A design studio striving to cultivate imagination and co-designing to build a better world, Comuzi Lab feature in current exhibition Swimmers Limb, curated by Taylor LeMelle for Somerset House Studios' Gallery 31 exhibition space. In interactive work The Beginner’s Guide to Care Futures V1, Comuzi Lab members Yaa Addae and Safiya McKenzie invite Swimmers Limb audiences to contribute to their budding research on love and wellbeing as part of Comuzi Lab's current focus on digital healthcare services.
To coincide with their Gallery 31 work, Addae leads a Grounding Practice session extending this research, exploring cultivating future care infrastructures under a growing framework titled Restorative Love Economics. The workshop will investigate love of/by those who are systemically underloved, inspired by the work of bell hooks.
Part guided discussion and part performance lecture, the workshop will explore three questions:
How has systemic trauma shaped our capacities for intimacy with one another?
What obstacles do Black communities face in loving and receiving love?
What might a restorative healing ritual that addresses the lovelessness of an anti-Black world look like?
The workshop is a part of an ongoing embodied research programme, Open Heart Clinic taking place between October 2022- February 2023 in London, Accra, and virtually.
No experience or previous thinking is manditory but reading materials will be shared in advance of the session, with participants encouraged to come ready to share. Please note that attendee capacity is very limited.
