From the ashes of an old world, changed by collective trauma comes an opportunity for new voices and perspectives to be heard. With growing global tensions, humanitarian crises and continued social stasis, we find ourselves lost in a post-apocalyptic space of reflection and uncertainty, bringing forth conversations surrounding displacement, identity and womanhood.

Otherlandz is a rhizomatic programme of nomadic events that centres the voices of women artists who are UK based and beyond, whose work celebrates the multiplicity of women’s stories across cultures, borders, and generations. The programme embraces a transnational lens, welcoming artists from the Global South whose practices interrogate colonial legacies, migration, and the politics of visibility. From the vibrant resistance of African performance to the quiet resilience in South Asian textile traditions, Otherlandz is a living archive of diasporic memory and radical imagination.

Curated by Chantelle Purcell and Renin Bilginer, what initially started as a conversation about their experiences of growing up with mixed heritage backgrounds in London, gave rise to a need to delve more into issues surrounding identity, belonging, assimilation and womanhood, questioning; what does it mean to exist as a multicultural woman in Britain and how do we preserve a relationship with our diasporic origins?

Through collaborations with artists from regions including West Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia, Latin America, and Southeast Asia, Otherlandz expands its reach, building bridges between communities and cultivating a space where ancestral knowledge meets contemporary resistance.