Image:Gathering Storm, David Blandy, 2022. Developed as part of Delfina Foundation’s Politics of Food Season 5 in association with Gaia Art Foundation.
Image:Gathering Storm, David Blandy, 2022. Developed as part of Delfina Foundation’s Politics of Food Season 5 in association with Gaia Art Foundation.
Image:Gathering Storm, David Blandy, 2022. Developed as part of Delfina Foundation’s Politics of Food Season 5 in association with Gaia Art Foundation.
Past Event
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About This Event
– This event takes place in the Creative Studio at Whitechapel Gallery. This space is located on Level 3 and can be accessed via our passenger lift or stairs.
– The workshop will last 3 hours, and will include comfort breaks. Participants are also welcome to take their own rest breaks whenever they require throughout.
– We are unable to provide British Sign Language interpretation for this event
– We are unable to provide live closed captioning or CART for this event.
Transport
– To the best of our knowledge, there are no planned disruptions to local transport on the date of the event.
– Our nearest train station – Aldgate East Underground (1 min) is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are Whitechapel (15 min), Shoreditch High Street (15 min) or Liverpool Street (15 min).
– Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available at the top of Osborn Street in the pay and display booths for an unlimited period. Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis.
Photography & Video
Please note: photographs and video may be taken during this event to be used on our social media channels and for archival purposes.
Join this half day workshop for young people exploring David Blandy’s collaborative world-building game, Gathering Storm, developed from his research around food, agriculture and colonial histories using voice, writing and drawing to imagine new worlds and societal systems collaboratively. Create a community together through collaborative map-making and story-telling.
The workshop will feature insights from David into his artistic practice, including his collaborative work with artist Larry Achiampong, followed by a chance to explore and play Gathering Storm and for participants to consider how, through contemporary art and gaming, we can explore questions of colonial histories and anti-colonial futures.
Participants will also have the opportunity to start creating their own world-building game, using table top role-play techniques to think about how we can use these forms to expand ideas around society and history.
No previous experience of tabletop gaming is necessary to play.
Gathering Storm is a participatory event which involves complex themes, narratives and storytelling.
Find out more about our Youth Programme for 15-24s and our youth collective Duchamp & Sons here.
Please email Amelia Oakley, Curator: Youth Programmes at duchampandsons@whitechapelgallery.org if you have any questions about this event.
David Blandy (1976) makes work that slips between performance and video, digital and analogue, investigating the stories and cultural forces that inform and influence our lives. Collaboration is central to his practice, examining communal and personal heritage and interdependence. With research spanning multiple forms of archive, from historic texts to academic archives, archaeology and ecological theory, twitch streams and film archives, Blandy weaves poetic works that explore the complexities of the contemporary subject. Blandy’s projects involve complex installations, performance, writing, gaming and sound.
