PAST EVENT: This was part of the EAF22 programme.

Rhubaba offered an ecology of projects for Edinburgh Art Festival 2022, bringing together a reading room of selected research materials, publications and talks from projects over the course of two years.

Care Resistance … Joy was a project exploring collective joy as a radical practice for constructing better ways of living and working together. A response to collective grief and crisis, the project created a space for respite, reflection, and community; informed by Queer-Ecology and Decolonial thought, as well as legacies of collective action.

Selected artists and facilitators: Sunanda Mesquita, Ella Yolande, The Institute for Post-natural Studies and Emilix Beatriz.

Rhubaba’s Passions publication took inspiration from Maud Sulter’s book ‘Passion; discourses on Blackwomen’s creativity’ (1990) and brought together 11 contributions from Black artists and writers, who have a relationship to Scotland, to reconsider the themes of “mis-education, mis-information and mis-direction” found within the book.

The Embodied Knowledge project explored ways of knowing formed through various wayward conversations held at Rhubaba. The project launched with a new website and ceramic sculpture commission by artist Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie.