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20/08/2026

Final events for Nomenclature for the Time Being
Closing Sunday 6 September

Join us for three very special events during the final week of the exhibition spanning jazz, improvisation and audiovisual performance, with Jamika Ajalon, Taylor Le Melle, Fumi Okiji, Imani Mason Jordan, Angel Bat Dawid and Naima Nefertari.

Find out more about all three events and book free places via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/raven-row-6515915347?aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Wednesday 2 September, 7pm
Jamika Ajalon

Friday 4 September, 7pm
Fumi Okiji, Taylor Le Melle and Imani Mason Jordan

Sunday 6 September, 6.30pm
Angel Bat Dawid and Naima Nefertari

Raven Row is open Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 6pm.

Please note that the lower-ground floor galleries will be closed from 1pm before each event. The rest of the gallery will remain open.

Image:

A House Being Built / Long Time Comin’
performance space designed by repertoire

Installation view, Nomenclature for the Time Being, Raven Row, 2026
Photograph by Anne Tetzlaff

31/07/2026

There are limited tickets remaining for next week’s event with senakirfa A. and Dark Reading Group, Friday 7 August.

senakirfa A. will give a sonic performance and reading, followed by Dark Reading Group who will deliver a reading in total darkness.

Final spaces and more information available via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/senakirfa-a-and-dark-reading-group-tickets-1994692467867?aff=fb

senakirfa A. is an interdisciplinary artist & poet(ic learner), from and based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. A.’s work across installation, sculpture, writing, sound, and zine-making, is an extension of A.’s poetry practice, through which she centres what she terms poetic in(ter)ventions: an amalgam signifying what African-Diasporic worldmaking ushers in.

Dark Reading Group is, at times, David Burrows, Bhanu Kapil, Christine Kirubi, Emma McNally and Katrina Palmer and is, at times, others. It was initially convened by Katrina Palmer in the context of her artist residency at the National Gallery in 2024.

Images:

1.
senakirfa A., still from video by Ayoub Ferseouen

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Dark Reading Group

29/07/2026

British Sign Language Exhibition Tour with Martin Glover
Tuesday 18 August, 7pm

Join Martin Glover for a British Sign Language tour of the exhibition Nomenclature for the Time Being.

Find out more and book via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nomenclature-for-the-time-being-bsl-tour-tickets-1993909596277?aff=fb

Image:

Maren Hassinger
LOVE, 2008 / 2026
Courtesy the artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, New York

Installation view, Nomenclature for the Time Being, Raven Row, 2026
Photograph by Marcus J Leith

24/07/2026

senakirfa A. and Dark Reading Group
Friday 7 August, 7pm

Join senakirfa A. and Dark Reading Group for a double bill of reading and performance based on text and poetry.

Places are free but limited. Please sign up via Eventbrite by clicking here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/senakirfa-a-and-dark-reading-group-tickets-1994692467867?aff=fb

Dark Reading Group is David Burrows, Bhanu Kapil, Christine Kirubi, Emma McNally and Katrina Palmer.

senakirfa A. is an interdisciplinary artist and poet(ic learner), from and based in Amsterdam. A.’s work across installation, sculpture, writing, sound and zine-making is an extension of her poetry practice, through which she centres what she terms poetic in(ter)ventions: an amalgam signifying what African-Diasporic world-making ushers in.

Image:

Christine Kirubi
After why some people be mad at me sometimes (The Recording), 2026
Courtesy the artist

Installation view, Nomenclature for the Time Being, Raven Row, 2026
Photograph by Marcus J Leith

22/07/2026

Ain Bailey, Elaine Mitchener and Imani Mason Jordan
Wednesday 5 August, 7pm

Join Ain Bailey and Elaine Mitchener alongside Imani Mason Jordan, curator of Nomenclature for the Time Being, for a sonic exploration and free improvisation in response to the exhibition.

Places are free but limited. Sign up via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ain-bailey-elaine-mitchener-and-imani-mason-jordan-tickets-1990397507525?aff=fb

Ain Bailey is a composer, artist and DJ. She also facilitates workshops considering the role of sound in the formation of identity, and the exploration of memory and sound.

Elaine Mitchener is a veteran of vocal expression in the global Black avant-garde, traversing free improvisation, cross-disciplinary music theatre and contemporary composition with clarity and joy.

Image:

Installation view, Nomenclature for the Time Being, Raven Row, 2026
Photograph by Marcus J Leith

26/06/2026

Study day with Nikita Sena Quarshie and Makella Ama Ketedzi
Sunday 12 July, 11am–4pm

This study day is a gathering that builds on and extends the dialogue that Nomenclature for the Time Being begins.

The gathering proposes ‘study’ as a way of learning to listen together, being and reflecting with one another in order to collectively ‘undo the times we live in’, as Dionne Brand proposes.

