Blueprints for the Otherwise, Week 3: Collective rage workshop & group cycling
6 & 7 May
Documentation image of a Space for Cycling event in Sheffield. Image credit: Sheffield Critical Mass
Every Friday and Saturday between 22 April and 7 May, we are going on walks and bike rides; cooking and eating food; and channelling rage through a group workshop at the gallery. We are looking forward to embodying and working through some of the key reflections from the last twelve months on / around ‘critical care’.
These events mark the official handing over of the Blueprints for the Otherwise residency from JJ Chan to collaborating artists Amy Sharrocks and Udit Thakre. They will continue to examine the potentials of socially responsive art infrastuctures via Bloc Projects as an organisation.
Fri 6 May, 2-4pm: Ragged Grace: Sonic Revolutions at Endcliffe & Bingham Parks
To mark the start of his and Amy Sharrocks’ Blueprints for the Otherwise residency, Udit Thakre will lead a group cycle ride from Bloc Projects to Endcliffe and Bingham Parks. Together, we will be interrupting the tranquility and engaging with the green and unpleasant foundations of manufactured paradises. Make revolutions around the park in your own time, to sounds and music of your own choosing. This will be the first of many invitations to disruptively move through Sheffield, forging new paths and rhythms on foot, by bike and on public transportation. In the context of a society that actively suppresses emotional intelligence, the aim of Amy’s and Udit’s residency is to actively engage with the knowledges of incandescent rage.
BYOB / BYOS: bring your own bike / bring your own speaker!
Please make sure your bike is roadworthy. If you don’t have one, we can recommend renting an e-bike from A Different Gear or a push bike from Russell’s Bicycle Shed.
If you don’t have a speaker to amplify your music, you’re welcome to play it directly from your phone.
Limited spaces so please book.
Sat 7 May, 2-4pm: Group rage workshop; rage seeding 4-6pm
To introduce rage as an important affective register in this year’s Blueprints for the Otherwise, we are delighted to host a group workshop led by trauma-informed therapist and facilitator Nina Dearden. Over a two-hour session, we will carefully ground ourselves and chart a course for collective rage.
Especially relevant for any of us working, living and organising in the peripheries.
Nina's counselling experience has primarily been working with marginalised groups excluded or sidelined by mainstream therapy. She has previously worked with the Refugee Council, the UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group (now called Rainbow Migration) and the East London Out Project.
Limited spaces so please book for the workshop 2-4pm. Also, let us know in good time if you need to cancel your space so we can give your place to someone else.
For the rage seeding 4-6pm, there is no need to book. Just show up!