An Evening with JA Projects and Friends
Royal Academy of Arts
Date: 2024
Storytelling and the city: exploring the intersection between architecture, objects, people and place.
Recorded highlights of ‘An Evening with JA Projects and Friends’ at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Photos: Eric Aydin-Barberini
Filmed on Thursday 21st March, the evening unshackled the definition of architecture from physical buildings, to also encompass the things we can’t touch – the stories that are so critical to ways in which we collectively gather, cooperate and build.
Each of the evening’s three chapters used objects as a gateway to discuss themes relating to the concept of land which, like the construction of architecture, is both spatial and temporal.
Shaped by our perceptions of space and time, ‘land’ like the architecture we inhabit, takes on a pliable and elastic definition that is personal to each of us. Space can be as small as the confines of one’s room or as big as the city around us. Time can be as short as the moment it takes to read this summary or as long as the history of the Royal Academy.
Images of ‘An Evening with JA Projects and Friends’ at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Photos: Eric Aydin-Barberini
The Event programme outlined below consisted of poems, lectures, conversations, films, readings and performances delivered by an incredibly generous and talented cast inviting the audience to explore their relationship with land and architecture, and their agency in shaping it.
A reader accompanied the event and edited highlights from the evening are captured in the recording.
Event Programme
Introductory Performance by Yomi Sode
Opening Statement by Jayden Ali
Chapter 01: Stick
A conversation between Alvaro Barrington and Jayden Ali on culture
Chapter 02: Menu
A presentation by Divya Patel (JA Projects) followed by screenings of works by Rahemur Rahman Reading Shared by Brian Yue (JA Projects)
Chapter 03: Burr
A presentation by Abby Bird (JA Projects) followed by 'In Which We Return to the Subject of Aliens' by Thandi Loewenson with Rosa-Johan Uddoh [An extract from Ye Olde Performance: An Audience with the Horrid Sisters ]
Closing Performance By Yomi Sode
Images of ‘An Evening with JA Projects and Friends’ at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Photos: Eric Aydin-Barberini
Core Team
JA Projects
Special Guests
Yomi Sode, Alvaro Barrington, Rahemur Rahman, Thandi Loewenson and Rosa-Johan Uddoh
Particulars
Client: Royal Academy of Arts