Ethan Cohen is a sound artist and organiser of live music. He is interested in listening to the dysfluency, unevenness, and irregularity of walking. As a Londoner, he is familiar with street trees and their tendency to damage the pavement.
Manda Shutler is a researcher, radio producer, sometimes DJ and sometimes photographer. She is currently at the Centre For Research Architecture and works as a producer at Montez Press Radio. She likes thinking about spatial environments, and how they are used as tools for control, coercion, deciet but also community, safety and inspiration. Her current research focuses on the rise of Tech utopia projects, and how they are being used as infrastructures of control and political influence.
Zakia Sewell is a writer, DJ and broadcaster based in London. She hosts Dream Time on BBC Radio 6 Music, and used to host the flagship breakfast show on NTS Radio. Forthe past eight years she has been producing and presenting radio documentaries and podcasts for platforms such as BBCRadio 3 and 4, Tate and Camden Arts Centre. Her acclaimed four-part Radio 4 series My Albion was an inspiration for her book. Her writing has appeared inpublications including Tate Etc., Resident Advisor and WeirdWalk as well as in the essay collection This Woman's Work.
Nina Manandhar is a London based artist, writer and curator working with photography, digital archives and participation. In her practice, Nina explores the relationship between place, style and identity. She is the author of What We Wore – A People’s History of British Style; a photographic documentary of street and subculture viewed through the lens of the people living it. She has presented projects at The Photographers’ Gallery, Wellcome Collection, RIBA, Tate and The Museum of London. She is a Stage Two Lead on the Fashion Communication BA at Central Saint Martins.
Stewart Home was born and lives in London (UK). He has been working as an artist and writer since the early 1980s and had a mid-career retrospective at White Columns in New York in 2011. He is the author of 17 novels, 8 books of cultural commentary, as well as collections of short stories & poetry. Home has visual work in the Arts Council of England collection in the form of morphs and an experimental film.
Drawing on psychogeography, hauntology and the dérive, Laura Grace Ford's work interrogates the psychic contours of urban space with a particular focus on subcultural scenes, marginal political networks and UK club culture. In 2011 Ford's zine Savage Messiah, was published Verso and reissued in 2020. Part fragmented novel, part collage, the book is both a polemic against the marginalisation of the city’s working class and an exploration of the cracks that open up in urban space. Ford's practice spans painting, drawing, installation, sound and publishing, with an eye on the city's emotional shifts. Ford's work is held in public collections and is on the UK GCSE and A level syllabus. She has contributed to many publications including The White Review, Frieze, Art Review, Afterall and Dazed, as well as numerous academic journals. She exhibits and teaches internationally, and is currently a Somerset House Studios resident.
James Jordan Johnson is an artist from London working in film, photography and performance. He is interested in the metaphysics of witnessing and how registers of slowness might produce fundamental and necessary readings that are grounded in Caribbean belief systems. He uses pre-existing or self-established forms of opacity within events of personal and collective memorialisation.
Black History Walks was set up in 2007. Since then, the organisation has established a reputation for its diverse programme of high-quality walks, tours, talks, educational courses, resources and film events. Black History Walks is committed to providing exceptional experiences that educate people about Britain’s Black history. They are a collective of athletes, IT professionals, teachers, artists, authors and film-makers who collaborate to produce events, courses and resources on Black history in the UK. Our talks and presentations are delivered by professors, historians and academics who are experts in their fields. Over the years, Black History Walks has developed community partnerships with some of the most prestigious educational organisations in London, including the Imperial War Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Museum of Docklands and the British Film Institute. These partnerships have helped to significantly increase minority ethnic audiences.
Montez Press Radio is an experimental broadcasting and performance platform founded in 2018 with the goal of fostering greater experimentation and conversation between artists, writers, and thinkers through the medium of radio. This platform invites different corners of the art world to interact with each other in person and on air—a place where media finally meets flesh. We’re drawn to art that exists in the unexpected, the authenticity of sharing without a script, the sounds of ideas in the making, conversation that forgets there’s an audience.