A Flock of Keen-eyed and Far-Seeing Magpies

The Otolith Library-in-Residence transforms research into public encounter. For over 20 years, artists Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar have gathered books, journals, records, and films – the intellectual materials that fuel their art-making. Now these collections migrate from their home studio to public space as an invitation for collective study. Reading groups, screenings, and listening sessions in the Library, Majlis, and Minassa at Ibraaz, become points of gathering and convening. Researchers, activists, and artists gather to develop new strategies for confronting our environmental and social crises. A Flock of Keen-eyed and Far-Seeing Magpies becomes a transmission point – broadcasting alternative frequencies of knowledge, resistance, and possibility into the present moment.

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.