Rehearsing Community Health Justice
Artwork unveiling and procession
08/11/2023
18:00-20:30
Walworth Living Room
All Saints Hall
Surrey Square, London SE17 2JU
The launch of Weaving Interdependence and The Living Archive of Health
For the last year, Healing Justice London and Pembroke House have been working on a community-led transformative health justice project. We know that to be well, we need agency, resources and genuine choices. We need secure housing, neighbourhoods that feel like home, and meaningful connection with one another. In the early stages of discovery and development, HJL have been working with community practice artists Birungi Kawooya and Jacob V Joyce.
Through collaboratively produced artefacts which rehearse interdependence, resilience, journey and rooting, Birungi and Jacob will unveil their artworks, celebrating the people who gather and connect through the Walworth Living Room and uplift the possibility of community-determined conditions for safety, belonging and dignity.
This event animates the living archive of health and healing created throughout a workshop series with artist Jacob V Joyce following on from workshops facilitated by Birungi Kawooya. Through rest, procession, voice and movement, participants are invited to become part of the archive and embody some of its strategies through collective investigation and play.
Biographies
Jacob V Joyce is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice amplifies historical and nourishes new queer and anti-colonial narratives. They are currently researching the cultural legacies of Black British arts education for a PhD supported by C.R.E.A.M (The Center for Research in Education and Arts Media) and 198 Cal Arts Learning Brixton.
Birungi Kawooya is a collage artist and art tutor researching ways of being well in community, inspired by nature, Black feminists and Afro somatic movement. She creates using paper, paint, sculpture, natural fibres and batik indigenous to Uganda.
Birungi has a strong collaborative art practice and makes artwork informed by community engagement. The World Reimagined and Kensington and Chelsea Art Week commissioned her to lead community workshops to inform designs for a 1.9 m globe sculpture and a 25 m long mural, respectively.
Walworth Living Room is a space for the diverse and intergenerational community of Walworth to gather, connect and feel at home together. We host a community cafe,, a community fridge, collage circles, sing and jam, a day disco, baby and toddler music, food-growing workshops, African drumming sessions, tech support and ESOL classes to enable local residents to thrive.
