CV

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Designed Experiments

"les ongles noirs", vision builder, Eastside Projects Birmingham, Ban Workshop Dakar Senegal, funded by FABRIC, ACE, and Fluxus Art Projects, 2023-2024.

"Papaya" co-artistic director, writer, performance artist, curator (2021), UK-Luxembourg, 2019 - 2023.
unregulated Black intimacy, 10 Black feminist film commissions, papaya, funded by the UK City of Culture Trust and Britsh Council, 2021.

"B.O.O.K (Building Our Own Knowledge)" founder, working group member and artist-curator
10 art residencies, 3 commissions, film curation events, coordination working group, B.O.O.K podcast co-host -
funded by the National Lottery Community Fund, and Coventry Biennial, UK, 2020 - 2023.
stowage and what not, film curatorial intervention, Vivid Project, Yard Art House, Public House, Birmingham, UK, October 2022.

"Open Call" founder and artist-curator, invited by Studies Theatre and Performance journal
artist-researchers commissions, organising online public events, coordination working group, co-curation for special issues, and honey moon residencies
funded by Drama HE, UK, 2020 - 2023.

Reach out artist/ Self-designed seasonal Residencies, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry Artspace, funded by ACE and Coventry City Council, Coventry, UK,
2020- 2022.

"Hybrid artistic researcher" Un Oeuf Maison d'artistes, Artists' House, funded by EU leadership fund, Martinique, Caribbeans, 2018.

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Performance commissions

"a rendition of stifled ghost-spells", live performance, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, 10th August 2023.
"suturing a wound", live performance, commissioned by itch, performance night curated and organised by Sym Stellium in collaboration with Fierce Festival, Birmingham UK, 7th July 2023.
"PAPAYA" premiere at KuFa, Kulturfabrik cultural centre, Esch, Luxembourg, 12th and 13th May 2023.
"de la boue et des racines", part of We Make Tomorrow a summit exploring the urgency of climate justice organised by Julie's Bicycle invited by MAIA, Birmingham, UK, 2022.
"Who's gonna clean the mess of/in your garden?", part of Love, Celebration & the Road Ahead, Hettie Judah's How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents) booklaunch, TJ Boulting gallery, London, UK, 29th September 2022.
"Who's gonna clean the mess of/in your garden?" Performance N’ Tha, SPILL YER TEA #6, Liverpool, UK, 24th September 2022.
funeral of normativity, street performance, Coventry Artspace, Coventry, UK, 14 February 2021.

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Group shows

"linoleum dreams", Coventry Biennial, Coventry, UK, 2021.
"les mains de ma mère", All Bound Together?, curated by Elinor Hayes, Shape Arts, UK, 2021.
"multiplicity of us", curated by melissandre varin, Arcadia Gallery, UK, July-August 2021.
"Red is the colour... my mother", Art and Activism curated by Helen Wewiora, Outside In, UK, 2020.
"To be, breathe, and perform" The Criposium, digital exhibition, UK, 2020.
"flour and Earth 1/3", Collectif24, digital exhibition, curated by the Caribbean collective, 2020.
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Solo exhibitions
"half-pronounced incantations", a toilet and bathroom installation at Yard Art House, Birmingham, UK, 2022.
"sorry we are close(d)", Coventry Artspace Arcadia City Gallery, Coventry, 2021.
"a living space", Coventry Artspace Arcadia City Gallery, Coventry, UK, 2020.

