Terra incognita arts organisation + publishers

terra incognita arts organisation is a British is a not for profit visual arts and curatorial organisation, founded in London in 1997 by Juliette Brown and Alana Jelinek.

They have curated a number of exhibitions, including 'empire and I' (1999) and 'curio' (2002). They have also initiated small scale, temporary interventions like 'Racist Australia Day' (2000) on the day when seven former and current Australian Prime Ministers were visiting the Australian High Commission in London in order to celebrate the centenary of Federation. In 2006 the assisted the African and Asian Visual Artists Archive in putting its archive online.

In 2007, terra incognita took their activities into publishing literary fiction, inaugurated a new imprint, '<1%', as a small press.

Artists, writers and academics working in association with terra incognita

* Shaheen Merali
* Erika Tan
* Chila Kumari Burman
* Mohini Chandra
* Rea
* Anthony Key
* Lorrice Douglas
* Colin Darke
* Jananne Al-Ani
* Zineb Sedira
* Alana Jelinek
* Annie E Coombes
* Catherine Hall
* Richard Stemp
* Juliette Brown

Major exhibitions and projects

* less-than-1-percent publishing (2007 - ongoing) [http://www.ti3.org.uk/1percent.htm <1%]
* AAVAA online (2006) - African and Asian Visual Artists Archive online [http://www.aavaa.org.uk AAVAAonline]
* curio (2002) - contemporary visual art intervention into Brick Lane area, near Whitechapel, London, as 'a disruption of the tourist gaze' [http://www.ti3.org.uk/curio.htm curio]
* empire and I (1999) - contemporary visual artists respond to the ongoing legacy of the British empire [http://www.ti3.org.uk/ei.htm empire and I]

ources

* "On Brick Lane" Rachel Lichtenstein, London, Hamish Hamilton, 2007
* "Shades of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain" Edited by David A Bailey, Ian Baucom, Sonia Boyce, Duke University Press, 2005
* "Networkbook for Urban P/arts: 42 Initiatives Capturing London's Public Space" City Mine(d), London, 2004 http://www.citymined.org
* "curio", terra incognita, London, 2002 ISBN 0-9535045-2-2
* "empire and I", terra incognita, London, 1999 ISBN 0-9535045-0-6

External links

* [http://www.ti3.org.uk terra incognita website]