{"title": "Queer, Decolonial and Indigenising Curatorial Frameworks: Renegotiating Institutional Authority in the Museum", "start": "2026-11-18T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-18T19:30:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/curation"], "description": "A talk at Birkbeck College about how museums are rethinking the authority behind their exhibitions. Dr Lilian Cameron of the University of Sydney examines wall texts from four recent exhibitions in Australian and UK museums, including Queer British Art at Tate Britain and Unsettled at the Australian Museum. She looks at queer, decolonial and indigenising curatorial approaches that use subjectivity, plurality and transparency to invite contention with institutional authority rather than simply reproduce it. The talk ends by tracing these ideas into permanent collection displays, where object selection and placement stage multivalent encounters with contested histories.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/queer-decolonial-and-indigenising-curatorial-frameworks-rene-80559/", "official_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/66553/queer-decolonial-and-indigenising-curatorial-frameworks-renegotiating-institutional-authority-in-the-museum", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-18T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-18T19:30:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Voices for Dissent, Voices for Desire: Creative Writing Workshop", "start": "2026-11-14T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Autograph, London", "address": "", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "literature/creative-writing", "society/queer"], "description": "A creative writing workshop exploring the relationship between language, desire and representation. It is led by the Tamil London-based writer and poet Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, a recipient of the Poetry Archive Prize and the Disabled Poets Prize. Participants respond with guided prompts and reflective exercises to Autograph's exhibition Charan Singh: Your Tongue in My Mouth, which examines how South Asian queer narratives have been obscured and reshaped by colonial legacies. The ticket includes materials, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/voices-for-dissent-voices-for-desire-creative-writing-worksh-34790/", "official_url": "https://autograph.org.uk/events/voices-for-dissent-voices-for-desire-creative-writing-workshop", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d4fd07a9d3d358afe7cbdd14b9d5eed226cc8d0871b43f19fb5e05efd1819aa9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Tim Walker's Fairyland: Love and Legends", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "National Portrait Gallery", "address": "WC2H 0HE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery exploring queer identity, community, and love through the lens of one of Britain's foremost photographers. It presents new portraits by Tim Walker, who spent five years photographing dozens of activists, performers, artists, and writers in his whimsical, fairytale-inspired style. Curated by Susanna Brown, the show combines exuberant portraits and fantastical landscapes in a celebration where everyone has the freedom to be themselves, accompanied by a new book with contributions by Travis Alabanza, Russell T Davies, Shon Faye, Lisa Power and Joelle Taylor.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tim-walkers-fairyland-love-and-legends-78924/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Transnational Resistances", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Tate Modern", "address": "Bankside, SE1 9TG London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/activism"], "description": "Transnational Resistances is a two-day symposium at Tate Modern rooted in artistic practices of transnational resistance and solidarity. It is organised by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in partnership with Hyundai Motor, in collaboration with IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, and supported by the Irish and UK Governments. Artists and academics explore support networks, feminist methodologies, memory work, counter-archiving and embodied knowledge across communities resisting erasure. The Friday programme includes workshops, talks, a communal meal, an audiovisual intervention and a keynote in Starr Cinema and Clore Foyer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/transnational-resistances-87905/", "official_url": "https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/transnational-resistances", "image": "https://noky.io/images/95b14b0c428d32be58e657aa555606139f1b05612c7b1a26c2f664211fdb1632-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Uncovering the Queer Roots of British Arts and Crafts", "start": "2026-11-12T18:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "William Morris Gallery", "address": "Forest Road, E17 4PP London", "price": "Pay what you can by donation (suggested £10)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history"], "description": "An 'In Conversation' talk at the William Morris Gallery, part of the Earthly Paradise programme of talks. Neal Shasore, an architectural historian and founder of the School of Building, joins Michael Hall, author of A Queer Inheritance: Alternative Histories in the The National Trust. They explore the importance of queer community in history and how homes served as a private haven against public norms, discussing how mainstream culture has co-opted these expressions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/uncovering-the-queer-roots-of-british-arts-and-crafts-40319/", "official_url": "https://www.wmgallery.org.uk/event/uncovering-the-queer-roots-of-british-arts-and-crafts/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/68d1bbda69f063beaa1dd67e1210f4a1f5b10ef0fcf0d8515f640958b06fbb1c-2000.webp"}]}