The Showroom is delighted to present re-projecting (london), a major new commission by Brazilian artist Ricardo Basbaum, and the first significant presentation of his internationally-renowned artwork in the UK.

During the month of July, Ricardo Basbaum will be based at The Showroom collaborating on a programme of nine new projects. Each project will connect to one of nine locations that have been determined through the application of an abstract shape onto the map of the area. The shape, which Basbaum calls NBP (New Basis for Personality), has formed the basis of numerous works in diverse formats since the early 1990s, providing a situation that others are invited to take over and shape.

Contributors to re-projecting (london) include seven artists, an anthropologist, an opera singer, a mathematician, a choreographer, and a wide range of individuals and groups from the Church Street neighbourhood.

Basbaum's NBP shape creates a framework for individuals and groups to connect — including a women's refuge, a women's finance network, a homeless day centre, a domestic workers' union, a youth club, an LGBT centre, a youth theatre group, an older people's centre and a Further Education college — and for thoughts, experiences and ideas to circulate. Wooden objects derived from the angles of the NBP shape will be distributed to generate different public and private uses and to be passed between participants.

The nine projects will be presented in The Showroom's gallery, which will also function as an "open working room" for collaborators, participants and public to meet, discuss and work together. A programme of public events, performances, screenings and conversations will run throughout the month.

re-projecting (london) has been commissioned in the framework of The Showroom's influential programme of local activity titled Communal Knowledge. Through this, long-term relationships have been forged between local residents, organisations and artists since 2009. "Although each pf the nine actions can be taken as a singular activity, with its own proponents and audience, re-projecting (london) is also a collective and group occurrence. Its gestures negotiate the protocols of contemporary experience and art practice, as a line of flight for producing meaning." Ricardo Basbaum, 2013

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