At The Table with Kameelah Janan Rasheed

Presented in partnership with British Council, Artes Mundi presents the final At The Table talk for AM11.

Kameelah Janan Rasheed will be in conversation with Amaka Obioma, an artist and curator who’s practice explores the intersection of interanimacy and performance, spirituality, and syncretic systems through a poststructuralist lens, and Anushiye Yarnell an interdisciplinary performance artist whose work spans movement, sound, voice, text, drawing and participatory alternative pedagogies.The At The Table series brings together the voices of the six AM11 artists alongside those of international curators, artists, historians, thinkers and writers in a series of roundtable discussions. The talks will centre on themes and ideas present in the artist’s work and the interwoven relationship between histories and practices, locally to internationally.

Imagining we are sitting around a table sharing conversation and exchanging ideas, this event is a chance to hear different concerns and perspectives while getting to know the artist and their work.

Kameelah Janan Rasheed explores the poetics, politics, and pleasures of communication through her multidisciplinary practice involving the speculative relationships between written language, surrogacy, and desire. Her work spans immersive installations, public art, publications, performances, and video, with a focus on language as material and immaterial. Recent projects investigate reading and writing as transgressive, erotic acts of ingestion, immersion, enmeshment, and estrangement.

Amaka Obioma is a Performance & Multimedia Artist and Curator based in Ibadan. Her practice explores the intersection of interanimacy and performance, spirituality, and syncretic systems through a poststructuralist lens. She works to bridge subjective and objective realities within her art. Working across multimedia art, performance, and artistic research, Amaka fuses people, materials, and ideas into new forms of communication. Her work is deeply collaborative and community-focused, viewing this engagement as essential to creating site-specific and contextually resonant projects. She is a founding member of the collective Tantdile Xperimenta Lab, which collaborates with the public to co-create discussions on social issues through art.

Anushiye Yarnell is an interdisciplinary performance artist whose work spans movement, sound, voice, text, drawing, participatory alternative pedagogies. Her work culminates, celebrates, congregates through symbiotic, anti-segregative ways of being, examining the intersections of dream and fantasy realms within ordinary life, finding connections between day-to-day experiences of the world and anthropological, philosophical, poetic, and artistic frameworks. She works with tactile presence, reviving sensual intelligence through temporal, ongoing bodies-biographies-mythologies, attempting regeneration despite rifts and ruptures imposed by colonial civilisation. Her works generate habitats & continuums of personal, interpersonal & participatory practice amplifying the dexterity, sensory receptivity, connective intricacies within cellular presence.

The talk will be interpreted in BSL and live captions will be provided.