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EMPIRE LINES uncovers the unexpected, often two-way, flows of empires through art. Interdisciplinary thinkers use individual artworks as artefacts of imperial exchange, revealing the how and why of the monolith ‘empire’. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: instagram.com/empirelinespodcast Read articles, and join talks, tours, events, and exhibitions: jelsofron.com/empire-lines Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: patreon.com/empirelines TRANSCRIPTS: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-pwfn4U_P1o2oT2Zfb7CoCWadZ3-pO4C?usp=sharing MUSIC: Combinación // The Dubbstyle PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic

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July 30, 2026

ZED LOVE, Libita Sibungu (2026) (EMPIRE LINES Live at Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange)

<p><strong>In this special episode, contemporary artist Libita Sibungu joins EMPIRE LINES live, to explore the layers, energies, and geologies that connect people to place, and African diasporic, mixed and multi-racial, and working-class experiences in Cornwall, through their installation, ZED LOVE (2026).</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>This episode was recorded live as part of the public programme for </strong><a href="https://newlynartgallery.co.uk/activities/empire-lines-podcast-recording/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Libita Sibungu: ZED LOVE</a><strong> at Newlyn Art Gallery &amp; The Exchange in Penzance in July 2026. The exhibition continues until 31 October 2026:</strong> <a href="https://newlynartgallery.co.uk/activities/empire-lines-podcast-recording/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">newlynartgallery.co.uk/activities/empire-lines-podcast-recording/</a></p><p><strong>Find all the information in the first Instagam post: </strong><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DZqDXwfFT22/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">instagram.com/p/DZqDXwfFT22/?img_index=1</a></p><p><br></p><p>For more from <a href="https://pod.link/1533637675/episode/aa2803b68933ab974ca584cf6a18479c" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Barby Asante</a>, listen to the episode from her collective choral performance, Declaration of Independence (2023), at Stratford Station in London as part of Art on the Underground: <a href="https://pod.link/1533637675/episode/aa2803b68933ab974ca584cf6a18479c" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">pod.link/1533637675/episode/aa2803b68933ab974ca584cf6a18479c</a></p><p><br></p><p>For more with Angeline Morrison, listen to <a href="https://pod.link/1533637675/episode/90a9fc4efeef69e879b7b77e79659f3f" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Paul Gilroy</a> live in conversation with EMPIRE LINES at the Black Atlantic Symposium in Plymouth, marking the 30th anniversary of his formative text in 2023: <a href="https://pod.link/1533637675/episode/90a9fc4efeef69e879b7b77e79659f3f" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">pod.link/1533637675/episode/90a9fc4efeef69e879b7b77e79659f3f</a></p><p><br></p><p>And read into <a href="https://www.exeter.ac.uk/events/wellbeing/library_obscura__publication_launch.php" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Library Obscura</a> — a new publication from the AfroSea Collective (Libita Sibungu, Maria Christoforidou, Angeline Morrison, Caroline Deeds, and Catherine Lucktaylor)—supported by Exeter University and the Hypatia Trust in Penzance in April 2026.</p><p><br></p><p>For more about the Diaspora Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2017, listen to artist <a href="https://pod.link/1533637675/episode/01fffb739a1bd9f84f930ce41ee31676" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Yinka Shonibare</a>, in the episode on Decolonised Structures (Queen Victoria (2022-2023) at the Serpentine in London: <a href="https://pod.link/1533637675/episode/01fffb739a1bd9f84f930ce41ee31676" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">pod.link/1533637675/episode/01fffb739a1bd9f84f930ce41ee31676</a></p><p><br></p><p>And listen to curator Sabina Desir with Anita, Mark, and Julie—three children of Black (and Indigenous) American airmen stationed at RAF Manston in the 1950s— on <a href="https://pod.link/1533637675/episode/OTU0NmM1YzMtMTYwMi00NjdiLWI0ZDgtZWUzYmI5ODViOGY1" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Richard Birch’s Children of the Manston US Air Force Servicemen Print Series (2023)</a> at Turner Contemporary in Margate: <a href="https://pod.link/1533637675/episode/OTU0NmM1YzMtMTYwMi00NjdiLWI0ZDgtZWUzYmI5ODViOGY1" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">pod.link/1533637675/episode/OTU0NmM1YzMtMTYwMi00NjdiLWI0ZDgtZWUzYmI5ODViOGY1</a></p><p><br></p><p>PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: <a href="http://instagram.com/empirelinespodcast" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠instagram.com/empirelinespodcast⁠⁠</a></p><p>Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/empirelines" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠patreon.com/empirelines</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>EMPIRE LINES is a project within the ecosystem of </strong><a href="https://www.radicalecology.earth/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Radical Ecology</a><strong> (2025-2026).</strong></p>

