Joins and Joining

​When working in a ,museum or art museum I am preoccipied by exploring the mutual and multiple connection points within the processes of art pedagogy that are critical when considering research-creation in these spaces. How can we explore the joins between learners and educators, between learners and their ideas, and the potential extensions out from the learner’s bodies that seek to find joins with other bodies? These may be real tangible connections or metaphorical points of synergy. Bodies may be human or non-human they may be bodies of knowledge. The joins made with contemporary art are sometimes physical, and sometimes metaphorical, and may be considered as a way to navigate and weave ideas, actions, and objects together in the pedagogical encounter. I consider what these connections might enable and what might be encountered in an unfolding pedagogical process that directly involves physical meaning-making.

These bound up spoons are a potentail mouthful, a lollipop, a nourishment- are you being fed, what are you receiving? However what is the potential of for them to become extensions out from artworks, like small threaded paint samples. Wht do they match but equally what do they obscure? In that temporary blocking of what lies beneath is there the potential of completing something in a different way, capturing or seeking something not seen before. What can be disciovered in an 'offering up' of these materailised morsels?