Brent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual – From Flat to Phat workshop

About the event

Take a moment to explore what happens to light, ephemeral materials when air becomes the main actant. Ask questions of materials: How large can they go - how small and light could they be - can they float can they fly can they hold heavy objects? If lines are drawn on the flat materials what happens to lines when they become air filled objects. Can these potential objects be ‘performed’ to fill them with air?

About the organisers

University of Westminster’s innovative Fine Art Mixed Media BA gives students the opportunity to explore and develop work across boundaries, within the ever-expanding contemporary fine art disciplines.

Brent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual

Each breath is a new possibility of life. Inhalation and exhalation as cycles of existence. Air is also the catalytic substance of ignition; it represents the power of utterance; declaration, song, whistles, chants, spells, of mobilising ideas and knowledge, people and animals. The intangible, invisible force that creates changes in culture, education, legal systems, religion and ideologies.

AIR Ritual forms part of the programme for Brent Biennial 2025. Titled “Bones, stones, and calling the four elements”, it seeks to invoke a communal spirit of gathering and imagining. Between June to October 2025 four ‘rituals’, WATER (22 June), EARTH (24 July - 1 August) FIRE (26 September - 12 October) and AIR (17 -24 October) will unfold at four Brent sites – a public reservoir, a park, an old medical facility and a university campus. Located in the north and south of the borough — Harrow, Wembley and Kilburn — the ‘rituals’ will feature artists presenting workshops, talks, performance and exhibition.

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