Tawfik and Kumbirai explored the foundations of their collaborative research, culminating in a cosmic, quantum-mechanical review of frameworks. They also presented (E)theric Mnemonics: a collaborative framework that expands perception and understanding by positioning the body as an ear, inviting participants to explore ideas beyond conventional thought.
Naas and Makumbe invited participants to witness and contribute to how these theoretical and practical frameworks can resonate across personal, political, and universal dimensions. Participants had the opportunity to engage directly with the themes, reflect on how frameworks operate in multiple ways, and co-create new understandings.
Tawfik Naas is a Libyan practitioner based in London whose work explores how historic trauma is carried, remembered, shared, and transformed. Naas borrows from ecological systems and transposes them into environments that offer alternative ways of witnessing the past. His practice merges histories with cosmologies of people, plants, light, and spirit; an approach shaped by his ongoing research into ecological and cosmological perspectives. Over the past eight years, he has examined the entanglement of natural resources, memory, and place, cultivating spaces where resilience and renewal emerge through the regenerative rhythms of the natural world.
Kumbirai Makumbe is a Zimbabwean artist based in London whose practice is an ongoing exploration of fabulation. Through using fabulation to form bridges, breaches, and sanctuaries, they are interested in how fabulation can be employed as a form of spiritual and aesthetic infrastructure: a way to build, believe, and belong differently. Their concern is with how we build meaning when dominant systems fail to hold us. Their practice dwells in the friction between belief and becoming, matter and spirit, the seen and the speculative. Through assemblage and sculptural gesture, they gather materials and metaphors into constellations that point toward alternative ways of living and worlding.