Studio Sundown: What's your claim to fame?
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ReachOutRCA Studio Sundown: What's your claim to fame?
ReachOutRCA Studio Sundown: What's your claim to fame?
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ReachOutRCA Studio Sundown: What's your claim to fame?
ReachOutRCA Studio Sundown: What's your claim to fame?
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ReachOutRCA Studio Sundown: What's your claim to fame?
ReachOutRCA Studio Sundown: What's your claim to fame?
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ReachOutRCA Studio Sundown: What's your claim to fame?
ReachOutRCA Studio Sundown: What's your claim to fame?
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ReachOutRCA Studio Sundown: What's your claim to fame?
ReachOutRCA Studio Sundown: What's your claim to fame?
Studio Sundown is a new strand of our programme, a series of short, informal workshops that are open to the whole RCA community (staff, students and graduates) as well as young people from schools and colleges across London. The purpose is to provide further opportunities for RCA students to develop and lead workshops based around their practice, and create contexts in which people at different stages of their creative education can meet, share ideas and work together.
Students were invited to propose a workshop based around a question within their practice. It didn’t need to encapsulate everything their work is about – it just had to be something they were thinking about currently, and would like to actively explore with others. Their question might tackle a big, philosophical theme; it might be about a particular material; it might test a new process; it might explore an idea that they were finding frustrating or exciting or new. Studio Sundown offered playful and experimental environment in which to explore that question by making, doing, collaborating and discussing.
Tenaya Steed’s work focuses on true stories about everyday people, and what these personal stories say about society as a whole. It is really important to her that her work is accessible and inclusive of a diverse range of people. Tenaya’s Studio Sundown workshop examined ‘claims to fame’ as something that unites us, something we can all relate to. If we don’t have a story, we know someone else who does. The session was an opportunity to collect these stories and celebrate them, uniting a group with humour and seeing each other in a new light. The session involved discussions about claims to fame, and creating objects and costumes that turned these small victories into something prestigious.Â