Sandra Jean Pierre expands on the MARASA name.

this broken piece of yard collects contributions by participants to Cairo Clarke’s programme developed as part of her Curatorial Fellowship at LUX in 2020/1. Centering learning through practice and embedding Black feminist futurity at its core. Together we honour forms of knowledge production and dissemination that slip between the cracks, are formed on unstable ground, and take on multiple temporalities. Offerings are drawn from strands of theorising taking place in autonomous spaces, inserting the speculative into the present and holding space for the mess. this broken piece of yard was born out of exploring the history of LUX (formerly the London Filmmakers Co-op); navigating the lived conditions of Covid-19 and global uprisings in defence of Black life – together culminating in asking “what do we want from arts organisations now?” and “what do we want to bring into being?”

Through writing commissions, audio projects, digital interventions, activities in nature and working groups this broken piece of yard is an experiment towards an entangled communal practice. We take exhaustion as a point of solidarity, slow-walking together, leaning on one another, collectively shaping this broken piece of yard.

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Title: this broken piece of yard

Editor: Cairo Clarke

Contributors: Ode, Bea Freeman, Isaac Kariuki, Lola Olufemi, Rebecca Bellantoni, Tanaka Fuego, Shenece Oretha, Maybelle Peters, sisterwoman vegan, Onyeka Igwe, Sandra Jean Pierre, June Givanni, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Julia Chinyere Oparah, Linda Jones, Kumbirai Makumbe, Tamar Clarke-Brown, Cairo Clarke

Size: 150 x 220 mm (Portrait)

No. of pages: 109

Year of publication: 2022

Publisher: LUX

Design: Josh Woolford

ISBN: 978-0-9928840-9-3

price: £15.00

Jennifer Martin talks to audio producer and researcher Sandra Jean Pierre about production and the power and possibilities that emerge from sound and the act of listening.

Sandra Jean Pierre is the founder and curator of Marasa, which was co-started with Jessica Saxby. Marasa explores the possibilities given by sound and radio as mediums to build and contribute to renewed systems of listening, visibility, and creation and sharing of knowledge.

This conversation was recorded in April 2021.

Transcript available April 2022, please email info@not-nowhere.org to request.

Producer & Editor: Josette Joseph (@josette_joseph)

Institute of Contemporary Arts mention in ICA Daily newsletter.