“Dream Baby Dream: Queer Worldmaking” closing of The World That Belongs to Us
New Art Gallery Walsall (Walsall, UK)
It was a joy to share impressions and to present new and previous writing alongside artist and curator Candice Nembhard in “Dream Baby Dream,” the closing programme for The World That Belongs to Us (November 24, 2023–June 9, 2024) exhibition, curated by Aziz Sohail and Deborah Robinson.
Through talks, poetry and performance bringing together cultural practitioners from all over the UK, this closing programme "Dream Baby Dream" unraveled threads of queer themes within the project, sustained through the decades of organising, friendship and worldmaking. We contextualised the exhibition within a history of queer cultural production and organising in Britain from the perspective of South Asian and other diasporic communities. In doing so, we centred dreaming as an act and strategy of making queer diasporic life possible and visible.
Speakers: Rohit Dasgupta, Saima Razzaq (Birmingham Pride), Yasmyn Nettle, Candice Nembhard, and Jhani Randhawa.
More information: https://thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk/exhibition/the-world-that-belongs-to-us/
A recording of Jhani’s reading can be viewed here. Video by Trixiebella Suen.