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Mixed media commissions

"Tending towards non-extractive collective mechanisms to archive social art B.O.O.K as one of many examples". A case study for the Framing Social Practice toolkit, Lady Kitt, UK2022: how to do nothing?, writing commission Social Works?, Axis, 2022.
"re-assembling", a zine+material format working with 18 months of personal archives, Coventry Artspace, Coventry, UK, 2022.
"plastic flowers", film commission, ShapeArt, UK, 2021.
"linoleum dreams" (art, library, and rest station), Coventry Biennial, UK, 2021.
"extraction of knowledge", Life Futures, Coventry University and Warwick University, UK,2021.
"love languageS", Apples and Snakes, UK, 2021.
"an Other ABC", a ludic game-zine, collaboration with 2yo Eole, Axisweb, UK, 2021.
"synthetising violence", sculpture, stark bollock naked, commissioned by Larisa Faber,CID Fraen Gender, Luxembourg,2021.
"staying in touch", film commission, commissioned by Culture Central, Birmingham, UK, 2020.
#BlackLivesMatter, screen-based performance, Slanguages, FUEL, and Don't Settle, UK, 2020.
"Eating the (m)other", digital live performance, Word of warning, Manchester, UK, 2020.
"Corps Responda/ence", DO IT YOURSELF, Text based mails on performance, Coventry Biennial, Coventry, UK, 2020.
"Uninterrupted forms of resistance", screen-based performance,Coventry Pride, Coventry UK, 2020.

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Creative Consultancy

For What It’s Worth / Creative Research Cluster on human breast milk, part of Jess Dobkin's Welcome Milk Project, remote, October-November 2022.
Creative consultant, Black Queer n'done, Coventry Pride, UK, 2021-2022.
movement consultant, Motherland, Ayesha Jones, project supported by Unlimited, 2021.

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Selected Facilitation, workshop, and mentorship

"reverberation, tending to your art ecosystem", BEAF Arts Co, Boscombe, Bournemouth, 1st March 2024.
"What happens after we scream?", Sonic Signal workshop invited by Ruth Claxton and Abbas Zahedi, Eastside Projects and Chandos Primary School, Birmingham UK, 21st June 2023.
host for Marquis Bey presentation“Jailbreaking Race: Abolition and Fugitive Blackness” invited by Dr. Ben Spatz, part of Lines of Flight 2023:BLACK METHODS,23 May 2023.
"together in the mud", performance workshop, part of Staying with the trouble, Vivid Projects, UK, 23rd March 2023.
"Who's gonna clean the mess of/in your garden?", During Alberta Whittle's We gather and dream of new congregations, Grand Union, Birmingham,UK, November 2022.
"A warm hug, casual talk and rocking on pillows together", with Roxane Mbanga , part of NOIRES, San Mei Gallery, London, UK, October 2022.
Lead performance artist mentor, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, Outside In Explorer Programme, August 2022.
invited curator, Wolverhampton Arts School Degree Art Show, UK, April and June 2022.
"(Black) liberation?", Papaya workshop, Warwick Arts Centre, UK, February 2022.
facilitator, Art For The People, facilitation of a Citizens’ Assembly, Talking Birds, UK, October to December 2021.

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Selected Talks, conversation, interviews, and publication

studio visit, Eastside Projects, online talk, 22nd February 2024.
eco-feminist intimacies and my performance arts practice - MA Contemporary Performance program at Liverpool Hope University, UK, January 2023.
Don’t mother me podcast with Zinzi Bunchanan, Laura Lulika, melissandre varin, and Sheena MCGrandles, 2nd December 2021.
life futures, round table with Carolina Rito, Abhijan Toto, and Jessika Khazrik, Patricia Domínguez and Antonia Taulis, Hannah Honeywill, Daniele Lorenzini, and Federico Testa, Coventry University, Warwick University, UK, November 2021.
Institutional AntiRacism, panel conversation, TAPRA conference, UK, September 2021.
Peckham-based arts collective launches online exhibition of work by disabled and non-disabled artists, 2021.
Black imagination(s), curated by Amahra Spence, Imagination Infrastructuring, UK, June 2021.
Visibility BlackArtProject talking about the work of Keith Piper and Lubaina Himid, June and August 2021.
artist talk, student showcase, Roehampton University, London UK, June 2021.
anti-racism and performance arts, Brunel University, London, UK, March 2021.
funeral of normativity, Switchboard, fundraising artist talk, UK, February 2021.
"practice of resistance process of mothering", and round table with Yinka Esi Graves, Patricia Carolin Mai, organised by Karen Gallagher, Dance Democracy 2, UK, February 2021.
Axisweb December Artist of the month, 2020.
Freezing elements of research, Journal of Embodied Research (JER), UK, 2020.
Black Feminist Workshops, poetry and home movie, CID Fraen Gender, Luxembourg, 2019.

