I: In Which You Will Thrive
The first break is the deepest. Drawing on George Kafka’s text in this handout, we are celebrating what grows from the cracks, using this time to platform the reading materials of our ecology through the space’s library. In addition to this, various public events will leak into other breaks including collaborations with Healing Justice, The Funambulist, and HomeGrown +.
II: ‘Goliath is Dead’ Acts I to V
Inspired by a conversation with Andre Anderson, headmaster of Freedom & Balance, this break looks at education, development, and decline. Alongside KIN Structures, a collaborative practice that build and sustain community and cultural infrastructure, RESOLVE will invite practitioners into the space for a series of public and private conversations that will result in an open-sourced curriculum.
III: DIY Strength & Queer Hedonism
For a month, Gut Level, a Queer-led DIY rave space in Sheffield, will takeover the gallery, hosting club nights, workshops, and exhibiting images of DIY strength and queer hedonism sourced from DIY/Grassroots/Queer noise makers from Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow. The break will also feature a sound installation from sonic practitioner, Anna Kloos.
IV: Barbican Closing Down Sale
Throughout the course of the exhibition, visitors are encouraged to ‘bagsy’ the materials they would like to take using the available stamps and then emailing their requests to [email protected]. From the 10th to the 18th of July, RESOLVE will work in the gallery with Yes Make!, a community-focused construction and carpentry studio to cut materials to your desired size and shape specifications while the sounds of South-London based Tanum Sound System fill the space. If you want it, its yours!
Conversations on Conservations / How to Practice
Conversations on Conservations / How to Practice
The sounds in the space are fragments from RESOLVE Collective’s unpublished ‘Conversations on Conservation’ seriesand a sequence of voicenote “chainmail” conversations initiated for their article ‘How to Practice: Collective Imagination’, published in issue 1496 of the Architectural Review. Interspersed with the sounds of Croydon North End, these resonant cacophonies are the many voices of Rose Nordin, Sana Badri, Arman Nouri, Kwame Lowe (KIN Structures), Zain Dada, Halima Ali (RAADI Zine), Jana Dardouk, Pelin Tamay & Selin Öktem (1115 Labs), Maia Ardalla, Shawn Adams & Larry Botchway (POoR Collective), Joel De Mowbray & Morgan Da Silva (Yes Make!), and Lela Sujani (Patch Collective).
