Join artist Sophie Mak-Schram and collaborators on Friday 12 September to celebrate Chapter’s opening of To Shift a Stone, a two-part exhibition across Amgueddfa Genedlaethol - Museum Wales and Chapter.
The exhibitions share outcomes from an ongoing process of negotiating power in relation to cultural institutions and cultural representation.
6–9pm: Chapter
You’ll be greeted by Sophie’s billboard across the facade of the building. Inside, Sophie and collaborators have wrapped, hung and tweaked Chapter's foyer, café and bar area to imagine how assembling across differences can happen here.
7pm: Performance with George H. Wale and Faye Tan
8pm: Music by Emma Daman Thomas
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About the artist
Sophie Mak-Schram engages others in place-specific work around power, collectivity, knowledges and futures. Working with others both as method and as form, this work draws on experiential, artistic, decolonial and collective practices to convene, co-learn, re-imagine and invent. Sophie draws on personal and shared experiences of cultural difference, coloniality, race and gender.
Often using the metaphor of the ‘tool’ - as a poetic and practical object - they address how we know, who we consider ourselves in relation to, structures of power and ideas of belonging(s). Sophie convenes, facilitates, writes, reads, and makes objects to learn with or listen to.
About Perspective(s)
Perspective(s) is a collaboration between the Arts Council of Wales and Amgueddfa Cymru, which seeks to bring about a step change in how the visual arts and heritage sector reflects the cultural and ethnic diversity of our society. The project is supported by the Welsh Government as part of a collective effort to meet the culture and heritage goals of the Anti-racist Wales Action Plan.