Brent Biennial 2025
Titled “Bones, stones, and calling the four elements”, the 2025 Brent Biennial unfolded over four ‘rituals’ WATER, EARTH, FIRE and AIR between 22 June - 24 October, bringing together artists and community organisers.
Curated and developed by Annie Jael Kwan, the biennial programme seeks to invoke a communal spirit of gathering and imagining. It will reflect on how as communities, we gather and create - and engage with the question: what kind of world would we like to re-make?
Taking place across four sites - a public reservoir, a park, an old medical facility and a university campus, in the north and south of the borough— Harrow, Wembley and Kilburn— the ‘rituals’ will feature artists presenting workshops, talks, performance and exhibition.
Our participation in the Brent Biennial 2025
Listening Trees: Sound Ecologies
Our workshop Listening Trees: Sound Ecologies explored embodied and collective knowledge through audible and non-verbal communication. Participants collaborated with Paul Stewart and Sarah Perks on field recordings to create an audio and visual response to their film in the exhibition, exploring rhythm, sound and natural life in Barham Park. The participants made a short film together that we screened in the space.
We also showed our 16m short film Forms of Circulation #1 (National Horizons Centre in the exhibition at ACAVA
Artists' Talk: Curator Annie Jael Kwan was in conversation with us, Akira Takaishi and Nick Murray as part of the Biennial.