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Where I'm Coming From
3 - 30 August 2020
Supported by the Yinka Shonibare Foundation and the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan; in partnership with Pineapple Lab
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Where I’m Coming From is a month-long digital residency dedicated to four languages that are present and spoken by a significant portion of the migrant community actively working and contributing to the British economy and yet highly invisible: Filipino, Taiwanese, Yoruba and Berber languages. The programme aims to open up conversations around the exclusivity of language in accessing the production and consumption of arts and culture, alongside considering the wider cultural presence of underrepresented artists and groups in international art debates. The project orients towards increasing opportunities for new ways of working collaboratively, rethinking the impact and role of arts and culture in a pandemic and post-pandemic scenario. It emphasises with careful thought the vested importance of highlighting diversity and multiculturalism in such unique times. Along with this, the project also experiments on how to relocate as well as adapt concepts from one milieu to another - from a physical IRL space as the programme was initially conceived, to its current translation into the digital domain. Where I’m Coming From directly engages with community groups by inviting them to lead food sessions each Sunday, allowing the general audience to learn about each cultural group’s cuisine to possibly reproduce and engage in their own homes. Artists: Aderemi Adegbite, Taiwo Aiyedogbon, Jelili Atiku, Rhine Bernardino, Kuan-Yu Chen, Aki Pao-Chen Chiu, Yun Ling Chen, Fatima Mazmouz, Gouri Mounir, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussens, Aïcha El Beloui, Vanessa Scully Sign up to the newsletter here [email protected] or follow us on instagram, Facebook and twitter @guestprojects @inventoryplatform #WICF #WhereImComingFrom |
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ACCESS INFORMATION
The weekly programme will be shared through Guest Projects’ digital website http://www.guestprojects.com/guestprojectsdigital. Some works will be there for audiences to experience anytime, others will premiere at a specific time and date. Audiences can take part in the live chat while watching a Youtube Premiere by logging into their YouTube account. Weekly updates will also be posted on Facebook (Guest Projects), Twitter (@guestprojects), and sent to subscribers of Guest Projects mailing list at [email protected]. Daily updates will be posted on Instagram at @guestprojects.
The four-week programme will try to be as accessible as possible, though we recognize this will be challenging with the resources available. All the pre-recorded videos will be subtitled, with translations available from one of the four languages to English, and vice versa. Audio files are available for artists’ biographies and descriptions of works and all Live performances are available to watch with subtitles three days after the Live. An easy read guide is available for each week ‘s programme.
Some events will be streamed for a limited time and others will remain live on the website according to the individual artist’s discretion. Video can be paused for toilet breaks and rest breaks only when NOT Livestreamed. For inquiries, please email [email protected]
The weekly programme will be shared through Guest Projects’ digital website http://www.guestprojects.com/guestprojectsdigital. Some works will be there for audiences to experience anytime, others will premiere at a specific time and date. Audiences can take part in the live chat while watching a Youtube Premiere by logging into their YouTube account. Weekly updates will also be posted on Facebook (Guest Projects), Twitter (@guestprojects), and sent to subscribers of Guest Projects mailing list at [email protected]. Daily updates will be posted on Instagram at @guestprojects.
The four-week programme will try to be as accessible as possible, though we recognize this will be challenging with the resources available. All the pre-recorded videos will be subtitled, with translations available from one of the four languages to English, and vice versa. Audio files are available for artists’ biographies and descriptions of works and all Live performances are available to watch with subtitles three days after the Live. An easy read guide is available for each week ‘s programme.
Some events will be streamed for a limited time and others will remain live on the website according to the individual artist’s discretion. Video can be paused for toilet breaks and rest breaks only when NOT Livestreamed. For inquiries, please email [email protected]
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ARTISTS & CONTRIBUTORS
Artists:
Aderemi Adegbite is an artist-curator living and working in Lagos. His current thematic interest is how past experiences (agonies, joys, businesses, travels and religious beliefs) of being part of a family reshape the individual’s present conditions, and serve as catalysts for “the” surrealistic future. The psychological effect of the idea “one for all, all for one,” is at the centre of Aderemi’s new interrogations and interventions through multimedia, installation and unconventional performance practice.
