Kneed is a collaborative practice formed by artists Ishwari Bhalerao (b. Nagpur) and Leonie Rousham (b. London). Through sound, film, performance, text and textiles, they explore and articulate structural violence, hostile bureaucracy, collective histories and informal economies of care embedded within the ecologies and contexts they find themselves within.
Their approach to making is collaborative, informed by walking, conversations, planned and chance encounters; with care workers, educators, artists, migrants and more. By probing at the postures of domination within language and image production, they attempt to complicate power relations ingrained in looking, listening, making and documenting.
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Collaborative Projects and Facilitation
2024
ArtBlock Artists in Residence, South London Gallery, London
2023
Bow Skills Workshop, London
Duchamp and Sons Youth Collective, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Any Pitch Way, South Bermondsey Festival, Bridgehouse Gardens, London
2022
Camden Art Centre X KOVE (Kilburn Older Voices Exchange), London
This Land: Brandy Row, B-side, Isle of Portland, Dorset
2021
Inside Out, Magic me, Waltham Forest Care Home, London
2020
How to be Together Again, Deptford X, London
LADA DIY, Fermynwoods, Brigstock
WFH Residency, Artquest, Remote
2019
Rochester Square Residency, London
Silent conversations, UCU Strikes and IWGB strikes 2019
Art, Precarity and Labour, Mayday Rooms
Kneeding Conversations : Silent Conversations, Rochester Square
Selected group exhibitions
2023
New Contemporaries 22-23, South London Gallery, London
2022
New Contemporaries 22-23, Humber Street Gallery, Hull
ReWild, Ilford, London
Worth The Journey, Lewisham Arthouse, London
Into The Wild, Chisenhale Studios, London
Montez Press, Chisenhale Studios, London
2021
Slade 150 Summer Show, Slade, London
2020
Final Not Over, Unit 1 Gallery, London
2019
Bigger Fish to Fry, AMP Gallery, London
Protest, Voices of Dissent in Art and Text, Haldane Room, UCL, London
Film and Audio Screenings
2023
When you come, we know we are not forgotten, NC Live: Listening, South London Gallery, London
2022
When you come, we know we are not forgotten, MINCE, Matchstick Piehouse, London
2021
Limits of Looping, Open City Documentary Festival, curated by Jayne Parker and Brighid Lowe
2019
Towing The Line: Over and Over , Institute of Advanced Studies, Curated by Haley Newman
Awards
2022
Graduate Studio Award, Lewisham Arthouse, London
2020
UCL East Prize, London
Stanbury Prize, London
Talks and Panel Discussions
2021
Film and Pedagogy, Open City Documentary Festival, chaired by Benjamin Cook
2019
Guests at 100 years, a Round Table Discussion, Bartlett, UCL, London
Sharing Borders Symposium, UCL, London
Performances
2021
51°31”24’N, 0°08”31’W, Poetry and Colour Symposium, Slade, London
2019
Towing the Line: Over and Over, Sharing Borders Symposium