Ishwari Bhalerao & Leonie Rousham
Walking is just walking, until it becomes something more, so much more. Until it becomes a walk along the Folkestone coast, the coast serving as a beginning and an ending, the beginning of a friendship on the ends of an Island which is about to haunt us for the rest of our lives.
The vast seas leading us to the strategically curated Grand Union Canal, where a walk digs deep, dredges objects of extractivism, found by the children of the shameful water itself, in a shallow, man-made canal bed.
Until it becomes a walk that pans a year, two years;
A walk to the borders of the Island again, where land meets sea, where the Thames meets the North Sea, water becomes water, Man becomes Explorer, no, we are not Man, we can’t Man.
How can we walk through land where we are Witness, we are Witness to Man, we are Witness to the actions of the State, to the borders of the State, to the architectures of border control systematically embedded in the landscape by the State. A walk along the perimeter of Yarl’s Wood IRC. A walk on this land of hostility.
Walking, being watched while walking, in this University where Jeremy Bentham asked for his body to be on display, this University where care seems to come second, third, last. Where caring is coping, to walk is to care, to walk is to find orientation, a meaning of orientation described by Sara Ahmed. So we will keep walking, feeling the vibrations of two pairs of feet hitting the earth, getting lost and falling out of sync, but somehow moving together.
Thanks to:
Ruth Woodword for composing the sound of The Limits of Looping, Bea Macdonald for cinematography of Restoration and assistance with The Limits of Looping
Resources
Resource list of organisations working towards ending detention and putting an end to the hostile environment: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eTXhxmH6GC___Wx1AKhvt0ozp9RY7gr_dfCBhY91Y1w/edit
Website
Kneed: @_kneed_
Ishwari Bhalerao: @ish.wari
Leonie Rousham: @leo_leo_leo_leo1
51°31”24’N, 0°08”31’W
,Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham
, 2019, performance.51°31”24’N, 0°08”31’W
,Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham
, 2019, performance, 08.20mins.
The Evolution of an Island (I) and (II)
,Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham
, photo etched aluminium plates, each plate 40 x 57cm.The Sound
,Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham
, 2020, audio, 07:20 min looped.Thanks to our mums and friends who lent us their voices to be used as instruments to create this polyvocal piece.
The Limits of Looping
,Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham
, 2020, 16mm film stills.Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre is a detention centre located in dried open wheat fields, on the outskirts of Bedford.
This banal British landscape has been walked scored and documented by many feet through many lenses. This landscape holds within it the continual violence that this State has always been capable of creating, disguising, invisibilizing.
The Limits of Looping
,Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham
, 2020 (ongoing), 16mm film and tape loop.The film and audio loops are played out of sync, degrading, breathing and wobbling over time. Despite the continual cycle of looping, no two viewings will be the same.
Restoration
,Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham
, 2020 (ongoing), film stills, documenting the process of restoring the 1924 film ‘Barging through London’..This film came from the waters. Yes, it came from a large warehouse, sitting next to other such films. Yes, it was probably donated or acquired or found by the British Film Archive and now bears some kind of ownership stamp from them. Or, perhaps it was theirs to begin with. Even if they didn’t make it, through some long lost adjacent relation, they found a way to claim it at some point. But first, it came from the waters.’
Script Excerpt
Jo Ghayab bhi hai Hazir bhi hai (I)
,Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham
, 2020, hand printed silver gelatin darkroom prints made from 16mm cine film, 14 x 9cm.
Jo Ghayab bhi hai Hazir bhi hai (II), 2020
,Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham
, 2020, hand printed silver gelatin darkroom prints made from 16mm cine film, 14 x 9cm.Sister Bellies
,Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham
, 2020, audio, 1.38min, made during lockdown.
End to Continual Cycles of Exhaustion
,Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham
, 2019, screen printed and heat pressed fabric, 203x138cm, Banner made for UCU and IWGB strikes 2019.Limited edition of digital pigment print reproduction of original banner available for sale.
Kneed is a resource we have made for cultural workers, where we can learn how to make sustainably and collectively; resisting the pressures of neoliberalism and constant accumulation, in order to construct a new imaginary. Kneed explores and questions forms of ‘kneading’ (as process, labour, physicality and time) and ‘needing’ (as nourishment, sustenance or an expression of obligation).
Kneed events
,Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham
, 2019 - 2020, Silent Conversation workshops/Collective action at UCU Strikes and Rochester Square.
