The Showroom activates its Collective Intimacy live programme platform in a special digital archive format for Season One of theVOV - a new virtual arts ecosystem combining cutting edge XR technology with pioneering micro-philanthropy.

Project Archive

theVOV hosts the UK’s leading arts organisations to revive some of their most celebrated exhibitions of the recent past. For Season One: Revive the Archive The Showroom presents Collective Intimacy: Reviving a Live Platform. This project, originally in collaboration with Prada and The Vinyl Factory, was hosted by The Showroom and The Store X in October – November 2019, launching within the Black Image Corporation installation by Theaster Gates and took us on a journey through multiple narratives of the current Black experience, offering futuristic imaginaries as jumping off points for a collaboration. In reflection of how the anti-racist movement and COVID-19 pandemic have further exposed pre-existing struggles for communities and culture-makers, it is The Showroom’s hope that this new digital context of Collective Intimacy expands its reach as a platform to connect and amplify a myriad of voices.

This new digital format includes an immersive virtual archive of artists including: Nephertiti Oboshie Schandorf with Blaize Henry;Phoebe Boswell with Bumi Thomas; Julianknxx with Thabo and Tawiah; Andrew Pierre Hart; Larry Amponsah; and Thick/er Black Lines’ (Rianna Jade Parker & Aurella Yussuf) with Cecile Emeke and Emily Mulenga.