2025 SO FAR…

DEVISING A TACTILE GLOSSARY USING TOUCH & MAKING WEARABLE ARCHITECTURE

RATHER WEAR A CASTLE THAN A FROCK?

On 22nd February, supported by Maida Hill Market’s ‘Artist Takeover’, artist Sol Golden-Sato and Gerry’s Pompeii transformed old cardboard boxes into palaces and flats inspired by Gerry’s iconic buildings with members of the local community. Highlights included security worker Lorraine becoming the first ‘block of flats’ to dance the Samba (that I’ve seen) and one of our youngest participants ran wild whilst wearing a monastery on his head, which we decided might have signified the ‘dissolution of the monasteries’. Since Gerry wasn’t a fan of Henry VIII we feel he would have also laughed…

A MULTI-SENSORY JELLY-BASED DESCRIPTION WITH SIENNA MURDOCH

On Monday 24th February, in collaboration with CIC ‘Your Canal Boat’ we held a sensory workshop with artist Sienna Murdoch. Building on our tactile game ‘What’s in the Box’ which Sienna had developed for our alternative Summer Fete in collaboration with local charity PiP, we furthered our experiments with touch to try and expand our abilities to communicate.  We each felt inside our own covered bucket and described the objects we could feel to the rest of the group (without peeping), alluding to what imaginative worlds these things might inhabit as well as our personal associations as we devised a tactile glossary for our perceptions. Then the objects were unveiled to much delight. It was visceral and surreal and exciting. We all went to Gerry’s Pompeii afterwards and tried out some of our newly attuned touches to some of the textures at Gerry’s.

Click on the here or the video above to hear some touching soundbites made by Sienna….”It’s like an alien’s wallet, it’s made with gunk and full of coins…”