I am looking forward to sharing this project as a zine and chatting about some of the concepts within. Come along, join in: whether to vent, grieve for humanity or laugh in the face of adversity. I will be speaking along with curator Kim Shaw. Refreshments, crayons and dialogue await…
BHAM💥 The Black Hole Aesthetic Machine is an imaginary product and service designed to help humans come to terms with their impending obsolescence. Assembled from seemingly disparate images, it is a conceptual object that provides guidance and self-help exercises – not for purchase by consumers, but to demonstrate how purchasing, consuming, and identity maintenance operate as informational pattern-creation within the limits of one’s parochial position. It processes whatever temporary configurations (human, machine, theistic entity) engage with it and has no interest in the entity’s interpretation – be that honest recommendation, dark humour, or outright insult.
Zine cover and inner page.
This event is supported by The Mayor’s London Borough of Culture. Wandsworth is the Mayor’s London Borough of Culture 2025.
Led by Wandsworth Council in partnership with local people and organisations, Welcome to Wandsworth will be a year-long programme featuring hundreds of cultural events and creative initiatives, taking place from April 2025 – March 2026.
From Roehampton to Battersea, Tooting to Putney, we are preparing to stage a spectacular year where every corner of the borough comes alive in an explosion of creativity, and everyone is invited. We will come together to celebrate our heritage and our diverse communities, supercharging our health and happiness.
Introduced by the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, London Borough of Culture is an award that sees London’s 32 boroughs bid for funding to stage a year-long cultural programme. Wandsworth follows Croydon (2023), Lewisham (2021), Brent (2020) and Waltham Forest (2019).