Taiwo Aiyedogbon graduated from the department of Fine Art, Sculpture, at the Yaba College of Technology Lagos, Nigeria. In her practice, she explores a variety of methods for self-expression including painting, experimental drawing, sculpture, installation and performance art. Her works often touch upon current issues related to politics and the environment in the city of Lagos. She was the project coordinator of the alternative community art school (COMMUNAL RE-IMAGINATION) funded by the Prince Claus fund and worked as Curatorial Assistance at the Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos, (CCA) Lagos Nigeria. She has participated in exhibitions and performances including ‘African Time’ (Malmo, Sweden) 2015, ‘Ipele’ at the National Museum (Lagos, Nigeria) 2017, ‘Threshold’ as part of the inaugural Lagos Biennial (Lagos, Nigeria) 2017 and ‘Flip’ (Kumasi, Ghana)2019, ‘Mirror Mirror’ at Artx, Federal Palace (Lagos, Nigeria) 2019.
Jelili Atiku born on Friday 27th September 1968 is a Nigerian multimedia artist with political concerns for human rights and justice. He strives to help viewers understand the world and expand their understanding and experiences, so that they can activate and renew their lives and environments. He has travelled widely and participated in numerous performances/exhibitions/talks in Africa, America, Asia and Europe. These include performances at Manifesta 12 (2018), Venice Biennial (2017), Dublin Live Art Festival (2016), SPIELART Festival, München, Germany (2019), Material Effects at Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan, USA (2015), Tate Modern (2012) etc. In 2015, Jelili was awarded Prince Claus Laureate for creating a new artistic language combining Yoruba traditional art forms with international performance practice; and for taking personal and artistic risks in order to open new possibilities and reach wider audiences; and for his pioneering dedication to establishing space for contemporary performance art in Nigeria.
Rhine Bernardino is an artist, curator and researcher with a background in filmmaking. She is the first Filipino artist with an MA Fine Art degree (Sculpture) from the Royal College of Art, for which she was awarded the highly-regarded Abraaj-RCA Innovation Scholarship. Rhine has curated and exhibited her artwork internationally especially in Europe and Asia including public commissions such as Nine Elms on the South Bank. Rhine has been invited to take part in several international art residencies and programmes most recently as part of the Australia Arts Council’s Future Leaders Programme and Office of Contemporary Art (OCA) Norway’s International Visitors Programme. She’s been doing an extensive field research, creating a mapping of art collectives, alternative spaces and community-based projects across the globe. A big part of it is oriented towards creating a model of holistic living on waters guided by the knowledge of indigenous peoples.
Kuan-Yu Chen is a choreographer, teacher, dancer, contact improviser, and somatic practitioner from Taiwan. She has performed, taught, and presented works in the USA, China, Japan, Sweden, Spain, Canada, Philippines, Turkey, and the UK. She is also the co-founder of Tipsy Point Projects (USA) and DanceOutHK (Hong Kong). She has spent over 10 years developing her dance practice, which is a combination of release technique and contact improvisation, and often uses different elements such as audience interaction and playing with different perspectives through movement, environment, and technology.
Aki Pao-Chen Chiu was born in Taiwan, 1987. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art, London after completing her MA at the same college in 2017. She received her BFA from the National Taiwan University of Fine Arts in 2009. Chiu's series of installation works have been selected in the Newly Emerging Artists in Taiwan 3D Creation Series. She has also participated in public art projects such as Play on Street by JFAA in 2010. Chiu is among artists selected for Becoming, a group exhibition at RCA’s Dyson Gallery presented by Sedition and Subject Matter. She is also shortlisted for ARTAGON.III with her series moving image works presented in RCA degree show 2017.
