Never Done is a programme that enables curators and artists to conduct international research visits and residencies.
Featured Artists
Asiya Wadud
Asiya Wadud (US) is the author of Crosslight for Youngbird, published by Nightboat Books in 2018 and day pulls down the sky… a filament in gold leaf written collaboratively with Okwui Okpokwasili (2019, Belladonna/ Danspace). Her collections Syncope (Ugly Duckling Presse) and No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body (Nightboat Books) are forthcoming in 2019 and 2020, respectively. Asiya teaches poetry at Saint Ann’s School and leads an English conversation group for new immigrants at the Brooklyn Public Library.
London 26-29 June 2019
Supported by The Finnish Institute, London.
Satu Herrala
Satu Herrala (FI) works as a choreographer and curator, and since the beginning of 2015, as the artistic director of Baltic Circle International Theatre Festival in Helsinki. She graduated with an MA in choreography from the University of the Arts Helsinki. Her curatorial works include Baltic Circle Festival programs 2015-2019, DO TANK programs, Make Arts Policy event in collaboration with Eva Neklyaeva, Dana Yahalomi and Terike Haapoja, and a series of Sauna Lectures. She is a doctoral student at Aalto University - School of Arts, Design and Architecture, working on a question “What is possible in art, that is not possible otherwise?” and a regular mentor at Iceland Academy of the Arts.
London 26-29 June 2019
Supported by The Finnish Institute, London.
Mariana Suikkanen Gomes
Mariana Suikkanen Gomes (SE) is an artist and performance-maker dedicated to practices and rituals that locate themselves in the intersection between personal encounters, collective activities and performative presentations. Recently she's been exploring the realms of memory, intimacy, tenderness and vulnerability, in a series of works entitled The Tender Protest Series.
Mariana holds a BA (Hons) in Live Arts from Kingston University and an MA from Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. She is involved in various loving collaborations, most intensively as part of the performance collective GLQ/GomesLechQuigley, and runs BAFFLED BUT PERSISTENT, an organisation focused on writing and activism.
London 5-19 July 2019
Supported by The Finnish Institute, London, The Swedish Arts Council, and [ space ].
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Marianne Niemelä
Marianne Niemelä (FI) is an art historian, curator and activist working along the crossroads of art and politics, with a focus on queer and feminist topics. She is currently co-artistic director with Christopher Wessels and Ali Akbar Mehta of the Museum of Impossible Forms a cultural centre in Helsinki, Finland. The Museum of Impossible Forms consists of a library, archive and event space that collects and produces decolonial, queer and feminist literature. Niemelä has co-produced trans-rebel zine, Up With Trans!
https://museumofimpossibleforms.org
London 1-8 October 2018
Hosted by WOCI Reading Group at Raven Row. Supported by International Curators Forum (ICF) and The Finnish Institute, London.
Ellen Nyman
Ellen Nyman (SE) is an actor, director and visual artist. Her research and practice bears an interdisciplinary focus on performativity and blackness within performing and visual art. Recent work and collaborations include: Black revolutionaries don’t fall from the moon (2017, Stockholm) a play influenced by the biography of Assata Shakur, and the video works Sicherheit (2017) shown alongside with Danish Election (2004) made with artists Corina Oprea and Saskia Holmkvist and featured at GIBCA Gothenburg Biennial, 2017. Nyman is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Stockholm University of the Arts and rehearsing for the upcoming staging of playwright Tracy Letts, Mary Page Marlowe at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Sweden.
London 4-8 October 2018
Supported by International Curators Forum (ICF) and The Finnish Institute, London.
WOCI Reading Group
Women of Colour Index Reading Group (WOCI) was set up in October 2016 by artists, Samia Malik, Michelle Williams Gamaker and Rehana Zaman (UK). WOCI Reading Group aims to improve visibility for women of colour artists whilst using archive material to generate discussion and practice around current social and political concerns. The group meets on a monthly basis to discuss work within the Women of Colour Index (WOCI); a unique collection of slides and papers collated by artist Rita Keegan that charts the emergence of Women of Colour artists during the ‘critical decades’ of the 1980s and 1990s in the UK, using materials in the archive to generate discussion, thought and practice around current social and political concerns.
Full biography at: https://wocireadinggroup.wordpress.com/about/
Helsinki 15-20 November 2018
Hosted by The Museum of Impossible Forms. Supported by International Curators Forum (ICF) and The Finnish Institute, London.