Simon Says/Dadda is a work that explores father/daughter relationships. Stemming from a desire to highlight Black and South Asian women as well as non-binary individuals and their experiences to counter the historical silencing of their voices, Simon Says/Dadda includes the direct testimonies of a number of these individuals, collected via gatherings across the UK. Working over a longer period of time to allow for deeper connections to manifest, the work draws together mediums that previously have been kept separate, to generate a whole. With a title referencing patrilineal relationships—Simon is the artist’s father, and Dadda (a word in Jamaican Patois that means father) was her grandfather—Simon Says/Dadda also looks at intergenerational legacy, and familial love languages.
A Q&A with Beverley Bennet will follow the screening.
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Beverley Bennett is an artist-filmmaker whose work revolves around the possibilities of drawing, performance and collaboration. Her practice is connected to multiple ways of making. The first of these is a concern with the importance of “gatherings” to denote a methodology that differs from the more hierarchical model of the workshop. The second is an investigation of the idea of the archive (often beginning projects by creating/adding to her own extensive personal archives of interviews, using them for preliminary research and experimentation), and the third is collaboration. Her work has been shown in the UK and internationally.
