2021
Rubiane Maia
Shivanjani Lal
Shivanjani Lal
Rubiane Maia is a Brazilian visual artist based between Folkestone. She completed a degree in Visual Arts and a Master degree in Institutional Psychology at Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil. Her artwork is a hybrid practice across performance, video, installation and writing, occasionally flirting with drawing, painting and collage. In 2016, she worked on the conceptual project titled 'Preparation for Aerial Exercise, the Desert and the Mountain' which required her to travel to high landscapes of Uyuni (Bolivia), Pico da Bandeira (Espírito Santo/Minas Gerais, BRA) and Monte Roraima (Roraima, BRA/Santa Helena de Uyarén, VEN). In the same year she completed her second short film titled ‘ÁDITO'. Since 2018 she has been working on the creation of an ongoing project called ‘Book-Performance’, composed by a series of actions devised in response to specific autobiographical texts particularly influenced by personal experiences of racism and misogyny. Currently, she is part of the collective 'Speculative Landscapes' a group of four women which, since 2020, has been working on systemic questions about what else institutions can be, when shaped not from stories violence, segmentation and extractions in the territories.
Never Done supported Maia's visit to London to meet artists Moses Quiquine and Charmaine Watkiss on the occasion of her solo show, The Seed Keepers at Tiwani Contemporary and Billie Zangewa: Running Water at Lehmann Maupin. 04 December 2021
Shivanjani Lal
Shivanjani Lal
Shivanjani Lal
Shivanjani Lal is a Fijian-Australian artist and curator. She is tied to a long history of familial movement; her work uses personal grief to account for ancestral loss and healing. A fundamental concern is how art develops and represents culture as it transitions between contexts, while also probing the experiences of womxn in these situations of flux. Working across mediums to explore Indenture and migratory histories from the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Lal was the recipient of the 2019 Create New South Wales Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, was a 2020 Studio artist at Parramatta Artists Studios and a recent graduate of the Goldsmiths Masters in Artists Film and Moving Image.
Image Credit:
Shivanjani Lal in their studio, 2020. Photo by Jacquie Manning, courtesy Parramatta Artists’ Studios
Never Done supported Lal's visit to the 5th Folkestone Triennial 2021: The Plot, Kent. 19-21 August 2021.
https://www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/folkestone-triennial/folkestone-triennial-2020-the-plot/
2020
Jade Foster
Jade Foster
Jade Foster
Jade Foster is an artist, curator and creative producer based in Nottingham, UK, and the 2020 recipient of the Curating Borders Residency which is organised in partnership between performingbordersLIVE20 and Never Done.
Foster’s research interests centre institutional critique, queerness, sound and performance, and their residency will be focused on connecting and consulting with practitioners around these contexts to shape a series of polyvocal responses.
Foster is the initiator of Black Curators Collective – a new forum for black women and non-binary curators in the UK - follow @blackcuratorscollective on Instagram. Visit their website, www.jadefoster.co.uk for more information about them and their broader activity.
Jade Foster
Jade Foster
2019
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński is a Vienna based artist, art-based researcher, filmmaker, and writer. She is interested in speculative stories from the viewpoint of the marginalized and forgotten; in documenting the fragmentary by expanding the possibilities of political imagination. Kazeem-Kamiński is working on the project The Nonhuman. The Al
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński is a Vienna based artist, art-based researcher, filmmaker, and writer. She is interested in speculative stories from the viewpoint of the marginalized and forgotten; in documenting the fragmentary by expanding the possibilities of political imagination. Kazeem-Kamiński is working on the project The Nonhuman. The Alien. The Believer – Unsettling Innocence in the frame of the PhD-in-Practice Program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Kazeem-Kamiński is co-editor with Nora Sternfeld and Natalie Bayer of Curating as Anti-Racist Practice, and a participating speaker at Black In/Visibilities Contested:
7th Biennial Afroeuropeans
Network Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.
Lisbon 3-7 July 2019
Supported by International Curators Forum.
Sonya Dyer
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
Sonya Dyer is an artist and writer from London, and is a Somerset House Studios Resident. Hailing Frequencies Open her current body of work, intersects Nichelle Nicols’ astronaut recruitment activism, the dubious genesis of ‘HeLa’ cells and the Greek myth of Andromeda – combining social justice with speculation, fantasy with the political
Sonya Dyer is an artist and writer from London, and is a Somerset House Studios Resident. Hailing Frequencies Open her current body of work, intersects Nichelle Nicols’ astronaut recruitment activism, the dubious genesis of ‘HeLa’ cells and the Greek myth of Andromeda – combining social justice with speculation, fantasy with the political.
She runs the …And Beyond Institute for Future Research, a peripatetic think tank creating possible futures.
Recent projects include Another World is Possible, CAMP, Copenhagen (2018), Familiar Strangers The Luminary, St Louis (2018, The Claudia Jones Space Station, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and The NewBridge Project, Newcastle (2017) and Into the Future Primary, Nottingham (2015) and At the Intersections, Nottingham Contemporary (2015).
https://www.andbeyondinstitute.com
Dyer will be attending the Black In/Visibilities Contested: Biennial Afroeuropeans
Network Conference, Lisbon 3-8 July 2019
Supported by International Curators Forum.
Hoda Afshar
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
Hoda Afshar
Hoda Afshar is a Melbourne-based artist and scholar. Her photography and moving image practices explore the narrative possibilities of documentary image making. Afshar is a member of the Muslim Australian collective Eleven - a cohort of creative practitioners working to disrupt hegemonic discourses and political (mis)representations.
Afsh
Hoda Afshar is a Melbourne-based artist and scholar. Her photography and moving image practices explore the narrative possibilities of documentary image making. Afshar is a member of the Muslim Australian collective Eleven - a cohort of creative practitioners working to disrupt hegemonic discourses and political (mis)representations.
Afshar’s current research project, colonial harem brings her to Europe to consult resources and archives in the UK and France.
www.hodaafshar.com
www.milanigallery.com.au
September-October 2019
Supported by Australia Council For The Arts
2019
Asiya Wadud
Mariana Suikkanen Gomes
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 (Night
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.
https://soundcloud.com/adelaide-bannerman/hail-the-passage-the-frequency-the-remains
London 26-29 June 2019
Supported by The Finnish Institute, London.
Satu Herrala
Mariana Suikkanen Gomes
Asiya Wadud
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 pr
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.
https://soundcloud.com/adelaide-bannerman/hail-the-passage-the-frequency-the-remains
London 26-29 June 2019
Supported by The Finnish Institute, London.
Mariana Suikkanen Gomes
Mariana Suikkanen Gomes
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 en
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 Grants Committee, and [ space ].
2018
Marianne Niemelä
WOCI Reading Group
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 F
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
WOCI Reading Group
Marianne Niemelä
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,
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 1-28 July 2019
Supported by The Finnish Institute, London, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, and [ space ].
London 4-8 October 2018
Supported by International Curators Forum (ICF) and The Finnish Institute, London.
WOCI Reading Group
WOCI Reading Group
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
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.