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A square Instagram graphic for ‘Bordered Belonging’: Across the top, it reads ‘Bordered Belonging’ in black text against a pink background. Underneath are the exhibitions dates and info which read: 3 February – 30 March, an exhibition exploring the intersections of health, precarity, care and hostile environments.’ Underneath, there is a still from Jamila Prowse’s ‘Spoons’, which shows hands holding a papier mache spoon. Subtitles in yellow read ‘Yeah, I’m in this weird relationship of care here’
Exhibition
Bordered Belonging
3 Feb 2024 – 30 Mar 2024
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 17:00
Free admission
Address
- The Shieldfield Centre
- 4-8 Clarence Walk
- Newcastle upon Tyne
England - NE2 1AL
- United Kingdom
Bordered Belonging is an exhibition exploring the intersections of health, precarity, care and hostile environments. The project platforms the voices and perspectives of those living in a system that does not always offer compassion, adequate care, or sanctuary.
About
Saturday 3 February – Saturday 30 March 2024
Opening Preview: Friday 2 February, 5pm – 8pm
Open Wednesday – Saturday, 12pm – 5pm
The NewBridge Project Gallery space
The NewBridge Project is delighted to announce Bordered Belonging, an exhibition exploring the intersections of health, precarity, care and hostile environments.
Bordered Belonging platforms the voices and perspectives of those living in a system that does not always offer compassion, adequate care, or sanctuary. How do we decide which bodies are perceived to be a risk to society? Why is care from the state often conditional and policed?
Bordered Belonging offers a space to interrogate health inequalities, the role artists can play in creating solidarity, and mutual aid in (un)caring systems. It includes new work by artist and activist Bhavani Esapathi and ‘Sick Bed’, a film by Leah Clements, which uses virtual reality gaming to situate the viewer as someone who is stuck in bed with an unnamed illness. ‘Crip Quilt’ by Jamila Prowse, a large-scale, patchwork textile quilt, translating the individual and collective experiences of disability, will also be on show alongside Prowse’s moving image work ‘Spoons (After Carolyn Lazard)’. This film explores spoon theory, using spoons as a visualisation of the disparity in energy reserves between disabled and able-bodied people. Finally, Jamie Hale’s poem ‘I wish to be held by a river’ will be exhibited, painted directly on the gallery walls, with their poetry collection, ‘Shield’.
There will also be an area for reading and reflecting within the gallery, featuring the revolutionary texts from those who have inspired and contributed to the creation of this project. This includes the work of Jamie Hale, Nira Yuval Davis, Bob Williams Findlay, Alice Wong, and Shada Kafai.
This programme is developed by The NewBridge Project with writer, maker & social-tech activist Bhavani Esapathi. As an immigrant, disabled woman of colour much of her work is impacted by her lived experiences alongside extensively working with patient groups and research institutes.
