Blueprints for the Otherwise, Handover: Publication
22 April - 14 May
Launch Event: Thu 21 April, 6-8pm
JJ Chan with artist David Johnson at Bloc Projects. Image credit: Sarah Howe
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.
Blowing Water, Critical Care is a publication of conversations that JJ and Sunshine have had with peers, studio holders and neighbouring organisations who are supportive of Bloc / whom Bloc want to support. We talked about care in all its direct and tangential forms: slowness, leaning-on, generosity and chatting. In fact, ‘blowing water’ is slang for ‘having a chat’ in Cantonese — both JJ’s and Sunshine’s first language — which, given the unstable year, largely became the form of this residency.
Lovingly co-edited by Jack Whiting, Ellie Rankin, Sunshine Wong and JJ Chan. Pick up a free copy at the gallery. Donations are very welcome too!