I am attentive and feel responsible. You say that the object reminds you of parts of yourself that you do not like and I am aware of the portrait that you believe I have made.
In a recent discussion with Dennis Atkinson we questioned what happens to the ones who have been transformed through a learning encounter. What happens afterwards, what are we and they - left with. What is learning outside of the remit of institution, of exam, assessment, job, course or promotion? Laura told me that this research project enabled ‘expanded thinking’ as though a rubber band was stretched and extended to join more elements and tie them together. We are building something, ‘Building a life’ (Atkinson 2017) or extending on the buildings we have constructed. All our buildings should be different and take different forms that reflect us, are us, inhabit us as we inhabit them. There is a manifestation but more than a visualization, this dissolves the position between idea and representation - Imploding the paradigm. I feel I have heard you all so clearly as though your words are right up against my ears as though your actions are amplified in scale and volume. I see the details and they make me restless. You give me something through your voices and ideas, through your thoughts and preoccupations, through the way you hold and wave your hands in the air. It has all filtered down and become material for me to give back to you. However, I understand that these signals were already material. Your matter- matter of fact. If I am asking about learning and its physicality, then the conversations and actions together are seamless the objects solidify a moment but not an ending.
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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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