Between 2011–17, Ibraaz 1.0 published ten platforms that gathered responses to questions relevant to art and its wider geopolitical contexts. This October, Ibraaz Publishing will launch Platform 011.
Across essays, conversations, visual and sonic thinking, fiction, poetry, and moving image, Platform 011 takes as its central framing question: When does the term ‘Global Majority’ describe an existing condition, and when does it begin to produce one?
To mark the launch, four contributors to 011 – Nadim Choufi, Maya Indira Ganesh, Shivangi Mariam Raj, and Shela Sheikh – will address the Global Majority as an idea and practice, testing the political and imaginative possibilities, tensions, and limitations embodied in the term and its various articulations. Speakers will consider what role art, organisational infrastructures, rapidly developing technologies, and publishing might play in producing new forms of transnational alliances and whether a Global Majority can be produced through tactical solidarities that neither erase difference nor retreat into performative affiliations. The conversation will be chaired by Anthony Downey.
Doors open at 3.30pm; event starts at 4pm and ends at 5.30pm.
Image credit: Mark SubbaRao, The Geoid (2026).
We’re delighted to be partnering with Ibraaz Publishing to mark the launch of Platform 011 – When does Global Majority describe an existing condition and when does it begin to produce one? In our first publication of the series, poet Najlaa Eltom speaks to translator Mayada Ibrahim about the act of naming, the ways it may be wielded to different ends in moments of crisis, such as in death and in war. This conversation is the first in a series of pieces by writers from Sudan and South Sudan. It is a collaboration between Ibraaz Publishing and Untold Narratives.