Episode thumbnail for A Cutting: Songs of the Water, Kaajal Modi (2024) (EMPIRE LINES Live at If Trees Could Talk 2026, Eden Project)

July 16, 2026

A Cutting: Songs of the Water, Kaajal Modi (2024) (EMPIRE LINES Live at If Trees Could Talk 2026, Eden Project)

<p><strong>Find out more about Kaajal Modi’s collaborative work with audio, oral storytelling, and cultural preservation, through ⁠⁠Arts of Noticing⁠⁠, an independent symposium in Leeds, as part of </strong><a href="https://www.iftreescouldtalk.art/conversations/sijelo"><strong>If Trees Could Talk International Art Biennale 2026</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p><p>The event, including Bo Olawoye, Joanne Armitage, Kaajal Modi, Helen Thornham, Kim Chin, and Tasnim Siddiqa Amin, is supported by the Critical Digital Practice Lab (CDPL), based at the University of Leeds. It is co-organised by Sijelo, a UK-based art collective of women and non-binary people organising, producing, and making at the intersection of climate justice, land rights, migration, and displacement: <a href="https://www.iftreescouldtalk.art/conversations/sijelo">iftreescouldtalk.art/conversations/sijelo</a></p><p>For more information and to participate in the event on 23 July 2026, visit (Eventbrite online): <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sijelo-collective-in-leeds-arts-of-noticing-tickets-1993920698484">eventbrite.com/e/sijelo-collective-in-leeds-arts-of-noticing-tickets-1993920698484</a></p><p><br></p><p>🌳🌳🌳</p><p><br></p><p><strong>This cutting comes from the EMPIRE LINES episode, House of Weaving Songs, Dhaqan Collective (2024), recorded live as part of </strong><a href="https://www.edenproject.com/visit/whats-on/interweaving-threads-of-migration-and-climate-justice"><strong>Interweaving Threads of Migration and Climate Justice</strong></a><strong> at the Eden Project in Cornwall, supported by Counterpoints Arts and Art Reach, in September 2024.</strong></p><p><strong>Listen to the full episode, on the EMPIRE LINES podcast: </strong><a href="https://pod.link/1533637675/episode/MDhjZTY3MDQtNTkwYS00YTI0LWI1Y2YtZDdhODk1Y2QwZGZi"><strong>pod.link/1533637675/episode/MDhjZTY3MDQtNTkwYS00YTI0LWI1Y2YtZDdhODk1Y2QwZGZi</strong></a><strong></strong></p><p><strong>And find all the links in the first Instagram post: </strong><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DA8ZfEeI6VX/?hl=en&img_index=1"><strong>instagram.com/p/DA8ZfEeI6VX/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1</strong></a><strong></strong></p><p><br></p><p>PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: <a href="http://instagram.com/empirelinespodcast">⁠⁠instagram.com/empirelinespodcast⁠⁠</a></p><p>Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/empirelines">⁠⁠patreon.com/empirelines</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>EMPIRE LINES is a project within the ecosystem of </strong><a href="https://www.radicalecology.earth/">Radical Ecology</a><strong> (2025-2026).</strong></p>

Episode thumbnail for The Deployment of Art: The Imperial War Museum’s Artistic Records Committee, 1968-1982, Clare Carolin (2026) (EMPIRE LINES Live at King’s College London)

July 2, 2026

The Deployment of Art: The Imperial War Museum’s Artistic Records Committee, 1968-1982, Clare Carolin (2026) (EMPIRE LINES Live at King’s College London)

