Each year Fabrica (Brighton) makes its space available to artists through the Making Space programme to test new ground in their practice, opening up the possibility to use the space in imaginative ways and experiment with new ways of working. Myself and Katy Beinart were in residenct from 30 September–4 October 2024.
Artists and sisters Katy Beinart and Rebecca Beinart will use their Making Space residency to review their collaborative practice, and specifically ‘Origination’, an ongoing project they began in 2008. Beginning as an investigation into their family history and migrations, growing into a wider project about the materiality, memory, and rituals of migration and diaspora, they have used performance, sculpture, film and other media to explore lost and invisible heritages.
Over more than a decade, Origination has generated seven exhibitions, numerous events, screenings and talks, as well as a blog and journal articles. Katy and Rebecca will use their Making Space time together to revisit, document and catalogue their past work, thinking through how it could be given presence as a whole body of work, and its next creative iteration. They will explore ideas for extending the project through more-than-human collaborations with plants, salt and other materialities of the land.
During their residency, they will be mapping, documenting and cataloguing works from the Origination series, placing works into the space, and holding conversations with curators and researchers about the way the work has a presence and its future possibilities.
On Thursday 3 October at 6pm, Katy and Rebecca will discuss the themes and share their current thoughts on the project at an Artist Talk + Q&A.