Name/TitleGut Feelings Meri Jaan / Letters on Remembering
About this objectDual language paperback publication titled 'Gut Feelings Meri Jaan: an exhibition by Jasleen Kaur ~ Letters on Remembering by Alice Correia'. The publication is the result of a collaborative project commissioned by UP Projects in partnership with Touchstones Rochdale. Jasleen worked with a group of women and gender non-conforming people from Rochdale’s Pakistani, Bengali and Punjabi communities, interrogating how cultural memory is preserved, and exploring ideas around inheritance and belonging, land and migration, ritual and healing.
MakerKaur, Jasleen and Correia, Alice
Date Made2021
Period2020s
Place MadeEngland, Rochdale
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 202 x W: 100 x D: 13 mm
Subject and Association KeywordsMigration
Subject and Association Keywordshome, belonging
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://jasleenkaur.co.uk/about-2:
Jasleen Kaur is an artist from Glasgow, Scotland. Her work is an ongoing exploration into the malleability of culture and the layering of social histories within the material and immaterial things that surround us. Her practice examines diasporic identity and hierarchies of history, both colonial and personal. Moving between sculpture, video and writing, Kaur initiates work that enables her to make sense of what is out of view or withheld. Recent and upcoming commissions include Tramway, Glasgow, Wellcome Collection, Touchstones Rochdale, Glasgow Women’s Library, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Hollybush Gardens. Her work is part of the permanent collection of Arts Council, Touchstones Rochdale, Government Art Collection and Crafts Council.
https://jasleenkaur.co.uk/gut-feelings-meri-jaan:
A group of women and gender non-conforming people from Rochdale’s Pakistani, Bengali and Punjabi communities were invited by Jasleen Kaur to join her in a series of online conversations examining and responding to the contents of the local history archives at Touchstones asking “What do we find when we go looking for ourselves in the archive … how can we alter the course of history through a new script?” Kaur and the group interrogated how our cultural memory is preserved, exploring ideas around inheritance and belonging, land and migration, ritual and healing. ‘Gut Feelings Meri Jaan’ is the result of this collaborative process, culminating in a book and a series of films which meddle with traditional archival approaches.
https://britishartnetwork.org.uk/membership/members/dr-alice-correia:
Dr Alice Correia is an art historian. Her research examines late twentieth-century British art, with a specific focus on artists of African, Caribbean, and South Asian heritage. She is currently Research Curator at Touchstones Rochdale, and has previously worked at Tate Britain, Government Art Collection and University of Sussex. In 2017 she was a mid-career Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for the Study of British Art, where she initiated her on-going research project, ‘Articulating British Asian Art Histories’. She is currently working on a monograph provisionally titled, South Asian Women Artists in Britain, and her articles and reviews have appeared in Art History; British Art Studies; Journal of British Visual Culture; and Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. She is Chair of Trustees of the journal Third Text.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBook
Object numberGWL-2024-23
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved