Millbank Tower Podium: Studio 18
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Indigestion

Indigestion: Breaking conventional understanding

Indigestion isn’t just about food. It’s about how we absorb life. From infancy, we take in the world around us, forming a sense of self that’s influenced by society’s mirror. As we grow, we navigate the symbolic norms that define us, questioning and digesting new ideas. ‘Cultural indigestion’ can happen when our personal beliefs clash with social expectations, leading to moments of discomfort or enlightenment. It’s not just about fitting in; it’s about understanding our place in the world and how we hold the new and unfamiliar, attuned to its feeling. This exhibition invites you to resist easy consumption; the idea that indigestion is more than a physical reaction—it’s a way to sustain a more complex relationship with the world.

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Exhibition Workshop

BA Photography – Curatorial Workshop

1st year BA Photography students at Camberwell College of Art tried their hand at curation in Studio 18, as part of their ongoing professional practice development. The workshop began with a group discussion, during which students discussed the thematic and pragmatic elements of curating an exhibition. They reflected on how to bring about a conversation between artworks, with practical considerations regarding space, as well as the arrangement of artworks, in mind. Students then worked together to install 6 mini exhibitions practically.

The workshop culminated in the group curating and installing an exhibition of their own works, this time referring to thematic principles.

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Conference Workshop

CAP Symposium: Art Beyond the Commodity

Chelsea MA Fine Art and Royal College of Art Contemporary Art Practice students were asked to participate in a workshop at Millbank Podium on 16.1.24 to rethink the commodity. Artists and lecturers Pil and Galia Kollectiv asked them to go to a retail space of their choice in the week before the workshop and photograph part of the display they thought was working to persuade them to buy the goods in the shop. They then discussed the concept of commodification and its relationship to art and worked in small groups to think about that which is not yet commodified and how it might be. Finally, the groups presented their findings and talked about the social consequences of the process of commodification.

The workshop led to an exhibition at Chelsea’s Cookhouse Gallery and a symposium at the Royal College of Art, both of which Chelsea and RCA students were invited to contribute to.

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Film shoot Filming Performance Workshop

Charged Objects of Performance

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Exhibition Workshop

Labour of Love

The exhibition “Labour of Love” by Mil Vukovic-Smart, a PhD researcher at Chelsea College of Arts, presents insights from gardening practice undertaken over the last four years at Chiswick House and Gardens, the birthplace of the English Landscape Movement. By drawing on history of dance and embodied movement practices it approaches historic gardens as choreographic objects and conceives gardening as a form of choreographic dwelling.  

On view by appointment only at Millbank Tower, Podium, Studio 18 

Wednesday 25 Oct – Saturday 28 October 1pm-6pm.  

Please RSVP here or for more information contact m.vukovic@arts.ac.uk 

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Exhibition Workshop

Encoding, Decoding


This group exhibition is underpinned by Stuart Hall’s theory of ‘Encoding and Decoding’. It offers a semiotic way of seeing how meaning-making is generated through the production and consumption of signs and messaging through the architecture of the exhibition, as a pedagogic initiative. The exhibition will show work by students and staff of Afro-Caribbean Heritage that explores the contributions made by the Windrush Generation and the Black herstory and history of pioneers and inventors. Offering, fresh knowledge as a decolonial intervention as a teaching and learning intervention.

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Conference Focus Group Workshop

DesignInquiry Work/Around

DesignInquiry Work/ Around, part of the 2023 London Design Festival programme, was a weeklong risograph print and publication workshop aiming to subvert the notion of the obstacle as a barricade to creativity; instead, posing the idea that accepting and working around difficulties or disadvantages during the creative process can be conducive to thoughtfulness, imagination, and artistry.

Participants visited the space throughout the week for a series of workshops, presentations and talks curated by DesignInquiry, a multidisciplinary collective researching and developing new strategies for design. DesignInquiry is led by UAL’s Peter Hall, a reader in Graphic Design at CCW. He employs mapping and visualisation techniques as interactive design methods, with a specific emphasis on addressing issues related to the climate crisis, risk, and security.

https://www.londondesignfestival.com/activities/designinquiry-work-around

https://www.instagram.com/designinquiry/

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Workshop

ROOTS and ROUTES

Roots and Routes is a project that aims to raise awareness of biases and injustices within Art and Design (and) Education, and contribute to inclusive, responsible and accountable practices.

“If you think of culture always as a return to roots — R-O-O-T-S — you’re missing the point. I think of culture as routes — R-O-U-T-E-S — the various routes by which people travel, culture travels, culture moves, culture, develops, culture changes, cultures migrate, etc.” – Stuart Hall

This will be a zine-making session that explores Climate, Social and Racial Justice and reflects on our values and positions in our work, daily lives, and connections to nature and history. We will (co)create zines in response to discussion and provocations – which will be uploaded to Instagram.

Join us for critical dialogues towards more equitable and accountable sustainable practices in Art and Design (and) Education!

This workshop and project is co-developed by Gabi Miller (Lecturer in Fashion and Sustainability, School of Design and Technology, LCF) and Adam Ramejkis, Intercultural Communication Trainer, UAL.We will (hopefully) be supported on the day by Climate Advocates and Changemakers from CCW.

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Workshop

2nd year | Interior Design

Students going into their 3rd year met to get to know the workspace at Millbank Tower Podium and brainstorm about ‘what is an interior?’