Phoebe Beckett Chingono

Assistant Producer (Acts of Love)

Phoebe Beckett Chingono (1997) is a British-Zimbabwean anthropology scholar and cultural producer. Her practice transverses archival research, ethnographic methods, choreography and performance. Her professional work focuses on supporting ethical and sustainable practices within the Community Sector, with grassroots social justice organisations, including Grenfell-based communities, and within arts and academia. She’s currently involved in art and archival projects related to Pan African and guerilla cinema, the Black Anthropologists Association, and “Care-orism”, and is developing participatory, site-based choreographic practices with Siobhan Davies Studios and Chisenhale Artist Community. A recent graduate of the University of Chicago’s MA in Social Sciences, she specialises in theories of value, semiotics, and history of science/ideas, particularly within imperial ‘margins’ in the Caribbean region and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Image credits: Sarah al-Sarraj, Separated by Millenia, 2024.

Projects

  1. This is the second part of a text in three parts that offers a series of reflections by artist Ama Josephine Budge, and assistant producer Phoebe Beckett Chingono, exploring the still-ongoing process of Acts of Love, a Punos commission. Acts of Love, created by Ama (2021-present), consists of a growing collection of email correspondences from Black artists in Europe to art institutions and organisations regarding their care, safety, wellbeing, pay and equal working conditions.

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