16:15 - 20:00 UTC
MFA workshop - all our relations
jade de montserrat
Sunday, 24 Sept 2023
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16:30 - 17:00 UTC
17:15 - 20:00 UTC
MFA Group meeting
With syowia kyambi
sunday quiddities
Self-organised
public talk - an introduction to practice, process and praxis
with jade de montserrat
Image credit: Jacqui Barrowcliffe
Jade’s talk aims to address her praxis: a combination of critical and creative practice, and activation, highlighting performance drawing installation/live art/works on paper No Need for Clothing, and its iterations. These artworks, each endowed with their own methodology and references, combine to inform an aesthetic and praxis, draw from personal experience and memory, and are constructed by means of an inherent analysis of the materials used. The body of work considers community and communality as a material axis for belonging and imagining, within and beyond the frame of art-making and art discourse. Can making performance and live art be thought of as a grammar for drawing, with the body as a medium? Speaking of an emergent Black subjectivity in postcolonial Caribbean cinema in his essay Cultural Identity and Diaspora, Stuart Hall posed the question: “From where does he/she speak?” Taking this further, she asks: how might his question expand the methodological role and function of performance and location from a Northern premise? And from where, therefore, is my (and by implication all Othered bodies’) space, and place?
In his essay “Cultural Identity and Diaspora,” Stuart Hall posed the question: “From where does he/she speak?” Taking this further, Jade asks: how might his question expand the methodological role and function of performance and location from a Northern premise? And from where, therefore, is my (and by implication all Othered bodies’) space, and place?
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mfa workshop — all our relations
WITH jade de montserrat
record recode, Jade Montserrat 2018 Durational drawing performance with charcoal
4717, Royal College of Art, 2018
Photographer: Ollie Harrop
With an autoethnographic approach, participants in this workshop will consider multiple texts in parallel with experiential writing to create text that considers and comments upon intersections of race, climate catastrophe, and history. Whose story is being told and how do we speak in concert? Stuart Hall posed the question, “From where does he or she speak?”, prompting thinking about alternative archives and alternative histories to dominant Western hegemonic versions. Coming to reflect on our writing as in dialogue with critical writing, such as Stuart Hall’s ensures that we might enunciate with greater confidence on how personal identity and links to the African Diaspora is reflected in our work, and why our work matters within the context of Black Diasporan artmaking, culture, and heritage. We will discuss how we might confidently carve out methods from which to safely speak and speak with care within our writing. We will work intuitively: “identity as a ‘production’, which is never complete, always in process, and always constituted within, not outside, representation”.
Writers we will refer to within the workshop include Saidiya Hartman, Dionne Brand, Emma Dabiri, Patricia Hill Collins, Lola Olufemi, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Jason Allen-Paissant, Christina Sharpe, and Minna Salami.