THEVERYTHING Feature

The Past is Never Dead…

THEVERYTHING #3 has published a feature in it’s Art Cologne Special Edition, Gus Caseley-Hayford and Jonathan Watkins in conversation with Langlands & Bell about Britain and European nation’s involvement in the Atlantic slave trade over almost 4 centuries – how this history has been consistently concealed, ignored or over-written, and some of the ways it still impacts peoples lives today. Gus Caseley-Hayfor is the director of V&A East, London, UK and former Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC.; Jonathan Watkins is a UK based writer and curator and former Director of Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK.