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This in-person, interactive workshop for young people will use collective readings, free writing and discussion-based elements to explore and unearth the potential of our political imaginations. It will ask young people what the purpose of imagining is, what they understand temporality to mean and what the connections between political struggles can teach us the moment we find ourselves in. It will ask them to identify the enemy and think about what is needed to defeat them.
What Does the Future Taste Like? is a workshop designed to create a space of provocation, questioning and reflection about our current political moment, the worlds we seek to build and the strategies we must employ to bring about liveable conditions.
The workshop will be recorded and turned into a soundscape, produced by Tej Adeleye, for the purposes of preservation in the ICA archives. The recording will be kept in the ICA and Bare Minimum Collective Archives and may be used for artistic and/or publicity purposes.
Westminster residents between 16 – 25 years old can pick up their free membership to the ICA after the workshop.
This event is part of the bare minimum collective’s Artists-in-Residence Programme at the ICA, as well as the Young ICA programme.
Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and CREAM / Stuart Hall Foundation researcher from London. Her work focuses on the uses of the feminist imagination and its relationship to cultural production, political demands and futurity. She is the author of Experiments in Imagining Otherwise and Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power and a member of bare minimum, an interdisciplinary anti-work arts collective.
Tej Adeleye is a writer, audio producer and arts programmer. She works as a producer for BBC Radio 3’s flagship improvised music programme Freeness, and has produced a range of cultural and current affairs programmes and features for Radio 1Xtra, Radio 3, Radio 4 and Audible. She curates cultural events and writes occasionally about music. She is a trustee at the independent archive George Padmore Institute. Her arts practice focuses on looking at connections between past and present black political struggles using multidisciplinary art forms, popular education and archives.
Ticket information
- All tickets that do not require ID (full price, disabled, income support) can be printed at home or stored in email
- For aged-based concession tickets (under 25, student and pensioner) please bring relevant ID to collect at the front desk before the event.
Free. Booking required. Open to 16 – 25 year olds.
This workshop will be recorded and will run for approximately two hours.
It will be held in the Studio, which has a wheelchair accessible entrance, and will have approximately 15 participants.
Participants will be asked to sign a consent form to participate in the recording, which will include their first name and age (parental/guardian permission may be required for participants below 18).
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