For us, to share explored ideas of home via food, spice, and the in-between space of translation with students from the Bosco Centre in Rotherhithe. The group, all of whom currently call Southwark home, included refugees, migrants, asylum seekers and other local residents, who came together to share stories, recipes and food. Over four workshops with artist Saima Rasheed and mother tongues, a local and global multidisciplinary collective, the young people explored local history archives, painted with herbs and spices, and translated their own recipes of home through multiple forms of media to create a visual recipe book that brings different cultures into one place.
Amani Hannah Mitha
Amani Mitha is an independent curator, writer, and speaker having worked on several UK-based and international projects. Her current research addresses contemporary social issues of our time around diaspora, identity, culture, and politics. Her work is framed by post-colonial discourse, specifically relating to site-specific commissions. In her graduate dissertation, she investigated cultural policy enacted during New Labour and the seminal exhibitions that occurred during this time. The research focused on art as a form of activism and how specific institutions have the capability to levy cultural policy.
For her graduate project, in conjunction with Southwark Park Galleries, Amani co-curated For Us to Share, a community-based project that explored ideas of home via food, spice, and the in-between space of translation with students from the Bosco Centre in Rotherhithe.
Amani has newly been appointed as Assistant Curator at Liverpool Biennial and worked on the most recent Manchester International Festival in 2021 with Rashid Rana. In 2018, she curated a video and film installation as part of the Asia Triennial Manchester that later toured Berlin. Prior to her time at the RCA, she worked as a Studio Coordinator at Anish Kapoor’s Studio.