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Residencies and Awards

Eastside Projects incidental artist, Birmingham, UK, 2023- 2024.
Festival d'Avignon, artist honeymoon, curated programme for Open Call, Studies in Theatre and Performance journal, i invited Taja Lindley, Jade Blackstock, nomi blum, and Niya B. to take our respective performance arts honeymoons in 2023, 18th- 22nd July 2023.
learner at PRESENT TO PRESENCE PERFORMANCE ART LABORATORY 1 with Melati Suryodarmo, and live art lab 2 part of Melati Suryodarmo's PASSIONATE PILGRIM exhibition Vivid Projects and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK,
May + 9-13th August 2023.
Butoh in Nature residency with Vangeline organised by Intercultural Roots, 13th- 16h July 2023.
papaya, collective production residency, KuFa, Kulturfabrik cultural centre, Esch, Luxembourg, 24th April- 12th May 2023.
papaya, embodied research residency, Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois TROIS C-L, Luxembourg,
13th February - 3rd March 2023.
Nominated Recipient of the Henry Moore Artist Award 2022, 2023.
B.O.O.K collective residency: from access riders to strategising, Nest Daimler Power House, Talking Birds, UK, July and September 2022.
making - abroad, self-designed research residency, Dak'Art African Contemporary Art, Biennial, Dakar, SE, June 2022.
How to build a loving environment? at Nest Daimler Power House, Talking Birds - artist residency, UK, March 2022.
Building the City of Dreams at Yard Art House, MAIA, Birmingham - collective artist residency, UK, March 2022.
papaya at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry - collective artist residency, workshop, performance, UK, February 2022.
Our Teaching Takes Shape As We Go, international project Africa/UK: Transforming Art Ecologies, curated by Soukaina Aboulaoula, and Cindy Sissokho, New Arts Exchange, Morocco, November 2021.
Cities of Cultures: Sharing Practices of Storytelling between Casablanca and Coventry, curated by Lou Sarabadzic, 2021 - 2022.
Black TestimonieS, Small Bells Ring, Studio Morison, funded by the UK City of Culture Trust, Canal Boat, UK,
September 2021.
Building Our Own Knowledge (B.O.O.K), research and development, Coventry Biennial, UK, 2020 - 2021.
when things go wrong, Talking Birds, Coventry, UK, November 2020.
Outside In Featured artist, Midlands, UK, December 2020.
handle/ with care, prendre/ avec soin, film in collaboration with Jérémie Priam, Coventry - Martinique, Outside In, UK, September 2020.
Coventry Artspace in Action Award, 2020.
in-between-us, Theatre Absolute, Coventry, UK, July 2020.
Nest residency with Eole, Talking Birds, Coventry, UK, May 2020.

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Education

temporary retiring (from work), 14th October 2023 - 15th February 2024.

"anointment, on embodiment" DYCP - with mentorship by Other Spaces; self-love tribute CARE; liberation strategist Michelle Philipps; spiritual care coordinator Sym Mendez; and dancer Dan Lukehurst - artistic collaboration with Ayesha Jones, , Arts Council England funded self-designed research and development, Berlin, Wales, Birmingham, Helsinki, June-October 2023.

Fierce Lab, queer performance arts, Birmingham, UK, October 2022.

(Algo/Afro) futures trained by Antonio Roberts, Vivid Project, UK, Summer 2022.

curatorial training, Outside In, UK, August-September 2021.

School of Participation, Creative Europe, Novi Sad, Serbia, April 2021.

Film liberation, home-based film school, UK, 2020.

(voluntarily discontinued) PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies and Sciences du Language, Universities of Warwick and Luxembourg, UK Luxembourg, 2018-2020.

MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development,UCL Development Planning Unit, UK, 2015-2016.

Intensive Mandarin course, Fudan University, ShangHai, China, 2013-2014.

BA in International Management, Toulouse Business School, France, 2011-2015.