TOOLSHED #2 : The Imaginary Stage

TOOLSHED

TOOLSHED is the residency and research programme run by the Melly Art Institute, located on the second floor of the institute. The space serves as a dynamic venue for experimentation, reflection, discussion and action, where we explore the tools we use today to build, question and transform cultural institutions.

Residency

For its second edition, TOOLSHED welcomes artists Andrea Celeste La Forgia and Kerem Akar, whose joint residency focuses on the relationship between labour, social class, migration, and collective forms of learning and making. Working from distinct yet complementary practices, they approach art and performance as tools to question existing structures and to explore alternative ways of gathering, sharing knowledge, and imagining together.

Practices

During their TOOLSHED residency, Andrea Celeste La Forgia and Kerem Akar explore how artistic and pedagogical practices can function as tools for emancipation, solidarity, and institutional imagination. Through performance, collaboration, and research, they develop situations in which labour, knowledge, and creativity are collectively rethought and activated.

Performance

On Saturday 20 June, artists and theatre makers Andrea Celeste La Forgia and Kerem Akar invite you to the Public Performance: Dear Puppet, sorry to burden you with existence. PS. Please speak for me. at Kunstinstituut Melly. The performance marks the opening of Act III of their residency project TOOLSHED #2: The Imaginary Stage.