Gathering Storm: Collaborative world building workshop with David Blandy
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Sat 24 Feb, 12.30-3.30pm
Youth Programme: for participants aged 15-24
Join this half day workshop for young people exploring David Blandy’s collaborative world-building game, Gathering Storm, developed from his research around food, agriculture and colonial histories using voice, writing and drawing to imagine new worlds and societal systems collaboratively. Create a community together through collaborative map-making and story-telling.
The workshop will feature insights from David into his artistic practice, including his collaborative work with artist Larry Achiampong, followed by a chance to explore and play Gathering Storm and for participants to consider how, through contemporary art and gaming, we can explore questions of colonial histories and anti-colonial futures.
Image: Page view of Gathering Storm, David Blandy
Participants will also have the opportunity to start creating their own world-building game, using table top role-play techniques to think about how we can use these forms to expand ideas around society and history.
No previous experience of tabletop gaming is necessary to play.
Gathering Storm is a participatory event which involves complex themes, narratives and storytelling.
Gathering Storm, David Blandy, 2022. Developed as part of Delfina Foundation’s Politics of Food Season 5 in association with Gaia Art Foundation.