A Meditative Movement-Based Workshop led by Khaleb Brooks
Join us at G.A.S. Lagos on December 4th, 2025 for Body Memory, a meditative, movement-based workshop exploring how the body carries personal and collective memory. Led by current resident Khaleb Brooks, the session offers an opportunity to acknowledge our histories and consider how future generations might engage with the past. It asks: Who gets to memorialise, and who is excluded? What do we hide from ourselves, and what unprocessed memories rest quietly in our bodies?
Drawing on elements of Butoh, a Japanese dance-theatre form emerging in the late 1950s through the work of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, Khaleb approaches the body as a site of transformation. Known for its slow, often unsettling movements, Butoh arose in post-war Japan as an artistic resistance to rapid social change and the growing influence of Western aesthetics. It sought to reclaim a shifting cultural identity and imagine new national narratives. Through this lens, and alongside an inquiry into the politics of memorialisation, Brooks invites participants to consider their own bodies as living memorials. They believe that by deepening our understanding of how we hold memory, grief, pain, and joy, we may better imagine and collectively build the sites of memory needed for the future.
The session will weave together guided meditation, drawing, gentle warmups, exploratory movement, and reflective journaling, offering a holistic and grounding experience.
Event Details
Date: 4th December, 2025
Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: 9b, Hakeem Dickson Drive, off T.F. Kuboye Road, Oniru, Lagos
Capacity: 15 Slots only
While attendance for this event is free, it is essential that you register to secure your spot.
About the Artist
Khaleb Brooks
Khaleb Brooks is a Black critical artist who uses archives, collective memory and personal experience to create art that offers new perspectives on history and healing.
Brooks was selected to create The Wake, London’s first memorial honoring victims of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, set to be unveiled in 2027. A Sundance Trans Possibilities and OTV Fellow, Brooks worked with industry leaders to develop his debut narrative fiction film May The Road Rise Up to Meet You, shot earlier this year. In 2023, he performed at Onassis AiR in Athens, completed a research fellowship in Brazil, and held two Los Angeles based residencies. In 2021 and 2022, his year-long research residency at Liverpool's International Slavery Museum culminated to Jupiter’s Song. This solo exhibition through sculpture, tapestry and video offered a "homegoing" for the unnamed souls who perished during the Middle Passage.
In 2019, Brooks was an artist in residence at Tate Modern and performed in Shu Lea Cheang’s acclaimed 3x3x6 at the Venice Biennale’s Taiwan Pavilion. His work has been exhibited at venues such as the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, The V&A and the Schwules Museum in Berlin, and his performances and installations have sparked critical conversations around race, identity, and liberation.
Photo of Khaleb Brooks. Image courtesy of Luke Agbaimoni.
Khaleb's residency is generously supported by the Mayor of London.