WorkShop
For his Theatrum Mundi Research Fellowship, urban practitioner Michael Gozo is facilitating a pop-up shop, as an installation and collaborative research phase.
This installation and workshop foreground the context of high street decline and retail sector transformation, by exploring alternative forms of high street city-making. The WorkShop builds on a series of historical and contemporary case-studies, in which the high-street shop has been used as a testbed for artistic, spatial and economic experimentation. In particular, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas’ 1992 shop in pre-gentrification Bethnal Green. And across the Atlantic, in sixties San Francisco, the anarchist street theatre group’s the Digger’s free store.
Throughout its opening hours, the shop is hosting discussions, dinners, workshops, creation and trade. The shop itself revisits and proposes forms of artistic, spatial and economic experimentation as a means of high street city-making.
The WorkShop is organised by Michael Gozo and supported by Theatrum Mundi as part of the fellowship programme for researchers. The shop is free to enter and open to all. No booking required, just come along.
OPENING HOURS
Thursday 18 July
19.00 Alternative futures of the high street shop: discussion with architect Jan Kattein, artist Isik Sayerer of Fourthland, writer and researcher Dr Caitlín Doherty, TM Fellow Michael Gozo and urban planner Liz Awoyemi.
20.30 Drinks
Friday 19 July
14.00 Augmented Nail Salon: hosted by XA. A live nail salon and augmented reality workshop. The installation and workshop is based around XA member Teresa Boulting’s project XAMA, which explores Brazilian beauty salons, a traditional hub of social interaction and information dissemination. XA will augment the nail salon, using accessible digital tools which will be shared during the workshop, to expand the notion of information dissemination and alternative community-based digital networking, using the salon as a space of social and technological experimentation.
18.00 XAMA: Internet at your fingertips! A discussion led by Teresa Boulting.
Saturday 20 July
14.00 High street shop discursive meal hosted by architectural designer Sam Clayton and TM Fellow Michael Gozo. An afternoon of drawings and discussions about the past and future of the high street shop in Old street, delivered around a meal where attendees will create and eat together.
All day CLOSING DOWN SALE