Radical Self-Compassion: Sharing Personal Archives Through Assemblage Art
Workshop date: 29 November - 1 December >
Radical Self-Compassion: Sharing Personal Archives Through Assemblage Art workshop
In this recalibrating 3 session workshop, you will learn to listen to your body and engage with your personal archives to birth radical acceptance and joy, even in moments of rupture.
"Yoυ doɴ'т ɴeed α woмв тo ɢιve вιrтн"
Over three sessions, you’ll participate in exercises that guide you in listening to your body and connecting with personal archives. You’ll learn to reassemble fragments of your story and collaborate with others to create from shared experiences. This process will help you compassionately embrace your troubles, using archives, sculptural assemblage art and body mapping to give voice to the stories our bodies carry - empowering you to (re)connect with your unique inner strength, and deepen connection with others.
In rehearsal for Poiesis of Weathering with director/practitioner Peta Lily
This new programme draws on my research project ~ Poiesis of Weathering, a sculptural performance installation funded by the Arts Council England. Engaging with themes of race and rupture, as pathways to radical acceptance and healing, the work integrates lived experience and theoretical perspectives with hands-on artistic practices making visible power structures embedded within the landscape. Through this lens and our group’s unearthing, participants are invited to radicalise their own stories through assemblage art to explore the rich and complex layers of their lived experiences with compassion.
"Poiesis of Weathering is a deeply resonant work exploring the psychological impact of everyday experiences of racist violence through the use of surrealism, performance and narrative. With a careful regard to the use of materiality and objects, Treasure creates an opening or portal into her own psyche, an internal world that reflects the ongoing and collective horror that is the experience of anti-blackness in the external."
Imani Mason Jordan, Languid Hands
Programme Outline:
Online Sessions:
Session 1: Speculative Writing & Introduction to Assemblage Art.
Session 2: Engaging with Personal Archives & Body Mapping
In-Person
Session 3: Assemblage Art Making, Performance and Body Mapping.
When
Friday 29 November 6.30pm - 9.00pm
Saturday 30 November 10am - 1pm
Sunday 1 December 10.30am - 4.30pm
Where
Address south east London, location: TBC
ABOUT JOYCE
"Joyce is a discipline-crossing artist - her work draws satisfyingly and transformationally on the personal and the social aspects of humanity"
Peta Lily
Joyce has over thirty years of experience working in the creative industry, working in a wide variety of mediums including jewellery, collage, sculpture, painting, drawings, performance, film, theatre, new technology, and writing. This includes 20 years of experience facilitating workshops in diverse settings. Her practice is an exploration of the intricate relationships between human narratives, the spiritual and the evolving world around us. She has taken on roles installing shows as a director, project manager, artist, filmmaker, and workshop facilitator, engaging with both groups and individuals.
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As seen through the transformational conjuration of Betye Saar's work, Liberation of Aunt Jemima, these workshops echo this radical act of reclamation, inviting participants to befriend their troubles and engage in collective sharing, where personal and communal archives are transformed into assemblage art, acting as pieces of radical acceptance. In this political assemblage piece, Saar reclaims a well-known racial stereotype as a symbol of Black power— where Saar arms Aunt Jemima with a shotgun in one hand and a broom in the other.
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Inspired by Cecilia Vicuña’s fragile 'precarios,' which merge discarded natural and manmade materials, these workshops explore the impermanence and interconnectedness of life. Vicuña’s ephemeral works, sometimes swept away by nature, act as offerings and reminders of ancestral knowledge. We will reflect on her call to 'hear the ancient voices in a new way,' and consider how or if such questions engage with our archives as we create our assemblage sculptural pieces, listen to our body and embrace the potential for change, even in times of uncertainty.
Who is it for?
Artists and Creatives reclaiming narratives through storytelling and personal archives, especially those amplifying marginalised voices.
Individuals and communities seeking ways to process experiences and identity.
Activists and Decolonial Thinkers merging creative expression with social justice, focusing on racial equity and liberation.
Community Builders fostering collective storytelling as tools for justice and solidarity.
Anyone interested in decolonial practices and feminist perspectives, regardless of artistic experience, ready to challenge dominant narratives.
To contact Joyce with any questions, email
joy(at)joycetreasure.co.uk
Relevant Literature:
Barbieri, Donatella - Costume in Performance; Materiality, Culture, and the Body
Campt, Tina M. - A Black Gaze
Caretta, Martina Angela, and Zaragocin, Sofia - Cuerpo-Territorio: A Decolonial Feminist Geographical Method for the Study of Embodiment
Hall, Stuart - Constituting an Archive
Judy, R. A. - Sentient Flesh; Thinking in Disorder, Poiesis in Black
Noble, Denise - Remembering Bodies, Healing Histories: the Emotional Politics of Everyday Freedom
Palmer, Katrina - The Dark Object
Rarey, Matthew Francis - Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic
Russel, Legacy – Glitch Feminist
Smith, Theophus H. - Conjuring Culture
Sharpe, Christina - In The Wake
Stoute, Beverly J. - Black Rage: The Psychic Adaptation to the Trauma of Oppression
Thompson, Robert Farris - Flash of the Spirit
Yusoff, Kathryn - A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None.