Class
PolyVocalCity - What's On?
15 Jan 2024 – 4 Feb 2024
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
Address
- Keeley Road
- Croydon
- CR0 1TF
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus stops: Ruskin Road/ West Croydon
- Tram stop: Centrale
- East Croydon or West Croydon train stations are a 5 minute walk from the gallery
Theatrum Mundi is looking for aspiring urbanists interested in taking part in PolyVocalCity, an intergenerational, educational cohort aimed at individuals who have a strong interest in cities and culture.
About
Building from the knowledge we have acquired and developed from last year’s conversations around Croydon, we will continue working in the borough and beyond with methodologies of world-building and gaming to find new strategies for achieving environmental and social justice in the urban realm. This year we are interested in employing the metaphor of parasitic life to interrogate symbiotic relationships based on co-dependency and resilience to break down hierarchical structures while exploring their fragility and their potential danger. We are particularly interested in engaging with ideas of:
Structural similarities – what similar grounds and resources do we share? Parasitic strategies – using mimicry to avoid detection To be and to become parasites – who is being colonised/ who is being the coloniser? Parasites as noise and disruption – parasitic life as resistanceWe are interested in initiating new conversations and generating new thinking to create discourses that offer practical and theoretical responses through four dedicated sessions on choreography, sound, writing, and infrastructure and the production of a community TV programme and a public event.
The program will be delivered in partnership with locally based arts organisation Turf Projects and Croydon’s Placemaking Team.
Program
The cohort will participate in a seven-month curated program of workshops, talks, walks and activities led by our diverse network of collaborators including artists, activists, thinkers and urbanists. Participants will develop their thinking and practice through the co-production of knowledge, establishing a platform for sharing cross-disciplinary ideas on city-making.
Participants will be supported in co-producing a TV show exploring how to enact social and environmental justice for Croydon and beyond. They will curate the show and its content with the support of cultural producer A- – -Z (Anne Duffau) and work towards a public presentation of the final outcome with one of our partners in the fall.
If you have any questions please read our FAQ or email cohort@theatrum-mundi.org
