We’re excited to announce two artist collectives in residence at SET Lombard Street across spring and summer 2025: Living The Good Life Collective and 水哨 Shuǐ Shào (If Splash as your Whistle).
🌀 Living The Good Life Collective
Residency period: 14th April – 8th June 2025
Living The Good Life Collective is a group of artists and creative facilitators who came together through a Huddlecraft journey (Oct ’23 – Nov ’24) focused on rest, leisure and play. From that initial peer learning experience, the collective has grown, welcoming new collaborators and forming expansive community constellations.
“The Living The Good Life Collective’s mission is to create and hold spaces in which artists, activists, facilitators and community organisers can (re)connect with their creative and playful selves; give and receive community care; and find support and inspiration for alternative ways of working and living together.
Spaces to experiment, explore and embody what it feels like to be in a community that challenges toxic work cultures, and looks towards generative and caring collectivity.
Taking an inclusive approach to developing what Living The Good Life looks like through: play, rest, just being, collaboration, care for one another, and being present.
We aim to grow collective creativity through participatory experiments and community weaving.”
During their residency at SET Lombard Street, the collective will host gatherings and workshops centred on joy, dreaming, creative exploration, and co-creation – forming immersive spaces for connection and care.
🧩Core Members:
Dionne Buckman & Benedicta Asamoah-Russell (@wearegoldensankofa)
Cath Colour Carver (@colourcarver)
Maria Dorthea Skov (@livingthegoodlifecollective)
Lucy Williams (@theslowworkgarden)
🌊 水哨 Shuǐ Shào (If Splash as your Whistle)
Residency period: 9th June – 31st July 2025
水哨 Shuǐ Shào (If Splash as your Whistle) is an artist project founded in 2023 by Xinyu XuXX and Yuqing Lin. Using moving image as a medium for sharing and connection, the project brings together the voices and narratives of queer/diasporic individuals – shaping a collective memoir for each participant.
Shuǐ Shào explores the intersection of sound, image and sensation – like sound waves travelling underwater or splashes breaking the surface. Rooted in spectral memory, feminist world-making and fragmented perception, their practice draws on found footage, material decay and embodied storytelling to reimagine “screening” as a space of remembrance and reinvention.
.🔗 Explore their work
🎞️ Queer East 2024 screening
📝 Reviews in OnlyChild Mag and Bittersweet