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Discussion: Monday 2 July, 7–9pm
Spaces of Equality – (In)visible Spaces of Equality
An event with Annette Krauss, Andrea Francke and Dennis Atkinson, Professor of Art in Education at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Spaces of Equality is an informal research group involving artists, educators, researchers, teachers, students in thinking through questions around participation and community, led by The Showroom, FLAG (Chelsea School of Art and Design) and Goldsmiths Department of Education Studies.
As a part of this, in connection with the exhibition (in)visibilities, Andrea Francke and Annette Krauss will lead a workshop that addresses questions of (in)visibility in relation to how social structures and conditions are experienced in everyday life and made visible, or not, and why this is so. The artists propose to create a ritual of equality as an exercise to work/think through the following quote:
… It [art] consists ‘not in showing the invisible, but rather showing the extent to which the invisibility of the visible is invisible.’ Michel Foucault
Followed by a presentation by Dennis Atkinson, Professor of Art in Education at Goldsmiths, University of London, which will address the term ‘spaces of equality’.
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Workshop: Wednesday 4 July, 1–5pm
Non-Specific Measuring – Christian Nyampeta
During the workshop tools for deviant measuring will be made. These appropriative instruments could indicate the size of a cloud, the psychogeography of an air flight, or the distance between two ideas.
Open to the public – drop in – bring your children
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Workshop: Saturday 7 July, 2–4pm
Survival Strategies for Cultural Workers
An informal open session for cultural workers to meet and exchange on the challenges they face, and strategies they have developed, in order to deal with the specificities of labour in the arts and cultural sector. In particular in relation to, but not limited to, parenting.
Open to the public – bring your children
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Workshop: Wednesday 18 July, 1–5pm
Sandwich Stories – Fun to make, fun to eat – Hato Press
A recipe book for kids, by kids, with fun in mind.
Open to the public – drop in – bring your children
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Workshop: Friday 20 July, 1–5pm
A fuzzy history of the British imagination – Blue Firth
Discover various constructions of the British imagination through fuzzy felt. We will build a whole new landscape using large-scale fuzzy felt whilst learning about some of the most amazing structures that exist around us.
Open to the public – drop in – bring your children
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Discussion: Saturday 21 July, 2–5pm
How to support the parent artist? Co-chaired by Enemies of Good Art
A discussion around challenges and solutions for the inclusion of motherhood and fatherhood in the art world. Speakers to be confirmed.
Open to the public – bring your children
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Workshop: Sunday 22 July
Workshop with members of the union Justice for Domestic Workers
Closed Event
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Workshop: Wednesday 25 July, 1–5pm
Productive Resistances – Gambiarras, Social Urgencies and Self-Expression – Beto Shwafaty
'Gambiarra' is a Brazilian term commonly used in popular culture to describe self-constructed solutions for daily needs (from 'stealing' electric energy to the making of useful devices from scratch). It can imply both personal actions as participatory mutual aid, for example to build a house, furniture or fix things.
Open to the public – drop in – bring your children
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Workshop: Friday 27 July, 1–5pm
Cardboard shape toys – Jillian Greenberg
Cardboard is light, durable and everywhere. You can bend, rip, peel, twist, poke, stack, cut, paint, glue and staple it.
Open to the public – drop in – bring your children
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Discussion: Saturday 28th July 2–5pm
A final event will explore some of the issues raised by Invisible Spaces of Parenthood. With Lamis Bayar, Cathy Palser, Kathrin Böhm and DJ Simpson.
Open to the public – bring your children
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Communal Knowledge is generously supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, John Lyon’s Charity, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Arts Council England, Westminster Cultural Olympiad supported by Westminster City Council, BNP Paribas and Vital Regeneration, The Showroom Supporters Scheme, and Outset as The Showroom’s Production Partner 2012.
(in)visibilities is produced in the framework of COHAB, a two-year project with Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht and Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, supported by a Cooperation Measures grant from the European Commission Culture Programme (2007-2013)
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