Studioing: Reverberant forms

This session is presented by Yewande YoYo Odunubi in collaboration with 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. Joined by practitioners brother portrait, Auclair, afromerm and Adedamola Bajomo, they ask what might emerge when research is opened up through live practice, collective encounter and exchange, and freestyle-improvisation. Drawing on ideas, materials and provocations developed during 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 their ongoing process to an audience, inviting reflection on how these exchanges are absorbed, reworked and transformed as they move between people, practices and contexts. This event is funded by the Four Nations International Fund through Arts Council England, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Arts Council Wales, Creative Scotland, and Wales Arts International.