https://www.resolvecollective.com/blog daily 0.75 2017-07-07 https://www.resolvecollective.com/projects1 daily 0.75 2024-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5956baae36e5d3e8ce5afea1/1499608824551-4SIVP8BIO7KIGUWA7IKA/7.jpg Projects - Interactive Wall We were approached by the organizers of Stockwell Festival to create an installation for their annual community festival. We decided to collaborate with UCL Engineering Outreach, collaborating with school children from ELUTEC to design and build the exhibition. We went from brief to finished installation in four days, and most importantly had a lot of fun doing it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5956baae36e5d3e8ce5afea1/1518194399994-SM1U96R6IWFNON0JFWNV/JAY_9049.jpg Projects - Market Value The temporary transformation of an abandoned space underneath Brixton Station passageway into a temporary platform for local artists and entrepreneurs. This project aimed to explore questions of ‘value’ in urban markets today: how are our markets socially, culturally, politically and environmentally valuable in our increasingly valorized cities? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5956baae36e5d3e8ce5afea1/1535928570515-BUBTUWJJZS3GKZ8O7X5G/JAY_9295+%281%29.jpg Projects - Site and Sound - Resolve x The Access Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5956baae36e5d3e8ce5afea1/1546895951086-KJ9MAFX8HVQZMVVZBWZ8/JAY_1423.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5956baae36e5d3e8ce5afea1/1581795194968-U702KOMJP2C3EM779WY0/RC_002_web.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5956baae36e5d3e8ce5afea1/1581850232545-O5X7VCENE45UKJP4L3TX/Common+Thread+Installation+-+1.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5956baae36e5d3e8ce5afea1/1498856873290-TR0X2AU9T9XXZPC91AMO/8-+Rebel+Space+by+night.jpg Projects - Rebel Space at Night A temporary pavilion that sat in St Matthew's Church Gardens in Brixton, South London. The pavilion was designed as a permeable structure, open 24 hours a day and made from materials all sourced from within a mile radius of the site. It was constructed for the Brixton Design Trail, part of the London Design Festival 2016, and hosted 8 days and nights of events. The programme consisted of an artist exhibition every morning and talks, film screenings, music and roundtable discussions in the evenings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5956baae36e5d3e8ce5afea1/1581885906089-JDJJ7IKGQGJWSLM29NJI/R1-01787-0031.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5956baae36e5d3e8ce5afea1/1581873206838-JPNFSEG7Z1KRRQOMT7IF/Pages+from+Mansions+of+the+Future+Prezzy+%28w-o+project+slides%29_Page_4.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5956baae36e5d3e8ce5afea1/1581897646203-Y1OVKEV1WQT23XWO1Y9S/Screen+Shot+2020-02-16+at+23.59.56.png Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5956baae36e5d3e8ce5afea1/1581793092691-6WVK5TZ5T8EF5VEHE90F/OFF+GRID_edit.jpg Projects - OFF GRID - Installation. Berlin, Germany RESOLVE were invited by Forecast Platform in Berlin to create a temporary installation for the ForecastFestival 2018. Our installation explored the implications of Thomas Schelling’s ‘Simple Segregation Model’ by creating a modular platform for real experiences of separation told through storytelling, poetry, and music but also through participant’s bodies, by sitting, clambering, pondering, and conversing. We used 870 recycled plastic vegetable crates to take Schelling’s model ‘off the grid’, into the @hkw_berlin, and then out into Berlin where they are currently being reused by a number of amazing agricultural, architectural, and artistic initiatives. Huge thanks again all our collaborators, Valerie and the girls from Schilleria, Fulani, Thierno Diallo, @nansenmag, @fakt_office and the Forecast team. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5956baae36e5d3e8ce5afea1/1698878929963-PJHV40GQPE1KFJ4ELFR6/Ships+At+A+Distance_photo_credit+-+Becky+Payne+Photography.jpeg Projects - Ships At A Distance In March 2022 , back in Sheffield, our second home, ‘Ships At A Distance’ was a collaborative installation born from three days of workshops and community dinners with Ark Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University and SADACCA for Sheffield Theatres, where we explored stories of movement, migration, memory, and climate justice. The project took Caribbean diasporic infrastructures of movement and sound as the lens through which to investigate our relationship to a changing world, told by the objects that have make our ‘homes’. The first workshops saw participants remix natural dying techniques by making a ‘run down’, not of mackrel, yam and banana but tie-down straps: an essential tool for Caribbean soundsystem culture. Once cooked and dyed, these straps had stories and reflections on climate justice transcribed onto them, taken from audio recordings of the meals hosted by SADACCA, @blendkitchensheffield , and @foodhall_sheffield . They were then used to assemble, bind, and reconfigure the material lives of objects from across Sheffield, from living rooms in Nether Edge to the yards outside the legendary @gumbofm_radio . As night fell, these bricolages were pushed across town from SADACCA through Castlegate to the Crucible Theatre for the #TogetherInTheCity festival, helped on by a beautiful group of friends and complete strangers. It sat alongside @beckypaynephotography’s stunning community photographs, as a ship at a distance with our hopes, fears, and furniture, whilst in the auditorium Ark staged a performance with people from across the city, live streamed by the one and only Gumbo FM Rradio. A beloved thanks to the family at SADACCA for always building with and guiding us, and to @doctortompayne , @joopyjoop1 , Becky Payne, Sally Wilson, @alex_delittle , Phillip Charles at Gumbo FM, and @terriilouisedoyle for the love and support throughout the project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5956baae36e5d3e8ce5afea1/1698947288940-62YDOMC8I3I45V68PBNR/Absolutley+Cultured+Model+City+-+Thursday+28th+November+2019-46.jpg Projects https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5956baae36e5d3e8ce5afea1/t/6543eea117a8247d2d794956/1698950532938/ Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5956baae36e5d3e8ce5afea1/1705340914562-12OJ43VEMG79K07EHCFR/1+GreenSpaceUs_Team.jpeg Projects - Greenspace & Us Between March & April 2022, we spent 6 weeks with a group of 20 young women, aged between 10-16 years old, we explored their experiences, and relationships around green space and worked together to reimagine more inclusive outdoor realms for women and all! Held in the beautiful Barracks Lane Community Garden in Oxford, a women-only safe space was facilitated by our own Melissa and former faithful RESOLVE member Sahar Ibrahim with the inspirational Nafeesa Hussain and Ansa Khan from at ‘Name It youth group ‘and the fantastic Lizzie Moore and Emily Jiggens from Oxford Council. We lead the design workshops, building a prototype with the young women who were bursting with ideas that allowed them to gather with friends, study, read , eat with family and take up space in Cowley Marsh Recreation Ground. A frosty, but heartwarming celebration in January 2023 brought all the collaborators, family and friends together to welcome the picnic table into the park and celebrate their time and energy and act as a lesson for us all, to witness the value and quality possible when we simply listen and learn from the voices of young women and include them as early as possible in the design process. Additional outcomes of the project include a manifesto & booklet presented at the celebration day that shared the process and findings of the workshops in April 2022, as well as a radio interview on BBC Radio Oxford show. The Name It youth group continue to explore these themes through activating and designing spaces in other green spaces on their own terms! Creative Support: Sam Skinner - Fig Projects Youth Group: Nafeesa Hussain and Ansa Khan of Name It Project Project was initiated by Lizzie Moore from the public health team at Oxfordshire County Council. Research: Anant Jani -University of Oxford, Louise Montgomery & Pippa Langford - Natural England, Stuart Cole & Emily Jiggens at Oxfordshire County Council, Jessica Goodenough - Oxford City Council. Booklet & Manifesto Design- Julia Utreas - Common Books Bench & Shelter Build: Toffee Hammer Carpentry to build and install the shelter. Installation support: ODS Celebration day photos by Reuben Worlledge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5956baae36e5d3e8ce5afea1/1705340072928-C9OMJR8DGG7U31F5H14C/Brighton+CCA+RESOLVE+Collective+%28Low+Res%29-4.jpg Projects - Summerhouse Summer House was an installation and programme of events, working with Black community practitioners and artists in Croydon and Brighton. The project asked how it might be possible to build recuperative and organisational spaces for those who are working to sustain their communities. To do so, Summer House appropriated the Brighton CCA gallery as an open space for generative rest, gatherings, and organising for this enduring work. Incorporating both sculptural and live elements, the installation centres on groups of ‘work and leisure’ furniture, built using salvaged materials from industrial and commercial sites around Croydon and Brighton. The public programme paired three Brighton practitioners with three Croydon practitioners for a series of open events and closed exchanges, exploring the shared value in their respective work. Brighton-based artist manager and youth worker Bobby Brown met London-based Ella Adu, architectural designer and member of Tanum Sound System; Carolynn Bain of the inspirational Afrori Books collaborated on a photo exhibition with Croydon-based photographer Theo Mettle, celebrating the lives and work of Black women in Brighton; and writer and curator Pacheanne Anderson co-curated a multi disciplinary exhibition of student work, culminating in a public conversation with Croydon-born interdisciplinary artist, writer and teacher, Rosa-Johan Uddoh. Details of all events are available in the gallery and online at www.brightoncca.art RESOLVE have twinned their Croydon base with Brighton to explore their commonalities and differences as communal sites of creative production. Croydon and Brighton are united by more than just a transport link. Family and friendship networks regularly extend from the shopping centres to the shores and what defines both places is frequently shared by a common public. More importantly, actively disempowered communities in both Croydon and Brighton are engaging in radical new forms of industry; world-building and organising work that supports their networks where mainstream provisions have failed. Through this project RESOLVE have