Join us for an activist drawing score, a communal drawing and painting experience to create a large artwork to be hung in the gallery on Saturday.
Hosted on an expansive canvas and as part of the Fest en Fest choreography festival, this collaborative drawing workshop explores the interplay between individual and collective actions. It traces the reverberations of dance and performance practices within a context profoundly affected by funding cuts in the arts.
artists
Ulrike Steven / what if:projects
Architect (AK NRW, D), FRSA
Co-founder and director of what if: projects
Preoccupied with neglected, vacant spaces in the city and the possibilities these can offer Ulrike has helped to initiate and deliver a number of acclaimed community led projects including the Livesey Exchange workshops on Old Kent Road, community centre Charterhouse Road Club in Hackney and the Vacant Lot allotment programme on 21 housing estates in London. Ulrike lead the recently completed refurbishment of sheltered housing scheme Hogarth Court helping to define the brief and delivering the project to a high quality on site.
Ulrike is a member of the GLA’s Special Assistant Team supporting ‘project set up’, contributes to Croydon’s Place Review Panel and teaches architecture MArch at Central Saint Martins.
She studied architecture at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany (1991–95) and the University of East London (1995–97).