Announcing our second Ecologies of Migration Artist-in-Residence: nxa Parinussa.
Over the winter months, nxa (no-ah) will spend time with the land, the plants, the animals, the water, the air, the soil and the people of Forgan Arts Centre.
Drawing on Moluccan and queer/trans lineages of kinship, nxa considers how communities coalesce and structure around/within severance, uncertainty, abolition, response-ability, reciprocity and trust.
Their first event will be a gathering as part of Edge School, our peer-to-peer learning programme for LGBTQIA+ creatives.
We will be making soto – a family recipe that involves many hands doing wee bits. While we make, we will have conversations about gathering, purpose, intentions, care and accountability in relation to queerness.
Join nxa on Sat 28 November, by booking a free place for Edge School: Lesson 4.
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.
