How We Get Free - Screenings and Lecture

Part of:

How We Get Free: A Black Feminist Performance Art Programme
Curated by Clodagh Assata Boyce

How We Get Free invites global majority artists from the Island of Ireland and beyond to engage with Black Feminist theory and practices in the context of performance art. Including two new Outburst Arts commissions, PS² hosts artists working across performance, photography and film, engaging with and unpacking ideas around refusal and marginalisation posed by Black, queer, feminist artists in the late 20th century.

Talk and Q&A with Kerry Sinanan

Kerry's talk will be presented via Zoom for both an in-person audience at PS2 as well as those who would like to join online only. 

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Kerry Sinanan  is Associate Professor in Global pre-1800 Literature and Culture. She specializes in the Black Atlantic, Caribbean slavery and race, and the global dimensions of Black, Indigenous, and Caribbean resistance and abolition up to the present.

Her monograph, “Myths of Mastery: Traders, Planters and Colonial Agents, 1750-1834,” examines the writings in various genres by slave traders and slave owners from the mid-eighteenth century up to British emancipation (1834). She is under contract with Broadview Press to produce a new edition of The History of Mary Prince (1831). As an anti-racist pedagogy practitioner she runs regular teach-ins and workshops on undisciplining C18th and C19th studies and on decolonial curriculum.

Sunken works/Don’t bite by Ghaliah Conroy

Under the title Sunken Works, Ghaliah Conroy is working on a series of works around the theme of the Human Zoo, the 'exotic' exhibitions that took place in Europe well into the 20th century, where people of colour were displayed behind a fence for public viewing. What effect does this history have on black women today? Sunken Works / Don't BITE is a cinematic exploration about looking and being looked at. How do you relate to a gaze that reduces you to a stereotype? And how do you reclaim your autonomy? Ghaliah is collaborating with audiovisual artist CJ Roxas for this research.

Ghaliah Conroy graduated from the dance and choreography course at Fontys in Tilburg. Originally, she has a background in theatre as an actress and singer. Since graduating, she has been looking for how to bring these different loves together in a meaningful way. In the past two years, she danced, among others, in HAMMAM, an immersive performance by the Irish company ANU Productions, performed in The Pull of the Stars at The Gate Theatre Dublin and was part of Marian Quinn's film TWIG. At Makershuis Tilburg and in residence at DansBrabant, she worked out her plans for Sunken Works. In 2025 her latest work Sunken Works - who makes the rules premiered.

Under a Sky of Fetishes by Caroline Deódat 

Caroline Déodat (FR/MU/BE) is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher.

Through films and installations, she explores the spectral dimensions of the moving image, navigating between fiction and experimental ethnography, theory and documentary cinema. From her obsessions with processes of archiving and alienation, and with the history and myths of violence, she seeks to produce contexts of enunciation that subvert disciplinary cartographies.

Her films have been shown at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid (ES), the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin (IT), the Bamako Encounters (ML), the Jeu de Paume(FR), and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (USA). She holds a PhD in anthropology from EHESS and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Her essay Dans la polyphonie d’une île. Les fictions colonials du séga Mauricien was published by Éditions B42. It received the Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Philosophical Literature Outstanding Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association in 2025.

Project funded by: Esmée Mitchell Commissions by Outburst Arts through the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Art Fund.

PS² is supported by The National Lottery through Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council’s Artists’ Studio and Makerspace Organisational Grant, and Arts & Business NI’s Blueprint Investment Grant.