Youth Collective 2017- 2018

30 September – 9 December 

Young people involved have the opportunity to gain Arts Award Gold, meet artists, shadow staff, programme events for young audiences and develop their own art practice.

We meet Saturdays, 2.30 – 5.00pm, there is no need to book. Y

Wednesday 1 November 2017, 6.00 – 8.30pm, Drawing Studio

For the first edition of the new series Youth Collective Events, we invite 38b Projects to discuss and question how domestic spaces can be used as a resource to exhibit and programme artwork.

38b Projects started in 2010 out of a desire to create a space for themselves and artists who they admire to show new work and try out ideas. They found the most immediate, cheapest way to do this was to transform their living room into an exhibition space. Some artists have preferred to strip the room of any trace of their inhabitancy and use it as a white walled gallery space while others have enjoyed playing with the domesticity of the setting.

38b Projects continue to host exhibitions at 38b Peckham Rye but they have also started to programme projects beyond the flat with same intention – to provide an accessible and uncostly space for artists to experiment and exhibit.

Our Youth Collective Events series offers people aged between 15 – 25 years the opportunity to engage and learn about matters surrounding contemporary art and artistic production through a series of workshops, talks, interventions and screenings.

On the first Wednesday of every month artists and arts practitioners will be invited to host the evening and share their knowledge, skills and experiences as a way of expanding professional development opportunities.

The series is designed for you to:
• Gain access to artists and arts professionals in the creative industries
• Programme your own event
• Develop new skills and knowledge in relation to the arts and opportunities in the arts sector
• Build confidence in creating your own arts practice
• Meet new and like-minded people and cultivate a peer network

Our Youth Collective continue to meet on Saturdays during the exhibitions from 2.30 – 5.00pm.

Wednesday 6 December, 6.00 – 8.30pm, Artists’ Studio 

For the second edition of the new series Youth Collective Events, we invite Public Programme and Residencies Curator Nisha Matthew to discuss what it means to curate and deliver live events for varying audiences.

During the evening, performance artist Jenny Moore will share some of her experiences making live artworks for public programmes – both the frustrations and the victories. Through workshopping, discussion, making noise, and moving around, Jenny Moore will demonstrate some of her approaches to making performances, transforming space, and being in public space.

Find out what’s involved in curating a public programme event, Camden Arts Centre’s artist residencies and public programme and the strategies involved in event planning, marketing and delivery.

Our Youth Collective Events series offers people aged between 15 – 25 years the opportunity to engage and learn about matters surrounding contemporary art and artistic production through a series of workshops, talks, interventions and screenings.

Nisha Matthew is the Programme Curator for Public Programme and Residencies at Camden Arts Centre, working closely with artists to curate and deliver live events.

Jenny Moore is a Canadian artist and musician based in London. With performance at its core, her practice is live, embodied, improvised, and noisy. She plays in the all-female, all-drum band Charismatic Megafauna; and collaborates on Bedfellows; an artistic research project about life-long queer feminist sex-re-education. Moore recently wrote, directed and recorded a performance 10 voices and two drummers commissioned by Wysing Polyphonic 2016, ran an educational performance space in an occupied firestation in Norway, and has performed at Serpentine Gallery, BFI London with Jarvis Cocker, Block Universe Performance Festival, London; Metaphonica, Central Saint Martins; The Barbican with This is Not This Heat, and made a series of live interventions for Late at Tate Britain. She went to art school twice, once in Winnipeg, once in London.

Wednesday 7 February, 6.00 – 8.30pm, Drawing Studio

Members of the public are invited to experience the potential of their senses through an interactive environment. This event has been devised by members of our Youth Collective and will draw together ideas that have been formulated through their collaborative practice. The event aims to push the boundaries of our relationship with food, texture, colour and sound through a collective experience.

Free, open to all

Wednesday 7 March, 6.00 – 8.30pm, Drawing Studio, Free

For the fourth edition of the Youth Collective Events series, we invite Holly Willats, Director of Art Licks, to share her practice as an independent curator.

Holly will present recent Art Licks projects that demonstrate how self-organising offers the opportunity to make new work in stimulating and independent ways, and how this can lead to valuable moments of exchange, friendship and peer support. With this as a starting point, we will work towards making a blueprint of an imaginary project space throughout the evening. Find out what’s involved in defining the ethos of the project and making decisions on practical priorities such as programming, scale, funding, and space.

Our Youth Collective Events series offers people aged between 15 – 25 years the opportunity to engage and learn about matters surrounding contemporary art and artistic production through a series of workshops, talks, interventions and screenings.

Holly Willats is an independent curator and director of the arts organisation,Art Licks. Having founded Art Licks in 2010, she has since edited 22 issues of its magazine, directed five editions of its London festival, the Art Licks Weekend, and produced and curated various artist events, including those at the V&A, ICA, and South London Gallery. Last year, while running Art Licks she also carried out a curatorial residency at FLORA ars+natura in Bogotá, Colombia. In 2017, she curated the residency and exhibition On the heights at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Exhibition Launch: Wednesday 4 April, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Exhibition continues Wednesday 4 – Sunday 8 April 2018

This exhibition presents a range of artworks made and curated by Youth Collective members over the last six months. During the launch evening there will be a series of creative interventions performed by members.

Artists involved: Adi, Ajanthan, Alice, Angel, Anna, Becca, Ella, Jana, Jamal, Leila B, Leila I-S, Manon, Maya, Roxanna

Wednesday 2 May, 6.00 – 8.30pm, Drawing Studio, Free

For the fifth edition of the new Youth Collective Events series, we invite Chloe Cooper to consider the different roles of being an artist. Throughout the evening, Cooper will share her experiences of being asked to respond to exhibitions, spaces, themes and concepts. The event will highlight how artists react to spaces and new ways of working in terms of risk, voice, participation, consent and interpretation.

Chloe Cooper has recently exhibited and performed works at LCB Depot, Leicester (2018); Battersea Arts Centre, London (2018); Mount Florida Screenings at GOMA, Glasgow (2017); Dancing on Borrowed Ground at Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2017); The Weekender and Performance Art Intensive at The Tetley, Leeds (2017); Feelings Feelings, Tate St Ives, St Ives (2017); What Happened Between? with Kerri Jefferis and Sophie Chapman, Lewisham Arthouse, London (2017); Love is Love, Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2017); Dedications, ArtReview Bar, London (2017).

August – September

Youth Collective artists Anna and Angel are the recipients of Camden Arts Centre’s first annual Youth Residency, taking place over summer 2018.

During a six-week programme, the residency will allow for an exploration of ideas and processes which have been developed during Youth Collective sessions throughout the year.

Angel’s interests include 3D printmaking, interaction and transformation.
Anna’s interests include sculpture, performance and the metaphysical.

Our Youth Collective meets regularly to create, discuss, experience and encounter visual arts, offering opportunities to be involved behind the scenes at Camden Arts Centre and to further career development, skills and knowledge.

The residency is designed for emerging artists aged 15-25 to receive practical support through an artist mentor scheme, studio visits with curatorial staff, access to space and materials and an end of residency showcase.