~ Regroundings

In response to Mohamed Bourouissa’s CCA exhibition HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!!, Regroundings presented a week-long conversation between artists Asuf Ishaq, Onyeka Igwe, Peter Spanjer, and Gal Leshem, centred on their respective films Mother (2020), the names have changed, including my own and truths have been altered (2019), Make Me Safe (2020), and Akirot (uprootings) (2020).

Departing from Bourouissa’s use of critical documentary, each artist deploys the medium of film to explore colonial legacies, ongoing racial and socio-cultural inequality, and diasporic identities. In each work the lens functions as a tool to navigate the body and its relation to place, developing narrative approaches to questioning collective histories within the artists’ locale.

Released periodically through a pseudo-chat system installed on the CCA’s website, the project emulated the act of direct-messaging in an attempt to tackle a sense of unbridgeable distance in a time of viral isolation, delving deeply into the films’ respective explorations through informal and intimate exchange.

Co-curated and produced by Edward Longville, Fiona Graf, Yurika Imaseki and Ankita Mukherji

Website design by Sean Burn (: @dutricycle)

The project is archived at: goldsmithscca.art/regroundings