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– Information about access on site at the gallery is available here https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/visit/access/
– This includes information about Lift access; Borrowing wheelchairs & seating; Assistance Animals; Parking; Toilets and baby care facilities; Blind & Partially Sighted Visitors; Subtitles and transcripts; British Sign Language (BSL) and hearing induction loops; Deaf Messaging Service (DMS).
About This Event
– This event takes place across all the gallery spaces at Whitechapel Gallery
– This event is free, but you must reserve your place to attend
– This event is suitable for those over the age of 16
– We are unable to provide British Sign Language interpretation for this event
– We are unable to provide live closed captioning or CART for this event.
– This event lasts approximately 2 hours. There are no rest breaks currently scheduled during this event.
Transport
– To the best of our knowledge, there are no planned disruptions to local transport on the date of the event.
– Our nearest train station – Aldgate East Underground (1 min) is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are Whitechapel (15 min), Shoreditch High Street (15 min) or Liverpool Street (15 min).
– Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available at the top of Osborn Street in the pay and display booths for an unlimited period. Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis.
Teachers and creative educators are warmly invited to join us for a viewing of our autumn season exhibitions. Suitable for teachers and educators across all age groups as a social and inspiring moment to come together.
This Autumn, Whitechapel Gallery presents two exhibitions especially conceived to be in dialogue with each other. Lygia Clark: The I and the You and Sonia Boyce: An Awkward Relation explore pivotal moments in the artists’ careers, where each began experimenting with participatory practices.
Although separated by time and geography, and working in different cultural and socio-political contexts, the artists share a deep interest in addressing and shifting the relationship between artist, artwork and audiences, often inviting direct engagement with their works, including touch, manipulation, even inhabitation.
After we have spent time with the exhibitions, there will be a chance to join us in our Creative Studio for drinks and an opportunity to further explore ideas with guest artist Ta’wa.
Ta’wa is an artist and cultural worker whose practice is deeply rooted in conviviality, radical pedagogies, and reflexive ethics. They work to consolidate alliances based on mutuality to weave collective liberation through methods that challenge the rigid forms and hierarchies established by colonialism and neoliberalism.
Since 2011, they have been researching Lygia Clark’s “Structuring of the Self,” approaching this proposition as a form of social practice, in regards to how it can contribute to re-membering our bodies-territory and to creating abolition geographies.
Collective propositions that unfolded from their practice have been featured in institutional frameworks such as Gasworks in London, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR) in Rio de Janeiro, and Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS) in São Paulo.
