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The Director's Office (2023), Samra Mayanja

#samra mayanja

[garadinervi]

PROTOTYPE 4, Edited by Jess Chandler, Prototype Publishing, London, 2022. Design: Theo Inglis. Cover Art: Ahren Warner

Feat. ajw, Sascha Akhtar, Chiara Ambrosio, Charlie Baylis, Jack Barker-Clark, Natalie Linh Bolderston, Jo Burns, Nancy Campbell, J. R. Carpenter, Joe Carrick-Varty, Robert Casselton Clark, Rory Cook, Emily Cooper, Kate Crowcroft, Eve Esfandiari-Denney, Alisha Dietzman, Edward Doegar, Nathan Dragon, Laura Elliott, Alan Fielden, Clare Fisher, Livia Franchini, Jay Gao, Honor Gareth Gavin, Emily Hasler, Grace Henes, Martha Kapos, Annie Katchinska, Victoria Manifold, Samra Mayanja, Jessa Mockridge, Helen Palmer, Yannis Ritsos (trans. Paul Merchant), Rochelle Roberts, Kimberly Reyes, fred spoliar, Scott Thurston, Hao Guang Tse, Ralf Webb, Sam Weselowski, Chrissy Williams and Xuela Zhang

#graphic design #art #poetry #visual writing #drawing #book #cover #book cover #prototype #jess chandler #theo inglis #ahren warner #prototype publishing #2020s

[samramayanja]

I forgot my body over there is an exhibition of new works made by artist samra mayanja. 

This show is born out of the artist’s movement towards automatic and intuitive methods of working with materials and objects that she has collected. These methods have been a way of entering their tangible and intangible layers through the fingers, hands, palms, muscles and sensation. 

samra mayanja is an artist and writer, who has been temporarily based in Longformacus (Duns, Scotland) for an artist residency. Her work is concerned with what moves us and what it is to be moved. Spanning drawing+writing, performance and film, her work is an effort to commune disparate voices; to generate around and beyond what’s inconceivable, lost or arrives in tatters. 

I forgot my body over there will be exhibited at Longformacus Village Hall from Saturday 21st - Saturday 28th August in conjunction with a programme of events (below):

Access: 

Please email [email protected] to confirm you place at any of these events (below) and feel free to contact her if you have any questions.

Visual Aids: There will be a visual description to accompany the exhibition for those who are visually impaired and/or anyone that would like to use it. 

Captioning: All sound and video works will include a transcript and/or subtitling.

Covid: We kindly ask that you adhere to social distancing and covid guidelines whilst in the space. Much appreciated!

Address: Longformacus Village Hall, Duns Road, Duns, TD11 3PB

Longformacus Village Hall is accessible to wheelchair users.

Events: (Further details below)

Opening Talk

Saturday 21st Aug, 11:00 - 12:00

Film: Two Melons and a Stinking Fish (1996) by Vanessa Engle 

Weds 25th Aug, 19:00 - 20:00

CHILDREN'S DAY!

Thursday 26th Aug, 12:00 - 15:00

Closing Performance - samra mayanja and S O C K E T H E A D 

Friday 27th Aug @ Sunset 

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Opening Talk - Saturday 21st Aug, 11:00 - 12:00

Join us for the opening where samra mayanja will give a short introductory talk about her art practise, the exhibition and her residency research. Refreshments provided. 

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Film Screening - Weds 25th Aug, 19:00 - 20:00

Two Melons and a Stinking Fish (1996) by Vanessa Engle

This rarely seen film is the first documentary about British conceptual artist, Sarah Lucas. In this experimental portrait, filmmaker Vanessa Engle, documents both Lucas’ artistic process and the art world context that she makes within. 

Film length: 60mins

Language: English (subtitled)

Sarah Lucas has, over the course of two decades, become recognised as one of Britain’s most significant contemporary artists. Spanning sculpture, photography and installation, her work has consistently been characterised by irreverent humour and the use of everyday ‘readymade' objects – food, tights, toilets, cigarettes – to conjure up corporeal fragments. 