Yun Ling Chen focuses on loose connections between things, humans and languages. As this enables us all to be actors who are reconfigured into constellations that produce more caring/imaginative present(s) and future(s). Together with things, humans and languages she aims to build to a non-teleological and non-hierarchical conclusion in relation to each other. Setting a play of jumping between knowing and not known, by taking all the recognizable information away, she forces the viewer to be in between the familiar and unfamiliar situation of re-seeing an thing again. Yun ling Chen won third prize in the Bloom Award by Warsteiner (2017), Germany. Recent exhibitions include Laure Genilard Gallery (2018), London; A.P.T. Gallery (2017), London; Bankley Gallery (2017), Manchester; and The Harley Gallery (2017), Nottinghamshire. Yun Ling Chen lives and works in London and is represented by Alfa Gallery, Florida, USA.
Aïcha El Beloui is a Moroccan Illustrator. She is an Architect by training. She worked within the Heritage field before deciding to convert to a creative career, in response to a need to express the invisible in the city. She uses drawing, research, and mapping to illustrate people's perceptions of their cities and places. She is currently taking a Master’s Degree in Art and Public Space in Oslo. She also works as a Creative Director and a Graphic Designer.
Fatima Mazmouz (b.1974, Casablanca) The bellies of silence, power and against powers, is the generic title which gathers all the works of Fatima. She creates work that critiques the social constructions of womanhood and identity, and explores colonial inheritance. The body as a tool for communication is a central theme in her work, which often includes an element of performance by the artist herself. Mazmouz pursued art history academically, which prompted her decades-long research and exploration of art history in Arab countries, studying socio-cultural phenomena at the heart of the colonial and post-colonial ruling system. Recent exhibitions include RAW QUEENS, The mosaic room, London (2019); Afriques Capitales, Parc de la Villette, Paris (2017); SUPER OUM _ Identités culturelles, Galerie Mamia Bretesché, Paris (2016).
Mounir Gouri is an interdisciplinary artist from Annaba, Algeria who lives and works between Annaba and Paris, France where he is currently pursuing a degree at the Ecole Nationale Supérieur d'Art de Cergy-Paris. He holds a BFA from the École des Beaux-Arts in Annaba. His work was included in the Pan-African Festival in Algiers in 2009, the Oran Biennial of Contemporary Art in 2016, and the International Festival of Digital Art in Egypt in 2017. He has also been shown in Barcelona, Spain at the Fort Pienc Civic Center (2018) and at the Ateliers Sauvages in Algiers (2019). In 2019, he won the Friend’s Prize for Young Contemporary Arab Creation from the Institut de Monde Arabe in Paris, France.
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (b.1970, Manila) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Copenhagen. Through her practice, Cuenca Rasmussen navigates between different kinds of realities and extremes, creating perfectly staged theatre performances, music videos and raw documentaries. Her work is based on a mixture of personal confessionals and political commitment, approaching issues such as identity, gender and social relations. In 2011 Cuenca Rasmussens participated in the Venice Biennale in the Danish pavilion with Afghan Hound. In 2012 she was awarded the Eckersberg Medal. Recent exhibitions include Hybridization (solo) Charlotte Fogh Gallery, Aarhus (2020); Seafocus Art Fair Singapore with The Drawing Room, Singapore Biennale, SAM, Singapore (2020); Personal Structures,TIME SPACE EXISTENCE, Palazzo Mora, (GAA Foundation) Venice (2019); From here we stand- National Identity (solo), Horsens Art Museum, Denmark (2019).
