Cultivate that
The act of cultivation involves fostering growth, providing support & encouragement via labour, care or study. Building on our learning from pilot project 鈥楶ropagate This鈥� & continuing our focus on process over output, we will host 6 x artist residencies spanning the months of Spring 2022.
Taking new offshoots of our pilot as a starting point, 鈥楥ultivate That鈥� will follow through with our commitment to providing artists & local partners with tools to propagate new work; offering space, funding, time, support, local/national networks; & inviting audiences to be part of shaping conversations.
鈥楥ultivate That鈥� is a new project building on recent pilot, 鈥楶ropagate This鈥�, which was birthed directly in response to local & national crises. Last year amplified social issues particularly relevant to our hometown & called into question systems perpetuating them. With Croydon Council鈥檚 section 114 notice pushing Turf & public services into heightened states of precarity, the Croydon community had suffered effects of decisions made without us. It felt urgent to interrogate our relevance to the community we inhabit & work in ways that are responsive to what local people need.
In 鈥楶ropagate This鈥� we shifted from creating exhibitions to offering an environment for sustainable & generative recovery through creativity & curiosity. Responding to the skills & needs of our local community, we sought to create opportunities for people to ask questions & respond to problems that are relevant to them, through workshops, events & provision of space & facilities. This generated a wealth of dialogue about our local area, urban regeneration, accessibility, who gets a say in decision-making, & where the arts sit within that. Our continued desire for our space is for it to feel even more rooted in the community & our community to feel rooted in the space. We want to further explore models of making decisions together so that art鈥檚 role is interwoven into society, not running alongside it; & we want to continue to support those artists we began conversations with in more sustained ways.
The act of cultivation involves fostering growth, providing support & encouragement via labour, care or study. Building on our learning from pilot project 鈥楶ropagate This鈥� & continuing our focus on process over output, we will host 6 x artist residencies spanning the months of Spring 2022.
Taking new offshoots of our pilot as a starting point, 鈥楥ultivate That鈥� will follow through with our commitment to providing artists & local partners with tools to propagate new work; offering space, funding, time, support, local/national networks; & inviting audiences to be part of shaping conversations.
鈥楥ultivate That鈥� is a new project building on recent pilot, 鈥楶ropagate This鈥�, which was birthed directly in response to local & national crises. Last year amplified social issues particularly relevant to our hometown & called into question systems perpetuating them. With Croydon Council鈥檚 section 114 notice pushing Turf & public services into heightened states of precarity, the Croydon community had suffered effects of decisions made without us. It felt urgent to interrogate our relevance to the community we inhabit & work in ways that are responsive to what local people need.
In 鈥楶ropagate This鈥� we shifted from creating exhibitions to offering an environment for sustainable & generative recovery through creativity & curiosity. Responding to the skills & needs of our local community, we sought to create opportunities for people to ask questions & respond to problems that are relevant to them, through workshops, events & provision of space & facilities. This generated a wealth of dialogue about our local area, urban regeneration, accessibility, who gets a say in decision-making, & where the arts sit within that. Our continued desire for our space is for it to feel even more rooted in the community & our community to feel rooted in the space. We want to further explore models of making decisions together so that art鈥檚 role is interwoven into society, not running alongside it; & we want to continue to support those artists we began conversations with in more sustained ways.
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