Interruptions on Day Seven

Interruptions aplenty from a range of people and disciplines today.

Conversations about paradigms, the multiplicity of meaning, the need to push fixed ideas around towards matters of concern

Talking and writing haikus, exploring ideas around found language, reading in public spaces and performative acts

Engaged in constraint based processes

Conversations about the productive space of a foyer, the unexpected encounter, how to push our thinking into new spaces 

Historical ghosts, musical hall, performative acts and how our expectations can be challenged or disrupted

Following the constraint, but pushing the rules

 Haikus found in the books of Rachel Smith, typed by Brian Lewis from Longbarrow Press

Thanks to everyone who stopped by today for lot of interesting and productive interruptions

See you tomorrow

Residency Day 6

Jo Ray has been working in the foyer with me today. We have been exploring common interests and improvising, pushing materials around to help make sense of theoretical concepts

Lots of interruptions and interesting conversations around hyphens and the meaning acquired when using compound modifiers as the words connected influence our understanding.

The connective nature of thinking while moving materials in the hand

Knowing in the body and how to express this outwardly

I fight for improvisation, but always with the belief that it is impossible

Rachel Smith will be working all day in the foyer today

from 1pm onwards:

She will be collaborating with Jo Ray on timed diversions to explore the area within a 10-minute radius of the foyer, bringing back fragments of footage and digital images which will provoke the making of further impromptu responses. 

Jo Ray is an artist, researcher, and lecturer based in Sheffield. Her current practice explores encounters with models and sites of model use. Scale play is recurrent in her work, which uses diverse methods in response to spatial and social situations, archives material, and artefacts. She is interested in the potential of spaces where speculation, play and enthusiasm are possible, and the tipping place between emulation and improvisation. During her practice-led doctoral research, Ray has used artistic practice as a means of exploring ‘model-ness’ and modelling in enthusiast and self-organising communities, undertaking residencies in the autonomous township Christiania in Copenhagen, and a model railway enthusiasts club in Sheffield.