Shake Up The Museum!

Pleased to collaborate with fellow New Museum School alumni and creatives, to produce this off~site V&A Friday Late in Hackney Wick.

Shake Up The Museum! was a multi~media experimental production with artists, activists and performers, amplifying voices often excluded from museum spaces. Co~produced with Museum Detox, we animated Hackney’s Stour Space with a series of playful interventions and provocations, probing a live manifesto for a new East London museum.

The programme included:

~ Shake Up The Museum! Panel: Resolve Collective, Common Unity and Ben Wakeling discuss inclusive architecture, design and space for creative communities today.

~ A New Museum in the Making: Collective collage~making workshop with local artist Cherelle Sappleton, exploring the resonance and possibilities of place. 

‍~ Dial Stories East: Sound~art installation by Chris Wood, evoking a new sonic museum for the East End using field recordings and overheard conversations.

~ Live Museum Manifesto: An interactive Mentimeter collecting and projecting live responses, fused with spoken word reflections by poet Stephanie Ampofo.

~ Emergent Divergent: EAST: A series of sensory provocations by Natasha Trotman, inviting audiences to add their own East London memories and stories.‍

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^{Shake Up The Museum! was part of This Must Be The Place, the V&A Museum's off~site Friday Late across venues in Hackney Wick. Part of the pre~opening for the new V&A East, the programme explored how artists and designers are responding to the changing landscape of East London.}

^{Shake Up The Museum! was co~curated with Museum Detox and a team of New Museum School alumni, led by Qanitah Malik.}