Curator and writer Legacy Russell leads a panel discussion examining the question: what freedoms can be found in the digital for bodies of colour?

This panel will build connections between ongoing conversations both within and outside of the UK regarding blackness and the material of the Internet.

Speakers include academic Rizvana Bradley, writer and curator Taylor Le Melle and writer and editor Derica Shields. This is presented on the occasion of the group exhibition Wandering / WILDING: Blackness on the Internet.

Within the exhibition's title, ‘Wandering’ points to the socio-cultural identity of the flâneur, mused on by Baudelaire as ‘a roving soul in search of a body’. The exhibition situates a spotlight on the privileged white body that Baudelaire’s ‘roving soul’ has historically inhabited. Here, the panel asks: what can the Internet do for the black flâneur?