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East Bank SEEDED residency announced: Supporting socially-engaged practice
3 December 2024
We are delighted to announce our 2024-2025 East Bank SEEDED artist in residence - Naresh Kaushal - whose practice explores the lived experience of power with society.
East Bank SEEDED is a part-time, funded residency programme for creatives and creative thinkers in the early stages of their career to explore and grow ideas relating to their socially-engaged practice. After a competitive two-stage application process, award-winning multidisciplinary artist Naresh Kaushal was selected to be this year's UCL East SEEDED resident.
With a background in film-making and participatory theatre, Naresh works across moving-image, installation, photography and immersive technology to explore the lived experience of power with society. Over the next 5 months he will be embedded in the Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) at UCL East, where he will be gaining an insight into their work with citizen scientists, and exploring parallels between their approach to community engagement and his own socially-engaged practice.
The residency will give Naresh the opportunity to test out ideas, explore innovative areas of research, make new connections and develop his artistic practice. Over the course of the residency he will develop a concept, ending with production of a tangible creative output, which could take any form.
He will also come together on a regular basis with London College of Fashion (LCF)'s SEEDED resident, Cleo Thomas, to share learning and receive mentoring and support.
Naresh said:
“I am absolutely delighted to be undertaking his residency and I am hugely excited to harness the strong synergy between the IGP and myself. We share a commitment to working with underrepresented voices in a way that is meaningful to them and brings about positive social change, but we have (until now at least!) operated in adjacent or parallel professional contexts. This fascinates me on many levels”.
Mel Davis, Community Engagement Manager at UCL East, said
“We’re really excited to have Naresh with us. Our ambition for the SEEDED residency is to offer a supportive, experimental and inspiring environment where mutual learning, collaboration and the exchange of ideas can take place. Naresh brings some really interesting knowledge and skills around participatory, playful approaches to community engagement and we’re looking forward to seeing the new ideas grow from the connections that he makes.”
SEEDED first launched in 2023 and is now running for a second year hosted by London College of Fashion, UAL and UCL East. In the future, we hope to expand the programme to include residency places with each of the five East Bank partners, which also include V&A East, Sadlers Wells and BBC Music.