Documentation of artist residency: How to be Afraid? by Mary Pearson and mayfield Brooks

These photos, by Ben Harriott and Amanda Russell, were made as part of mayfield brooks' and Mary Pearson's interdisciplinary dance project, How to Be Afraid?, which investigates the afterlife of the transatlantic slave in relation to body, time and space.

This work was co-commissioned by dance artist Eleanor Sikorski (with support from Arts Council England), Dancing Museums 2 and Dance4, and created during a residency on the site of Newstead Abbey in July 2021.