06.12 | 11am-2pm
At our studio, Unit 1B Cedar Units, Webbers Yard, Dartington (next to Luna’s Bakehouse)
Free, drop-in event, open to all! Sign up here.
We’re delighted to announce the next session of our Resource Saturday series: Encountering Dwelling!
Encountering Dwelling will lean into Ecology as a Method for reimagining and repairing our connection to place and land. Through land and video art, research practice and deep listening, we will be exploring the rich specificity, yet plurality, of methods that deepen our relationships with(in) our environments, as a tool to reimagine sustainable futures. Guiding this journey will be Laura Hopes and Antonina Szram, two incredible artists who use their practices to layer place, time and sense.
Guest Speakers:
Laura Hopes’ artistic practice generates physical, intuitive and often collaborative layered and multi-faceted explorations of place. Through performative or material explorations of sites, often chosen for potential activations of their history, she tries to come to a more intimate and embodied knowledge of place. Through hyper local representation of the ‘sublime anthropocene’ Laura also aims to invert or unpick the cultural dominance of these Terms.
Her work focuses upon the shifting relationship between land and people in rapidly changing climates. Bringing others into her practice as participants, collaborators and experts. Laura works with agricultural byproducts, environmental imbalances and industrial structures to question systems of earthly survival and engage people in ecological Action.
Laura’s worked site-responsively previously, but not with the direct purpose of the work benefiting the ecology of the site and is currently developing playful approaches to working in an overlooked landscape at an ecological tipping point - revealing its vitality and capacity for renewal.
Antonina Szram is a multidisciplinary artist with a rich educational background and extensive experience in film, performance, and ecological projects. Her practice journey was informed by her artistic upbringing in Bulgaria, Poland, and Denmark, her studies in the studios of artists in Poland and France, and studies in Art History, Film, and Media Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. With an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from Plymouth University, Szram’s artistic practice is characterised by her inquisitive approach to storytelling and her experimentation with various mediums.
Exploring the intersection of analogue and digital image-making, often delving into themes of sci-fi, imagined futures, and speculative responses to human conflict and crises. Notably, she has collaborated with the Danish film company Zentropa, delivering a live multi-screen video performance at the Charlottenborg Kunsthal, showcased in the International Biennial Paper and Fiber Art in Taiwan, and screened at the New York Short Film Festival.
A Bit About Our Ecology as Method Studio Programme and Resource Saturdays:
For the next six months Ecology as Method will form the seedbed of Radical Ecology activity at the studio in Dartington. Exploring Ecology as a way of seeing ourselves and our connection to one another and to the world, and Method of creativity through which we can constellate meaning and cultivate newness in the world. The Ecology as Method programme will share some of our learning around the ways of approaching our creative lives, and build questions of how we resource ourselves in the context of this crisis ridden decade.
As part of this, once a month, we open our studio doors to create a space where our community can share work. We’ll be bringing together guest speakers whose own practices shed light and inspire action and learning around questions of what ecology as method is in practice.
Find out more about our programme here.