{"id":31200,"date":"2021-09-10T00:02:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T23:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/?p=31200"},"modified":"2024-03-18T09:58:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T09:58:37","slug":"review-war-inna-babylon-at-the-ica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/culture-media\/art-and-museums\/review-war-inna-babylon-at-the-ica\/","title":{"rendered":"War Inna Babylon \u2013\u00a0review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group wp-container-content-9cfa9a5a is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-115e78f4 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-width:2px;border-radius:0px;margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<p><strong>Exhibition:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ica.art\/exhibitions\/war-inna-babylon\"><em>War Inna Babylon: The Community&#8217;s Struggle for Truth and Rights<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Curator:<\/strong> Tottenham Rights, Kamara Scott and Rianna Jade Parker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 7 July \u2013 26 September 2021<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Moments make history \u2013 a split second captured and contained within the frame of context \u2013 and all it takes is a moment for history to be made. One moment, two shots: all it took for an afternoon in August 2011 to turn and for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.4frontproject.org\/mark-duggan\">Mark Duggan<\/a> to have his life taken by the bullet of an armed officer. A local community, the picture of grief and disbelief, led a peaceful demonstration to Tottenham Police Station in search of answers. Later, a separate contingent \u2013 from near and from afar \u2013 let their pain and disaffection play out in the streets with momentous, deleterious force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/01\/17\/picturing-mark-duggan\/\">close crop<\/a> in the mainstream showed these mostly Black, working-class bodies assuming insurgent postures \u2013 much of their humanity denied, mile-long threads of history conveniently dismissed. Now a decade floods the aperture between the inciting act, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/tottenham-this-is-what-you-get-fire\/\">the subsequent outcry<\/a>&nbsp;and riotous unrest, and the present moment. And with there being no better time than the present to reappraise the past, there is no more timely exhibition than <i>War Inna Babylon: The Community\u2019s Struggle for Truth and Rights \u2013 <\/i>as curated by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tottenhamrights\">Tottenham Rights<\/a>, Kamara Scott and Rianna Jade Parker \u2013 currently showing at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ica.art\/exhibitions\/war-inna-babylon\">ICA until 26 September<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/staffordscott\">Stafford Scott<\/a> \u2013 father of Kamara and leading figure within community interest group Tottenham Rights \u2013 who received a call heralding Duggan\u2019s shooting before Duggan\u2019s own parents or partner were made aware. In fact, both the Metropolitan Police opted not to contact Duggan\u2019s kin at all. It would be through evening news reports, partial and patchy, that vital information would filter down to those who deserved to know first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the absence of the frame of historical context, a number dismissed the Met\u2019s lack of direct communication as a casual oversight. In the absence of conclusive footage capturing the scene of the shooting \u2013 but in spite of contradictory officer testimonies, concerns about \u2018procedural failings\u2019 and accusations of institutional collusion \u2013 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2014\/jan\/08\/mark-duggan-lawfully-killed-inquest\">2014 inquest<\/a> found Duggan\u2019s death to be a \u2018lawful killing\u2019. And it is in the absence of justice, a term pointedly redacted from the exhibition\u2019s subtitle, that <i>War Inna Babylon <\/i>derives its form and trains its focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Assemblages of history<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition is split over two floors, including interstices and spatial voids such as the stairway between the Lower and Upper Gallery (where you find Garnet Dore\u2019s <i>Broken Lives<\/i>, a stirring assemblage of paintings in fractured frames) and the lightwell that emerges overhead after half a flight (where you find Remee Bailey\u2019s <i>Message Pending<\/i>, a canopy of forthright protest banners). Taken together, a social history of a place, of a people and of a struggle is illuminated, enriched and, finally, legitimised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In excising the pursuit of justice from the formal agenda, <i>War Inna Babylon <\/i>appeals instead to the exercise of \u2018witness work\u2019 \u2013 which, to lean on the scholarly insight of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ladijones.com\">Ladi\u2019Sasha Jones<\/a>, is best conceived as the Black feminist \u2018engineer[ing] [of] poetic tools of resistance and provocative encounters\u2019. And found within this exhibition\u2019s toolkit is a mixture of archival footage, documentary photography, filmic compositions, 3D technology and ephemera \u2013 with artwork by Dore and Kimathi Donkor rounding out the pack with considered flair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group rp-full-width has-pale-1-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignfull has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-image-fill\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 66%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Remee Bailey\u2019s \u2018Message Pending\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CREDIT: TIM P. WHITBY\/GETTY IMAGES FOR ICA<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/War-Inna-Babylon-II.jpeg);background-position:64% 35%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/War-Inna-Babylon-II.jpeg\" alt=\"Banners draped across the exhibition ceiling read messages of equality and justice\" class=\"wp-image-42785 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/War-Inna-Babylon-II.