Happy to be screening an offering as part of Soft Tissue: Feeling-through Precarious Times with Squishy Collective.
25th Nov- 10th Dec, Metroland Cultures, London
Step into a circle of sculptures, materials, films, sounds and texts that offer and open up gestures, rituals and ideas for navigating precarious times. Can material be used to metabolise harm? Can physical processes help us sense inner emotional worlds? What constitutes ’safe’ touch’? How can touch be used to rehearse different ways of being and doing? Can a text be tactile…and why should it be?
The Squishy Collective are a research group-circle-coven who formed in April 2021 and have been meeting online ever since, convened by artist and Metroland studio resident Becky Lyon. Comprised of sensuous ecologists, fizzy researchers, haptic writers, mermaid-whisperers, clay-crafters and generative gesturers, together they share methods drawn from art research to explore the intersection of touch, tactility and practices of care as part of a toolkit for navigating precarious times.
Exhibits and invitations will touch on milky motherhood, uncanny bodies, visceral clay, fleshy language, haptic ice and visibilising atmosphere among other subjects and are generously offered by: Abigail Fletcher-Drye, Amanda Rice, Anastasia (A) Khodyreva, Becky Lyon, Catherine Monahon, Eliza Bennett, Georgia Perkins, Natasha Sabatini, Rhona Eve Clews, Rosina Godwin and Kate Langrish-Smith.