sought to celebrate this work, and highlight the inequitable processes that require it, as they see friends and colleagues forced back and forth from the city to the shore by rising prices, hostile industries, and lack of work and opportunity. Summer House was a vision of redistributed resources and tools for a more just future, manifested through a series of collaborations between these two locations. Ben Roberts- Brighton CCA Polly Wright- Brighton CCA BUILD Flint Ben milimetremakers SEASON 1- A Brief History of Soundsystem Culture in Brighton Bobby Brown -The New Society Ella Adu King Tafari Love Muzic Sound System SEASON 2- Afrori Voices Carolynn Bain - Afrori Books Theo Mettle Dorothy, Narsha, Laurel, Lashe, Kelly, Lucy, Maria, Tara, Emma, Charlotte, Oliviyah, Florence, Grace, Millie, Amy, Yolande, Liz, Althea, Adriana, Yvonne, Monique, Melanie SEASON 3- Reclaiming Space Pacheanne Anderson Curators Gemma Allison Rachel O-Williams Artists Jacob Talkowski Deb Zeb Melanie Woodward Kobi Axel Takudzwa Chandiwana Wendy Owusu Words Aflo the Poet Spoken Word Erin James Kofi Achina Photo Credit: Rob Harris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5956baae36e5d3e8ce5afea1/1698946040844-12XRJY9EHVCYZUAU0D03/On+The+Corner_Tate+Installation+-+Where+Does+Culture+Happen_1_photo+credit+-+RESOLVE+%281%29.jpg Projects - On The Corner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5956baae36e5d3e8ce5afea1/1708893012508-DT80N8354SH9T5N3X4V3/The+Garage_Sheffield+S1+Art+Gallery+Residency_photo+credit+-+Vishnu+Jayarajan.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5956baae36e5d3e8ce5afea1/1710426499169-O977QPD5DL0GC6ECUN9B/Copy+of+FS+Ausstell.+Wasserbotschaften_0412.JPG Projects - Wasserbotschaften / Water Messages Water surrounds and permeates us. It runs like veins through our planet, connecting us and making all life on Earth possible. As our planet has entered an unprecedented human-made environmental crisis, Water is increasingly perceived as a threat to existence. From melting glaciers and sea level rise to storm surges, drought and contamination, Water figures prominently in environmental emergencies. These climatic changes and intensified weather patterns are the consequences of human actions and they affect us all. Yet, the responsibility for the crisis and the experience of its most drastic impacts are unevenly distributed. Today, formerly colonized people and marginalized communities live at the forefront of the climate crisis, while having least contributed to its causes. The exhibition Water Messages approaches the MARKK’s historical collections as a repository of ecological knowledges, skills, and Water stories from which we can learn in facing environmental challenges. Water serves as a source of sustenance and is the focus of cultural and artistic expressions that articulate beliefs and values defining human relationships to Water. The exhibition relates these Water knowledges to contemporary Water protection and climate justice movements formulated by communities that are most affected by environmental crises today. Their Water struggles and resistance to extractive economies are inextricably linked with concerns about self-determination and cultural survival. This exhibition is an invitation to listen to the messages of the Water and its stewards and protectors. Let us jointly imagine more caring planetary futures in which human interest and profit are no longer privileged but decisions are made to the benefit of all living beings. * Water and Land are capitalized throughout these texts to acknowledge that in many worldviews Water is sacred, Water is ancestor and Water is an entity that humans are in reciprocal relationship with. Photo Credit: Paul Schimweg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5956baae36e5d3e8ce5afea1/1710426703120-AABM2IAOYIGFFQ4IVIAG/LIDO_De+La+Warr+Pavilion_Rob+Harris_.jpg Projects - LIDO- Dela Warr Pavillion, Bexhill, UK Part of What The Wild Things Are , our artist research collaboration with @westdeancollege , @wellcomecollection , and @delawarr , #LIDO is a leisure space and exhibition on the ground floor gallery of the De La Warr pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea. It is the result of a programme of collaborative design ‘forages’ with young people from @bexhillcollege and @blueprintdlwp . These ‘forages’ incorporated a range of methods, from flint knapping to audio-walking, as ways of gathering local materials, memories, and architectural forms from Bexhill, led by the tacit local knowledges and emotional connections of the young people. As such, LIDO invokes civic typologies that were popularised in UK coastal towns in the 1930’s and that were often themselves ‘foraged’ from the sea: littoral in name and in nature. Here, you can eat, relax, convene, and converse, immersed in the knowledges and experiences of the project’s young collaborators, whilst the space is also open throughout the summer as a meeting and operation space for local community organisations. Since its inception the space has seen some beautiful moments, from Bexhill College Art and Design's E200's landmark takeover and fashion show to a number of exciting artist interventions and community uses such as @nancy_odufona’s pebble-binding workshop and Beccy Mccray's ‘Climate Hack Lab’ A heartfelt thanks goes out to Joseph Constable & Dee Haugh. 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