominance’ that has made certain stories familiar and others strange

The power of visibility: on postcolonial seeing and being seen

How is contemporary Aboriginal art challenging an exclusive historical canon?

From Julieta González to Simon Njami, five artists, curators and writers discuss the projects that have informed their thinking around decolonizing culture

Q: What do you wish you knew? A: How to build a time machine

I cut my skin to liberate the splinter evokes the dissonance and precarity of post-apartheid South Africa

The spectral presence of prisoners in everyday commodities 

The travelling multimedia exhibition ‘ReSignifications’ represents and responds to the crisis of people on the move from Africa to Europe across the Mediterranean Sea

Artists, curators and writers discuss the projects that have informed their thinking around decolonizing culture

For more than 50 years, the artist has used conceptual art to examine the inherently political nature of information

Inaugurating the field of postcolonial studies, the Palestinian exile’s masterwork has been embraced and misread ever since

On sonic trajectories and resistance

Art and culture have a role in describing the unevenness of the world: where do we go from here?