TOOLSHED

TOOLSHED is a new residency and research initiative dedicated to exploring the tools we use to build, question, and transform cultural institutions today.

TOOLSHED invites artists, cultural practitioners, researchers, and collectives to reflect on and challenge conventional institutional frameworks, while exploring interdisciplinary practices that expand the potential of art spaces to engage meaningfully with their surroundings.

For its pilot edition, TOOLSHED launches with Listening at Pungwe, the collective duo comprising artist and historian Memory Biwa and music and sound researcher Robert Machiri. Listening at Pungwe works with historical and contemporary sound collections and archives to create spaces where people can hear, feel, and activate new knowledge systems that challenge dominant ways of interacting with the world. Their residency foregrounds listening as a mode of inquiry, resistance, and reimagination.