The West Indian Front Room: Memories and Impressions of Black British Homes

From extensive ethnographic research materials and oral history interviews were sourced and recorded on film and audio, which formed the basis of this installation based exhibition. This included the recreation of a 1960/1970s styled front room of Caribbean migrants in the UK as the central installation. This was contextualised by an interactive mixed-media exhibition that included audio-listening posts, archive and specially commissioned films, large scale archive photographs and an extensive programme of workshops, talks and symposia.

Related publications:

McMillan, Michael (2009) The Front Room: Migrant Aesthetics in the Front Room. Black Dog Publishing, London. ISBN 978-1-906155-85-8 http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/9379/

McMillan, Michael (2009) The West Indian Front Room: Reflections on a Diasporic Phenomenon. Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 13 (28). pp. 135-156. ISSN 0799-0537 http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/9381/

McMillan, Michael (2006) The West Indian Front Room: migrant aesthetics in the home. In: Imagined Interiors: Representing the Domestic Interior since the Renaissance. V&A Publishing, pp. 242-243. ISBN 9781851774937 http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/9594

McMillan, Michael (2003) The 'West Indian" Front Room in the African Diaspora. Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, 7 (3/4). pp. 1-18. ISSN 1362-704X http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/9380/

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