Summerhouse, RuptureXIBIT, London
1st-15th July 2022
Summerhouse is a collaborative programme born out of sharings between 8 artists and 4 curators after spending a residency weekend together learning from the ecology of the land and its interconnected communities through workshops, conversations and experiments with the space. Centred from the generous giving of RuptureXIBIT by Kate Howe Studios in Hampton Wick, we have spent time in and around Richmond Park learning together and forming the seeds of the programme.
EVENTS 9 JULY
12-13:00 Wild swimming walk
13:00 - 14:00 - Workshop facilitated by filmmaker/photographer Tilly Wace and curator/choreographer Kaia Goodenough - exploring the skin of water via moving and filmmaking
14:30 - 16:00 - Workshop facilitated by Anna Mueller - sharing her practise via mapping and embodying the environment of Hampton Wick
16:30 - 19:30 - Collage Cafe - Drop by or even stay a while - meditative group collaging session facilitated by the curators
18:30 - 21:30 - Opening night - come and see the continually evolving artworks, collaborations and conversations between nine artists and four curators, responding to the communities and ecologies of Hampton Wick
The space is open 3-14 July 2-6pm.
Curated by:
Chiara Famengo, Holly Pines, Kaia Goodenough, and Mattie O’Callaghan
Artists:
Ayla Hatta, Anna Mueller, Ellie Davies, Gregor Petrikovič, Noa Pane, Rooya Rasheed, Tilly Wace and Qian Jiang
Residency Weekend 2-3 July
For the first weekend, we spent time with each other at RuptureXIBIT and in the locality of Hampton Wick and Richmond Park, doing workshops for each other, learning and collaborating around our interests. We went on walks to explore the local flora and fauna and foraged lime flowers to make tea. We shared food and stories about how we have arrived here. Noa Pane ran a workshop for us, asking us to consider our embodied relationship with the more-than-human world. We put away our phones in tin foil and became present with each other and the world around us.
Together, we shared our answers to a series of questions: How can cultural spaces provide shelter to communities, artists and ideas? What blossoms from your practice and how do you cross-pollinate? What kind of rituals do you bring with you across spaces and time? What grounds you in your practice and the spaces you create in?
Artists brought with them artworks and new ideas of making in the space and through collaborative conversations with each other and curators, we installed the exhibition as a fluid being. For artists to make, change, shift, develop, challenge and reinvent their work throughout the week.
Public Programme 9 July
For the second weekend, we held a series of workshops from wild swimming, movement and dance, to alternative mappings and collaging. We invited a public audience and the local residents of Hampton Wick to explore the experiments that had taken place, to reflect and co-learn together, and to think about how we cultural spaces can create communities which are caring, experimental and deeply rooted in place.
