Studioing: Reverberant forms

This session is facilitated by Yewande YoYo Odunubi and invited curator Pelumi Odubanjo.Beginning with an invitation to share practice, Yewande and Pelumi bring their respective artistic and curatorial research into conversation, exploring shared interests in acts of translation and transmission: how knowledge, collective memory and culture are shaped and carried across African and b/Black diasporic contexts, moving between bodies, images, sound and text through live performance. Joined by practitioners brother portrait, Auclair afromerm, and Adedamola Bajomo, they ask what might emerge when research is opened up through collective encounter, exchange and freestyle-improvisation. Drawing on ideas, materials, and provocations developed through a series of closed study sessions in the days before, the group will continue to interpret, remix, and reconfigure them through their individual practices and in live response to one another. This public sharing opens up their ongoing process to an audience. Unfolding through freestyle improvisation and exchange, Reverberant forms invites audiences to witness distinct practices meeting in the present moment and consider how knowledge and ideas can be digested, reworked and transformed as they move between people, practices and contexts. This event has been funded by the Four Nations International Fund through Arts Council England, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Arts Council Wales, Creative Scotland and Wales Arts International.