After working with Laura, jo, mark, lloyd and Sophie I was interested whether they would want to say anything about the project to those who were about to start - they all said no and that they thought it would change the process for the others and alter what they thought or how they approcahed the process. However ,a few days later I had a response from lloyd and this became a voice from the first group to the second. It was a handing over or the voice of a silent but imagined partner. I read his message to the new group pf Caroline, Nell, James, Amy, Agnis and Bayley when I met them at the SCVA for the first time as a group.
Hi Kimberley I have been thinking about what you said regarding passing something on to your new group. The one thing that comes to mind is 'to play first and think after' I think in your investigation going with intuition is key, through play connections are made which a dry, detached intellectual approach would struggle to make. Openness/ leaps of faith are essential, ultimately there are no set truths/answers, each object is a catalyst for thinking from which divergent personal truths are reached. However I appreciate telling someone not to think first is akin to telling someone not to breathe, it's an intuitive reflex. Maybe the key is to understand that the agency of the object resides in us and through external connections, not within the object itself. Truths are not fixed and ready to be unpicked or discovered, they are undecided ready to be made through embodied experience. That turned into a bit of a ramble! I think this is in part due to the difficulty in pining down anything concrete which may assist everyone in such a subjective experience.
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Kimberley FosterKimberley's practice as an artist is pedagogical, it doesn’t just reference learning, it plays with, embodies and encourages learning at its core. The objects consider ideas of collaboration and authorship, discussions about touch and encounter, and bring into active consideration issues of learning within social and participatory practices. Archives
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