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/War-Inna-Babylon-II-800x400.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/War-Inna-Babylon-II-400x200.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/War-Inna-Babylon-II-768x384.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Maximalist elements such as Parker\u2019s <i>Us an\u2019 Dem, <\/i>a nine-screen installation broadcasting an eye-catching and contrastive edit of <i>vox populi<\/i> and scenes of a resistive nature from the 1980s, are nested within and offset by Abi Wright\u2019s taut exhibition design. Black, white and blood-orange are Wright\u2019s chosen hues for walls, cabinets and in-situ text \u2013 a palette that communicates the spark of a freshly struck match \u2013 with a smattering of arches the structural choice to create the portals needed to order, access and appraise the all that has come before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boundaries are located and bridges formed between moments in time: chapters of history and correlative movements are brought into alignment through thematic sequences that track the postwar arrival-on-invitation of West Indian immigrants (Routes) to the late-century production of a singular Black British identity (Raggamuffin). Tributaries of culture and resistance meet and pool at these, and many other, critical junctures. Meanwhile, the police \u2013 their modes, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/from-muggers-to-gangs-its-the-same-police-story\/\">their methods<\/a><\/u><\/span><\/span> \u2013 are a leviathan that never fully recedes from <i>War Inna Babylon\u2019s <\/i>line of sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center rp-full-width rp-quote has-grey-color has-pale-1-background-color has-text-color has-background has-antonio-font-family\" style=\"padding-top:2%;padding-right:2%;padding-bottom:2%;padding-left:2%;font-size:clamp(1.743rem, 1.743rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 1.571), 3rem);\">It is made patent how and why Black trust in statutory governance has sunk, generation after generation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This land is no El Dorado, its law enforcement no celestial order: from the \u2018colour bar\u2019 restrictions on employment to the institutional ritual of \u2018n***** hunting\u2019 \u2013 both commonplace prior to the founding of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.runnymedetrust.org\/histories\/race-equality\/55\/campaign-against-racial-discrimination-card.html\">Campaign Against Racial Discrimination<\/a> in 1965 and the controversial passing of the amended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.runnymedetrust.org\/histories\/race-equality\/40\/race-relations-act-1968.html\">Race Relations Act<\/a> in 1968 \u2013 state-sanctioned hostilities and brutalities are shown to have long hallmarked this environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are dark depths. It is made patent how and why Black trust in statutory governance has sunk, generation after generation. But matters do crest. <i>War Inna Babylon <\/i>compels the<i> <\/i>bonds of and between the Black community to surface, and makes a point to laud the host of working-class Black women who have contended with staggering waves of violence \u2013 generation after generation \u2013 to lead with care and \u2018lift as they climb\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The personal is political<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Scott leads a walk-through a couple of times a week and, though not a prerequisite, it is highly recommended that you take the time and tag along if possible. A savvy orator and peerless storyteller, Scott\u2019s tour serves not only to expound on but infuse the main \u2013 steeping the displays in a potent brew of the playfully digressive and purposefully reconstructive. At intervals, Scott impresses upon those in attendance that the events of ten years ago did not happen in isolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He would know: growing up on Tottenham\u2019s Broadwater Farm Estate in the 1970s \u2013 audacious but erudite, ragga through and through \u2013 Scott was subject to the heavy-hand of the constabulary and arbitrary humiliations of \u2018sus\u2019 laws. He lived through <a href=\"https:\/\/secretlibraryleeds.net\/2021\/07\/15\/the-chapeltown-uprising-of-1981\/\">1975<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.runnymedetrust.org\/histories\/race-equality\/43\/notting-hill-carnival-ends-in-riots.html\">1976<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/theeverydaymagazine.co.uk\/opinion\/the-bristol-riots\">1980<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museumoflondon.org.uk\/discover\/brixton-1981-blm-2020-black-uprisings-londons-history\">1981<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejusticegap.com\/the-tottenham-3-the-legacy-of-the-broadwater-farm-riot\/\">1985<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cJdC0jYGEv0\">1987<\/a> \u2013 all years marked by resistive uprisings within Black communities across the country, from Leeds to London. He witnessed, time and time again, the truths obscured and rights suppressed by the Met and the judiciary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are told, then, but you are also shown: a discrete arc of Scott\u2019s life \u2013 as it has interrelated with the project of