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Podcast: EMPIRE LINES
Episode: Declaration of Independence, Barby Asante (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Art on the Underground)
Description: Contemporary artist Barby Asante moves through the London Transport Museum to Stratford Station, coming together with Black women TfL staff to take public space in a collective choral performance, a Declaration of Independence (2023).
In 2023, Transport for London (TfL)’s Art on the Underground invited Barby Asante to present a new iteration of her Declaration of Independence, a participation-based work which draws on West African communing traditions. In collaboration with TfL employees, the ensemble vocalise the contemporary experiences of people of colour, and reactivate oft-static historical documents.
Barby talks about her time in the photography archives at...