Vanbrugh Paradise Corner
This week: the mysterious “Bonding Warehouse Collective”
The Bonding Warehouse Collective formed to meet the need for a non-commercial community space in the centre of York, which is dominated by the pursuit of profit.
In our marketised public spaces, buying and selling have become substitutes for more human interactions. In this environment it is only by examining and re-inventing what we call ‘our world’ that we make it ours.
The Bonding Warehouse Social Centre was established to reclaim a corner of our city - to open it up for the possibility of creative and non-regulated social interaction. It provided a free space for conversation, music and art.
The BWC consisted of everyone who was involved in the social centre; thus it numbered in the hundreds. We transformed this abandoned building into a vibrant community space. We acted on no-ones behalf but our own. We did it because we wanted to, because we could, and because it was fun. We invite you all to try for yourselves.
Every commercial space is a stolen social space.
The Bonding Warehouse Collective
