the blue house online
part radio programme, part slideshow, part showreel, part temporary audio-visual installation for your device.
with: Chanthila Charlie Valentine / No Home chris kirubi / dove Daniel Baker-Wells Ed Shipsey Jordan Muscatello Nat Raha petals Rhoda Adum Boateng Shenece Oretha Simon Pomery Tobi Adebajo
with thanks to: Jett Stone, Buki Bayode, Lauren Syratt, Kiera Coward-Deyell, Andi Amirshah, Keilah Boyd, Kat King Buchanan, Ryan MacMahon, Georgia Goldsmith, all the staff at Sutton House & Breaker's Yard, Peabody Housing Association and peer staff at Peabody.
albums recorded at the blue house: alaloota (Tobi Adebajo & petals, mixed by Simon Pomery)
dog's paw (petals, Ed Shipsey, Jordan Muscatelo, mixed by Simon Pomery)
tarry (petals piano solos)
The first Blue House event took place at sutton house & breaker’s yard in june 2023. built in 1535, it has been a private home, a church institute, a school & the offices of a trade union.in the 1980’s sutton house was squatted, known as the blue house, it was a social space for queer and alternative communities, a music venue and education space, frequented by derek jarman, punk bands, and hackney locals
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THE BLUE HOUSE desires to encounter or conjure a future where institutional structures might have collapsed, and envision how we might try to live and play together in the absence, or failures of those structures
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the blue house is curated by daniel baker-wells and chris kirubi / dove; it is Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
image / content credits:
embedded track- petals (from album recorded at the blue house / sutton house)
embedded videos- (like a religion / monkey brain)- Charlie Valentine / No Home & Chantila
research images (house interiors)- daniel baker-wells
research images (broth making)- rhoda adum boateng
documentation of blue house event set-up (chairs with piano / glass bowls on wooden table)- daniel baker-wells
website design- daniel baker-wells & chris kirubi / dove