For The Body Remembers, Quentin Sledge and Angela Burdon created a series of video interviews and collected personal stories, introspections, and conversations within the Black community of Dayton, Ohio. What unfolded was a beautiful and thought-provoking conversation about resilience, memory, trauma, and healing.

The event will feature a screening of video interviews followed by a dance performance choreographed by Sledge as we set out to honor the narratives that shape our collective understanding of Blackness.

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You are invited to join us at the Bassani Theatre, Dayton Metro Library, on Thursday, August 3, from 6:00-8:00 pm.

In this talk, the Lungs team, Angela Burdon and Sheyda Aisha Khaymaz, will introduce the beginnings of their project and explore its influences and predecessors, including other magazines that have shaped the project's direction and approach. They will discuss the impetus behind the project and the challenges they faced in starting a magazine in a small town in the North East England.

The team will discuss the notion of published work as a curatorial output and how it may serve as a means of disseminating knowledge and creating new opportunities for emerging creatives outside of centralised spaces. Angela and Sheyda will examine the obstacles and opportunities presented by publishing undertaken as curatorial practice, and how Lungs Project has navigated these challenges. The talk will also explore the ways in which Lungs has engaged with different spaces and audiences, both online and offline, and the impact of these spaces on promoting critical thought and experimentation. The team will also talk about the Lungs Project's outreach efforts and how they have created, and continue to create, new opportunities for dialogue and exchange, as well as the wider influence of the project on the artists’s lives.

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Further information on the Arts and Place MA programme and details of enrolment:

https://campus.dartington.org/arts-and-place

In this presentation, Lungs Project will introduce some of the fundamentals of independent print publishing, from conceptual development to content creation, from compiling and editing a manuscript to self-distribution. Lungs will also share valuable insights into digital publishing and discuss some of their own incentives for publishing on the internet.

Arts and Place

Led by London based artist, researcher, and writer, Dr Jo Joelson, MA Arts and Place is a transdisciplinary residency-based programme focusing on the complexities of ‘the field’ as a place of practice, exploring its imaginative as well as material processes. This course is a new framework and network for field-based research and poststudio practice and draws upon pivotal historic and contemporary artistic debates which examine and re-examine our relationships to place, both urban and rural and to nature and landscape.

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Further information and details of enrolment:

https://campus.dartington.org/arts-and-place

Based at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK, The Collaborative and Curatorial Practice research group provides a forum for research exchange between artists, academics and research students whose work addresses the limits and possibilities of curatorial and collaborative practices. As a part of their seminar programme, Lungs Project will discuss publishing as a tool to facilitate collaboration and build creative communities fundamental to the survival of artists and writers of colour. The presentation takes its title and ethos from Audre Lorde’s short essay “Poetry is Not a Luxury” (1985) and seeks to respond to the question, in what conditions creative collaborations and partnerships may occur as much as flourish?

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More info on CARF

https://research.northumbria.ac.uk/CuratorialCollaborativePractices/?page_id=12

Sheyda from Lungs Team will be presenting their research at the 110th CAA Annual Conference, organised by the College Art Association of America. During the panel entitled “Reparative Collectivities, Communities and Ecologies: Toward a Reparative Art History,” Sheyda will be joined by the discussant, Gabrielle Moser (York University); panel chairs Alexander Strecker (Duke University); Jasmine Magaña (Duke University); and presenters Maya Wilson-Sanchez (OCAD University); Marianna Davison (University of California, Irvine).

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The conference opens on February 16 with 140 virtual live sessions to be held in Zoom from February 17–19, and 60 virtual live sessions to be held in Zoom from March 3–5. Access to recorded content will be available through April 14. The Book & Trade Fair will be virtual.

Registration for CAA 2022

https://www.collegeart.org/programs/conference/conference2022/registration

Lungs team is meeting with students of the Art and Place Programme at Dartington School of Arts to give a presentation on their journey of developing Lungs as a collaborative platform for disseminating ideas. Angela and Sheyda will be sharing tips on documenting various creative practices and presenting in digital formats, alongside giving advice on producing work for more conventional publishing outlets.

Arts and Place

Led by London based artist, researcher, and writer, Dr Jo Joelson, MA Arts and Place is a transdisciplinary residency-based programme focusing on the complexities of ‘the field’ as a place of practice, exploring its imaginative as well as material processes. This course is a new framework and network for field-based research and poststudio practice and draws upon pivotal historic and contemporary artistic debates which examine and re-examine our relationships to place, both urban and rural and to nature and landscape.

