Blueprints for the Otherwise, Handover: Social Space

22 April - 14 May

Launch Event: Thu 21 April, 6-8pm

(Image credit from the opening: Raven Ruiying Chen)

Blueprints for the Otherwise is a twelve-month residency programme that actively explores supportive art infrastructures through mutual processes of development and commission. As the 2021-22 residency draws to an end, JJ Chan will be handing over the baton to the next artists-in-residence, Amy Sharrocks and Udit Thakre.

An overriding concern for ‘critical care’ structured JJ’s time with Bloc Projects, which we will share via the following: a three-week event series; an evolving exhibition; and a publication titled Blowing Water, Critical Care.

The gallery will be the base for many different happenings, including a publication launch, making (bread, soup, texts, t-shirts) and a somatic workshop on collective rage. It will start as an almost-clean slate, with the Blowing Water, Critical Care conversations and a few small provocations to build upon. As a gallery-cum-social space, Bloc Projects will accumulatively evolve through collective making and re-writing: share food with us and contribute your experiences of care and rage on our walls (yes, we actually want you to write on them!).

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