Join us for a live sonic performance by artists Tamara Al-Mashouk and Patricia Doors a part of the public programme for WOCAA: Resonance.
Wed Aug 9 2023, 7-8.30pm. 198 Railton Road, London, SE24 0JT.
Working within the context of generative music; sounds made inside a set of parameters that evolve within that system, Patricia and Tamara draw on field recordings and poetic writing from their research trip to Iceland to build live improvisational sonic landscapes. The performance fleshes out conversations between imagined mythologies of bodies of water and the dams they encounter.
Resonance is a multidisciplinary exhibition exploring that which lingers after the fact, temporarily, geographically or materially speaking. Resonance spotlights the practices of seven women of colour artists currently working in the UK: award-winner Rebecca Bellantoni and finalists Jessica Ashman, Tamara Al-Mashouk, Arianna Cheung, Tyreis Holder, Shamica Ruddock and Joyce Treasure. Curated by Languid Hands.
Tamara Al-Mashouk incorporates strategies of hosting, art making and live performance across her multi-disciplinary projects. These days, she can’t stop thinking about where memory is stored and how to carve sites of solace within embodied experiences of hyper-politicisation.
For WOCAA: Resonance, Al-Mashouk presents work in progress made in collaboration with Patricia Doors, a multidisciplinary artist interested in the space between indigenous knowledges, capital industry and natural force. Doors’ improvisational and experimental practice focuses on sound, performance and photography.
In March 2023, Al-Mashouk and Doors travelled to Iceland to initiate their ongoing collaboration, which travels transnationally and temporally engaging with Latinx and Arabic folklore. Their next follows the water to Colombia.
WOCAA
In October 2019 198 CAL launched the inaugural Women of Colour Art Award. The bi-annual art award recognizes the inequities and additional barriers that Women of Colour systemically face in their practice as visual artists. It aims to provide financial and developmental support to assist UK based artists and artist collectives of all ages at a key point in their career.
Participating artists for the second iteration of the WOCAA Exhibition were selected via open call, with all applications reviewed by a judging panel consisting of Marlene Smith, Julia Forson and Amal Khalaf.