Vanessa Engle began her career at the BBC where she made sixty documentaries spanning the realms of contemporary art and popular music. Since this early part of her career Engle has since made many celebrated documentaries investigating social affairs. In November 2015, Engle received the Outstanding Contribution to Documentary award at the Aldeburgh Documentary Festival.

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CHILDREN'S DAY! - Thursday 26th Aug, 12:00 - 15:00

After the ‘Ready Steady Explore Toddler Group’ in the hall, the exhibition will be open to parents and children of all ages so that they can explore the space; be curious, make sounds together and chat to the artist if they like. 

Children are welcome on all other days but Thursday is for children and parents only. Woooo!! Activity sheets to take home will be provided also. 

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Closing Performance - Friday 27th Aug @ Sunset 

by samra mayanja and S O C K E T H E A D

In the final event collaborators in life, art and love, samra mayanja and artist S O C K E T H E A D, will share a sonic improvisation; a dialogue between voice, instruments and the exhibition.

Instruments include: Adungu (Ugandan harp), electronic drums, delay and reverb.

S O C K E T H E A D is an artist working across the mediums of painting, collage and sound. He uses found internet media, live instrumentation and field recordings as a vehicle to get closer to some open ended space. S O C K E T H E A D’s palette of sounds are shredded/torn/stretched and re-homed in his compositions. His process is grounded in a conversation between analogue and digital technologies that attempt to stitch together parallel memories of religion and contemporary culture.

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#S O C K E T H E A D #sockethead #samra mayanja #performance art #art #sculpture #scotland #Duns

[willfredo247]

Here's some insightful words on “You Don’t Live in the World. The World Lives in You” a performance I developed in 2021 by  Harold Offeh who co-curated the group exhibition "LOOP" at Eastside Projects where I showed it until 4 Dec 2021 in UK with works by Adham Faramawy, Samra Mayanja, Phoebe Collings-James, and keiken Commissioned by Eastside Projects and Birmingham International Dance Festival Costume design: tRrashy Clothing Sound design: BADSISTA

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[mhvarchive]

The Tetley, based in Leeds, has announced the selected artists and curators for the Tetley / Jerwood Commissions. The selected artists / curators are: Emily Hesse, Samra Mayanja and ROOT-ed Zine.

The programme is supported by Jerwood Arts, one of the leading independent funders dedicated to supporting UK artists, curators and producers, as part of their Development Programme Fund.

The Tetley Jerwood Commissions will give these three practitioners/collectives the opportunity to develop a significant body of work, or curate a group exhibition, with the support of a dedicated mentor, a research and development budget, a production budget and institutional backing.

More information on the Tetley and the selected artists here

image: Root-ed Zine - a magazine and social platform founded by artists Amber Akaunu and Fauziya Johnson, both based in Liverpool.

#ROOT-ed Zine #Tetley Gallery Leeds

[samramayanja]

promo for last poetry event i hosted 

#spoken word #poetry #york #university of york #samra mayanja #the northern youth

[samramayanja]

‘Embuzi biri, emeka?’

My mum fed me these words to say to my Jaja. I’m yet to say them but I’ve got them on a post-it ready.

My mind keeps taking me to the slippages between,

falling down them in sheets,

Startled like a stray piece of the paper family.

Video by Samra Mayanja

[samramayanja]

anti-professionalism in art

Anti-professionalism: disrupting the following uncharacteristic behaviours in work environment - masking our emotions in favour of appearing ‘ok’ - wearing clothes that are clean, aggressively perfumed, ironed and palpable - shaking hands (when really a hug would be nicer) - having superficial conversations to pass the time - speaking to people - not speaking to people - having a comprehensive CV with CV-language - clearly communicating what you do with your time to everyone - good spelling and grammar - having a mature sounding email address - using professional written and spoken language This list will probably grow. Here’s my latest bio: Samra Mayanja is an artist who, more often than not, works collaboratively and slowly towards unknown territory but never quite reaches it.