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The Whitechapel Gallery is committed to making all of our events as accessible as possible for every audience member. Please contact access@whitechapelgallery.org if you would like to discuss a particular request and we will gladly discuss with you the best way to accommodate it.
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 workshop takes place in the Study Studio on the 2nd floor at Whitechapel Gallery, which is accessible by stairs and lift.
This workshop lasts 1.5 hours and is free of charge, but you must book your place online in advance.
If you are no longer able to attend, please cancel you ticket. We will operate a small waitlist on the day for any no shows.
This event is suitable for those over the age of 18
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.
Join composer, spatial sound artist, music supervisor and haptic specialist sound designer Xana in this hands-on workshop where we will learn how to build our own DIY mini speakers from scratch.
In this low-stakes, intimate session, you will be supported step-by-step as we build out our mini speakers piece by piece, learning how to connect tech with the art of play.
No experience needed – just a love of music and tinkering.
PLEASE NOTE: this workshop is open to adults aged 18+ only and involves some light soldering.
This workshop with Xana is part of our specially curated Late with Black Obsidian Sound System which accompanies our current exhibition Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker.
Xana is a composer, spatial sound artist, music supervisor and a haptic specialist sound designer developing accessible audio systems for theatre and live art spaces. Xana is the music science and technology lead and project mentor supporting Black artists and inventors at audio research label Inventing Waves
Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.) was established in the summer of 2018 with the intention of bringing together a community of queer, trans and non-binary Black people and people of colour involved in art, sound and radical activism. Following in the legacies of sound system culture they wanted to learn, build and sustain a resource for our collective struggles. The black-led system, based in London, is available to use or rent by community groups and others with the purpose of amplifying and connecting them.
B.O.S.S’s work includes renting the system to the community at subsidised rates or for free, technical workshops, live performance events, club nights, art installations and various creative commissions including a short film ‘Collective Hum’ (2019) for LUX & the ICO and ‘The Only Good System is a Sound System’ for Liverpool Biennial (2020). In 2021 B.O.S.S was shortlisted for the Turner Prize and presented an exhibition at Herbert Museum and Gallery Coventry.
Members of the collective include: Adedamola Bajomo, Kiera Coward Deyell, Phoebe Collings-James, Evan Ifekoya, Onyeka Igwe, Marcus Macdonald and Virginia Wilson.
