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Live Performance
Freeing Idia
8 Nov 2023 6-6.30pm
UAL, Wimbledon College of Arts
London SW19 3QA
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Performance by Theresa Nelson - MA Performance: Politics and Social Justice
This is a live and visual performance of the Freeing of “Idia”; an exquisite African Benin mask, which was looted in the Benin Expedition of 1897. The mask is a sculptural portrait of Idia, the first Iyoba (Queen Mother) of the 16th century Benin Empire.
Location:
Wimbledon College of Arts Room A09
Merton Hall Road
London
SW19 3QA
FREE, but booking required