Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Gentle/Radical was established in 2017 as a collaborative cultural project based in Cardiff’s Riverside neighbourhood. It comprises community activists, conflict resolution trainers, faith ministers, equalities practitioners, youth workers, land workers, writers and artists. They organise community film screenings, grassroots symposia, performative works, talks and gatherings that bring people together. Their aim to rethink how we live with each other in more equitable ways.
In this exhibition they explore how networks of care and comradeship – often overlooked in working cultures that privilege outputs and results – enable us to face the turbulent present, whilst imagining other futures.
A series of filmed works share slices of their ongoing conversations exploring personal and collective agency in the face of external forces: How do we raise children beyond the nuclear family? How do we hold spaces for grief and loss amidst constant demands to remain productive? How do the multiplicities of diaspora show up amongst us?
A second work shows them coming together to sing Welsh Gorsedd bardic prayers, written in the 18th century as a reimagining of a Welsh culture lost to colonialism. Gentle/Radical are less interested in the polished outcomes of performance than in the act of learning together, giving collective voice to a spiritual knowledge grounded in the pursuit of justice.
Finally, a third element of the presentation takes the form of notes from an emergent curriculum comprising their ideas and those of others. Exploratory, messy and evolving, these offer points of departure into different ways of working and living.
Turner Prize 2021 ▶ theherbert.org/whats_on/1560/turner_prize_2021
#TurnerPrize2021 #TurnerPrize
Gentle/Radical was established in 2017 as a collaborative cultural project based in Cardiff’s Riverside neighbourhood. It comprises community activists, conflict resolution trainers, faith ministers, equalities practitioners, youth workers, land workers, writers and artists. They organise community film screenings, grassroots symposia, performative works, talks and gatherings that bring people together. Their aim to rethink how we live with each other in more equitable ways.
In this exhibition they explore how networks of care and comradeship – often overlooked in working cultures that privilege outputs and results – enable us to face the turbulent present, whilst imagining other futures.
A series of filmed works share slices of their ongoing conversations exploring personal and collective agency in the face of external forces: How do we raise children beyond the nuclear family? How do we hold spaces for grief and loss amidst constant demands to remain productive? How do the multiplicities of diaspora show up amongst us?
A second work shows them coming together to sing Welsh Gorsedd bardic prayers, written in the 18th century as a reimagining of a Welsh culture lost to colonialism. Gentle/Radical are less interested in the polished outcomes of performance than in the act of learning together, giving collective voice to a spiritual knowledge grounded in the pursuit of justice.
Finally, a third element of the presentation takes the form of notes from an emergent curriculum comprising their ideas and those of others. Exploratory, messy and evolving, these offer points of departure into different ways of working and living.
Turner Prize 2021 ▶ theherbert.org/whats_on/1560/turner_prize_2021
#TurnerPrize2021 #TurnerPrize
