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Both love letter and lament, ‘PART 2: FORGET NEVER FOREVER ALWAYS’ is a homage to practices of collective resistance and the continuum of indigenous and ancestral knowledge sharing.
This short film collides digital, analogue, fabricated and documentary space. Featuring animated ink drawings, digitally generated landscapes and footage of sites in Scotland, England, Wurundjeri Country and Wiradjuri Country (settler state, Australia), Zo, Tumika & Guthrie renders “we are Homo narrans, not the ones who know, but the ones who tell ourselves that we know” - a proposition made by Jamaican cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter.
Engaging with rivers and seas as knowledge bearers and charters of memory, the film both embodies and depicts carnival, oral traditions and musical production - marking the presence and actualising of other worlds and ways of being.
2025
- ‘Guiding Entities’, MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK
- ‘20/20: Reflections’, Chelsea Space, UK
Director & Producer
Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie
Sounds
Middlesbrough Carnival 2024 Mas
Voice of Haunani-Kay Trask
Drums by Jack McCallum
Voice reads a segment from ‘Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments’ by Saidiya Hartman
Voice of Chelsea Watego
Sound Production
Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie
Video Footage
The archive of Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie
Animation
Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie
Development Support
Żżo / Zoë Charlery
This work was partly resourced by a Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award (VACMA) 2024/2025
Research which formed this work was facilitated by the resources of:
Body Remedy CIC
UAL Decolonising Arts Institute
MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
Arts Council England
Freelands Foundation
University of the Arts London
David Dale Gallery
Creative Scotland
2019
- ‘Surrounds’ curated by Camara Taylor, Glasgow School of Art, UK
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‘as of yet’, Many Studios, UK
- ‘Making Ground’, Embassy Gallery, UK
2022
- ‘a rant! a reel! Screening’ curated by Camara Taylor, Cubitt Artists, UK
Director & Producer
Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie
Thanks to Żżo / Zoë Charlery, Adebusola Ramsay and Francis Dosoo.
This work was partly commissioned by Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh.
© 2025