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Artists of Moving Together / Arriving Together

The artist team went all out in creating a unique toolkit that reimagines what it means to decolonise creative partnerships and collaboration within the arts sector – and beyond. Learn more about some of the artist’s experiences, and start with our featured Seeds.

Lydie Dubuisson:

Every Arrivals journey is an awakening in itself. An awakening to who I am, to the stories that shaped me. This residency felt, to me, like an awakening of intuition. To seek in spite of fear or pain, to hold memories too long ignored, to honor ancestral voices within.

As a director and playwright, I usually get to hide behind my work. But a SeedPool residency is one of the only settings where I feel safe to throw myself into the fire and allow embodiments to emerge from me.

This process reminded me of the impact my work has on others. Being inspired by others is a common feeling, but to witness the ripple effect my work had on fellow artists was validating. Receiving feedback, sharing our reactions, offering interpretations; what could be better than a conversation wrapped in belongingness.

What a journey.

Featured Seed: An Urban Libation; A Song in Stills

Zainab Amadahy:

The residency was a rare experience for me. Normally I don’t work with tight deadlines nor collaborate with other artists from other disciplines. I don’t generally get much feedback on my work in its draft stages and don’t often give feedback either.

The residency was a chance to experience all of that and emerge feeling satisfied and inspired. In emerging from the residency, I feel like my writing has much improved and that I’ve dived into new levels of exploration. My understanding of the topics I’ve explored in my writings has expanded through this process.

My hope is that folks introduced to the toolkit feel inspired to create in their own disciplines and collaborate across our rich BIPOC cultures.

Featured Seed: First Story

Mutya Macatumpag:

Participating in the MTAT Collaborative Digital Toolkit Residency and SeedPool Project has been a profound experience. Witnessing artists engage in dialogue and reflection about their work has been truly fascinating. I felt alive in the creative process, working from an unabashed place. The environment fosters trust, allowing individuals to bring their whole selves to the table, contributing their voices and engaging in wholehearted listening. This freedom of expression is awe-inspiring. I appreciate that we are encouraged to create in our own way, without constraints.

The growth that stems from this openness allows for pushing boundaries and stimulating the senses in ways not often found when working alone.

My vision for the Toolkit is that participants leave inspired to explore their own creations and cultivate ideas within the SeedPool Project. I hope they feel empowered to share the toolkit beyond borders, fostering collaboration and connection across diverse communities.

Featured Seed: Ancestral Tapestries in Winters Motion

natty abdou:

The experience of Moving Together/Arriving Together (MTAT) was full with the richness, complexity and depth that is the essence of Arrivals Legacy work in my experience. It was a portal to new ways of sensing, connecting and co-creating.

Applying in itself was a leap of faith. I am much more of an embodied and tactile artist and so this was a commitment to befriending the digital realms in a ways I had not before.

As often is the case with a creative praxis, the journey was full of highs and lows. Initially, ripples of insecurity arose yet the time frame and commitments of the residency demanded forging on.

Our community of practice was comprised of a wildly gifted diverse courageous beings. It turned out many of us were feeling the ripples of creating raw, honest, unmasked work in a product-based capitalist system that always seeks to ascribe “worth” or “status” to our work. After all the residency sought to counter these norms with a focus of decolonising creative praxis.

What emerged beyond this veil was a really rich opportunity to play with, and trust, my creative curiosities and impulses beyond perfection. It invited my questions, explorations and experimentation to meet and entangle with others in co-creation.

My hope this toolkit will offer creatives of all kinds to keep trusting their intuition, to create for the sake of “birth right” expression and to keep nurturing spaces that enable the wisdom that lives within each of us, our lineages and our communities to thrive.

Bless up to our interwoven root systems and art as liberation in these times!

Featured Seed: dancing with gypsum cliff

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Larissa Blokhuis
Featured Seed:
Some thoughts on language