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nether states
by james chantry , jacqui gallon, nathalie chabaud5-21.06
13.06 / 6-9pm - exhibition gathering
14.06 / 12-1:30pm - workshop: assemblage and materiality
14.06 / 2:30-4pm - workshop: queer ecology amulets
This co-created exhibition by James Chantry, Jacqui Gallon and Nathalie Chabaud consists of site-specific installations and performances that conjure the local and geographical significance of the East Midlands. The work was made in response to and on the site of the lost village of Nether Hambleton that was revealed on the dusty lakebed of Rutland Water. The village emerged like an apparition in the 2025 drought, haunting the technological sublime of Europe’s largest man-made lake. The exhibition seeks to echo climate grief with care work and illuminate fractures of personal grief and illness as the artists echoed the earth’s unforgetting. Mining the rural weird through ceremonies and the production of objects that draw on folklore, the supernatural, queer and feminist methodologies and kinship. Their exhibition ties together death and dying work with care work and animates the often-unseen labour of death and loss, as Nathalie Chabaud was terminally ill with cancer. Here artists, friends, kin and ecological subjects held hands with the earth and the ghosts of futures not yet made.
james chantry - jacqui gallon - nathalie chabaud
rūma panui totoro
a reaching reading room
by kaiya waerea26.06 - 12.07
PV: 25.06 / 6-9pm, bring something to share!
12.07 / 1-3pm - group study session
Rūma panui totoro is a reading room of Māori feminist and takatāpui publishing which takes the form of a koro:
the bud of a fern unravelling.
For this first edition, Rūma panui totoro unfurls around two key periodicals on loan from the nearby Feminist Library Peckham: Bitches, Witches & Dykes: a women’s liberation newspaper (1980–82) and Broadsheet: New Zealand’s Feminist Magazine (1971-1998). Building outward contextually, thematically and graphically, Rūma panui totoro uncovers roaming readings of this period of Māori feminist lesbian organising as it vibrates across time and space.
Alongside the reading room, a free publication will be available including new texts by Hana Pera Aoake & Dr Sorcha Thompson, exploring the role print publishing plays in indigenous sovereignty and solidarity movements from Aotearoa to Palestine.