Church St Library Launch: 14 January 2015, 12.30–2pm
Billboard works on the exterior of The Showroom: 14 – 31 January 2015.
Exploring the question of ‘how to live together’, the workshops generated and collected the knowledge, histories and stories of Church Street, from in and around the local area and further afield.
The content produced – including artworks, photographs and personal reflections by workshop participants – is interspersed amongst archival material, historical references and local anecdotes.
These multiple layers make up an image that evokes the library and the market place as sites of exchange, where people, stories and objects come together and interact.
Nyampeta has arranged this fertile and diverse material upon an expanding ‘tree of knowledge’ that grows from the heart of the library, reaching across each room to connect the many lives, histories and images that constitute the Church Street neighbourhood.
Commissioned by Westminster City Council.
Collaborators include: Church Street Library English Speaking Club, Church Street Library Homework Group, Church Street Library Staff and Volunteers, Church Street Market, City of Westminster Archives Centre, Friends of Church Street Library, King Solomon Academy, The Marylebone Project Women’s Day Centre, The Mosaic Community Trust, Penfold Community Hub at 60 Penfold Street and Seymour Art Collective at the West London Day Centre.
A new site-specific artwork at Church Street Library – produced by artist Christian Nyampeta and The Showroom in collaboration with a wide range of local groups and residents through a series of art and design workshops.
An artist living and working in London, and an MPhil/PhD candidate at the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Christian Nyampeta, How to live together - A Blackboard, 2015. Detail
Christian Nyampeta, How to live together - A Blackboard, 2015. Detail
