Study Day on Fields

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Study Day One
Fields
Organised with artist & filmmaker Rehana Zaman
5 July
11am – 7pm

The FIELD – an open area typically bounded, a site for the cultivation of crops, a set of attributes, the potential to multiply and expand.

In 2020 Hospitalfields invited Rehana to initiate a studio residency responding to the network of monocrop farms in the surrounding area. This Study Day takes up farming contexts both local and global, presenting material accumulated over the last five years and extended to exhausted environments, social currencies within rural contexts, plots (in multiple permutations), and emanations of cinema, sound and liveness.

Guest artists Leena Habiballa, Imani Mason Jordan and Roy Claire Potter are invited to the study day as respondents, digressers and hecklers. New and recent works will be shared by the artists over the course of the day.

Attendees will be invited to join a group discussion prompted by the writing of Sylvia Wynter and others, a direct animation durational work, a screening of short films that play on and with themes of plot and plantation. And a shared meal.

Rehana Zaman is an artist living and working in London. Her work speaks to notions of kinship and sociality, seeking out possibilities of intimacy and transgression within hostile contexts. Conversation and cooperative methods sit at the heart of her films which extend into texts, performances and group work.

Imani Mason Jordan is an interdisciplinary writer, artist, editor and curator interested in poetics and performance.

Leena Habiballa is a writer and filmmaker interested in Sudanese visual cultures and archival film practices that use state and colonial archives against their intended logics

Roy Claire Potter is an artist who performs, publishes and exhibits. Influenced by linguistics and performance theory, across the wide range of their work, Roy tells stories built from fragmented, intense images that depict moving bodies or domestic scenes and architectural settings

For those who face barriers to attending there are five bursary places available that provide a free ticket and a small travel stipend. Please email programme@hospitalfield.org.uk to request a bursary. These places are first come first served.
Please note you must email to secure this ticket it is not available from Citizen Ticket. If these places are not filled then the waitlist will be admitted until the overall capacity of 25 is reached.