PERFORMANCES: ARTICULATIONS PT. 8 – IMANI MASON JORDAN & CANDICE NEMBHARD

Rupert – centre for art, residencies and education invites to ARTICULATIONS PT. 8 with Imani Mason Jordan and Candice Nembhard, taking place at the contemporary art space Meduza.

This edition’s artists Candice Nembhard and Imani Mason Jordan present their innovative performance projects, inviting the audience as partners to lend their collective voice and presence. These current Rupert residents each work in unique ways with sound and poetry as tools to connect to deep emotional states and societal traumas.

Candice Nembhard’s Offering is an open-ended investigation into rituals of grief through sound, performance, and archival practice. They will present a new version, designed for Articulations in Vilnius. Each iteration of Offering is site-specific, facilitating intimate reflections on bereavement and communion.

Imani Mason Jordan will introduce brief vignettes of their performed writing work in progress. They will interact with the building as a sonic apparatus, with distinct chambers, echoes, and components. Using diverse textual formats, Imani’s practice tests the limits of the body and anthropocentric materials.

Both artists are showing their work for the first time in Vilnius. Following each presentation, the artists will briefly discuss their research topics and residency plans with Rupert’s curator of residencies and public programmes, JL Murtaugh.

Imani Mason Jordan (based in London) is an interdisciplinary writer, artist, editor, and curator. Since 2016, they have synthesised a performance practice engaging experimental poetics and oration, centering text and using voice as an instrument. They are director of Paperflesh Publishing, a platform for intellectually rigorous, politically minded Black writers. Imani completed an MA in Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths College in 2019. Alongside their artistic practice, they are part of the curatorial collective Languid Hands (with Rabz Lansiquot).

Candice Nembhard (aka okcandice / sonic seamstress, based between Birmingham and Berlin) is an x-disciplinary artist-curator. Their practice examines methodologies of grief expressed through writing, sound, moving image, and performance, collected as audiovisual archives. A Jerwood Arts Curatorial Fellow and Obsidian Foundation Fellow, Candice is a co-founding member of the theatrical poetry trio poet & prophetess, co-director of Bredryn CIC, a non-profit platform for sound-based practices, and founder of all fruits ripe, an independent cinema series for queer, Black, and Global Majority filmmakers.

Articulations, now in its eighth edition, is a cycle of seasonal public events highlighting the practices of Rupert’s international residents.

The event will be held in English.

Curator: JL Murtaugh
Residency assistant: Lola Mevellec
Coordinator: Aistė Frišmantaitė
Communication: Aistė Marija Stankevičiūtė
Graphic design: Marijn Degenaar
Sound technician: Arnas Tamulionis
Photography: Jurga Sako
Editor (LT): Evelina Zenkutė

Special thanks to Audrius Pocius, Eglė Agnė Benkunskytė, Viktorija Šiaulytė, Monika Lipšic, gallery ‘Medūza’.

Photography and filming will be done during the event. The photos and videos may be used to publicise the event on social networks, websites, press, etc. If you don’t want to be photographed, please inform the Rupert team during the event