For July’s artist-led sharing event at Platfform 2, we’ll be joined by the co-founders of LUMIN artists Sadia Pineda Hameed and Beau W Beakhouse, and artist Marva Jackson Lord.
LUMIN are a small press, radio and curatorial collective - supporting new and established artists, writers and cultural practitioners in work that is radical, personal and experimental. Based in Cardiff, LUMIN is run by artists Sadia Pineda Hameed and Beau W Beakhouse, forming a wider collective with their regular collaborators.
As part of Casgleb, LUMIN are researching ideas and structures of autonomy, exploring what an autonomous space in the arts (and for creating together) is, and how autonomy relates to the different areas of their practice. In general autonomy means to be self-governed, and in this context LUMIN are approaching autonomy as a means of finding a way beyond oppressive systems past and present. Sadia and Beau will introduce their practice as a collaborative duo whose work dramatises, reconstructs and reenacts autonomous and alternate futures; their work as LUMIN, a print, radio and curatorial collective based in Wales; and share some of the thinking around how autonomy is centered within their overlapping practices, ways of working and friendships.
Marva Jackson Lord is a Canadian-Jamaican artist based in the Brecon Beacons, whose work across poetry, sound and digital media explores landscape and fantastical narratives.
Marva will introduce her practice alongside her expansive work in community radio. For many years Marva worked as a programmer at ckln-fm in Toronto, , approaching radio as a space for music, archival sound, interviews, poetry and storytelling. Marva would often fold in materials around race, class, workers rights and social justice, reading on air from Malcolm X, Angela Davies, Toni Morrison and others. At this event she’ll reflect on this work in community radio and also talk through the development of Ecosystem and Meditation on Multilingualism, recent works which reflect on voice, language and the realities of being a Black woman living in this part of rural Wales. Commissioned by Peak and Pegwn, these works trace linked histories and colonial legacies, a long-term exploration of language, emotional memory and a deep personal connection with the land.
This event series is a part of Casgleb, a year-long collaborative research partnership between Peak, Transport for Wales, Young People, Pegwn and LUMIN. Casgleb is supported by the Arts Council of Wales’ Connect and Flourish fund.