Hamshya Rajkumar (she/them) is an inter-disciplinary artist who navigates through embodied movement, intention and ritual. By situating the body outside the constraints of binary structures, she explores our human place in a world where ‘nature’ is separate, dominated and objectified.

About the residency:

‘I will be exploring Dark Ecologies who remediate disturbed Land, potentially in reference to the post industrial Land:scape Ravenscraig.

Embracing intimacies, bodies of reckoning, enlivening the pulse of Soil, Fungi, Moss and Lichen, will be a focus.

During this residency I will be inviting collaborators to work in the studio, and begin or end their day during Sun:rise/set at Ravenscraig. As site translators, we will be investigating how to highlight Dark Ecologies for human audiences in various manifestations of live art. Histories, origins and the multiple consequences contamination has spawned will also be examined.’ 

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Funded through our 2022 Spring Residencies Scheme