Podcast

Jade (B. 1993, Birmingham, UK) is an artist who works with performance. Her work explores conversations between inner/outer, bodily/material worlds, and how these are informed by historical, cultural and personal memory/movements. She looks at Black ancestral traditions, myths and materiality that articulate and interrogate ongoing colonial systems, and manifest and develop within Black diasporic contexts. She seeks to highlight how the body, material and space have shared capabilities of transferring and embodying collective memory, which bears importance in our understanding of selves and each other. Themes of race, feminism, ownership, class and loss are present in her work.

Ryan Christopher (b.1998, UK) is an Amsterdam-based artist working through sculpture and video to consider material relations within elliptical narratives. His practice is a process of amalgamation in which the formal and indexical properties of found materials—objects, images, text and sound—are brought into antinomic juxtapositions. Strands of theological anthropology, christian existentialism, and post-colonial theory are configured into sculptural narratives. Material juxtapositions appear compressed, succinct and as imperceptible as human gestures can be. An internal movement of faith, as a qualitative leap, can be succeeded by the turn of a head. Fluctuations can be subject to human depravity and grace or water can be left to evaporate.