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Here is a link to House of Women, which features the alphabet in my poster. This film is a revisionist (fictional activist) take on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1947 film classic Black Narcissus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Narcissus)
House of Women (2017)

link: https://vimeo.com/208965923

password: HOW_Private_link

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Under the stairs is always a fun place to play

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a building made of individual pods randomly opened to the public one at a time

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this is a venue for a show I'm working called Debatable Land(s)

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... from the V&A MoC backlog un-accessioned collections (000s of items) that we rehoused

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20210415 MoC rocking horse from backlog (2)

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Rocking horses at the old V&A Museum of Childhood

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Guerilla Girls Cover from 1992

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Moved around a lot. Names we've chosen or been given. Translation for different settings.

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I would like to introduce myself through this book. I am Dyslexic and this was the first book I read by myself at the age 13. It is not the most interesting story or the best written, but it is important to me. This book is also a reminder that sometimes important objects aren't necessarily "high brow"

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I would like to introduce myself through this book. I am Dyslexic and this was the first book I read by myself at the age 13. It is not the most interesting story or the best written, but it is important to me. This book is also a reminder that sometimes important objects aren't necessarily "high brow"

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Last names relating to location

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There’s not 1 particular hammock but several of them, and the hammock in general as a meaningful object to me. The hammock tells me stories of who I am, both from the personal and cultural memory. I have countless memories of mainly love and play in hammocks. Games played with my siblings, loving time spent with my grandma. The hammock is also a symbol of my cultural heritage, of the Caribbean, of colonisation. And my fixation with hammocks also comes from my formation as an industrial designer, it is one of the oldest furnishing pieces we have and I insist its beautifully practical and brilliant.

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jar of marbles - collected from lots of different people. not representative, open for imaginative play.

collection of 1990s Women's Art magazines from Goldsmiths Women's Library. "Make Love your Body Politics." New hobby centering feminist practice.

Dress - horribly gendered but could be the outfit of a private detective. see-through object.

Puppet - How does any object want to be brought to life?

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Milquetoast examples from Bedwyr Williams

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Milquetoast examples from Bedwyr Williams

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Bedwyr Williams's latest exhibtion Milquetoast proposes different architectural structures for cultural museums...

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Bedwyr Williams's latest exhibtion Milquetoast proposes different architectural structures for cultural museums...

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Julia Kouneski and I scaled the 22nd floor of Oscar Niemeyer's Edificio COPAN in 2009.

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Julia Kouneski and I scaled the 22nd floor of Oscar Niemeyer's Edificio COPAN in 2009.

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Some of the works I make considers my relationship to architecture and space.

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Dandelion clock... something delicate, which thinks about precarity...

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Dandelion clock... something delicate, which thinks about precarity...

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My object is seeds. Plant knowledge passed down through my family of farmers. Seed sharing with artists, activists, and growers. Collective resources of sustenance. Mutual care-taking. Tradition and experimentation. Cross-border exchange. Movement of thought.

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is an independent curator, writer, and editor based in Toronto. She is interested in processes of history-making and building connections between local and international communities to foster networks of exchange and solidarity.

Inspired by the game and artwork "Unsetting Settlers" by artist Golboo Amani, here is an image representing her movement between places and the land she lives on using pieces from the game Settlers of Catan.

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Tentacular possibilities, a building with plurality and tangential thinking at it's heart.

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Tentacular possibilities, a building with plurality and tangential thinking at it's heart.

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An hourglass... a building that questions time and centres urgency at its core...

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An hourglass... a building that questions time and centres urgency at its core...

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Get lost in this rock labyrinth, fusing art and nature, different formations for different artists, themes or activity?

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Get lost in this rock labyrinth, fusing art and nature, different formations for different artists, themes or activity?

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Mulu National Park, Malaysia

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A bubble pod made to resemble juicy, succulent grapes for a space of decadent joy and pleasure...

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A bubble pod made to resemble juicy, succulent grapes for a space of decadent joy and pleasure...

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An inviting orifice to house incredible works of art...

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The Hydra - A multi-headed building, which could offer themed rooms, one per head...

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The Hydra - A multi-headed building, which could offer themed rooms, one per head...

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Some possibilities/propositions for buildings

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Was a surprise gift to me from a dear friend on her return from a ceramics course in Japan. I chose it as it as it encapsulates the excitement and surprises of playing with new materials and techniques. I had secretly admired the growing collection of boulders in her home and was delighted when she modestly asked if I'd like to choose one.

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This name came from a fusion of the meanings of our names meaning: very happy, light, radiant, bright, much loved and fertilised

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This is me and my students. They will turn 50 in a couple of years.

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Voting instructions in 1967 Vietnam

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(a photo taken from Santorama Mini Land, Johannesburg, South africa

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See comments under pics for what was shared about each object.

We noted as a group that our objects all connected to 'histories' - real, known, fictional and imagined. We queried where imagined histories had also taken on a sense of being 'real' and the narratives that were associated.

These histories all had a personal element / context, even when representing a political or other moment in time.

We began to touch on how politics, in some form, was present in relation to these objects.

