Beyond Sight: An Audio-Sensory Tour of Nuliaminik Neqilik The Flesh of Wives with Melissa Baksh

We're back for another audio sensory led by art historian and DJ Melissa Baksh. Join us for a tour with a musical twist at Mimosa House.

Join us for a unique audio-sensory tour of Nuliaminik Neqilik: The Flesh of Wives at Mimosa House, Holborn, led by art historian and DJ Melissa Baksh. Through textile, beadwork, and mixed-media installation, Laakkuluk Williamson (@laakkuluk) speaks to the current international discourse on Inuit identity, repatriation, and agency over belongings, bodies and territories.

Each tour pairs a number of carefully selected songs with an artwork, encouraging you to engage in slow-looking for the duration of the track. Guided through music and conversation, we explore how music shapes our perception and emotions, reveals the narratives that emerge when sound and image connect, and examines how sound can transform the duration and depth of our visual engagement.

Melissa Baksh is a London-based art historian, writer, educator, curator and broadcaster/DJ. A desire to make art accessible and open up art collections to a wide range of audiences underpins her work and she has delivered lectures, tours and workshops at the National Gallery, Tate, Hayward Gallery and Wellcome Collection. She has written for publications including The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Art Newspaper, Frieze and ArtReview on historical art, contemporary art, colonial histories and legacies and public art. Melissa DJs regularly across music venues in the capital, and has hosted radio shows on Rhythm and Frames, Netil and Balamii Radio.

Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory is a Kalaaleq (Greenlandic Inuk) performance artist, poet, actor, curator, storyteller and writer. She is known for performing uaajeerneq, a Greenlandic mask dance and describes herself as a fierce advocate for Inuit artists.