Through guided discussions, improvisation and movement, participants will engage critically with the works in the exhibition and the poem that is its namesake. Along with other texts, films and sounds that form the field of Black Studies, the sessions will explore themes of (in)visibility, evasion and illegibility, withholding, and what it means to build with and for others towards a liberatory present and future.

The study day will be led by Nikita Sena Quarshie and Makella Ama Ketedzi.

Spaces are free but limited. Please register your interest by emailing [email protected].

Image:
Long Time Comin’ (still)
Dir. Dionne Brand, 1993

24/06/2026

Moor Mother, Alpha Maid, Jay Bernard, Remi Graves and Imani Mason Jordan
Wednesday 8 July, 7pm

Imani Mason Jordan will convene with fellow poets and musicians Moor Mother, Alpha Maid, Jay Bernard and Remi Graves for a live and improvisational group reading and collective sounding-out of the poem ‘Nomenclature for the Time Being’ by Dionne Brand.

Tickets are free but limited. Book via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moor-mother-alpha-maid-jay-bernard-remi-graves-and-imani-mason-jordan-tickets-1990396724182?aff=fb

Moor Mother is the poet, musician and Afrofuturist thinker Camae Ayewa, whose work moves across noise, free jazz, spoken word and Black quantum futurism.

Alpha Maid is a musician whose practice is anchored in guitar and voice, spanning noise, post-punk and improvised song.

Jay Bernard is a poet, writer and filmmaker whose practice moves between lyric, q***r history and the archive.

Remi Graves is a poet and drummer based in London, interested in the interrelation of sound and text.

Image:

Deborah-Joyce Holman
Thicc and Slippery, 2020
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zürich / Milan

Installation view, Nomenclature for the Time Being, 2026, Raven Row
Photograph by Marcus J Leith

03/06/2026

Nomenclature for the Time Being
June events

Anisa Jackson, Imani Mason Jordan and Nikita Sena Quarshie in conversation
Wednesday 10 June, 7pm

Join Imani Mason Jordan, curator of Nomenclature for the Time Being, Nikita Sena Quarshie, who undertook additional research for the exhibition, and artist, writer, DJ and curator Anisa Jackson for a conversation event.

Nomenclature for the Time Being Curator's tour
Thursday 11 June, 7pm

Imani Mason Jordan will lead a tour of the exhibition.

Find out more and book via our website: https://ravenrow.org/exhibitions/nomenclature-for-the-time-being

Image:

Atiéna R. Kilfa
Espresso Adagio No.2, 2025
Collection Patrick Collins

07/05/2026

Nomenclature for the Time Being
21 May to 6 September 2026

Opening Wednesday 20 May, 6.30–8.30pm

This exhibition gathers the work of Rebecca Bellantoni, Hannah Black, Maren Hassinger, Deborah-Joyce Holman, Marla-Sunshine Kellard-Jones, Atiéna R. Kilfa, Christine Kirubi, Kumbirai Makumbe, Zanele Muholi, Sandra Mujinga, Shenece Oretha, Ingrid Pollard and Ebun Sodipo – artists whose practices span sculpture, performance, writing, photography and video. Most of all, this is a sculpture show, with artists deploying rope, steel wire, leather, plastic, velvet, wood, concrete, petroleum, wax, glass, thread – always with an awareness of the body.

Curated by Imani Mason Jordan, Nomenclature for the Time Being borrows its title from the 2022 book-length poem by Dionne Brand. It proposes that shared sociopolitical realities or structural conditions might also generate certain shared material sensibilities. What emerges could be considered a kind of Black feminist materiality, one that understands objects as social and political actors. These are practices that do not try to represent the world, but actively reconfigure it.

One gallery in the exhibition has been designed by the artist duo repertoire to host a series of performances and other activations that will unfold over its duration. Additional research for Nomenclature for the Time Being has been provided by Nikita Sena Quarshie.

05/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to visit Conceptual Art and Christine Kozlov at Raven Row, curated by Rhea Anastas, in collaboration with the Christine Kozlov Estate and Alex Sainsbury.

Installation photographs by Marcus J Leith are now available to view on our website, alongside the texts from the publication accompanying the show: https://ravenrow.org/exhibitions/conceptual-art-and-christine-kozlov

Images:

All images installation views, Conceptual Art and Christine Kozlov, Raven Row, 2026
Photographs by Marcus J Leith

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Sound Structure No. 2 Page 2, Sound Structure No. 2 Page 1, 1965

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Installation view, Conceptual Art and Christine Kozlov

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Foreground:

Paper, newspaper, photocopies and three drawings (charcoal on paper and ink and pencil on tracing paper), c. 1991

Background:

This Is Not Art, 1969

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