Vanessa Scully Vanessa Scully (1982) is an Australian artist and filmmaker based in London, working with film, video and archives. Scully has a socially engaged, pluralistic approach to filmmaking working with time and space to explore marginalised narratives related to labor, environment and indigenous knowledge. Most recent projects explore her mixed-race heritage as a person of colour, which include: Decolonizing Marisa (2019), The Mail Order Bride (2018), Marisa 4.0 (2018), Maid in Mayfair (2017), A-Z Filipino Exports (2015). Scully is also a community filmmaker and programmer, supporting groups with activist films and campaigns, including videos with The Voice of Domestic Workers for various campaign including ‘Save Jennifer Delquez’ (2017) and ‘Reverse Tied Visa’ (2017). Scully graduated with an MA in Experimental Film from Kingston School and Art (2019), BA in Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Art (2012) Diploma in Visual Art at TAFE (2003) and a Certificate III in Community Radio Broadcasting from Community Broadcasting Association Australia (2004). She is a recipient of a Developing your Creative Practice Grant (2019), funded by the Arts Council of England for international research in the Philippines.
Cooking Session
Keegan Chen and Lilly Yang have shared a long, intimate friendship and many warm meals for more than a decade. Beginning from the tiny studio flat they shared in the heart of Taipei City...above a traditional night market. Both living in London since 2015; still they often cook and eat together, through the ups and downs of life. Keegan began working in a lauded Taiwanese restaurant since first landing in London in 2015 following his innate love for working with food. He now runs the show in the back of house bakery which supplies the hand-made dough based products for the restaurants’ four locations. Lilly is a visual artist with a background in fashion design; she works across different mediums of storytelling. Her work often explores the intimate narratives of family and culture. They are joined by culinary entrepreneur Pao-Yu Liu.
Mr Berber Cook: Abdellatif, 29 : Cook and the founder of Mr Berber Cook Channel. He is also the director of their cooking videos. Bilal, 26: English teacher and a musician, also the spokesperson of Mr Berber Cook team and the voice speaking on the videos. Faysal, 30: Cameraman of the team and video editor, also directs sometimes.
Pinoy's Kitchen: Activism, volunteerism and food are words that bind the group together. Even coming from different walks of life, they were destined to meet in Kanlungan (Filipino organisation) All participants are originally from the Philippines. Gender, personality and life paths have never been an issue for all the participants to bond and form friendship.
Niel Camilon, architect and proud member of LGBTQI+ community is from the province of Iloilo, Philippines. He migrated to the UK WITH his British husband. He volunteered delivering food to Filipino nurses that were affected by food panic-buying during the first stage of the pandemic in the UK. Cooking Filipino food is his outlet to alleviate the effect of homesickness.
Anna Caunceran, domestic worker and survivor of human trafficking in the UK. She is from Mindoro, Philippines and a mother of 4 children. Anna is one of the participants of the #statusnow4al (Regularisation of Undocumented in the UK) campaign and she’s fighting back to get her legal status here in the UK.
Helen Bulusan, chairperson of the Filipino women’s group Gabriela London. Her group advocates for women’s empowerment, gender equality and fights injustice in the Philippines. She is from the province of Antique and a mother of 3 children.
Phoebe Dimacali, chairperson of the Filipino Domestic Worker Association UK. Her organisation rescues and assists domestic workers that are victims of human trafficking and modern slavery in the UK. She’s a mother of 2 and from Bulacan.
Idowu Bankole graduated from the Department of Industrial Design (Textile), at the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, Nigeria. Idowu Bankole hails from Osun State, one of Nigeria’s Yoruba Territory known with rich Culture and Traditions. She is a multi-disciplinary artist that explores a variety of methods as she is known with a profound knowledge in Textiles and employing the use of colourful pigments on surfaces which are presented through diverse forms which includes Drawings, Paintings, Tie/Dye, Batik, Performance Art and Installation. Her works often engages directly with the environment and people.
Chinwe Erica Tijani: A married self-employed woman of two children. She is a neighbour to Idowu. Her area of specialty is knitting all kinds of wools into cardigans, dresses, etc. She is a very good cook in addition to her handwork.
Blessing: a friend that helps, supports and manages the welfare of the entire house.
Erykah Ifidon: A smart and intelligent high school student with so much energy and she loves to learn and explore.
Taiwo Aiyedogbon: An artist, a friend and colleague. She hails from one of the Yoruba speaking indigenes but based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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