Past projects

2020

Take Dada Seriously! It’s Worth It?

A month-long digital project supported by Guest Projects. Through an online platform, series of digital salons, and special artist collaborations, this project explored ways of reclaiming avant-garde techniques that can recharge us politically today, whilst being mindful of its failures.

2018

Modernism: Making, Place and Protest

A month-long digital project supported by Guest Projects. Through an online platform, series of digital salons, and special artist collaborations, this project explored ways of reclaiming avant-garde techniques that can recharge us politically today, whilst being mindful of its failures.

2017

Exhibition: Modernism, Feminism and the Arts

An exhibition of contemporary artists who use private craft as public protest. Taking place at The Art Pavilion in Mile End, we took craft, decorative arts & design as a starting point as artists explored how dissident action has been woven into their artistic practices.

2015

Contemporary Zine

co-ordinated and edited the launch of a new zine with students of the MA in the Contemporary at the University of Kent, in association with the ICA. Writers, photographers, poets, essayists and artists came together to create a document that sought to answer the question: what is the contemporary?

The zine also included interviews with poet Patience Agbabi, and artists Molly Crabapple and Anne Sherwood-Pundyk.

2007–2015

Not So Popular

Not So Popular was founded in 2010 and grew into an arts collective and social enterprise that actively encouraged grassroots creativity with contributors based in London, New York, Beijing and Berlin. The collective ran a website, organised events, wrote content, and more, embracing NSP as a platform for creative growth. The project received an Unltd Award and funding for social enterprise.

2019

WEAVE IT!

To celebrate 100 years of Bauhaus, Decorating Dissidence brought together performance artists, visual artists, community groups and craft practitioners as a response to the women’s weaving workshop…

2018

They Become Ours

In this group show we paid attention to the ephemeral and the fleeting through the lens of intergenerational relationships.

2017

Conference: Modernism, Feminism and the Arts

In 2017, Decorating Dissidence hosted a two-day conference on the topics of modernism and contemporary craft.

2015–2016

PEAKS

A talk and exhibition series that brought together a regular program of themed events that drew together academics, artists and DJs under one roof. The events explored: the role of the body in photography (in collaboration with Nastasia Alberti), noise music (in collaboration with Hannah Evans and Ellie Green), creative placemaking, Balkan identities (in collaboration with Nataša Cordeaux), self care and DIY cultures (in collaboration with Celia Wickham).

2013

Let’s Start A Pussy Riot

Loud, controversial, fearless — Pussy Riot undoubtedly ushered in a new era of feminism and political freedom with their protest acts. The dialogue so explosively ignited by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich continues in the book Let’s Start A Pussy Riot. Exclusively created in collaboration with the group, this publication brings together artists, writers and poets as the book explores feminism, LGBTAQ* rights, the power of collaboration and the role art plays in activism. The book also addresses topics of women’s rights, freedom of speech and power of collaboration through the personal voices of Judy Chicago, Yoko Ono, Anohni, Kim Gordon, and many more.