Diana Bamimeke
On 17 January 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Diana Bamimeke (they/them) is an independent curator, art writer and transdisciplinary artist based in Dublin, Ireland.
Their practice—spanning text, exhibition-making, performance, pedagogy and other artistic interventions—is grounded in critical & political frameworks, including Black feminist & queer thought, ecocriticism, anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism, applied especially to contemporary Irish contexts. They are interested in the negotiations of belonging, in how people become political subjects and, subsequently, in processes of abjectification.
They are a Nigerian, a Scorpio, a Mad enby, a proud auntyuncle, an evangelist for Blanchardstown, a frumpy dresser, a scab peeler, a collapsenik, and one pair of hands in the “Black ropes of hope”.
Limitancy
May 2024
Image credit: Manuel Vason
Limitancy is a new performance work by Diana Bamimeke, developed for the CARE SHARE EXPRESS Residency at Live Art Ireland (LAI) and first staged at LAI’s Performance Showcase in May 2024. The work presents a series of solo endurance-based actions, incorporating the ground, hair, water, dirt, walls and stone as live co-creating phenomena. Born out of the artist’s own frustrations with Immigration Service Delivery, formerly the Irish Naturalisation & Immigration Service, Limitancy contests the intrusion of the state & the interests of capital in the making and understanding of the global majority. It represents an aspect of Bamimeke’s necessarily critical artistic practice & research, presenting physical actions of refusal and resistance as an intervention in Ireland’s carceral treatment of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees of colour.
Donations can be made here to the Basandja Coalition for the Rights of Indigenous People & Local Communities in eastern Congo, the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland (MASI) and to the Ele Elna Elak Campaign in Gaza.