Watch: At the table with Anawana Haloba

The At The Table series brings together the voices of the six AM11 artists alongside those of international curators, artists, historians, thinkers and writers in a series of roundtable discussions.

Anawana Haloba (b. 1978) is an artist based in Oslo and Livingstone, currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Bergen. Haloba has been featured in solo and group exhibitions including at Centre Pompidou, National Museum of African Arts (Smithsonian), la Biennale di Venezia, 2009, and the Sharjah Biennial 08, 11 and 14th editions. She is an associate professor at Oslo National Academy of the Arts and a guest advisor at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam and co-founder of the Livingstone Office for Contemporary Arts (LoCA), a platform for exploring colonial and political histories in relation to language and contemporary art. Her work was included in the Berlin Biennale (2025) and she has a forthcoming major solo exhibition at the National Museum, Oslo. 

RAW Material Company is a vibrant center for art, knowledge, and society based in Dakar, Senegal. Founded by Koyo Kouoh in 2008, it has grown into a leading platform for critical reflection on artistic practice and its role in shaping society. With a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach, RAW engages in curatorial projects, residencies, education, and international collaborations. Its work is carried forward by a dedicated team, including Fatima Bintou Rassoul SY — Curator and Director of Programs of RAW Material Company — and continues to foster artistic and intellectual growth across Africa and beyond.

Nneoma Angela Okorie is an independent curator and researcher concerned with equitable forms of cultural production, archival research, spatial relations, and public space strategies. Working primarily with text, sound and objects, her research-based practice tends to form and ideas that shift with each encounter; how they morph or mutate through engagement, use, and repetition. She is also a founding member of INCHIKOTA, an experimental lab developed for transdisciplinary collaborations through spatial research, publications, pedagogy, and gatherings.

Kandace Siobhan Walker is a writer and artist of Jamaican-Canadian, Saltwater Geechee and Welsh heritage. She is the author of two books of poetry Kaleido (Bad Betty Press, 2022) and Cowboy (CHEERIO, 2023). Her installation Dreamerism (2024) appeared in Jerwood Arts’ nationally-touring group exhibition Survey III. She lives in London.