7–8pm
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97–99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL
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Leah Clements’ new body of work, Apophenia, explored the complex physical and psychological responses she and other crips have to finding meaning in the experience of illness. Running throughout the work is a thematic engagement with water and its symbolic associations with healing.

For this event, artist Jameisha Prescod presented a response to the exhibition through a collective listening of Bodies in the In-Between, an essay that examines the role of water in Black communities, exploring its connections to trauma, healing, spirituality, and ritual.

Following the listening, Prescod was joined by Leah Clements for a conversation exploring water’s cultural and psychological associations. The discussion drew on Apophenia as well as Prescod’s new film, What We Inherit, which explores Suriname’s waterways and their influence on Black Surinamese relationships to illness, spirituality, and medicine.

This event was BSL Interpretated.


Biography:

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Jameisha Prescod FRSA is a multidisciplinary artist, journalist and writer from South London. With work grounded in a research-based practice, Jameisha explores how culture, identity, black history and colonialism influence the way illnesses are experienced. By combining moving image, documentary photography and digital art with poetry and essay writing, their work reimagines how disabled stories and illness histories can be archived in more experimental ways. Jameisha is also the founder of You Look Okay To Me, the online space for chronic illness.