Projects
A Journey Home
A continued project in collaboration with the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery around the repatriation of animal bodies to where they were taken from. This work challanges the display and colonial narratives through consultations with conservation groups and poeple from the diaspora.
Poetry Series
"Writing that keeps me functioning as a human, poetry is a space where I feel seen". Iman's work has shifted throughout the years of writing, we invite you to check out their collection of musings and, if it sparks an interest, to go along to their Poetry Series held twice a year.
Access Support
Iman works as an access support for multiple creative people in Bristol and Dorset. Doing the admin tasks that might make you pull your hair out, as access support Iman works with artists, writers, theatre makers and environmental activitsts with disabilities and/or neurodiversities to make life easier.
Personal to the Planetary
P2P brings together environmental researchers, activists and artists to collectively contemplate what we can do together at this time of environmental and ecological emergency. Across the University of Bristol and local communities there is a wealth of knowledge and expertise that can help us understand how we can navigate the scale and complexities of environmental change.
From Ghana to Bristol
Reimaginging Reparative Justice in a Postcolonial World
A collaborative project between creative researchers Iman Sultan West, Emmanuella Morsi and academic, support Edson Burton, exploring how to redefine reparative justice in the context of climate crisis and postcolonial challenges, particularly focusing on indigenous knowledge and perspectives. The project aims to challenge hierarchical structures and explore how museums and other institutions can invite reciprocity and meaningful exchange with communities impacted by colonial harm. It uses case studies like A Journey Home: The Taxidermy Pangolin with the Bristol Museum and creative toolkit Access As A Creative Tool (AAACT) by Emmanuel to explore how reparative justice can evolve within an environmental context, engaging with diaspora communities, conservation groups; Pangolin Gh and Herp Ghana as well as creative makers, thinkers, activists in Ghana.
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