About this Event
In this edition of Get A Room, artist and writer Jeffrey Choy invites you to a low-pressure social setting centered on the ups and downs of the creative process. This session specifically looks at the down cycles of creativity, the essential periods of absorbing others' arts, daydreaming, being playful and resting, activities that are often treated as "unproductive". This Get A Room is a curated space for collective rhythm with no expected outcome. Whether you are in a high-energy creative phase or a quiet burnout phase, you are welcome to bring your "unfinished business" into the room.
What to bring:
- (optional) Your Work: A laptop to write, a sketchbook to doodle, knitting, or a project you’ve been stuck on.
- (optional) Your Inspiration: A book you’re currently devouring, a handheld game you’re playing, or a clip/reel that’s haunting your thoughts
- (mandatory) Yourself: Just as you are, whether you’re feeling high-battery or low-power
WHEN: 14 May 5pm to 7pm
LOCATION: ROOTS & RISE @ Upper Mall, Queensgate Shopping Centre, Peterborough PE1 1NT
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About Jeffrey
Jeffrey Choy is an artist and writer investigating the mechanics of cultural production, with a focus on decolonial narrative, through his practices of writing, visual and spatial design, documentation, publication, and interactive media. His practice examines the designer as scribe for commercial culture, questioning how visual communication lends authoritative power to political and economic entities. Jeffrey works against this complicity, interrogating how propaganda and class disparity become naturalised within culture.
After a decade in visual communication and branding, and having trained and worked in the fields of interior design and architecture, Jeffrey’s creative trajectory shifted dramatically following the political upheaval in his hometown of Hong Kong. This rupture led him to rethink the role of media, language, and visual communication under conditions of state control. Across print, digital media, and physical spaces, he explores how narratives are shaped, censored, and reclaimed. His publications work as both artistic objects and platforms for critical discourse, often extending into participatory formats that treat play as a deliberate counter to late-capitalist crises and the ideology of infinite growth.
He is the co-founder and lead visual of Hidden Keileon CIC, an artist-led collective working with migrant and queer communities to imagine futures through non-hierarchical collaboration and multidisciplinary, life-affirming cultural projects. His artistic practice is shaped by collective authorship, radical friendships, and a politics of publishing grounded in the commons, designing as a shared practice of survival and reimagination, open to the curious and the critical alike.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Queensgate Shopping Centre, Long Causeway, Peterborough, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
