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Partnership — Body Remedy Residency

After a successful pilot micro residency and day event in 2023, Body Remedy returns to Cove Park for a week-long group residency and day event as part of our ongoing partnership. Body Remedy, based in Glasgow, is an organisation that centres physical practice for self-recovery. Contributors and participants of Body Remedy are Black people and people of colour (BPOC) who identify as women and non-binary. They organise as a small team led by founder and former Cove Park resident Mele Broomes in collaboration with Lead Producer Zoë Zo Tumika.

On 28 September 2024, Body Remedy hosted a second forming ecology day event. This was a space for creativity, reflection, connecting with community, and resting. The event included movement workshop led by Mele Broomes and Simone Seales, a painting workshop with Adebusola Ramsay and artist talks with Titilayo Farukuoye, Peju Alatise, and Alberta Whittle, as well as an opportunity to spend time around Cove Park.

A Black woman wearing a protective, braided hairstyle, leans against a large glass window and looks out toward her shoulder. Through the windows, you can see a lush, green landscape, Loch Long, and the hills of Cowal Peninsula.
Mele Broomes, 2022/23 Awarded Resident, Founder of Body Remedy (photography by Alan Dimmick).

Residencies


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Frankie Mulholland

Frankie Mulholland is an artist working with the mediums of movement, visual art and sound. Through these mediums, her work interrogates identity, time, intimacy and dance as a form of healing. She believes in the importance of connection and the shared experience of dance and music we have in club spaces. Clubs as a potential […]

Body Remedy Residency
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Kialy Tihngang

Kialy Tihngang works in video, sculpture, textiles, animation and photomontage, typically involving elaborate sets, costumes, graphics, props, and collaborations with performers and musicians. As a British-born Cameroonian, her research-based practice focuses on colonial European misrepresentation, extraction, and demonisation of West African cultural practices, but also on her own misremembering, misreading, and romanticisation of said practices, […]

Body Remedy Residency
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Gaïa

Gaïa (she/they) is a jazz and rnb singer based in Glasgow. Their practice revolves around several collaborative projects within the Neo-jazz scene in Glasgow ranging from rnb to spiritual jazz projects. Their practice has evolved over the past year – now working amongst different scenes and working collaboratively with different musicians, poets, and more.

Body Remedy Residency
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Plantainchipps

DJ and Music Producer, Plantainchipps is all about upbeat and fast-paced sounds, music that uplifts and excites. She keeps it energetic, multidimensional, and firmly rooted on the dancefloor with selections including Afrobeats, R’n’B, house and dancehall. Plantainchipps has played a variety of gigs around Glasgow including The Berkley Suite, The Art School and Stereo, and […]

Body Remedy Residency
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Tatenda

Tatenda is an artist of the palate. With a background in cheese and wine, she focuses on sustainable ancestral methods of food production and the process that transform flavours within and between food. She uses storytelling approach as an accessible way to share knowledge whilst using our senses to reconnect to our bodies.

Body Remedy Residency
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Najma Hussein Abukar

Najma Hussein Abukar is a Somali born, Glasgow based photographer documenting cultural and immigrant experiences. Passionate about curating, archiving, and re (focusing) narratives of those underrepresented and marginalised, her practice is concerned with issues of identity, (self) representation and the notion of home and belonging within the Scottish landscape.

Body Remedy Residency
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Salma Francoise Faraji

Originally from Tanzania, East Africa, and now based in Glasgow, Salma has taught and performed with multi-generational communities in Scotland. Prior to volunteering in South America as a Human Rights Ambassador, she pursued a career as an Air Traffic Control Assistant. She teaches Aerobics with Soul ® The African Dance Workout, and continues studying British […]

Body Remedy Residency
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p a t s y

p a t s y is a creative entrepreneur, based in Glasgow. She is a multifaceted individual who founded BAMILEK – an independent concept store whose mission is to connect the African Diaspora. She spends a lot of her time capturing life moments through photos, videos and audio, comprising them using mixed media on her […]

Body Remedy Residency

Body Remedy

Body Remedy, based in Glasgow, is an organisation that centres physical practice for self-recovery.  Contributors and participants of Body Remedy are black people and people of colour (BPOC) who identify as women and non-binary. They organise as a small team led by founder and former Cove Park resident Mele Broomes in collaboration with Lead Producer […]

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