Collective Intimacy is an live programme of events in collaboration with The Showroom, Prada, The Vinyl Factory, The Store X, and Theaster Gates.

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Inspired by Theaster Gates’s ethos of collaboration and The Showroom’s commitment to togetherness and communal knowledge, Collective Intimacy created a new space for people to gather, listen, converse, and contemplate amongst a fusion of art, design, music, and everyday life. This project took on multiple trans-located narratives of the current Black experience as a point of departure for a cosmopolitan worldview. It hosted over 60 interdisciplinary interventions by artists, musicians, designers, writers, thinkers, collectives and members of the public, who are all invited to distort notions of selfhood and togetherness in the spirit of creating a global community. Collective Intimacy took place between The Showroom and 180 The Strand, the host of artist Theaster Gates's Black Image Corporation installation exploring the cultural representation of contemporary Black identity and material culture through collaborating space.