Temporary Monuments
Temporary Monuments is an ever-changing group of students, teachers, alumni and local residents based at Shooters Hill Sixth form college near Woolwich, South East London. The shows and events we put on as collaborative are related to socio-political issues that are important to young people living in London. Our core activities include discussions around topics and helping inform the college’s PHSE/pastoral curriculum, making sure student voice is at the heart of what we choose to deliver. Recent topics covered by our collaborative include domestic spaces and their relation to lockdown, representation of Black male identity in the media and teen homelessness.
The collaborative was born out of an idea to create a gallery space and use student’s artistic responses to topics as way to deliver PHSE within the college, campus wide. Instead of PowerPoints in classrooms we use our gallery space and the collaborative’s artistic responses as a way of engaging young people and creating a teaching resource for our personal development tutors for a basis for discussion. Activities born out of the process of what we do which are also beneficial for young people include curation experience, training and building young people’s confidence people to deliver skills workshops with local residents and promoting the importance of being socially and politically engaged and active.
The overarching theme for our residency at Goldsmiths CCA is ‘Utopias.’ We will be working with various local groups with the aim of creating spaces where ideas and empowerment can flourish for the groups of individuals concerned. There is to be an emphasis on sound art, with a record to be published at the end of the residency.
Instagram: @state_of_art_collab
Temporary Monuments is an ever-changing group of students, teachers, alumni and local residents based at Shooters Hill Sixth form college near Woolwich, South East London. The shows and events we put on as collaborative are related to socio-political issues that are important to young people living in London. Our core activities include discussions around topics and helping inform the college’s PHSE/pastoral curriculum, making sure student voice is at the heart of what we choose to deliver. Recent topics covered by our collaborative include domestic spaces and their relation to lockdown, representation of Black male identity in the media and teen homelessness.
The collaborative was born out of an idea to create a gallery space and use student’s artistic responses to topics as way to deliver PHSE within the college, campus wide. Instead of PowerPoints in classrooms we use our gallery space and the collaborative’s artistic responses as a way of engaging young people and creating a teaching resource for our personal development tutors for a basis for discussion. Activities born out of the process of what we do which are also beneficial for young people include curation experience, training and building young people’s confidence people to deliver skills workshops with local residents and promoting the importance of being socially and politically engaged and active.
The overarching theme for our residency at Goldsmiths CCA is ‘Utopias.’ We will be working with various local groups with the aim of creating spaces where ideas and empowerment can flourish for the groups of individuals concerned. There is to be an emphasis on sound art, with a record to be published at the end of the residency.
Instagram: @state_of_art_collab
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