Key facts
Single-screen video work, photographic portfolio and book chapter
1 Main output: Face Up (2015), a single-screen video work, comprising six, silent fictional scenes using stop-animation
2 Photographic portfolio: Face Up: Life and Transgressive Acts on Screen, in ‘After Indenture: Three Photo Stories’ published in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, Vol 21, No 2, July 2017
3 Book chapter: ‘Urban Candy: Screens, Selfies and Imaginings’, pp301–322 in Willis, D, Toscano, E, and Brooks Nelson K, (eds), Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History (OpenBook, 2019, Cambridge, UK)
ROLES
Creative director, researcher, artist, scholar
COLLABORATION
Adam Hoyle, software programmer/designer, was commissioned to produce screen-based artwork and Erica Masserano to write fictional text for screen-based animation
VENUES
In Ghosts: Keith Piper/Roshini Kempadoo, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London N1, UK, November 27–December 11, 2015
In Black Portraiture(s) II: Imaging the Black Body and Restaging Histories, Villa La Pietra, NYU Florence, Italy, May 28 – August 15, 2015 In Un|Fixed Homeland, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey, USA, July 17– September 23, 2016
In Visual Arts After Indenture, York University, Toronto, Canada, March 19, 2016
COMMISSIONED BY
Paul Goodwin, guest curator for Lethaby Gallery
Grace Ali, guest curator for Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey, USA
Andil Gosine, director of Visual Arts After Indenture project, Toronto, Canada
Deborah Willis, Ellyn Toscano and Kalia Brooks Nelson, editors of Women and Migration project, New York/Florence
FUNDING
Lethaby Gallery, London (installation, publicity) – £500
York University, Canada/Small Axe projects (flight/accommodation, stipend and reproduction fee for portfolio) – £1,600
NYU (flight, accommodation, stipend) – £1,000
| Creators | Kempadoo, R. |
|---|---|
| Description | Kempadoo’s research focused on smartphone imagery in order to reflect multicultural urban life and the experiences of the diasporised self, addressing imagery deploying smartphone aesthetics in artistic production. Overheard dialogue on |
| Portfolio items | Ghosts: Keith Piper/Roshini Kempadoo |
| Urban Candy: Screens, Selfies and Imaginings | |
| After Indenture: Three Photo Stories Roshini Kempadoo; Sharlene Khan; Wendy Nanan | |
| Year | 2015 |
| Publisher | University of Westminster |
| Web address (URL) | https://vimeo.com/376952122 |
| Keywords | CREAM Portfolio |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.34737/qq895 |
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