Cotangent Invited Residency Summer 2021 - Sadia Pineda Hameed & Beau W Beakhouse (LUMIN)
Tangent Projects are very excited to announce that for 2021 Sadia Pineda Hameed & Beau W Beakhouse will be the Cotangent Invited Resident Artists.
During their residency, Beau and Sadia will be developing their research and thinking around non-institutional library and reading spaces, communication and underground radio, alternative and marginalised history and archiving practices, and the ways that the arts can form spaces that support mutual-aid, pedagogy, and speculative thinking. They will be utilising both the gallery and a studio space, making a place for dialogue as well as the production of new work, alongside participating in a series of discussions around locality and the arts.
Beau W Beakhouse is an artist, filmmaker and independent curator based in Cardiff. His/Their artistic practice works across film, text, woodcraft, sound and installation, and frequently returns to language, postcolonial theory, alternative pedagogies, non-institutional spaces, community projects and techniques of dreaming and speculative fiction. They are drawn to relation, intersection and convergence, and their practice is concerned with creating alternative spaces of dialogue and collective methods of working.
They have worked with Peak Cymru, MOSTYN, Gentle/Radical, Literature Wales, Where I’m Coming From, SHIFT, Made in Roath, g39, The Welsh Agenda, Wales Millenium Centre and others. They have residencies with Tangent Projects (Barcelona), Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella), g39 - Jerwood UNITe (Cardiff) and Catalyst Arts (Belfast); and their first UK solo exhibition is with Arcade Campfa (Cardiff) this year.
Sadia Pineda Hameed is an artist based in Cardiff, Wales. She works in film, installation, text and performance to explore collective and inherited trauma; in particular, the latent ways we speak about this through dreaming, telepathic communion and secrets as an anti-colonial strategy inherent to us. Her practice is led by semiotic and associative journeying, the revivification of archive, and a trust in the intuitive process. Pineda Hameed was invited to show alongside Undo Things Done by Sean Edwards at The Bluecoat, Liverpool in 2020-21 for her first UK solo exhibition, and has her first Wales solo exhibition (in collaboration with Beau W Beakhouse) with Arcade Campfa this year.
She has shown with Bluecoat, MOSTYN, Artes Mundi, Gentle/Radical, Peak Cymru and has residencies this year with Tangent Projects, Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, g39 - Jerwood UNITe and Catalyst Arts.
LUMIN is a small press, curatorial collective and radio programme led by Sadia Pineda Hameed and Beau W Beakhouse. LUMIN are interested in archives, decolonising and democratising print, publishing and the arts, and creating new models of sharing. Their regular publication LUMIN Journal is an alternative print and collaborative model, a space of dialogue at the intersection of radical and postcolonial theory, poetry and art.
They are currently developing an alternative syllabus and pedagogy model for collective learning and mutual aid, supported by Literature Wales and Civic Square. They have presented papers and spoken on panels about radical publishing at Cardiff University, Bangor University, the Open University and g39 WARP symposiums, and in the Festival of Voice and the Eisteddfod.