the police and the project of community \u2013 can be plotted through the Lower Gallery displays. On the wall, \u20181st Class Citizenship\u2019 \u2013 an accomplished pencil sketch produced in 1979 by Scott during a stint in prison. And in a cabinet, Scott\u2019s certificate in Community and Youth Work from the now-defunct Bulmershe College of Higher Education, alongside a letter of apology written to Scott by a Met Deputy Assistant Commissioner, dated 1988 and 2018 respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The years stack up. Personal, political and collective histories collide \u2013 and <i>War Inna Babylon <\/i>allows them to do so. It is unwieldy. It is also thoroughly effective: you begin to comprehend how immense \u2013 and how unending \u2013 the work of bearing witness, of resistance, is. There are no close crops here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A wide-angle view is maintained through the displays in the Upper Gallery, also \u2013 with loss, as a lived and thematic reality, foregrounded.<b> <\/b>The darkened plinths of <i>Five Families of Tottenham<\/i>, a sequential video tribute from the loved ones of locals who have died in police custody, honour the dimension of lives lived in addition to analysing the circumstances of fateful ends. It is stark in its design, deliberately humane in its execution, and all the more haunting for both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Absences are keenly felt and thoughtfully unpacked: the brother of <a href=\"https:\/\/morningstaronline.co.uk\/article\/void-all-our-lives-remembering-roger-sylvester-and-one-familys-fight-justice\">Roger Sylvester<\/a>, who was unlawfully killed by police in 1999, recalls a highly empathetic Arsenal fan with an \u2018excellent memory\u2019 and a tendency to \u2018caress\u2019 his dinner plate as he ate; he goes on to describe Roger\u2019s death, along with the deaths of other Black people in custody \u2013 a total body count of 124 since 1990 according to the charity INQUEST \u2013 as an \u2018initiation\u2019 for the family members left behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group rp-full-width has-pale-1-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignfull is-stacked-on-mobile is-image-fill\" style=\"grid-template-columns:66% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/War-Inna-Babylon-III.jpeg);background-position:22% 40%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/War-Inna-Babylon-III.jpeg\" alt=\"The opening interpretation of the exhibition reads in large text War Inna Banbylon with a black and white photo of a man from c. 1950s\" class=\"wp-image-42786 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/War-Inna-Babylon-III.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/War-Inna-Babylon-III-800x400.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/War-Inna-Babylon-III-400x200.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/War-Inna-Babylon-III-768x384.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>The opening to the exhibition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CREDIT: TIM P. WHITBY\/GETTY IMAGES FOR ICA<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Such clear-sighted remarks and tender reflections dare you to try and leave them behind as you move on to the white-walled room containing Tottenham Rights\u2019 anatomisation of the Met\u2019s Gangs Matrix and <a href=\"https:\/\/forensic-architecture.org\/investigation\/the-killing-of-mark-duggan\">Forensic Architecture\u2019s <\/a><i>The Killing of Mark Duggan \u2013 <\/i>the exhibition&#8217;s double-pronged coda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former prong is a reminder of the ways in which Black, working-class bodies are pathologised, surveilled and, subsequently, targeted \u2013 the institutional database, it can be reasoned, a digital analogue of the institutional hunts of the 1960s. While the latter functions as a commanding evaluation of the events leading up to Duggan\u2019s death \u2013 driven by scientific precision and a clear sense of purpose \u2013 as well as a fierce pushback against many of the narrative interpretations, mainstream images and judicial assessments spun since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recordings, computer-aided reconstructions and sheer reams of written analysis situate the \u2018split second\u2019 \u2013 the \u2018most lethal of temporal exception\u2019 in the words of Forensic Architecture\u2019s founder, Eyal Weizman \u2013 within the frame of racialised, obfuscatory thinking, where it belongs. And outside this frame? All other moments that have made up Black life in Britain: the battles fought, the lessons learned, the initiations, the exclusions, the losses and the gains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i>War Inna Babylon <\/i>holds you in an embrace with these moments, commands you to perceive their manifold frequencies, and releases you renewed and ready. Ready, as John Berger put it, to \u2018wait in solidarity\u2019; ready to use \u2018what we have inherited from the past and what we witness\u2019 to build our courage; ready to \u2018resist and continue resisting in as yet unimaginable circumstances\u2019 \u2013 in a world that remains, as yet, uncaptured and uncontained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tara Okeke explores an important exhibition that offers a compelling history of Black life in Britain through the lens of people, place and struggle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":42784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2752,279,244],"tags":[2861],"class_list":["post-31200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-and-museums","category-civil-liberties","category-race-racism","tag-tara-okeke"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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