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Dropping out – Conversation #07
27-01-2021 Movement, moving together, to walk at the same time through distance. We voice call over WhatsApp whilst walking around our neighbourhoods describing our locations and what we can see. noticing the moss growing everywhere in the urban environment and […]
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Dropping Out – conversation #06
20-01-21 To walk or latte? Arranged to all make turmeric lattes to sit and chat. One of us remembered, tea will do fine. Thinking of walking in city scape – both port cities Southampton and Rotterdam are connected in stories? […]
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Dropping out – Conversation #3
Extracts from our conversation presented as a stream of consciousness. The two accompanying images depict public placements of some of the text extracts. Three is the magic number so they say. Where’s my pen. Where’s my tea. How does […]
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Dropping out – Conversation #05
Speaking from the hole in the ground: What has kept you optimistic since we last spoke? What’s been entertaining you? What have you been worrying about? what gives you energy? We turn up differently and start the conversation from a […]
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Dropping out – conversation #04 (I, II and III)
#04 I 10:18 The soil from my mother’s garden crunches in the hand shells of snails accumulated grit roots as strong and delicate as greying hairs. Ground that welcomes rain and pushes between toes on bare feet leaving marks like […]
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Dropping out – conversation #02
25 November 2020 Themes Ranting, survival, health, trauma, recovery Tentacles of enquiry “I didn’t mean to start off with ranting”. Some of us needed to vent, to release energy and frustration. ..Processing is part of the process… Coming back to […]
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Dropping Out – conversation #01
07 November 2020 Themes Health, bodies, communities, expression, trauma, stress, somatics. Tentacles of inquiry Reflecting on first hand experience of Long COVID. Bodies go wrong because we’re human. Realities of body and brain exhaustion. Current situation means people are enduring […]
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Dropping Out – Strategy for collective research
Throughout our sessions we will each bring something to share, be it observations, experiences or emerging strategies. These share’s will connect to the previous session, forming leap-frog flows of playful movement, allowing the conversations to evolve and expand our […]
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Untitled blog post from "Working Title"
These words are by Markus Lloyd regarding Working Title, an exhibition and ongoing workshop at aspex gallery, Portsmouth. Raft of the Medusa (Pt.2) – Mad Marxism “The discovery of the material, or rather, the consistent continuation and extension of material […]
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Untitled blog post from "Working Title"
These words are written by Markus Lloyd about ‘Working Title’, an exhibition and workshop at aspex gallery, Gunwharf. Raft of the Medusa (Pt 1) – B.S. Is Working Title a ‘Big Society’ happening? No, honestly, I’m asking (yeah, okay, provocatively). […]
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Untitled blog post from "Working Title"
These words are written about ‘Working Title’, an exhibition and workshop at aspex gallery, Gunwharf. Clothes-less. There are obvious hints of ‘human-ness’ in much of Kate’s artworks, a fact I noticed after going through most of the images on her […]
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Untitled blog post from "Working Title"
Blog post regarding ‘Working Title’ exhibition at aspex gallery. It isn’t hard to notice, as I spend time amongst these artists, that a lot of experimentation happens viscerally, perhaps much like an instinct. The making/assembling/creating process seems to speed along, […]