How would you convey the essence of your Collective? How do your collective endeavours settle in the world and beyond? How do you work symbiotically through differences and challenges? The term Potpourri with its paradoxical meanings seems an apt […]
An Open Call to Collectives is crisscrossing its way along the digital pathways to gather interest from Artist Collectives across the globe. https://www.experimentalspacecollective.com/potpourriopencall It is an invitation to create a page for a Compendium of Collective Practices, to explore the […]
This is walk no. 14 from ‘Walking Beyond Words’. Aya Hastwell who is facilitating the project with me has just returned to her family in Kazakhstan and chose this prompt because of her appreciation of the global connections created […]
The prompt for this week’s walk arose out of a conversation with an artist and friend in Turkey (Ceyda Oskay) suggesting that she hand-print letters into a book to form our third poetry collage. We began talking about collaboration and […]
Week 2 of Walking beyond words generated a poetry collage that demonstrated how meanings can shift dramatically through the choice of layering. The single word ‘Earthquake’ contributed from a walker in Turkey and used by another participant as the title […]
WALKING BEYOND WORDS Exploring our smallness and the interconnectedness of everything Today is the beginning of Walking Beyond Words. In this series of 52 weekly walks we are walking alone, knowing that others are walking also. It is a kind […]
In my recent foray back into sewing I am drawn repeatedly to the wrong side of the fabric and it prompts me to look under other surfaces to the underside, inside, the hidden untidiness of human and unhuman life. How […]
A word lands on a tree. It means nothing apart from its weight, texture, temperature, moistness …. its possibility of integration. I lost my journal and picked up another hoping it would be the missing book. I opened it to […]
Thinking about ideas of smooth and striated space (Deleuze) in relation to walking connects back to experiences of felt-making. 10 years ago I disassembled the process and materials to create objects and installations, and later activated the materials through moving […]
The weekly walk with[out] edges at 7.30am this morning was ‘A walk that sees below the surface of the earth’. It connected unexpectedly with my drawing of tree roots during the workshop with Dilip Sur and with the plan I […]
Dilip Sur in a recent drawing workshop talked about drawing ‘inside out’ to explore what it is that is being drawn, not to represent, but to enquire into being. I looked out of the window and chose a weeping birch […]
I find myself part of a rather wonderful collaborative group which has acquired the name ‘Mud Collective’. We have crafted an audio walk that connects Iraq and the UK through soil, telling the story of a pot made from earth […]