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What Do We Become

Tob, artist, sitting on a chair next to a large canvas

Chloe Hamill

Tobi Alexandra Falade, artist and recent Curatorial Trainee at the Barbican Centre, will lead a programme with four Young Creatives to explore and respond to ideas of identity, home, and belonging.

Across the course of a month Tobi will explore themes of hybrid identities and diaspora as someone separated from her homeland of Nigeria at a young age and has not yet returned. We will ask the four Young Creatives to respond to these themes and to develop new viewpoints within their practices by creating four new commissioned pieces of artwork. The final artworks will be exhibited across level G throughout April.

Application

We are commissioning four Young Creatives to showcase their work in an exhibition taking place across the Barbican Centre. The aim is to explore and respond to ideas of identity, home, belonging and place, and celebrate different backgrounds and cultures.

You will attend a weekly series of workshops facilitated by Tobi Alexandra Falade and guest artists.

We are leaving the commission open to your interpretation and will be looking to commission one artist who works in each of the following mediums: film, photography, sculpture and painting. The artwork created can take any shape from a film screening, performance, talk, workshop, or visual installation.

You will need to be available between February – May to attend sessions at the Barbican Centre and to work on your commission.

This is a paid opportunity to develop and showcase work in the Barbican Centre.

Schedule

29 January: Application Deadline

8 February: Session 1 – Intro

17 February: Session 2 – evening sessions (6.30pm – 9pm)

22 February: Session 3 - evening sessions (6.30pm – 9pm)

1 March : Session 4 - evening sessions (6.30pm – 9pm)

2 March – 22 March: Artists have time to work on pieces

23 – 29 March: Consultation time with Tobi

30 March: Final pieces to be done

31 March: Exhibition installation

1 – 30 April: Exhibition live

Access

  • This programme takes place in-person only. Every effort will be made to support you to be able to attend wherever possible. Please email [email protected] if you have any questions about this.
     
  • The programme takes place in step-free spaces with accessible toilets on the same floor.
     
  • We do not have fragrance-free areas, though do encourage people to be mindful of how strong fragrances can affect others.
     
  • Some floors in the Barbican have non-gendered toilets (‘toilets with cubicles only’ and ‘toilets with cubicles and urinals’ – found on Level 1 and Level minus 2) and others do not (e.g., on Level G, minus 1, 3, and 4). All floors, from level G to level 4, have accessible toilets.
     
  • Please email [email protected] with any questions about access requirements.