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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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Reflecting

Bettina Fung sums up the group’s reflection on this study period and includes some more of her thoughts. We held a reflection session after our bursary supported study period and bounced off ideas for our next step, which is still […]

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Conversation in Print

For our final meeting, we decided to have a more in-depth conversation about the things we had been discussing and did this through a live interview/writing session in a Gdoc. It was a really nice way of speaking, listening 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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BA-LF at Doughnart! by DEAL, Thusday 17th December 2020

On Thursday 17th December, Bristol Artist-Led Forum has been invited to take part to Doughnart! event by the Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL). We presented the research our 4 subgroups carried out so far focused on how to apply the Doughnut Economic to […]

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Introduction to Tender Hands Press & Granby Press

As part of our Peer Learning Group bursary project, Rabbits Road Press, Tender Hands Press and Granby Press meet regularly to discuss some of the opportunities and challenges they face as risograph presses. In this blog post, Saffa Khan and […]

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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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Reflection on Session #4 by Mirei Yazawa

The theme for this session was ‘Relationship between art and society’ and it was our last bursary supported session. It was led by Catherine Harrington and myself. We started by looking at images of artworks that have a focus on […]

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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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THE MAGIC OF INTERDISCIPLINARY EXCHANGES

Reflection on Session #2 by Jimena Mendizábal de Moral Our study group is composed of a wide range of practices within the art world. We are all art agents yet we are testaments of the diversity that make up the […]

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Session 2: On empathy and compassion

Session summary written by Catherine Harrington This session explored self-care and empathy, through physical exercises and readings – and a focus on elevating our approach to each other, through using compassion: We started off with an exercise set by Colleen […]

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A Safe & Just Space for Artists

In the fading light on a December afternoon, Fraisia, Dan and Anna met at the Hotwells Piazza in Bristol to discuss how doughnut economics could apply to an artists’ network and how that could specifically relate to our community art […]

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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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Session 1: Human and nature in activism

We kicked off the study period with a session looking into nature, paying attention to non-human relationships that could inspire new ways of thinking. The session involved: memory and location mapping exercise: connecting the body, memories, places and imagination, a […]

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