MayDay Rooms is a safe house for vulnerable archives and historical material linked to social movements, experimental culture, and marginalised figures and groups. A site for gathering, holding, and animating documents and idioms of dissent which continue to offer a critically productive and emancipatory relation to the turbulent present. It is geographically located in Central London, but linked in collaboration, inspiration and practice with an international gathering of common and concurrent initiatives.

Activities
MayDay Rooms is in formation, and consists of a series of interconnecting spaces and enquiries where the latencies of the past and the future can meet in dynamic exchange, where individual and collaborative archiving, singular cataloguing, indexing and distribution can bring out of the shadows those undeservedly ‘homeless’ histories. MayDay Rooms provide designated space for sifting and conserving, research, education, production, dreaming, scheming, reading, cooking, socialising.
In Exchange: 10th Floor. Skype exchange between BA students, staff and others working with the Central Saint Martin’s archive, in London and students/staff from the UdK, Universität der Künste, Berlin. Lethaby Gallery, February 2011.
Next Up:
TUBE-ARMCHAIR-TALK-DINNER. Studio 13. March 30, 2013
Round About Midnight Marx Memorial Library. January 28-30, 2013
Autonomy in Crisis School of Walls & Space, Copenhagen. January 23-25, 2013
The Anti-Tabloid Launch 88 Fleet Street. June 2, 2012
Neither Private Nor Public: Information in Common. January 2012
Thursday Room with James and ShinJoung. November 28, 2011
Thursday Room at Studio 13 Manifesto. November 10, 2011
Engaging History: Archives from Below May 2011
Proto MayDay Rooms 2009-2011:
The School of Walls and Space Royal Academy of the Visual Arts, Denmark 2010-
10th Floor CSM. Charing Cross Road. London. 2009-2011