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Further information and details of enrolment:

https://campus.dartington.org/arts-and-place

Side Gallery presents a discussion with Lungs Project on their experiences with the arts scene in North East England. Lungs Project has recently wrapped up a three-week takeover of the Side Gallery Instagram account, where they curated photography from the US, UK and the African continent focusing on the documentation of everyday people in their bedrooms. Expounding on their principle mission to promote the work of artists and writers from underrepresented backgrounds, Lungs Project will explore the potential pitfalls of essentialism and the burden of representation in the arts. In an attempt to define a nuanced approach to representation, the talk will introduce samples from varied writings on the issue, as well as combine Lungs Project’s past experiences in practising art as Black and brown creatives within the regional scene of North East England.

Book tickets for the FREE zoom talk:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-myth-of-diversity-a-conversation-with-lungs-project-tickets-115639058537

Please note that the talk will be recorded and published online in the week following the event and made available at Dialogues on Lungs Project’s website.

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Image Credit: Angela Burdon © Ahmed, Sunderland, 2006.

Lungs Project is pleased to announce the launch of Poly Voices, the 3rd inception of their annual contemporary art and literature publication. Lungs was established in 2016 as a trans-disciplinary platform to promote the work of early career artists from underrepresented backgrounds. This year they present an international selection of artists of colour exclusively! Held in Cobalt Studios, Newcastle, the night will include tunes from the local DJ duo Shifting Sounds and film screenings from three of the publication’s featured artists, Kariim Case, Laura Hyunjhee Kim, and Müge Yıldız, with an introduction by Kariim Case to his film "Take me to the Water".

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The event is free entry.

www.cobaltstudios.co.uk @CobaltStudios_

Tel: 0191 232 3553

Image Credit: Kariim Case © Take Me to the Water, 2018; Laura Hyunjhee Kim © BREAD Song, 2018.

Poly Voices is supported by Slate, an Eclipse movement • The Aziz Foundation • Little Rocket Records.

Please join us to celebrate the launch of a new group exhibition developed in collaboration with Gosforth Civic Theatre. "A Study of Imaginary Chasms" brings together the work of three women artists; Ella Ray Barnes, Fang Qi, and Jill Tate, all of who are connected to North East England through unique pathways. The exhibition thematically responds to "The Class Project", a one-woman play written and performed by Rebecca Atkinson-Lord. The series of works featured in the exhibition correspond to the overlapping anecdotes within "The Class Project". Each artist's body of work expands on the themes underpinning the play, presenting personal commentaries on identity, home and belonging as embedded within historical, socio-economic and contemporary narratives.

The exhibition runs from 21 April to 30 June 2018 and can be visited Mon-Fri, 8am-5pm and Sat 10am-5pm at Gosforth Civic Theatre. The private view will take place on 20 April which will also include a free drinks reception between 5-7.30 pm with a late-licensed bar open until 10.00pm.

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"The Class Project" written and performed by Rebecca Atkinson-Lord can be seen on Friday 27 April at Gosforth Civic Theatre at 1.30pm, and at 7.30pm. Tickets are £10 and £8 concessions and can be bought via gosforthcivictheatre.co.uk.

Gosforth Civic Theatre

Gosforth Civic Theatre is a fringe arts venue located just north of Newcastle which opened its doors in Autumn 2016. It is run by Liberdade Community Development Trust, a charity and social enterprise which gives people with learning disabilities the opportunity to belong, work and get involved in the arts and their community. Gosforth Civic Theatre is a truly inclusive venue at the heart of the community which aims to break down the misconceptions of learning disabilities while bringing people together through a programme of quality theatre, music, cinema and events.

www.gosforthcivictheatre.co.uk

Tel: 0191 284 3700

Image Credit: Fang Qi © Then is Diffused in Now, 2016.

Lungs Project is pleased to participate in a panel discussion on "Engaging People Through Creativity" at New Art Social, a series of events organised to offer an opportunity for creative people to gain an insight into other people’s artistic process. New Art Social is a night at which exciting new and established writers, poets and artists share their work through readings and panel discussions. It is curated by author Guy Mankowski, who aims to break down the barriers which keep the wealth of artistic talent of Newcastle in isolation. New Art Social is created to give artists a chance to speak to one another and share their experiences of exposing and making a living from their work.

