A discussion and making session.
Talking and making.
Together, distracted.
We will need some clay and some paper a bunch of photographs and our voices.
The plan (if plan is really the word) will be to make and talk. No more than that.
We would like to run a two-hour making session with the idea of fostering discussion around the act of making and of spending time with others. It will be for 12 people, from different parts of our lives, some artists, some students, some teachers, some makers, some old friends. People who use their hands to think. Together we will play with the materials and this play will be used as an excuse to talk.
The aim will be to foster an environment of shared time through shared activity and for this to prompt thought and discussion amongst a group of people from a range of backgrounds. And we’ll see where it takes us. The conversation will be allowed to take its own course, prompted by a series of simple questions: where does thinking happen? What do our hands know? Is making a conversation? With who/what? It will inevitably be philosophical, about what it means to spend time, to be open to the possibilities of others, whether materials or people, words or concepts.
Sometimes the simplest things can form the deepest of insights.
The results will be haphazardly documented and what is physically made will be taken apart and put back; What will remain will be the experience.
Talking and making.
Together, distracted.
We will need some clay and some paper a bunch of photographs and our voices.
The plan (if plan is really the word) will be to make and talk. No more than that.
We would like to run a two-hour making session with the idea of fostering discussion around the act of making and of spending time with others. It will be for 12 people, from different parts of our lives, some artists, some students, some teachers, some makers, some old friends. People who use their hands to think. Together we will play with the materials and this play will be used as an excuse to talk.
The aim will be to foster an environment of shared time through shared activity and for this to prompt thought and discussion amongst a group of people from a range of backgrounds. And we’ll see where it takes us. The conversation will be allowed to take its own course, prompted by a series of simple questions: where does thinking happen? What do our hands know? Is making a conversation? With who/what? It will inevitably be philosophical, about what it means to spend time, to be open to the possibilities of others, whether materials or people, words or concepts.
Sometimes the simplest things can form the deepest of insights.
The results will be haphazardly documented and what is physically made will be taken apart and put back; What will remain will be the experience.
Materials and equipment:
3 Bags of clay
12 small piece of board (approx. 30 x 30cm) A stack of photos
Paper and pencils in case we want to make sketches, take notes. Blutac in case we want to stick things up.
Tea (at least one cup each) Biscuits (as above)
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Friday 11 May 2018
12-1pm
What Happens Between Us?
Bill Leslie, Jo Addison, Anna Lucas
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