This website is being maintained as an archive of the twenty-year history of Slought. The spirit of Slought continues as Public Trust.
Our projects cultivated publics and new modes of engagement. We considered our community to be more than temporally and spatially associated.
Learn more about how our programs engaged and performed the value of publics.
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A conversation with Allan Sekula on the politics of occupation and the shifting relationship between photojournalism and global capitalism
A conversation with Peter Alexander Meyers and others on citizenship, violence, and the continuation of the Cold War
A philosophical exchange about the politics of resistance with Alain Badiou and Simon Critchley
An outdoor installation by Braco Dimitrijevic featuring photo portraits of unknown persons
An exhibition by David Stephens about cross burning and the 2002 Supreme Court ruling in Virginia Vs. Black
Actors, activists and artists re-perform Brecht's Days of the Commune in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement
A conversation with Wang Ning about world literature, the politics of translation, and the afterlife of literary works
A curatorial intervention exploring 21st century prospects for international peace through a series of symposia, exhibitions, lectures, and films
Highlighting America's rich history of architectural experimentation and the original ways architects today are working collaboratively to invigorate community activism and environmental policy
Drawing from Rosenbach Museum archives, this exhibition explores the limits and conditions of citizenship in early and modern times
An artist project with Camille Henrot revisiting Roland Barthes' seminal lectures on coexistence
A series of conversations about citizenship and other forms of belonging and kinship
A space for inter-cultural conversation and research about art and advocacy, exploring a variety of trends, shared differences, and common concerns
An automated multimedia installation featuring a suite of software components that allows users to generate aesthetic texts
Recordings by Fred Wah of readings, lectures and discussions by notable New American poets