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1. why have you selected this object?
2. If this object has been with you for a long time, can you share its history with us?

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Please add a post with your group name and some notes from your breakout room discussion

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Time and Space Travel

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I wanted to introduce myself through this 1 minute sculpture inspired by Erwim Wurm whose body of work is clear, simple and echoes the language of comic strips

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Steven Appleby’s comic strip Loomis for the Guardian newspaper emotionally connects to me as it represents a real event in our lives that Steven put in the paper. It connects to my current practice being a private moment that became public. Steven gifted me the original artwork as a peace offering for my partner.  My partner was a photographer then and didn’t cook, we lived apart, but I had keys. For safekeeping he stored his Macbook Pro at the top of the oven. I cooked a surprise dinner and having failed to remove the computer from the oven, successfully cooked his entire life’s work. It wasn’t backed up! In anguish I spent the night researching and found the guys who retrieved the hard-disc of the Apollo space shuttle’s computer when it caught fire. Miraculously they were 30mins down the road and managed to retrieve his life’s work. I reunited him with his work, along with this artwork and newspaper clipping. Over ten years on, this hangs proudly in our hallway.

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Very early Christian fish from Constantinople (modern day Istanbul). As Christians were persecuted and could not wear a cross, they wore a fish, which also symbolised Christ IXΘΥΣ. After my parents passed away, I started wearing the fish as a pendant (believing that it was made to be worn rather as an ornament at home) and it has been especially useful, when travelling to some Islamic countries, where it is currently dangerous to wear a cross in public.

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this gnome is by Eley Kishimoto, a design studio I interned at close to 20 years ago! It brings me back to that time, and the gnome reminds me of my time as an intern there!

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I chose this house for a number of reasons: 1. As a toddler I used to draw a house in my drawings (a usual repetitive motif in young children's drawings). I feel quite familiar with the image of a house. 2. I strongly believe that a warm and comfy house gives us the resilience needed to be our authentic self in the outside world. 3. Apart from its literal meaning, home is where the heart is. When I feel stuck, lost or overwhelmed, I try to listen to and understand where my heart is. 4. It's a present from a very good friend!

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I’ve chosen this old punk band t-shirt of mine. This old t-shirt represents so much of me, while also reminding me to embrace and own everything that comprises my personality. Punk rock has been an important aspect of my life since I was a teenager, and I still try to incorporate punk ideals into my life and my work. It plays an important part in my perspective and curatorial practice, like being bold, playful, and critically pushing boundaries and taking risks. The character on the front of this t-shirt represents the lead singer of the band, Milo, who is a molecular biochemist, while at the same time punk rocker. This has always meant so much to me because Milo represented a person that I could relate to: an academic, nerd punk rocker. He always made me feel like it was ok to be a nerd and also love punk rock and be a little rebellious. So, this t-shirt truly does represent so many layers of who I am, but also reminds me to maintain my punk rock outlook and find ways to creatively incorporate it into my life and my curatorial practice.

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I'm not much of an 'object-person', so this task was quite difficult for me. After a few days I remembered this, which believe it or not is an old cast for making small almond biscuits. It was on the floor of an old building that was a bakery during the 16th century. I don't know if it's that old, but I also love the fact that it looks sort of like a fossil.

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Playing with alphabets (scriptwriting as a form of fictional activism)

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Playing with alphabets (scriptwriting as a form of fictional activism)

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This is a poster titled Kanchi's Alphabet [Krishna Istha] (2020) made for the actor who stars in my film House of Women (2017)

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Share a project that represents an intervention with space:        Scaling COPAN (2009)

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Share a project that represents an intervention with space:        Scaling COPAN (2009)

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This is a collaborative project with Julia Kouneski, produced in 2009 in São Paulo, Brazil, which involved scaling the ledge of the 22nd floor or Oscar Niemeyer's Edificio COPAN. This was an extension of our research into Brazilian artist Lygia Clark's multi sensorial work.
link: http://vimeo.com/kouneski/scalingcopan

password: kouneski

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Choose an object that you emotionally connect to...

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Choose an object that you emotionally connect to...

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I have chosen this 1960s Disney item of memorabilia of Mowgli, from The Jungle Book (1967). This is part of my wider fascination with what I call "brown protagonists", the imaging and centring of individuals of colour on screen. Brownness, or lack of it in film and TV representation remains a space for me to explore in my work - to think about marginalisation and the politics of representation.
I think I have always identified with this cartoonish representation of a South-Asian boy, whilst also acknowledging the limits of this problematic Disney representation.

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Michelle Williams Gamaker is a human with multiple roles (probably in this order...!)

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Michelle Williams Gamaker is a human with multiple roles (probably in this order...!)

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1. Artist/Filmmaker
2. Mother to Julia (9) and Wren (17 months) (interchangeable with no.1)
3.Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Goldsmiths University
4. Culture Worker (Arts activism, working for structural reform in the Arts: https://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/article/we-need-collectivity-against-structural-and-institutional-racism-cultural-sector)
5.Museum and Galleries Educator (Tate etc.)
6. Performer
7. Global and Diasporic citizen
8. Daydream + Fictional Activist