iniva and Residency 11:11 are thrilled to announce that curator, writer and researcher Beulah Ezeugo has been selected for Residency 11:11’s November Residency in partnership with iniva. Residency 11:11’s domestic residency is a research-based residency situated in a residential shared flat in London. For a duration of one month the residency aims to connect its guests to the city’s artistic landscape, encouraging practitioners to explore local discourses and collaborations.
This residency invited practitioners with a strong interest in special collections, artists archives and archival practices to engage with iniva’s Artist File Collection. The collection primarily contains various amounts of ephemera in the form of gallery invitations, press releases, 35mm slides, biographies, press clippings and much more. Much like iniva’s Stuart Hall library collection it documents radical and emergent contemporary artistic practice centering Global Majority, African, Asian, and Caribbean diaspora perspectives.
Beulah Ezeugo is an artist & curator who works with others against the rapid tightening and regularisation of national borders. Her practice engages with postcolonial geographies, archival practices, & collective memory and expands outwards through exhibition-making, programming, & publication. As an independent curator, she is interested in supporting collaborative & research-led artists’ practices. Beulah is currently a research associate at CCA Derry~Londonderry, and one-half of the collective Éireann & I Archive, a migrant memory project.
Ezeugo is currently focused on how marginalised groups have historically used fabrication—through falsified documents, elaborate dress, racial passing, or other elaborate personal myths—to navigate systemic barriers. She is especially interested in how these strategies mirror the fabrication of national myths, which often rely on the constructs of race and borders. During the residency she will build on this thinking to focus around auto-fabulation, reading Tavia Nyong’o and Dionne Brand, and exploring iniva’s artist archives to explore how artists frame their biographies.