Edge School Lesson Four

Lesson Four – Saturday 28 November 1-5pm

This Lesson will be led by Forgan Art Centre’s current Artist in Residence Nxa Parinussa.

For this session, we are going make soto – a family recipe that involves many hands doing wee bits. While we make, we will be having conversations about collectivity, about forming groups and intentional community building. We’ll consider what it takes to connect and build collective relationships in times of global crisis, individualism and disconnection from lineages of knowledge.

We will unpick our ideas around what is/isn’t community, and who decides things in community spaces, often things which are not always named. We are going to think about gathering, purpose, intentions, care and accountability in relation to queerness.

About the artist

Nxa Parinussa is an interdisciplinary artist, arts producer, organiser and facilitator. They are interested in rethinking – renewing relationships, spaces and systems through connecting to all that we hold in our bodies, moving critically towards liberation through collective responsibility, care and reciprocity.

Commissions have included 12 Hour Acting Up, Cooper Gallery (2025), The Centre of Somewhere residency, Johannesburg (2023), ember (5.5) at Jupiter Rising (2022), hologram (10.7) with Transplant Imaginaries/CBSS (2021) and sendiri for Take Me Somewhere (2021).

Nxa centres embodied, values-based relational work in co-creating communities and workplaces informed by abolitionist, Transformative Justice frameworks. Since 2018 nxa has co-founded and organised grassroots initiatives focussed on cultural engagement, mutual aid and artist development with people of queer, trans and racialised experiences including BIPOC-led producing studio ID.Y CIC and House Ball Scotland, a QTBIPOC-led support project for Scottish underground ballroom culture.