Languid Hands is an artistic and curatorial collaboration between DJ, filmmaker and programmer Rabz Lansiquot, and writer, facilitator and live art practitioner Imani Robinson, both based in London. Born out of sorryyoufeeluncomfortable (SYFU) collective, Languid Hands takes inspiration from SYFU’s legacy of creating intentional spaces, for deep study, conversation and multi-disciplinary artmaking, that foreground a Black and queer subject-position and a Black radical political standpoint.

Cauleen Smith is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist whose work reflects upon the everyday possibilities of the imagination. Operating in multiple materials and arenas, Smith roots her work firmly within the discourse of mid-twentieth-century experimental film. Drawing from structuralism, third world cinema, and science fiction, she makes things that deploy the tactics of these disciplines while offering a phenomenological experience for spectators and participants. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Studio Museum of Harlem; Houston Contemporary Art Museum; Yerba Buena Center for Art, San Francisco; the New Museum, New York; D21 Kunstraum Leipzig; and Decad, Berlin. She has had solo shows at The Kitchen, New York; MCA Chicago; and Threewalls, Chicago. Smith currently serves as faculty for the Vermont College of Fine Arts low-residency MFA programme.