• Capital: One-day Talks & Discussions Programme

    Hosted by Infinite Fxx & Galerina

    04.05.2024
    Saturday 4 May 2-6pm RSVP
    One-day Talks and Discussions Programme
    Organised together with Infinite Fxx and Galerina

    Moderated by Cõvco

    for Coumba Samba’s solo exhibition Capital

     
    Panelists: Funmi Adewole, Maryane Mwaniki, Nusra Nijimbere and Yeshimabeit 'Yeshi' Milner
     
    The one-day public programme event for Capital by Coumba Samba will take place on 4 May, 2024, 2pm onwards at Cell Project Space. The day will consist of a panel discussion revolving around the circulation of materials, archive, movements, performance, and ideologies versed from Sub-Saharan Africa. All the participants have been invited to prepare a short presentation on their own work and practice. The day will be moderated by Cǒvco, artist and founder of Infinite Fxx. Each presentation will be followed by an open discussion between all the panelists with a short Q&A, inviting the audience to join in.
     
    Funmi Adewole
    Nigerian and London based dance practitioner, dramaturge, writer and Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University, Leicester. She is the One Dance UK 2019 recipient for the Lifetime Achievement Award for Dance of the African Diaspora.
     
    Maryane Mwaniki
    London-based Congolese counsellor, coach, and consultant specialising in supporting individuals and couples in cultivating healthy relationships and self-concept; as well as aiding leaders and organisations in fostering positive work cultures and high-performing teams. 
     
    Nusra Nijimbere
    British, Burundi London-based textile artist, and print designer, whose work exists between the themes of memory and diaspora. Her work reimagines what immersing oneself in African history looks like beyond colonialism.
     
    Yeshimabeit "Yeshi" Milner
    Yeshimabeit Milner is a technologist and activist and Founder of Data for Black Lives, a network of scientists and activists working to make data a tool for social change instead of a weapon of political oppression. Yeshimabeit is an Echoing Green Fellow, an Ashoka Fellow, is listed as a Forbes 30 under 30 and was awarded the New York Times Good Tech Award in 2021. She currently lives between New York City and Miami. 
     
    Cõvco
    London-based Congolese artist whose multidisciplinary language translates in the form of performance art, poetry, sound production and Visual art and is the founder of Infinite Fxx. She has performed at South London Gallery, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Camden Art Centre, London, La Casa Encendida, Madrid.
     
    Galerina
    Galerina is a project space (as of recently, based in a bedroom in Homerton) run by Mischa Lustin and Niina Ulfsak since 2022.
     
    With thanks to Meli Ulkumen Ardila.
     
    If you require assistance to access the building or have any additional access questions please contact Annabelle Mödlinger, Production Assistant: annabelle[at]cellprojects[dot]org.
     
    Capital is generously supported by British Council Biennials Connect, Embassy of Estonia in London, Alvaro Barrington Studio, Patrick Collins and Arcadia Missa.
     
     
     
     

  • CEED Feminisms 5: Bibliography Launch at Biblioteka

    15.05.2024
    A group of approximately 30 people are sitting in a circle. The perspective of the image is from outside the circle, showing the back of the head of a white woman with cropped blonde hair, holding a microphone.
    Wednesday 15th May, 6.30–8.30pm
     
    Biblioteka 
    1 Montague St (Architectural Association),
    London WC1B 5BP
     
    Join us to celebrate the CEED Feminisms Bibliography launch, hosted by Biblioteka, a reference library originally from Kyiv now based in London, free copies of the printed bibliography will be distributed, with readings featuring extracts from texts selected by members of the CEED Feminisms research network. Readings to be announced soon. 
     
    The CEED Feminisms Bibliography distils conversations and references offered by the CEED Feminisms research network, over 40 practitioners based in and beyond the UK, who participated in a British Art Network supported programme between September 2023 and April 2024 after joining the project through an open call.
     
    The impetus for the bibliography responds to an asymmetry in the translation and circulation of feminist writing coming from Central Eastern Europe, or by writers in the diaspora, with many more feminist texts travelling West to East historically; copies will be distributed to a number of libraries across the UK. 
     
    Both research document and resource, the pamphlet aims to share and pass on the CEED Feminisms research network's conversations about Central Eastern European and diasporic feminist writing and art practices, shaped by Feminist Duration Reading Group's methodology of reading texts out loud, together. It addresses themes first identified by the research network, as well as subject matter explored in four-part event series, ranging from gendered labour and 'East' to 'West' migration, to transnational feminist solidarity in war. Read more about CEED Feminisms here. 
     
    Designed by Alessia Arcuri, the sprawling document's form and content question the scope of 'CEED feminism', problematising 'Central Eastern Europe' as a container for enormous cultural diversity and contextualising feminist discourses bound to post/state socialism, anti/imperialism and de/colonialism.
     
    The event takes place at Biblioteka, located on the ground floor of the Architectural Association. Please note that access to Biblioteka is via four steps. If you require assistance to access the building, have any additional access questions, or wish to request support via our access and mobility budget to cover childcare and travel for a limited number of participants who live outside of London, please contact Annabelle Mödlinger, Production Assistant: annabelle[at]cellprojects[dot]org.
     
    Pre-ordered copies of the bibliography can be requested at office[at]cellprojects[dot]org.
     
    Curator Jessie Krish
     
    Biblioteka is a reference library with a variety of rare and special collections of books, zines and other printed materials within the fields of art, architecture and design.
     
    Feminist Duration Reading Group (FDRG) established in 2015, is a gathering focused on feminisms outside the dominant Anglo-American canon. It juxtaposes earlier moments of radical feminist thought, art, and collective practice with current urgencies. The group has developed a practice of reading out loud, together, one paragraph at a time, with the aim of creating a sense of connection and intimacy during meetings.
     
    CEED Feminisms is a Research Group of the British Art Network (BAN). BAN is a Subject Specialist Network supported by Tate and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, with additional public funding provided by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. CEED Feminisms is additionally supported by Cockayne Foundation.British Art Network logo