Hanover Project presents Learning in-and-within relation (after Édouard Glissant); a newly commissioned participatory performance and installation by artist Jade Montserrat articulated here in a film by Danny Lyons.

Learning in-and-within relation (after Édouard Glissant) was realised by Montserrat and a group of eighteen BA and MA Fine Art students on 15 April 2021. Montserrat worked remotely engaging students via video call. During the performance participants formulated texts in response to Montserrat reading aloud works by Jamaica Kincaid and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. This film documents the performance during which these texts were drawn with charcoal onto the walls of Hanover Project.

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The performance extends Montserrat’s premise that drawing is a mode of being or operating and asserts that there is a connection between ourselves and the earth: this line, or connection, like our communications with one another, is drawing. Undertaking this performance, Montserrat sought to visualize together with this group of participants exchanges of energy, lines, communications, and with that, reconsider the stewarding of our spaces.