CREATIVITY
COMMUNITY
COLLABORATION

Strange Companions: Bramble Lee Pryde & Steve Pi

Strange Companions is a collaborative residency by Bramble Lee Pryde and Steve Pi, working together as The Dooms. Expanding from Pryde’s long-term project The Existential Dreadlings, the residency brings sculpture, sound, text, participatory tools, and installation together to examine how people use objects, rituals, systems, and stories to live alongside uncertainty. Rather than offering resolution, the work considers companionship, attention, and what it means to remain present with experiences that cannot be neatly solved.

Throughout the residency, Pryde and Pi will transform the gallery into an evolving environment shaped through sculptural figures, constructed spaces, field recordings, composed sound, an artist deck, and its accompanying field guide. The sculptural, sound, and installation elements will develop in close response to one another, allowing the exhibition to change through experimentation, construction, and live use of the space.

The residency will also include two barrier-free public workshops: Create Your Own Dreadling and Create a Coping Altar; inviting participants to engage with the project through making. The gallery will operate simultaneously as an exhibition, active studio, sound environment, and site of ongoing collaboration.