LINDA BROGAN ° I Have Walked off the Plantation

“I love Giacometti, Samuel Beckett, Jackson Pollock, Louise Bourgeois, Chiharu Shiota. And now there is me. 8-station mind-maps are entirely my alphabet. My language. My symbols. My style. It has taken me 25 fab & horrific years using them, to efface who I’ve been told I am, and superimpose who I want to be.”

Part of Episode XXXII: “What Makes a City II: Cultural Palimpsests” with Jenna Ashton, Linda Brogan, Alistair Hudson & Florian Malzacher
11 OCT 2025 – Contact, Manchester / UK

Part of The Questions, a project by UK based artist group Quarantine

Biography

Linda Brogan is a playwright, performer, and visual artist. Recent works include Excavating the Reno (2017), the literal excavation of a 1970s Moss Side funk and soul cellar club, where it was a badge of honour to be mixed-race. In In the Ruins of the Big House (2024) at Factory International, she used her white mum’s status to declare herself the mistress of her dad’s Jamaican plantation. And MY MUM IS WHITE: Exorcising Half-Caste Ghosts (2025) at HOME, Brogan, psychologist and professor Adam Danquah, and five other mixed-race creative and cultural practitioners held a four-week exorcism as Brogan mind-mapped the forest of their ghosts.