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

After the success of our first 'Beyond Sight' tour last year, we are excited to announce its return! This time, 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 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 by music and conversation, we explore how new narratives emerge when sound and image meet and examine 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 whose work is driven by a commitment to making art accessible and opening collections to diverse audiences. She has delivered lectures, tours, and workshops at major institutions including the National Gallery, Tate, Hayward Gallery, and Wellcome Collection and has contributed to publications such as The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Art Newspaper, Frieze, and ArtReview, covering historical and contemporary art, colonial histories and legacies, and public art. Alongside her arts practice, Melissa is an active DJ performing regularly at music venues across London, 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.

Join us on the 24th June at Mimosa House.

Doors open at 6:15pm.

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