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RESEARCH PROJECTS
RESEARCH:
HYDRO FUTURES/ MEMORY ECOLOGIES
SEMINAR PRODUCER (2023)
Hydro Futures / Memory Ecologies is an offering that prompts a close listening to water’s retellings. The invited speakers bring together conversations about the mythical, political and personal value of water, as we ourselves connect across time and (non)place throughout the seminar series.
Hosted by The Institute of Postnatural Studies and Rhubaba Gallery & Studios, the speakers of this seminar series considered the influence of Afrofuturism and Black Geographies on their work in the fields of visual art, poetry, literature, queer and gender studies, and psychotherapy.
Speaker included: Deborah Jack, Clementine E. Burnley, Rinaldo Walcott, Natasha Thembiso Ruwona, and Chan Fagan-Clarke.
RESEARCH:
PODCAST JOY WITHIN THE TROUBLE (2022)
Rhubaba committee members Freya Yeates and Khadea Santi speak with artists and co-founders of The Institute for Postnatural Studies, Gabriel Alonso and Yuri Tuma.
Gabriel and Yuri were invited to reflect upon ideas which informed their workshop sessions Desirable Futures, Hybrid Bodies, which were produced for Rhubaba’s Care, Resistance…Joy! programme.
RESEARCH/FILM:
AN ENDING, A BEGINNING (2021)
An Ending, A Beginning, 2021. 4k video and digitised super 8, 02:29.
Through a story of butterfly metamorphosis, this film explores collective grief and loss as a potentially transformative force to develop community and construct better ways of living and thinking together.
Selected: Glasgow Zine Festival (GZF) 2022, Within/Between Community Shorts Programme, Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) Glasgow.
A curated selection of short films made by talented members of the GZF community invites us to consider the bonds between us, the moments in which they are formed, the moments in which they are lost, and how we choose to remember, change and build together. Collectivity, heritage, memory, grief and transformation converge and diverge in this diverse selection of films that span documentary, animation and experimental forms. There will be a 15 minute interval during this screening.