'Good Boy!'

The piece is an exploration of self-soothing following grief, loss and trauma - an aftercare ritual for artist and audience to go through together.

The central element and inspiration is Nwando’s experience whilst having a miscarriage of watching dog grooming videos.

This work is part of ‘After Care’, part of the British Council's Biennials Connect Programme, and will comprise live and pre-recorded contributions from: Christopher Cozier, Roo Dhissou, Nwando Ebizie & Languid Hands’ Rabz Lansiquot and Imani Mason Jordan.

It will take the below provocation as a starting point:

‘How do we consider and care for artists and audiences after the work is done? – thinking about the work after the work.’

An hour-long exploration of radical care, pleasure and transformation for BIPOC bodies – a binaural audio journey, for headphones in a darkened room – followed by a 30-minute cinematic coming-together to regroup, where you will feel heard, supported and held.

We invite you to join us in recognising the urgency of care, of pleasure, of transformation, for BIPOC bodies. We present a revolutionary journey into the psyche, a washing away of our supposed shared reality, a gathering together of the fragments of which we’re comprised, transmuting into something rich and strange and new. Diving deep into our unconscious desires, our buried joys, the top/bottom of our collective to-do lists. This is a cleansing, a preparation, an opening for the new cycle: the universal cycle of life-death-life. Decide what your transformation will be. Prepare for the liberation of pleasure, for viridity, for new life.

PLEASE NOTE: This event is only open to Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC.) We understand that not everybody will use this term to describe themselves, please see further detail below:

Please only attend this event if you are a person who is racialized with experience of racism, which may include People of African or Caribbean heritage, People of Asian Heritage (South, East, Southeast, Central) People of Middle Eastern, South American, Islander or Indigenous heritage.

It is important that you do not attend or book this event if the above does not apply to you. You will be asked to confirm this during and after booking the event.

This will be a limited capacity event, and will require booking a space in advance. Booking will open 12 May here.

Supported by Something to Aim For, Buzzcut, Take Me Somewhere, BAC with further support from LADA and University of Glasgow.