Join us from 4pm on Tuesday 17th September for Practicing What We Preach: Integrating Care and Integrity in our Practices, a workshop with Saoirse Amira Anis.

How can we ensure that care and integrity are not just ideals but active in our practices?

In this artist talk and workshop Saoirse Amira Anis will discuss their practice and how its themes have evolved since leaving art school, shaped by personal experiences, socio-political climates, and the communities that have supported them. Focusing on the importance of community, care, and integrity, Saoirse will guide participants in creating a toolkit to navigate the worlds of art institutions and the broader art sector without succumbing to the pitfalls of careerism.

Saoirse Amira Anis' creative practice prioritises radical care, informality and empathy, influenced by their Scottish and Moroccan heritage and underpinned by interests in Black queer theory, Disability Justice, and politics of liberation. Through writing, moving image and performance, they consider how the body holds ancestral and lived memories, particularly in relation to guilt, shame and resistance. Recent projects include solo shows at Dundee Contemporary Arts (2023) and Cample Line (2022), and major commissions for Art Night (2023) and Platform, Edinburgh Art Festival (2022).

This event is part of the Race, Rights & Sovereignty 'What Will Be the Cure?' strand. ‘What Will Be the Cure?’ is a programme strand geared towards artists and practitioners who wish to collectivise, experiment, and conspire towards transformative change.

Race, Rights and Sovereignty is a programme supported by GSA Students Association in partnership with GSA Exhibitions.

Image: Holding Barzakh (2022). Image courtesy of the artist.