The Colour of Britain - ACE273.6

London building. VO explains that new generation is influencing not just theatre but painting, sculpture, installation art, etc, challenge orthodoxies by bringing non-European cultural references to their work. Sandy Nairn, Curator, Tate Gallery. What artists are making is part of how we all understand ourselves. Nairn VO on the understanding of images shifting and the shifting and changing of those images. Images of painting, sculpture, dance, etc. Homi Bhabha on how artists refuse to be "typified". Bhabha VO images of sculptures, paintings, etc. Bhabha: artists want to question ideas of fixed identity. Zarina Bhimji, Artist, spreading pigments; her VO says she can now forget she’s a migrant. Bhimji on her work being concerned with that "language", but now becoming more specific to particular memories. Some of Bhumji’s photographs. Sutapa Biswas, Artist, says she tries to focus on the idea of "locating one’s self", but not necessarily in one defined place. Collages and photographs. Biswas is "more interested in actually questioning boundaries" as her influences are world-wide. Photograph. Shot from front of DLR train; the "journey" seems more open-ended that having singular direction. Gilroy: artists work requires critics to produce "a different politics of representation". London street scenes. VO on the city being the locus for different traditions and "conversations", alternative ways of looking at what it means to be British, different ways of seeing the country. Tawadros on the desire in British culture for a notion of Britishness or Englishness, but that this has never been a reality. Verma on recognising the English within the Indian, and the Indian within the English as one of the most difficult things to come to terms with, where multiculturalism falls down. Gilroy on new artists trying to live out the possibility of being new Europeans. Sculptures. Indian dancer dissolves into image of Greek statue and DLR.