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Exhibitions
'A Sikh Face in Ireland' will open at the Chester Beatty Library on Friday, 07 May 2010
Publications
(forthcoming)
Supported by
The Community Foundation for Ireland
Biography - Glenn Jordan
Dr Glenn Jordan is Director of Butetown History & Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales and Reader in Cultural Studies in the University of Glamorgan’s Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries. An activist-intellectual, curator and photographer, Jordan’s community-based projects have been exhibited in Ireland and throughout the UK. Glenn has published widely on visual culture, race, representation and immigrants and minorities in Wales.
Also by Glenn Jordan:
Somali Elders: Portraits From Wales >
Mothers and Daughters: Portraits from Multi Ethnic Wales >
A Sikh Face In Ireland
A Sikh Face in Ireland was first conceived at the FOMACS launch in 2007 when a group of young Sikhs – men and women led by Satwinder Singh – approached the photographer, Glenn Jordan, to ask if he would be interested in photographing the Sikh community in Ireland. It was a spontaneous request and a direct response to seeing Jordan’s photographic work, Somali Elders: Portraits from Wales, at the launch. Yet it forcefully illustrated their collective desire to be fully represented in contemporary Ireland and to counter the stereotypical depictions of Sikh communities post 9/11, which they were confronting on a daily basis.
From its inception this photographic and life history project has been conceived as a collaborative journey and has moved from strength to strength during the past two years, culminating in the production of a ‘living archive’ of the Sikh community on the island of Ireland. Like all ‘living archives’ it does not claim to be an exhaustive portrait, but is, instead, vibrant and open-ended - to be viewed and explored by a range of interested communities.
How To Tie A Turban
Highlights from the short film How To Tie a Turban, with Gurcharan Singh (Volunteer, Irish Sikh Council) and featuring music by Satkirin Kaur Khatsa
Exhibition Launch at the Chester Beatty Library
Highlights from the launch at the Chester Beatty Library, on the 6 May 2010