<p><strong>In this special episode, author and contemporary art historian Clare Carolin joins EMPIRE LINES live, to discuss the British government’s deployment of art as an instrument of war in the North of Ireland and the Falklands (Malvinas) in the 20th century, and their research in the archives and collections of the Imperial War Museum (IWM) in London.</strong></p><p><strong>This episode was recorded live as part of A Conversation about Art, Media, and the State, with Laleh Khalili, Munira Cheema, Asif Akhtar, and Jamie Hakim at </strong><a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/a-conversation-about-art-media-and-the-state" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Bush House, King’s College London</a><strong> in June 2026. Find all the information online: </strong><a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/a-conversation-about-art-media-and-the-state" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">kcl.ac.uk/events/a-conversation-about-art-media-and-the-state</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong></strong><a href="https://www.routledge.com/The-Deployment-of-Art-The-Imperial-War-Museums-Artistic-Records-Committee-1968-1982/Carolin/p/book/9781032209623" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>The Deployment of Art: The Imperial War Museum’s Artistic Records Committee, 1968–1982 (2025)</strong></a><strong> by Clare Carolin is published by Routledge.</strong></p><p><strong></strong><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-05522-4" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>Dissenting Counter-Publics in Pakistani Social Media and Cafe Culture (2025)</strong></a><strong> by Munira Cheema is published by Palgrave Macmillan.</strong></p><p><strong>Both are available in all good bookshops and online.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Read about Clare Carolin’s lecture-performance, How to Build a Decolonial Peace Museum (A Provocation in Three Parts), at <a href="https://contemporaryartsociety.org/sites/default/files/attachments/On%20Radicalism%20%281%20May%202025%29%2C%20report%20by%20Jelena%20Sofronijevic.pdf" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">On Radicalism</a>, the Contemporary Art Society (CAS) Annual Conference 2025 in London: <a href="https://contemporaryartsociety.org/sites/default/files/attachments/On%20Radicalism%20%281%20May%202025%29%2C%20report%20by%20Jelena%20Sofronijevic.pdf" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">contemporaryartsociety.org/sites/default/files/attachments/On Radicalism (1 May 2025)%2C report by Jelena Sofronijevic.pdf</a></p><p><br></p><p>For more about the Venice Biennale 2026, and EVA International in 2016, read this <a href="https://contemporaryartsociety.org/explore/resources/minor-keys-view-61st-venice-biennale" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">article</a> for the Contemporary Art Society: <a href="https://contemporaryartsociety.org/explore/resources/minor-keys-view-61st-venice-biennale" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">contemporaryartsociety.org/explore/resources/minor-keys-view-61st-venice-biennale</a></p><p><br></p><p>For more about the Kipling family and the National College of Arts (NCA Lahore), hear contemporary artist <a href="https://pod.link/1533637675/episode/YWYwMDNkMTgtNmJjOC00ZGZhLTlhYmItZWUzZjUyY2Y4ZjEy" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Suleman Aqeel Khilji</a> on the painting Elevation (Chiltan) (2025-2026), recorded at White Cube Paris: <a href="https://pod.link/1533637675/episode/YWYwMDNkMTgtNmJjOC00ZGZhLTlhYmItZWUzZjUyY2Y4ZjEy" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">pod.link/1533637675/episode/YWYwMDNkMTgtNmJjOC00ZGZhLTlhYmItZWUzZjUyY2Y4ZjEy</a></p><p><br></p><p>PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: <a href="http://instagram.com/empirelinespodcast" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠instagram.com/empirelinespodcast⁠⁠</a></p><p>Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/empirelines" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠patreon.com/empirelines</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>EMPIRE LINES is a project within the ecosystem of </strong><a href="https://www.radicalecology.earth/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Radical Ecology</a><strong> (2025-2026).</strong></p><p><br></p>

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What is EMPIRE LINES?

EMPIRE LINES uncovers the unexpected, often two-way, flows of empires through art.

Interdisciplinary thinkers use individual artworks as artefacts of imperial exchange, revealing the how and why of the monolith ‘empire’.

Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: instagram.com/empirelinespodcast

Read articles, and join talks, tours, events, and exhibitions: jelsofron.com/empire-lines

Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: patreon.com/empirelines

TRANSCRIPTS: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-pwfn4U_P1o2oT2Zfb7CoCWadZ3-pO4C?usp=sharing

MUSIC: Combinación // The Dubbstyle

PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic

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This podcast updates bi-weekly.

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