The Otolith Collective is a long-standing artist led organisation supporting intergenerational art practice, research-led projects and process-based forms of development. We create environments that nourish discourse and discussion, co-commission art practices and curate exhibitions and programmes with a wide range of collaborators, organisations and institutions here and elsewhere.

Ours is a transnational and translocal programme based on maintaining and animating an experimental and worldmaking approach. Performing across disciplines such as visual art, performance, new music, film and video, new technology and critical writing, we draw a diverse range of audiences.

Our public programme emerges from this convergence of relationships across the world, the UK and in London, both within worlds of common purpose but also through a methodology of debate and thinking that is para-academic and within the civic realm. We are dedicated to ways of working as artists who curate, investigating and practising collaboration and its social potentials.

Our platforms emerge as workshops, reading groups, gatherings, panels, book launches, exhibitions, events, discussions, publications and screening programmes.

Artists whom have been curated, commissioned or launched by The Otolith Collective include: Elaine Mitchener, Mark Fisher, The Black Audio Film Collective (on the first retrospective and its publication of their work in the UK and rest of the world), Harun Farocki, Naeem Mohaiemen, Tony Cokes, Etel Adnan, Elaine Mitchener, Anand Patwardhan, Rania Stephan, Lungiswa Gqunta, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Bahar Noorizadeh, and the late Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa to name but a few.

The Department of Xenogenesis
2023
Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
Curated Programme
The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art Beyond Solidarity
2023
Online - Brooklyn Rail
Book Launch
Elaine Mitchener and Kerry Yong in Residence
2022
London
Residency
Department of Xenogenesis. In conversation with Denise Ferreira da Silva and Esi Eshun, Elaine Mitchener and Dante Micheaux
2020
Zoom Webinar
Curated Programme
Undisciplinary Residency
2019
Arts Catalyst
Residency
Women on Aeroplanes
2018
The Showroom, London
Curated Programme
Performance by Travis
2018
e-flux, New York
Curated Programme
Performance by George Lewis
2018
e-flux, New York
Curated Programme
Mani Kaul: Essay Film Festival
2018
Birkbeck Cinema and ICA, London
Curation
Performance by Jace Clayton
2018
Eyebeam
Performance
Climates of Fiction: Cinemas from the Capitalocene
2017
The Institute of Light, London
Curated Programme
Fukushima and Visual Inquiry
2017
Arts Catalyst
Screening
Co-op Dialogues: 1966-2016 with Jean Matthee
2016
Tate Britain, London
Curation
Readings by Mouth
2016
The Empire Remains Shop, London
Curated Exhibition
Genres of the Human
2016
The Showroom, London
Curated Programme
An Endless Suddenness: Thinking with music that resists resistance
2016
Open School East, Margate
Curated Programme
Continental Afrofutures Lecture Series. Lecture 2. The Final Scene of Hyenas: A Fable of Fatal Incorporation
2016
The Showroom, London
Curated Programme
Continental Afrofutures Lecture Series. Lecture 1: Laingian Science Fiction
2016
The Showroom
Curated Programme
The Pop Group, For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?
2016
Rough Trade East, London
Curated Programme
Pan African Space Station
2016
OBA Central Library, Amsterdam
Broadcast
Artists' Moving Image Practice in Britain: From 1990 to today
2015
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Curated Programme
The old is dying and the new cannot be born: states, strategies, socialisms
2015
School of Oriental & African Studies, London
Curated Programme
African Futures
2015
Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg
Curated Programme
The Eros Effect: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice
2015
Tensta Konsthall, Spånga, Sweden
Curated Programme
Pan African Space Station
2015
The Showroom, London
Curated Programme
The Chimurenga Library
2015
The Showroom, London
Curated Exhibition
L.A. Rebellion Seminar
2015
Tate Modern, London
Curation
Ghosts of Songs : A Retrospective of Black Audio Film Collective
2007
Fact Liverpool and Arnolfini Bristol
Curated Exhibition
How to Improve the World: 60 Years of British Art
2006
South Bank Centre
Curation