Performance lecture: A Reasonable Note on Refusal and Withdrawal

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Beulah Ezeugo presents A Reasonable Note on Refusal and Withdrawal, an event shaped by research into artistic practices of fugitivity and deviance developed through Beulah's artist residency at PS² and the Research Associate programme at CCA Derry~Londonderry.

The event content emerges from conversations and collaborative research with programme curator Clodagh Assata Boyce and four participating artists, which were focused on performing refusal.

The event blends elements of lecture, performance and proclamation to examine expectations - placed on and self-imposed - of Black artists around output, access, voice, and the production of knowledge. 

About Beulah:  

Beulah Ezeugo is a curator and writer who works between Ireland and Britain. Her practice engages with national identity and memory and expands outward through critical writing, exhibition-making, and public programming. Beulah was curator of the most recent 23rd edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts and is a cofounder (with Joselle Ntumba) of Éireann and I, a community archive and memory project.

Previous residencies and awards include Platform Commissions, 41st EVA International (2025), SIRIUS Critic-in-Residence (2024), and 11:11 x Iniva Residency, Stuart Hall Library, London (2024). She was a Research Associate at CCA Derry~Londonderry (2022-24) and a recipient of Glasgow International’s Black Curators Collective Bursary (2021). Her writing has appeared in The Irish Times, as well as in publications by Douglas Hyde Gallery, Durty Books, and Bloomers Magazine.

Beulah Ezeugo's participation is supported by CCA Derry~Londonderry, the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Derry City & Strabane District Council and Jerwood Foundation. 

How We Get Free is funded by Esmé Mitchell Trust. Commissions by Outburst Arts through the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Art Fund.

PS² is supported by The National Lottery through Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council’s Artists’ Studio and Makerspace Organisational Grant, and Arts & Business NI’s Blueprint Investment Grant.