Body and Land Retreat

These knowledges speak critically and creatively to socio-climate justice, class and migration, Black queer trans inclusive feminisms and disability justice as a portal to convene, weave and move beyond colonial-capitalist borders, binaries and barriers within the personal, collective and ancestral Body. Her work can currently be seen in the exhibition An Ecology of Mind at Bethlem Gallery.

Lateisha actively desires, perceives, and shares space for trauma-sensitive interconnection from a survivorship perspective. Calling through critical, imaginative and earthwork actions what it can mean to fortify and unearth life-force power, possibility and dreaming within and around us. Lateisha is the creator of TO THE RITUAL KNOWLEDGE OF REMEMBERING, a community-centred curatorial project space exploring decolonising relationships to our bodies, memory, and the land. Involving a 3 day retreat (co-developed with LADA, supported by performance space).

As a facilitator, Lateisha works independently, as well as with grassroots and institutional organisations such as Bloom: Cordwainers Grow – nature connection programme centring Black women + and femmes practitioners, Queer Youth Art Collective as an educator and mentor and Great Ormond Street Hospital.

As a writer, Lateisha has shared their work with Queer Botany as part of Chelsea Physic Garden, Arts Admin: Apocalypse Reading Room residency curated by Ama Josephine Budge and Camden Art Centre. Lateisha’s current exhibition work ‘An Offering //...’ is a multi-layered installation-portal is commissioned by Bethlem Gallery: An Ecology Of Mind exploring the complex relationship between art, environment and health.