Kathrin Böhm Building Companies

Kathrin Böhm is a founding member of Myvillages and Public Works, and will talk about her experience constructing public spaces through collaboration and co-production in this evening event.

Company: Movements, Deals and Drinks was set up by Myvillages in 2014 as an art project in the shape of a community enterprise, where art and business could meet and merge. Revisiting the history of east Londoners going ‘hop-picking’ to the nearby Kent countryside, Company Drinks offers a year-round public programme across the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (where the company is based), including picking trips, processing workshops, bottling and branding sessions, trading outlets, bars and social and cultural events. Hundreds of local residents are involved in this new version of ‘going picking’ and in its second year the company produced a range of 18 drink varieties – from cordials to green hop beer, sodas to saps and fizzy drinks to juice.

Kathrin is the lead artist on Company: Movements, Deals and Drinks which won the 2014 Create Art Award and registered as Company Drinks CIC in 2015.

Supported by the Goethe-Institut Glasgow.