The next iteration of New Art Social will take place on Saturday 7th April, 7 pm, in the downstairs cinema at Quilliam Brothers Teahouse, Newcastle. The night will open with a panel discussion on Engaging People Through Creativity, with Lungs Project and Patricia Suarez, Movement Director. The event will also feature poetry readings from the widely anthologised Beda Higgins, as well as from Jasmine Jade and Lucie Wareham, plus dystopian fiction from Tom Astley.

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Tickets are £3 at the door. Please note that entry is on a first-come-first-served basis.

'Women working in sculpture in Britain from 1960 to the present day – towards a new lexicon' is a developing research project, aiming to find a more considered language to articulate and map the immensely rich and diverse practice of women working in sculpture, in Britain from the 1960s onwards.

The research has its origin in exhibition making and the evident under representation of women in exhibitions, public collections and within the art market. To date a cross-generational selection of women sculptors have been interviewed, exploring artistic languages, exhibition histories and the broader socio-economic and cultural context of women’s practice and careers. 

This event will include a resumé of the research and explore how a creative life is enabled and sustained. Christine Borland, who has recently completed a major commission for the Institute of Transplantation and Sheyda A. Khaymaz, a recently graduated sculptor and curator, living and working in the North East, will present experiences based on recent practice. Dr Catherine George and Hilary Gresty, project leads, will introduce the session and Natalie Rudd, Senior Curator, Arts Council Collection will join the plenary discussion.

Touch is Esbat Collective’s fifth exhibition. It features the work of Tessa Berring, Fee Scroggie, Fiona Michie, Komachi Goto, Olivia Irvine, Mel Roy, Rachael Forbes, Caroline Fulton, Penny Forbes, Angela Wingate-Burdon, Rosaly Johnston, Julie Bemment, Rebecca Green, Antonia Dickson, Heather Craig, Carolann Alexander, Sarah Wilson and Mary Trodden.

The exhibition is an exploration of how contemporary art practice is affected by a cultural environment increasingly dominated by digital technology and online networks. Is art becoming lost in the virtual clouds, losing touch with the hands on spaces of studio and art gallery? Touch is about these interfaces - between making and networking, between real and online community, between what is touched and what is caught behind a screen.

Esbat Collective is a group of women artists who came together for a group show in 2016. Many of them first met at Edinburgh College of Art and wanted to continue being part of a creative community based around studio practice and a shared artistic sensibility.

Encompassing film, objects, printing, painting and costume, the show takes the form of a list of symptoms of some self diagnosable contemporary condition.

Newcastle edition of the exhibition is co-curated by Lungs editor Angela Wingate-Burdon and Lungs 2016 alumna, artist Mary Trodden.

Join us to celebrate the launch of Lungs Issue No.2 with an exhibition by Amy Roberts | Callum Costello | Emma Bennett | Joe Jefford | Lauren Drummond | Liam McCabe | Mark Chapman | Matt Wilkinson | Molly Bythell | Steven Lowery + performance and poetry readings by Zara Worth | Caroline Hardaker | David Spittle | Matt Miller

An after-party at B&D studios, located on the third floor of Commercial Union House will run until late with music from fakeindiedisco’s John Egdell, and Lungs 2016 alumnus, artist and musician, DJ Grassi.

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Image Credit: Zara Worth, "A Drawing Made by Cutting Up My Body Weight in Celery", Instagram video posts, 2016-present

Lungs Project is pleased to present a group exhibition running for one day only at Independent - Sunderland, September 15, 2016. Fifteen artists will be featured in the show: Al Palmer, Daniel Dale, Ella Ray Barnes, Maria Ferrie, Michael Daglish, Jill Campbell, Aphra O’Connor, Graeme Hopper, Paul Burgess, Adam Wilson-Holmes, Simone Truong, Namita Vijayakumar, Sheyda A. Khaymaz, Fang Qi, and Mary Trodden.

The exhibition will coincide with the launch of Lungs 2016, an annual contemporary art publication created to catalogue the work of emerging artists in the North East and provide a platform to exhibit to a wider audience.

Independent is Sunderland’s only dedicated live music venue and club. Housing Holmeside Coffee and host to the Solo Arts group, it has established itself as a respected creative hub for arts, music and culture in the North East.

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Image Credit: Jo Stanness © "Steps, Billingham"