Inciting Joy

Inciting Joy is a collaborative residency that examines how we understand, experience and cultivate joy in our everyday lives, the way that this transforms with different stages of womanhood and experiences of ecstatic connection with the human and the more-than-human world of nature.

Alongside our examination of joy is the exploration of its intersection with pleasure. More specifically, the action of reclaiming pleasure as a way of challenging wrongful stereotypes of womanhood and creating freedom and space for joy to happen.

At the heart of the project is a proposition. Joy is a form of resistance —an action, practice or method of being cultivated in search of a greater purpose, entangled with others and the natural world, and often, but not always, brought into focus by what we have suffered.

Presented in three parts, Inciting Joy features the music, performance and community-singing practice of Samoan/Indian future soul artist Tiana Khasi and the video, poetry and mixed-media works of Brazilian visual artist, writer and researcher Cecilia Sordi Campos.

Alongside the exhibitions, community-making and a range of events are planned.

For further information, visit our website.