“… Money talks, Dirty cash I want you, dirty cash I need you, oho”
This DIY is run in partnership with Chapter.
“Abundant Justice (Money Talks) is a workshop immersion across two weekends for Black artists, creatives and cultural workers where we will, through a series of facilitated conversations; a virtual dinner; reading and listening sessions; as well as moments for wellness and care, have frank conversations about our current relationship to abundance, scarcity and wealth. We will harness planetary and elemental energies as support, honouring their invitation to plant new seeds. Participants will leave the workshop feeling better resourced and nourished, with tools to build sustainability into their practice.”
“Due to the current moment we find ourselves in, this workshop will take place virtually, enabling participants from any location to participate. Please ensure you have access to comfortable space where you won’t be disturbed. There will also be an opportunity to interact with each other off zoom, outside of the dates listed below on a platform determined by the group.”
“This DIY is open to Black artists, creatives and cultural workers who would like to examine their current relationship to abundance, scarcity and wealth in a supportive environment. Prioritising those who also inhabit other intersecting identities such as queer and/or disabled; it will be intergenerational, inviting practitioners at different stages of practice so we can all learn from each other.
Please submit a brief statement (1-2 paragraphs or 5 minutes max) in response to the following prompts, in writing or as a voice note if easier, no later than Wednesday 24th March. I look forward to hearing from you.”
Video/audio applications are also accepted and should be sent via WeTransfer to [email protected]
Evan Ifekoya is an artist and energy worker who through sound, text, video and performance places demands on existing systems and institutions of power, to recentre and prioritise the experience and voice of those previously marginalised. Through archival and sonic investigations, they speculate on blackness in abundance. In 2020, Ifekoya established the project Blackness and Light Investment Strategy for Sustainability (B.L.I.S.S) – multi sensory offerings with the elevation of Black consciousness in mind. They have been part of the collectively run and QTIBPOC (queer, trans*, intersex, black and people of colour) led Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.) since 2018.
A list of the artist development workshops being run as part of DIY 2020.
Artistic practice as queer civics: a series of online encounters about making better worlds through lived experience, material support, fun, and mutation.
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Read moreA six-week collectively-generated course on and in Fat Performance for fat people.
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Read moreAutobiographical sessions for postcolonial diaspora. Bodies as places of legacy; voice as ancestral calling; sharing stories; rituals; being vulnerable together.
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Read moreWhite Vinegar Workshop revolves around the quote from leading New York artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles “After the revolution, who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?”.
Read moreLeonie and Ishwari will be working to explore alternative processes of mapping time and landscape, moving away from ideas of linearity and colonial legacies of demarcation. Focussing on process rather than production, they will do this using plant-based darkroom printing, fermentation and chorus interventions.
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Read moreA workshop aimed at fans and future fans of the late great Katherine Araniello, a queer, crip, red-headed firebrand whose work lives on to disturb and tantalize in equal measure.
Read moreA workshop for artists who lost projects in 2020, sharing what we have lost, learned and gained, creating mourning rituals and (re)discovering our individual and collective resources.
Read moreAn online residency queerying ‘The politics of Intimacy’ within our bodies and lives as well as in our creative practice/s
Read moreA Way Away uses the mode of correspondence course to explore ideas around distance – spatial and temporal, physical and social, imagined and real.
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Read moreApply to participate in DIY 2020; workshops developed and lead BY artists, FOR artists
Read moreThe first in a series of workshop sessions for SWANA young people to find out more about creative careers, and exchange knowledge with not only each other, but boss industry professionals smashing it in their fields.
Read moreProfessional development projects – BY artists FOR artists – across the UK.
Read moreAn intimate online pleasure LAB for disabled queers exploring Kink as an artistic tool for self-care.
Read more“Why should anybody listen to you if you are not a good neighbour?”
Read moreIt’s about sex. Sex as education. Sex re-education.
Read moreA retreat for artists of colour to explore how their work journeys in dialogue with futurity
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