Exhibition Response: Floating in the in-between with Jameisha Prescod

An exhibition response with artist and writer, Jameisha Prescod. Leah Clements’ new body of work, Apophenia, explores the complex physical and psychological responses she and other crips have to finding meaning in the experience of illness. Running throughout the work is a thematic engagement with water and its symbolic associations with healing. For this event, artist Jameisha Prescod presents a response to the exhibition through a collective listening of Bodies in the In-Between , an essay that examines the role of water in Black communities, exploring its connections to trauma, healing, spirituality, and ritual. Following the listening, Prescod will be joined by Leah Clements for a conversation exploring water’s cultural and psychological associations. The discussion will draw on Apophenia as well as Prescod’s new film, What We Inherit, which explores Suriname’s waterways and their influence on Black Surinamese relationships to illness, spirituality, and medicine. This event will have BSL Interpretation. This event is free, suggested donation is £3. Booking is required. Peer aims to be open and accessible to all. Find further details on how to access our space here . Biography Jameisha Prescod FRSA is a multidisciplinary artist, journalist and writer from South London. With work grounded in a research-based practice, Jameisha explores how culture, identity, black history and colonialism influence the way illnesses are experienced. By combining moving image, documentary photography and digital art with poetry and essay writing, their work reimagines how disabled stories and illness histories can be archived in more experimental ways. Jameisha is also the founder of You Look Okay To Me, the online space for chronic illness. Image Description A 3D animation showing a medicinal plant used by the Black and Indigenous Surinamese populations. The plant is floating in a body of water that appears brown, due to the clay deposits and sediments found in Suriname's natural waterways. A black person in their twenties sits with their head resting in their hand.T hey are sat at a three-forthd angle, facing slightly away from the camera, however their eyes meet the viewers gaze. They are wearing a red and purple headscarf which covers their hair, except for some of their locs fall in front of their face and ears.