In residence at A4 from 4–18 February, the P_ssy Party Academy offered learning sessions and workshops to five aspiring DJs in our Reading Room. Their residency culminated in a celebration upstairs at A4 – which coincided with the Investec Cape Town Art Fair's Gallery Night – and featured P_ssy Party co-founders Phatstoki and Rosie Parade on the decks, alongside the academy's participants and P_ssy Party Academy alumnus JADEGOTTAGETPAID. In addition to their live performances, participants collaborated on a zine titled ASSK FIRST.

P_ssy Party is a Johannesburg-based incubator for women and queer DJs. Through its events and DJ workshops, P_ssy Party is making South African club culture a safer, more diverse space.

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A4's Reading Room is an adaptable space attached to A4's Library and Archive. Intended to solve for form depending on its required function, it as at once a book-ish environment for reading and contemplation and a place to unpack artists' archives. The Reading Room's inter-leading doors become walls when locked to create a stand-alone spacial research studio that hosts residents and practices site-specific work that most-often is connected to packing and unpacking projects as a form of research.