Andrew Pierre Hart: The Listening Sweet

Join us at Chelsea College of Arts for The Listening Sweet, an evening of sound, collaboration and coming together as part of the public programme for If you like rice, you’ll understand – Collective Noise; a new cross-site project by artist Andrew Pierre Hart and collaboration between iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and Chelsea Space.

During The Listening Sweet, an invited group of artists, writers and cultural practitioners will contribute with live responses to the themes of Andrew’s work, translating this through their own practice, thinking or experience and resulting in a joyful, meditative listening session for all to be welcomed and part of.

Encouraging another way of encountering the project, which is formed of both a cross-site exhibition and publication alongside the programme - iniva and Chelsea Space invite audiences to be curious, generous, and to assume the unexpected.

If you like rice,you’llunderstand – Collective Noise is a new project by Andrew Pierre Hart that draws on Stuart Hall's cultural studies and pedagogical legacy to explore sound as a form of learning and cultural exchange. Bringing together painting, photography, moving image, text and sound, the project considers how knowledge travels through everyday practices, informal gatherings, and sonic experiences.

Developed through personal travel, artistic research, and ongoing engagement with the Stuart Hall Library, Andrew will examine the relationship between sound and diasporic experiences, inviting audiences to reflect on how cultural knowledge is produced and shared across communities.

Using iniva and Chelsea Space as catalysts for experimentation and reflection, Andrew will consider how different ways of coming together might be imagined and experienced.

PARTICIPANTS

Grace Blenkinsop is a Black British writer and researcher based in London. Primarily writing creative non-fiction, her work aims to subvert systemic whiteness and critically interrogate the legacies of colonialism entangled throughout Britain. Her work has been published in Art Plugged, shado mag and Red Pepper, among other publications. She is also an editor at the literary and arts magazine, Parentheses Review.

Rohan Ayinde (he/they) is an anadisciplinary artist and poet based between London and Chicago. Through an entanglement with the phenomenon of the black hole, Ayinde’s practice attempts to excavate an architecture of ideology through the analytical framework of black feminist thought. Investigating how the politics of place intersects with the conceptual, their poems, drawings, videos, installations and performance work are translations and sketches of landscapes built from a freedom best imagined by writers like Octavia Butler, Ursula Le Guin, Lola Olufemi and Edouard Glissant.

Sepake Angiama's writing practice stems from thinking with others - artists, curators, dancers, architects, musicians and writers. Curious about the magic of creative production and transferal she thinks with artists and writers of speculation and critical fabulation stretching our imagination for a here after.

Tic (4) is a music nerd, musician and A&R. As a creator, he’s best known for songwriting & production with FKA twigs & Nautic. As a music industry creative, his discoveries include Adele, Sampha, Laura Groves & 1000 Rabbits. As a music nerd, DJ & collector he has traced a path from his teens at Plastic People to the initial Boiler Room sessions in his late 20s, gravitating to Ormside Projects in his 30s. Since 2017, Tic and Andrew Pierre Hart have collaborated on shows, recordings & durational works at Chelsea College of Arts, Royal Art College and Beaconsfield gallery.

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Please note, photo and video recording will be taking place at this event.

If you have any access needs or questions, please email publicprogramme@arts.ac.uk

Exhibition runs 2 October – 11 December 2026, Tuesday - Friday, and the first Saturday of every month (3 October, 7 November, and 5 December), from 10am - 5pm.