Curatorial:
CARE, RESISTANCE... JOY! (2022-2023)
Care, Resistance... Joy! was a public engagement programme at Rhubaba Gallery and Studios. This year-long project (2021-22) included a series of public workshops, screenings, talks, publications, and artist co-commissions which considered structures of care, power, and histories of (queer, disabled, environmentalist, and anticolonial) community action whilst centring joy as an act of resistance through mutual-aid and creative practices.
Taking place over the spring and summer of 2022, the programme was led by selected artists and facilitators: Sunanda Mesquita, Ella Yolande, The Institute for Postnatural Studies, Emilia Beatriz, Sandra Alland, and Etzali Hernández.
Events: Tapping into Deocolnial Joy an online workshop led by Sunanda Mesquita; Threads of Care a banner making workshop led by Ella Yolande at St Margarate’s House; a two-part weekend workshop Desireable Future, Hybrid Bodies led by The Institute for Postnatural Studies at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and Holyrood Park; an audio transmission, Greif Offerings (End of) Life Wishes led by Emilia Beatriz, Sandra Alland, and Etzali Hernández with contributions by poets Nat Raha, Jeda Pearl and Andrés N. Ordorica.