Race Cards
Race Cards is a constantly growing installation and archive, a room containing 1000 questions about race. The questions were written by Birmingham-based artist and performer, Selina Thompson in three sittings across 24 hours – one weekend in Edinburgh. You’re invited to read them all at BCA: on the condition that you answer one of them.
*Updates every 9 months, the work has toured across the world since 2015.
65. Are you Black, or are you ‘new Black’?
170. What is the long-term psychological impact of white supremacy on people of colour?
220. My mum does not talk about race anymore. It makes her uncomfortable, tired. Will this happen to me?
307. Why do people assume that racism will just passively die out if we wait long enough?
440. Are you angry?
541. Whatever happened to Kony 2012?
720. When does it all end?
Race Cards has toured Canada, Ireland, Germany, the USA, and across the UK.
Commissioned by Camden People’s Theatre and Leeds Library through Room 700.
With support from Buzzcut, Forest Fringe, and Fierce FWD
FREE ADMISSION
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Visit the exhibition: Black Cultural Archives, 1 Windrush Square, Brixton SW2 1EF
Dates: 18 November 2021 – 18 December 2021
Join the conversation: #RaceCards