Silent Conversations (excerpt)
,Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham
, 2019 - 2020, a4 paper. These were made by participants during Kneed workshops..
inspired by Jack Wang’s introduction to her book Careral Capitalism, Semiotext(e), intervention, series 21
,Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham
, 2018.Curriculum Vitae
Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham
Collaborative Artist CV
Education
2016-2020
Slade School of Fine Art
Selected group exhibitions 2019
Bigger Fish to Fry, AMP Gallery, London
Protest, Voices of Dissent in art and text, Haldane Room, UCL, London
Residencies
2020
WFH residency with Artsquest, June-July 2020
Orbit Gallery, Artist in residence, January 2020
2019
Rochester Square Residency, Camden, London
Talks and Panel Discussions 2019
Guests at 100 years, a Round Table Discussion, Bartlett, UCL, London
Sharing Borders Symposium, UCL, London
Performances
2020
51°31”24’N, 0°08”31’W, Poetry and Colour Symposium 2019
Towing the Line: Over and Over, Sharing Borders Symposium
You, Plane, performed for the public at various points along the Grand Union Canal
Events and Facilitation
2020
LADA DIY Festival residency, upcoming 2020 (facilitating)
2019
Silent conversations at the picket lines for UCU Strikes and IWGB strikes 2019 (facilitated)
Silent Conversations at Mayday Rooms as part of Slade Teach Out (facilitated)
Kneeding Conversations: Silent Conversations at Rochester Square (facilitated)
Writing workshop on slow boat in collaboration with IKON gallery and Haley Newman (participated in)
Writing workshop along the canal in East London with Haley Newman and Sally O’Reilly (organised + participated in)
Workshop about ‘flatness.eu' with Shama Khanna (organised + participated in)
Founders
2019-2020
Kneed, a resource for arts and cultural workers: www.kneed.co.uk
Reading Room: a portable library: https://readingroomclub.wordpress.com/
Walking Club: https://www.kneed.co.uk/walking-club
Bread and Dip Union (BDU) at Slade
Series of Peer Led Seminars at Slade
Ishwari Bhalerao
Artist CV
Education
2016-2020 Slade School of Fine Art BFA
2015-2016 Foundation Diploma at City and Islington College
Selected group exhibitions
2019
Bigger Fish to Fry, AMP Gallery, London
Protest, Voices of Dissent in art and text, Haldane Room, UCL, London
Skullpture, Grant Museum, London
2018
Widening the Gaze, Slade Research Centre, London 2017 Secrets of the Soul, Freud Museum, LondonThe Small Press Exhibition, North Cloisters UCL, London The First Exhibition, Matthew’s Court, London
Residencies
2020
WFH residency, Artsquest, London
Artist in Residence, Orbit Gallery, Online
2019
Artist in Residence, Rochester Square, London 2018 Teaching Residency, Doorstep School, Mumbai
Talks and Panel Discussions
2019
Guests at 100 years, a Round Table Discussion, Bartlett, London
Sharing Borders Symposium, UCL, London Secrets of the Sound, UCL, London
Performances
2020
51°31”24’N, 0°08”31’W, Poetry and Colour Symposium, London
2019
Rajgati, directed by Manjul Bharadwaj, Theatre of Relevance, Shivaji Mandir, Mumbai
Towing the Line: Over and Over, Sharing Borders Symposium, London
You, Plane, performed for the public at various points along the Grand Union Canal
Events and Facilitation
2020
LADA DIY residency, upcoming
2019
Silent conversations at the picket lines for UCU Strikes and IWGB strikes 2019
Silent Conversations at Mayday Rooms as part of Slade Teach Out Kneeding Conversations: Silent Conversations at Rochester Square
Workshops Participated In
2019
Moort Amoort Moort Workshop with Theatre of Relevance, Yusuf Meheralli Centre
Writing workshop on slow boat with IKON gallery and Haley Newman
Writing workshop along the canal in East London with Haley Newman and Sally O’Reilly Workshop about flatness.eu with Shama Khanna
Founded
2019-2020
Kneed, a resource for arts and cultural workers kneed.com
Reading Room: a portable library https://readingroomclub.wordpress.com/ Walking Club https://www.kneed.co.uk/walking-club
Bread and Dip Union (BDU), Slade
Series of Peer Led Seminars, Slade
Publications
2019
Sharing Borders
Widening the Gaze
Recent Employment and Work Experience
2020
Arts and Community Assistant at Migrant’s Bureau, London (ongoing)
2019
Guest service assistant, The Crystal, London
2018
Media Store assistant, Slade, London
Slade Short Courses assistant, Slade, London 2017 Internship at Utsha Foundation, Bhubaneswar
Front of House assistant at Natural History Museum
Leonie Rousham
Selected exhibitions/festivals
2019
Making Futures with Architecture Collective Raumlabor, 3week residency as part of the Berlin Open House Week, Berlin
Fast-Forward Feminist: Resist, Reimagine, Rebuild, 3 day-festival, London
Bigger Fish to Fry, AMP Gallery, London
Protest, Voices of Dissent in Art and Text, Haldane Room, UCL, London
Sharing Borders Symposium, UCL, London
2018
Wilkins Terrace Shortlisting Exhibition, London
Siobhan Davies Choreography Lab, London
