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Join us on Thursday for our First Thursday Artist

Join us on Thursday for our First Thursday Artist Meeting.

1 – 2:30pm.

This meeting will take place via zoom. The link to First Thursday meetings is the same each month and is sent out in Artist Listings newsletters. ALL artists are welcome so if you are not one of our Artist Listings artists just email mail@coventry-artspace.co.uk with ‘Request First Thursday Link’ in the subject line and we’ll send the link to you.

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‘just a series of transitions…’ Thursday 4t

‘just a series of transitions…’

Thursday 4th March

8-9pm

Link in bio!

Join @vmelissandre for a zoom discussion where melissandre varin share their journey leading them to operate as an artist in Coventry. Mixing personal testimony using poetry, studio visit, family portrait, and naming of their main inspirations to invite us to feel them better.

Relation, displacement, multiplicity, identity, interdependency, and language emerge from melissandre’s work. Making from an Afro and Caribbean diasporic context, melissandre add layers of complexity using a situated Black feminism. Through poetic performance arts, moving image assemblages, and site-specific installations - among other things - melissandre interrogate how the encounter between bodies that have been marginalised, everyday materials, and institutional spaces transgresses normativity.

Commissioned nationally and internationally, melissandre co-parent 2 year old Eole at Coventry Peace House. They currently are an artist resident at Coventry Artspace, work on a pro-Black arts library and rest space supported by Coventry Biennial, prepare transnational afrofeminist performances part of the EU Capital City of Culture 2022, are an editor Studies in Theatre and Performance and are a Coventry Artspace Advisory Group member.

Contact: residency@coventry-artspace.co.uk

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Mandip Singh Seehra @surreal7 has been capturing s

Mandip Singh Seehra @surreal7 has been capturing some amazing images of @vmelissandre during their residency.

Have you travelled past Arcadia yet to view it?

mel's residency runs until 12th March, with a series of online events, talks and performances that you can join (see our events calendar on the website for more details).

mel will be presenting a film on @switchboardlgbt at 5pm THIS SATURDAY for LGBT History Month - head over to the link in their bio to book.

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Be part of our Artist in Residence @vmelissandre's

Be part of our Artist in Residence @vmelissandre's installation later this year by leaving a recorded message!

"Hello,

melissandre varin speaking on behalf of Arcadia Gallery

Thank you SO much for accepting our invitation to call : as the gallery remains closed, get in touch with the space on 024 7622 3642. Your recorded voice messages will be part of an art installation later in the year.

-pause-

Your call is now being taken so please share your message after the tone.”

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Join @vmelissandre here for an Instagram LIVE on W

Join @vmelissandre here for an Instagram LIVE on Wednesday 17th February at 8pm!

melissandre varin share their new installations to be experienced from the street as the venue remains closed. They invite us to experience their new show through their own gaze and gesture as they hold the smartphone guiding us through the installations. They mark the continuation of their work in the gallery with a reading of thoughts captured at the end of their Autumn Residency at Arcadia Gallery and make parallels with questions surrounding a never coming ‘post-Covid’, an ever awaited Afro revolution, and arts venues remaining closed.

Sorry we are close(d), a series of installations to be experienced from the street re-imagine a post-covid-19 afro futurity in the city exploring notions of consumption, closed art venues, and collective grief and healing. Levitating at the intersection of pain and love melissandre use the current context of a never coming ‘post-Covid 19’ and an ever awaited Afro revolution as starting points. They assemble embodied transitions felt in their flesh, navigating Other’s ways to be in public space, to (r)evolve as Black/queer, and to process exile (forced and voluntarily) in time of global pandemic. Questions of solidarity, afro-futurity, racial capitalism, aesthetics and documentation intersect.

Project funded and supported by Coventry Artspace and Coventry Biennial.

Contact: residency@coventry-artspace.co.uk

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Don't miss @vmelissandre LIVE on our Facebook at 1

Don't miss @vmelissandre LIVE on our Facebook at 11am tomorrow!

This will mark the beginning of their winter residency at Arcadia.

(Image by Alan Van Wijgerden.)

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Upcoming Events

sorry we are close(d) – melissandre varin – Winter Residency

February 14 @ 11:00 am - March 12 @ 6:00 pm
‘just a series of transitions…’

March 4 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
sorry we are close(d) – Q&A

March 10 @ 8:00 pm - 8:40 pm

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