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We are Beau and Sadia, based in Cardiff, Wales. Together we have a collaborative practice and also run the print-based / curatorial project LUMIN. We have been making work as a collaborative duo over the last four years. We engage with themes of collective ownership, alternate histories, archives, deinstitutionalisation, community, pedagogy and more. In particular we continuously engage with text, deconstructing, undoing and disassembling relationships between language and colonialism.

During this residency we will be thinking about a print / digital syllabus we recently ran entitled 'Recovering Our Collective Awareness' and the ways we can expand this project to connect with other socially engaged projects, activist and community spaces.

@beauwbeakhouse
@piffspice
@luminpress

https://lumin-press.com  
https://www.iwa.wales/agenda/2021/05/resisting-resistance-part-1/
‘Realisation, change, or disruption’

Perhaps conceptualising social or public places as a space to ‘engage all’ is problematic. Institutions and organisations of all kinds publicly obsess over how to connect with a diverse array of people, despite clearly serving certain interests and audiences. Universalising social space perpetuates a concept that is a historic tool of colonialism: the justification and dominance of certain ideas, marketed as universal, supposedly broad and applicable to all.

‘Connection’

Instead maybe our social spaces and projects could serve distinct groups of people, perhaps even ‘privately’, resourcing our shared needs, so that these spaces become the catalyst for new ideas and for social change.


‘A question’

What is the shelf life of a collective, of our syllabus? If preservation historically and epistemically gets in the way of liveness, honouring in the moment, then we must await decay as if a signal for purpose being served, and the fertilisation of ground for the next. Sometimes the absence of what was there before incites more than a thing behind glass.

‘Carry forward’

Formal vs Informal. The porosity of informality allows for friendship, gathering. For a type of speaking and shaping that formality can only wish for and attempt to instigate. Collective self-organisation (that continually reflects on the tendency towards the bureaucratic and the accumulation of centralised power, even in our social relations) helps to move beyond public facing art world models to immediate needs and practices of sharing.