Next Choreography Festival, London
2017
All’s Well Exhibition, Crypt Gallery,
London Anti-University Festival, R (o-u- t) e (S) Day -Event, London
Battersea Arts Centre, SCRATCH Hairdressing performance, London
Early Works, Church Street, London
Fairfield Projects, Online, London
Workshops
‘Silent Conversations’ facilitated a workshop about care, exhaustion and precarity, UCU and IWGB Strikes 2019
Kneed Research project workshops and facilitated ‘Silent Conversations’ at Rochester Square
2019
Tate Modern, assisted artist in Residence and Amy McKelvie, Head of Education, 2016
Assistant for Photographers Gallery Sunday workshops, ages 8-80, 2016-2017
Reading the Landscape workshop at Royal Geography Society, 2017
Curatorial
Organiser and curator of Anti-University Festival 2018 and 2019
Organiser and curator of Fast-Forward Feminism, 3day festival, UCL, 2019
The World Transformed, organiser and curator, 4day political festival, Liverpool, 2018
South London Gallery, The Waiting Room, in collaboration with CSM curatorial MA course, 2017
South London Gallery, National Film Open Call in collaboration with Guggenheim, 2016
Talks
Mayday Rooms, ‘Collective Sustenance’, part of a talk about art and precarious labour
Bartlett UCL, Guests at 100 years Round Table Discussion, 2019
V&A, Tour of the Design Festival, 2017
Royal Geography Society presented a project I had undertaken with Flora Parrot, 2017
South London Gallery chaired an event - panel included Paul Meheke and Laura Wilson, 2017
Photographers Gallery talk and tour of exhibition for their patrons, 2017
Photographers Gallery, tour of Fresh-Faced Wild-Eyed exhibition, 2016
Founded
Kneed, 2019 - ongoing
Panic.FM 2020 - ongoing
Reading Room Collective, 2019 - ongoing
Walking Club 2019 - ongoing
Collectives and Groups
Anti-University, 2016 - ongoing
Cultural Workers Trade Union Organiser, 2017- ongoing
Siobhan Davies Dance Company, Next Choreography 2017-2018
Siobhan Davies Dance Company forum- 2018
South London Gallery Recreative Editorial Board, 2015- ongoing
Photographers Gallery Youth Board, 2015- 2017
Residencies
WFH residency with Artsquest, June-July 2020
Orbit Gallery, artist in residence, January 2020
Rochester Square Residency, January - August 2019
Prizes, scholarships or awards
The James Steward Scholarship 2016 – 2020
Education
2016-2020
Slade School of Fine Art BA
2015-2016
Kingston Art Foundation Distinction
2013-2015
Graveney Sixth Form A-levels 3A*’s
2009-2013 Lambeth Academy
Price List
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51°31”24’N, 0°08”31’W Performance
Price on Request
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51°31”24’N, 0°08”31’W Performance, Audio 08:20min
Price on Request
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The Evolution of an Island (I) Photo Etched Aluminium Plate 40x57 cm
(1/1)
£725
The Evolution of an Island (II) Photo Etched Aluminium Plate 40x57 cm
(1/1)
£725
The Evolution of an Island (I) and (II) as a pair
£1250
The Evolution of an Island (I) Photo Etched Aluminium Plate 21x14.8 cm
Edition of 5
£125
The Evolution of an Island (I) Photo Etched Aluminium Plate 21x14.8 cm
Edition of 5
£125
Split Batten attached on request for Aluminium Plates
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The Sound Audio
07:20 mins
Price on Request
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The Limits of Looping Stills
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The Limits of Looping
16mm film and audio tape loop Price on Request
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Restoration
Film
Price on Request
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Jo Ghayab bhi hai Hazır bhi hai (I)
Hand printed silver gelatin darkroom print Edition of 3
£175
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Jo Ghayab bhi hai Hazır bhi hai (II)
Hand printed silver gelatin darkroom print 14x9 cm
Edition of 3
£175
This is a series of multiple hand printed darkroom prints, only two of which are on display. Contact artists for more.
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Sister Bellies Audio
1:48 min
Price on Request
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End to Continual Cycles of Exhaustion
Banner, Screenprinted and Heat Pressed Fabric 203x138cm
As our collaborative practice, we accept commissions for specific banner works.
End to Continual Cycles of Exhaustion: Limited Edition of Inkjet Prints A2, 42x59.4cm
Edition of 20
£60
By paying for a print you are also paying into the Economy of the Banner, its history of past protests and a newsletter update of future ones; as well as supporting continual actions towards fighting the exhaustive nature of the arts under Neoliberalism.
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Kneed Events and Workshops Contact artists for Workshop inquiry
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Silent Conversations
Contact artists for Workshop inquiry
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