Today was the first day of the Making and Unmaking event, and a great start to an interesting 3 days of programmes. This was the gently-paced workshop day, and I presented a slideshow about my work as context to sharing a Creative Mapping workshop in which we created a 3-wall installation with various mapped communicative marks/scales, colour grids and Clean questions exploring individual artistic research interests, and located the grids and accompanying texts on the collective map. The process went down really well, with some interesting results. A few pics to follow...
Janine's presentation was fascinating, sharing her interests and explorations across movement and gravity, 'environmenting', triangulation and text: book-making. Although the starting point was very different, the issues and experiences she is dealing with are surprisingly congruent with what I was presenting/ my research and formed a really poignant (personally) and well-programmed juxtaposition. After a chatty lunch we had a writing presentation and workshop form Alison, and a chance to gather 'found' text and explore the tensions in re-working that collectively. I went out in the street to photograph texts, having found that, in contrast to my usual continuous hand-note-taking I haven't written anything yet today (apart from the colour grid) but have instead been documenting visually and just listening .... focus on one sense taking attention to the others ?!
The pub down the road claims to be the best in London - so we had to go and check that out. Certainly nice guinness and a nice sign too, saying it's good for 'you'!
Looking forward to tomorrow - an evening of performances - and Saturday's tightly packed day of 20 minute papers.
Here's the collective text of the colour grids mapped....
inside - interval - between
jAM. STICKY THICK - strawberry femme (?) - outside & inside.
scratch - darkness - swim
bleeding and transforming - between text and painting - blurring and overlapping
gap between - writing, performing, documenting, bridge - body holds the key
honeycomb, up again - tunnels - belly through
logic/rationality - self sufficiency - stuff
triangle inside a square - a circle form themselves - relationships
behind - hidden - unmap
grid - sol lewitt - Berlin
alone - limited - see
black balloons playing - out of soapy hands - on soapy arms
convergence - one thing or everything? - scale
rescuing clutches - stopping consuming - emergencies - angles scrawling
central point - complete unknown land everywhere - under my feet O
talking cat - chameleon (can I add to it ?) - just outside
unpredictability - harnessed within the structure - within the structure
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