About Us
We are a curatorial collective and small press founded in 2016 by a group of Black women and femmes of color who are passionate about supporting and promoting the work of up-and-coming creatives. Swipe up for more info and contact details.
About
Lungs Project is a curatorial collective and independent publishing press founded in 2016 by MA Curating graduates of the University of Sunderland in the UK. The team currently consists of Angela Burdon and Sheyda Aisha Khaymaz.
Operating between the US and the UK (and sometimes Turkey), Lungs Project is established as a transnational platform to promote the work of artists and writers from chronically underrepresented backgrounds. The project focuses on building a nourishing, collaborative community of early-career artists and writers by merging contemporary art, photography, and literature to encourage cross-disciplinary dialogues. As an independent organization, Lungs Project aims to create new opportunities for emerging creatives while fostering critical thought and experimental methodologies through publishing and curating exhibitions in traditional and digital contexts. Lungs Project adopts various publishing models as curatorial praxis to highlight more democratized and decentralized forms of producing and disseminating knowledge.
Lungs Project’s activities are deeply rooted in politics and ethics of cultural production and working towards a formulation of curatorial & editorial activism. The team’s research interests cover a range of topics including feminist art, the African diaspora and the Black Atlantic, photography, collaborative networks, and dance and movement. The inaugural issue of their annual contemporary art & literature journal was successfully launched in September 2016 in Sunderland with an accompanying pop-up exhibition, Emerging! The second issue of the journal was launched in October 2017 with an exhibition titled Dialogus in Newcastle upon Tyne. The following year, the launch of the third issue also featured a film program titled Poly Voices. Lungs Project is also the publisher of a poetry anthology by emerging women and non-binary poets of color, New Landscapes Anthology, which was released worldwide in December 2019. In March 2021, the team launched Love Notes, an interdisciplinary collaboration with the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, available in print and as a digital experience of dance and storytelling. Lungs team’s most recent project Visions of Home, is a collaborative journal of photography and poetry of African and African-diasporic perspectives, which was released in print in November 2021.
Programme Team
Angela Burdon
Angela Wingate-Burdon (she/her) is an independent curator, artist, and activist based in Dayton, Ohio, US. She holds a Masters Degree in Curating at the University of Sunderland, UK. Taking a broad approach to cultural production, her curatorial interests lie in the social history of art, focusing on the inclusion of marginalized communities and widening participation and engagement programming. In her artistic practice, she uses photography as a tool to examine and expand cultural narratives centering Black identity.
Sheyda Aisha Khaymaz
Sheyda Aisha Khaymaz (they/she) is an artist, writer, poet, and nomadic curator. They hold an MA in Curating from the University of Sunderland, UK, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in modern and contemporary art from Northern Africa. Khaymaz’s artistic practice is primarily concerned with the production of knowledge in the everyday and examining the hegemonic imaginaries in culture through a critical epistemological framework. Their current creative writing project explores the overlapping boundaries between the subjugated ‘other’, social space, and historical textual objects.
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