WHEN BIPOC ARTISTS NOURISH THEMSELVES WE ARE MIXING UP THE STAGNANT ENERGIES AND ALLOW MOVEMENT SO OTHERS CAN TRAVEL FORWARD AND BEYOND. THE RELEASE OF OUR CREATIVITY RIPPLES OUT AND HEALS.
MS BRIDGFORTH PULLED THREE CARDS FROM AN ORACLE DECK SHE HAD CREATED ASKING “WHAT DOES DIVINE LOVE WANT ME TO KNOW RIGHT NOW?”
THE MESSAGE WAS: CLEANSE, DANCE AND CLEANSE.
Rebel Mariposa
Chicana Indigenous Artist and Chef from Texas
This room called GROUND is a space in support of queer, diasporic BIPoC artists and [cultural] worker allies. In times like this, for many of us the forms of being together might be dangerous and often impossible. Jobs are getting canceled and postponed, interactions are being held always mediated by a screen. The exacerbation of an already lonely, already marginalized, anxious and dissident life is accentuating the precarity that as artists, we very well know.
This room called GROUND will offer short day residencies where black, brown, queer and migrant people (and friends) can contribute in the making of this installative work room.
They are invited to use the materials of the tiny feminist queer ecosystem that the art space Les Complices* caringly provides. Artists can use the walls, the copymachine, the books, and other tools. We dream of a zine publication to emerge from those seeds, nourished by the various contributions and growing slowly like a plant.
From April to June, we will also organize performances, readings and discussions on topics focused on care and decoloniality.
Since this project grows like a plant, sometimes in unexpected ways, we decided not to share a previously fixed program or the list of participant artists. Instead public events will be announced with the newsletter, instagram @lescomplices_zh and on this website.
Program June:
5.06.21
1.3 - 7 pm
Sonic Massage with Kay Zhang
For a massage register via: info@lescomplices.ch
11.06.21
7 pm
Tabula Rasa - How can we subvert the language of violence?
Collective Writing Gathering at GROUND with Kamran Behrouz
To participate please register via: info@lescomplices.ch
12.06.21
bolso/recipiente/depósito del día a día
Residency with Laura Rodríguez Pérez and MaDolores Rodríguez Pérez (Spain)
17.06.21
from 3 to 8 pm
COLOR NATURALEZA
Haircuts and make-up for anyone who wants it with Salo and Lucianne
Many thanks to:
die Blaue Distanz (Anna Erdmann & Franziska Goralski) who provided us with the font "FeministsInMotion"!
This Room Called GROUND is a program supported by Pro Helvetia
