- item_info: "Cuñas, topes y sujetapuertas"
Site-specific Intervention
Lighthouse (Brighton)
2019
- description: This project, developed over several short-term residencies at Lighthouse, is based around a physical intervention into the external and internal doorways of the institution. Ferreiro contacted a local woodwork shop to produce a series of doorstops, wedges and blocks to simultaneously hold open all the doors. This simple gesture produced a contradiction with the strict fire, safety and security regulations of the building that normally keep the doors closed, creating a temporary state of exception in which for once the building could be experienced as open access throughout, linking the main public spaces with the office spaces at the back. At the same time, the gesture meant these very practical operational considerations which determine how the building is accessed were brought into the same sphere of talking more widely about institutional openness and hospitality - considerations which usually go unacknowledged in speculative institutional ‘re-imagining’.
During the week Jordi Ferreiro and Lighthouse Curator in Residence Eva Rowson, co-hosted three public communal lunches with different speakers: curator Ben Messih, Lara Antoine, Boudicca, Chanel Stephens and Saygal Yusuf (participants in Viral, Lighthouse’s mentorship and peer-to-peer support programme for young people in 2018) and curators Jamila Prowse and Amrita Dhallu. They shared their experiences and thoughts on what cultural organisations need to do if they genuinely want to become inclusive of different perspectives in the way they work.
Food was provided by local non-profit cooking collectives Lalibela Ethiopian Kitchen, Brighton Cauldron and Lerato Foods.
This project has been developed through conversations with Matt Weston, co-director of Brighton-based utopian regeneration agency Spacemakers, and forms the culmination of Eva Rowson’s programme ‘Who’s doing the washing up – and where’s the sink?’. Supported by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)
This project, developed over several short-term residencies at Lighthouse, is based around a physical intervention into the external and internal doorways of the institution. Ferreiro contacted a local woodwork shop to produce a series of doorstops, wedges and blocks to simultaneously hold open all the doors. This simple gesture produced a contradiction with the strict fire, safety and security regulations of the building that normally keep the doors closed, creating a temporary state of exception in which for once the building could be experienced as open access throughout, linking the main public spaces with the office spaces at the back. At the same time, the gesture meant these very practical operational considerations which determine how the building is accessed were brought into the same sphere of talking more widely about institutional openness and hospitality - considerations which usually go unacknowledged in speculative institutional ‘re-imagining’.
During the week Jordi Ferreiro and Lighthouse Curator in Residence Eva Rowson, co-hosted three public communal lunches with different speakers: curator Ben Messih, Lara Antoine, Boudicca, Chanel Stephens and Saygal Yusuf (participants in Viral, Lighthouse’s mentorship and peer-to-peer support programme for young people in 2018) and curators Jamila Prowse and Amrita Dhallu. They shared their experiences and thoughts on what cultural organisations need to do if they genuinely want to become inclusive of different perspectives in the way they work.
Food was provided by local non-profit cooking collectives Lalibela Ethiopian Kitchen, Brighton Cauldron and Lerato Foods.
This project has been developed through conversations with Matt Weston, co-director of Brighton-based utopian regeneration agency Spacemakers, and forms the culmination of Eva Rowson’s programme ‘Who’s doing the washing up – and where’s the sink?’. Supported by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)
