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Unfeasible symmetry
Jen Southern and Jen Hamilton discuss their collaboration on the ’Distance Made Good’ project.
Over the past eighteen months we have collaborated on two new installations. The process of collaboration has led us into blizzards, across rivers, around swans, through forests and over golf courses as we attempted to discover how our geographical distance is linked to cultural difference. The journey began when we were commissioned by The Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon to make a new work that linked Stratford-upon-Avon with its sister city Stratford in Canada. In Canada there were three Shakespeare theatres, a river Avon, a gallery called The Gallery and even swans that are taken down to the river in spring in a 'Swan Parade'. That we were both called Jen added to this unfeasible symmetry, one we've been trying to understand ever since, in the original exhibition and in a new work for the Dunlop Gallery, Sherwood Forest, Canada. We travelled to Stratford, Canada initially to explore the place and to find shared ground. There was a three-day blizzard; we soon realised that walking around a place with our heads down, eyes scrunched and hands deep in our pockets wasn't getting us very far. Exploring on foot was important to understanding the place. When we visited Stratford, England...
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