Join us for an open day for all ages on Saturday 2 March 2024, 12 - 4pm. Drop-in, free to attend, no booking required. 

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Challenging Behaviours is a new body of research, interactive artworks and environments by artist India Harvey that investigate the powerful potential of childhood, and what makes adults so afraid of younger generations. Challenging Behaviours situates child-led play as a parallel universe of resistance and survival, through which children express their fears, needs and desires. 

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India is an artist whose work is concerned with development and possibilities of intergenerational socio-sensory opportunities. Through this work India explores why and how people of all ages can be active contributors to society. Challenging Behaviours asks: what is it about children’s freedom and independence that destabilises adult perceptions of childhood? 

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Referencing a range of sources from pop culture to education theory, such as 1960s cult film Village of The Damned and D.W. Winnicott's Playing and Reality, this interactive exhibition explores what an intergenerational social space might feel like by inviting participants to play, question and experiment together. 

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An accompanying programme of events will be announced soon.

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WORKSHOPS & VISITS

We welcome you to contact Polly Wright (Curator, Devonshire Collective) if you would like to organise a group visit or workshop during the exhibition.
Email polly@devonshirecollective.co.uk.

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ACCESS

This exhibition includes coloured lights, uneven surfaces and tactile objects. Visitors are encouraged to interact with the installation but advised to take care. The exhibition is over two floors with a lift connecting the upper and the lower. Usage of this lift is restricted to visitors with mobility, visual/sensory and other impairments, and must only be used by one disabled person at at time. Please ask our staff if you require assistance in opening and closing the lift doors, we are happy to help. There is a gender neutral accessible bathroom on the lower floor.

Contact: Polly Wright (Curator), polly@devonshirecollective.co.uk or 07467460750