What happens between theory and practice? A creative practitioner picks up a book at their favourite library and reads it at home. In another time and space, the creative practitioners work in their studio to make peices about our political realities.

This conversation will be dedicated to detailing the inner workings and goings-on behind what the critical creative practitioner does. It is both a message about aligning what we do in practice and what we value in theory, and a message about prioritizing embodied, felt knowledge; that the racialized practitioner carries while the theorist, curator, critic, and historian are traditionally sought out for sense-making and producing knowledge.

The event will include an open discussion with the audience and will open and close with a reading from the book.

This event is part of an international tour of Diatta's forthcoming book, 'Doing Creative Work From Your Political Body: A Guide and Process for Practice-led Research'.