How do we build the conditions for collective freedom when crisis has become an ordinary feature of everyday life? This essay reflects on the development of 135 Home Studio, a nomadic platform for Black queer creative practices, and its first exhibition, Playsure Network: Experiments Towards Resistance. Drawing on Black feminist standpoint theory, personal experience and collective curatorial practice, it considers how overlapping social, political and economic crises shape the possibilities available to marginalised artists.

Over the course of three months I have traveled to two states and three different countries. London (current home), Florida (first home), Virginia (my father’s last home), Cape Town (an interesting place), and Panama (a friend’s home).

by blood. by guide. by call

TRANS-PORT ME, an eleven minute film accompanied by an integrative online video game entitled When Our Worlds Meet, displayed at Studio Voltaire’s Open House 2022. The work provided a peek into Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s extensive archive and ever-expansive body of work.