Corbin Shaw in Conversation with Musa Okwonga
This event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
Together the artist and the writer explore how dance and the dance floor have shaped Shaw’s work on national identity, collective experience and masculinity.
Based in Bethnal Green, Corbin Shaw is a Sheffield-born artist and Central Saint Martins graduate exploring themes of personal and national identity, modern day folklore and masculinity through his multimedia practice.
He presented his fifth solo show, Eurotrash, at Spazio Maiocchi, Milan as an examination of the nuanced identity of Britain in the wake of Brexit. His fourth London solo show, Little Dark Age at Incubator, Marylebone, explored modern day Britishness through ancient crafts, questioning the meaning of tradition and what it means to be English today.
Musa Okwonga is a writer, broadcaster, and the co-host of the Stadio football podcast. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of St. John’s College, University of Oxford, he has written seven books, the first of which, A Cultured Left Foot was nominated for the 2008 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.
His recent publications include: In The End, It Was All About Love (Rough Trade, 2021), a memoir set in Berlin; One of Them (Unbound, 2021), a memoir about his five years at Eton College; and Striking Out (Scholastic, 2021), a children’s novel written in collaboration with and based on the life of Ian Wright.
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Musa Okwonga
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