Maud Sulter Live Programme: Poetry in Motion

Part of our Maud Sulter Live Programme

Join us for an evening of reading and performance with the artists and poets Tako Taal, Cass Ezeji, and Titilayo Farukoye. Working across spoken word, poetry and literature, the artists will share their writing and poetry, alongside re-reading and responding to some of Maud Sulter’s writing and artwork present in our current exhibition, Maud Sulter - You are my kindred spirit, and beyond. 

Reflecting on ideas of memory, material, diaspora, and language, alongside other themes present across Sulter’s interdisciplinary practice, Poetry in Motion will bring these artists together to form a collective dialogue with the exhibition while bringing to the fore key themes and ideas across their individual practices. 

The event title is taken from Sulter’s mixed-media collage work first shown in the groundbreaking exhibition The Thin Black Line in 1985, curated by Lubaina Himid.

The Maud Sulter Live Programme curated by Pelumi Odubanjo accompanies our current exhibition Maud Sulter - You are my kindred spirit, open until 30 March 2025.

About the artists

Cass Ezeji is a self-taught artist and Gaelic speaker from Glasgow. Her practice includes music, writing, and documentary. She is the singer of critically acclaimed bands Laps and Golden Teacher. As a writer, she explores contemporary afroscot identities, including themes of belonging and sisterhood. Her previous work has been published in Scottish Affairs vol. 30, a Special Edition of Scotland’s Gàidhealtachd future, Map Magazine, Ghost Tunes, and Delineate. In 2022, her documentary Afro-Gàidheil (Mactv) was awarded the Spirit of the Festival Award at the Celtic Media Festival. She is passionate about working-class representation in the arts and beyond.

Tako Taal is an artist who works alongside spectral, cited and physical beings to undermine history and destabilise images. She works with video, installation and performance, to consider how artefacts and anecdotes are tangents to trace shifts that merge and split boundaries between bodies, lands and states. She lives in Glasgow. In 2024 Tako presented After Kinte, a new play jointly commissioned by Glasgow International and CAPC, Bordeaux. She has exhibited at La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Workplace Foundation (Newcastle), Pace Gallery (London), Dundee Contemporary Arts (Dundee), Jerwood Arts (London), Site Gallery (Sheffield), NADA House (New York), Talbot Rice Gallery (Edinburgh), Perth Museum and Art Gallery (Perth, Scotland).

Titilayo Farukuoye (they/them) is a writer, educator and organiser based in Glasgow. Their work addresses social justice and community care and is informed by dreaming and the radical imagination. Titilayo co-directs the Scottish BPOC Writers Network and is a winner of the 2022 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Their debut poetry pamphlet In Wolf’s Skin is available with Stewed Rhubarb Press. Titilayo’s non-fiction book But We Did: Dismantling colonialist myths towards collective liberation is forthcoming with 404 Ink in Autumn 2025.