Artist-Led Tour: While We Slumber with Kitt
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Kitt will lead a tour around the exhibition, providing insight into their creative process and the ideas behind their work.
Kitt will lead a tour around the exhibition, providing insight into their creative process and the ideas behind their work. This tour will be followed by an informal Q&A session with both Kitt and ‘a space’ arts curator & programme manager, Mia Delve, offering a deeper look into the commissioning process.About the Exhibition
While We Slumber by Kitt (A.K.A. Lady Kitt) is an exhibition commissioned by ‘a space’ arts for God’s House Tower.The exhibition begins with a simple question: what do we really share when we sleep in close proximity? Drawing on the familiar rituals of sleepovers – midnight feasts, whispered conversations, star-gazing, makeshift forts and sleeping bag stair toboggans – Kitt explores how social sleeping can deepen emotional connection and reshape our understanding of care, intimacy and belonging.Central to Kitt’s research is the idea of ‘emotional heritage’: the way feelings accumulate within buildings, and how they are shaped, shared, and passed on through the communities who inhabit them. At God’s House Tower, this inheritance is layered and complex. Through archival and site-based research, Kitt traces a history of communal slumber within the building – from incarceration in the 1700s and 1800s, to more recent events such as artist residencies and a 24 hour ukulele jam.While We Slumber invites audiences to consider (and experience) how social sleeping might alter our relationship to shared spaces and to one another. Through this lens, the exhibition becomes a reflective, sensory exploration of how buildings remember, and how those memories are shaped and reshaped through collective acts of being together in vulnerability and rest.About Kitt
Disabled sculptor Kitt (A.K.A. ‘Lady Kitt’) does ‘Mess Making As Social Glue’, driven by insatiable curiosity about the social functions of art. Kitt’s work is shaped by a semi-nomadic childhood (which included not receiving formal education until age 14). They work on long term, collaborative endeavours aiming to create situations where sculptures offer solutions, solace, connections and mischief.
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