VENERATION of ORDINARY MYSTERIES [echoing Kameelah Janan Rasheed]

“Do we know how to spend significant time with strangers, strangeness, the unknowable and unknown?” We present the sixth text in the beside/gerllaw series, by performance-maker Anushiye Yarnell, in both sonic and visual formats: choose your own adventure. ‘VENERATION of ORDINARY MYSTERIES’ departs from Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s research-based practice, encountered via interviews and exhibition documentation. Rasheed’s aphorisms (showing in Swansea and Cardiff as part of Artes Mundi 11) are the impetus for an intimate assemblage of written reflections and quotations, annotated by a personal image archive. Together they make up a restlessly moving essay on vulnerability and control, learning and unlearning, somatic bonds and cultural residues, and what it means to “gather a home around stories.” We suggest you press play, close your eyes, and let Anushiye’s voice guide you.

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