Sensory Foraging Workshop, Pestling Mortar
I designed this workshop as an adaptation of the Sensory walks I ran with Ethan Cohen. Instead of prompts I introduced a meditation to the start of the workshop. We then engaged with our olfactory senses and went on a walk/scavenge, collecting smells along the way to form scent sculptures. In this sensory foraging workshop I encouraged participants to reflect on smell through the lens of associations, memory and emotion rather than feeling confined by a need to be able to describe a smell in a logical way.
Pestling Mortar "This project experiments with smudging roles between maker, viewer and participant. From Monday to Wednesday, a space will be set up by the students to allow from Thursday to Sunday those who visit the space can add to, change and inhabit the work through a series of formal and informal invitations.The work will be made in a collaborative unending process, points of production, realisation and dissolution. In this way of making there will be a rejection of the artwork’s fallacy of staticness. Work will shift like fertile ground amongst new relational encounters. Some of our invitations may include the sensorial realms of sound, smell, performance, painting, and the virtual.
Made on-site in constant change, the expectations of the gallery produced, received and removed will be replaced by a volatile act of un-preciousness. People entering the space will be equal actioners on the work as the starting artists.
It is a relational work that navigates the dissolution of the self in the gallery into the ongoing practice of relationality. It is not a contest of pursuing and buying the nicest bricks but about the quality, effectiveness and stickiness of the mortar that binds them."
