We are so excited to welcome Niya B to perform Umbilical Stories, Navel Sensualities and Reproductive desires in the Minerva Garden for October’s Digbeth First Friday.
In this intimate performance, Niya B will engage with her post-reproductive body and a deep sense of longing to nurture life. Revitalising her umbilical cord, she is looking to reconnect with the m-Other in a trans-interspecies temporality of care.
This performance will follow on from a connected workshop, Listening to the Environment, From a Queer Perspective led by Seda Ergul and Sophie Seita, earlier in the day.
This event is a part of the public programme of the exhibition bingenTV at Mimosa House, taking place between October 26 and December 8, 2023. bingenTV is con-ceived by artists Naomi Woo and Sophie Seita, in conversation with The Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions, produced by Queer Art Projects and funded by Canada Council for the Arts and Arts Council England.
Niya B is a multi-disciplinary artist, working at the intersections of visual art and performance. She uses video, soundscapes, text, live acts, and immersive installations and technologies to explore themes related to ecology, posthumanism, (trans)gender politics, class, mythology, and the knowledge that is held in the land and the performing body. Niya has shown work in exhibitions, festivals, live art events and academic conferences including Tate Britain and The Yard Theatre (London), CCA (Glasgow), Site Gallery (Sheffield), BOM (Birmingham), ONCA (Brighton), Performance Space (Folkestone), NEoN festival (Dundee); Visioni Del Sud (Salento, Italy); 5th and 8th Thessaloniki Biennale (Greece); 2023 ΕΛΕVΣΙΣ European Capital of Culture (Greece); 5th Moscow Biennale (Russia); Internation-al Print Biennale (Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle); Goldsmiths University of London; University of Leeds.