TM Cohort 22 -Summer School
Over the last 6 months, a group of artists, architects and urbanists has collectively traversed walks, talks, workshops and activities that focused on the themes of displacement and identity.
Friday 29th July and Saturday 30th July, they will be sharing their findings through a curated programme of workshops. They have been negotiating questions of place, belonging and what it means to share space in a more-than-human world.
Working through sound, storytelling, movement, and intervention the group has been exploring what it means to act, re-act and interact all as an enmeshed part of sharing space. Participants will be invited to take part in somatic experiences that will not only provoke but hopefully inspire new ways of sharing space together.
Program
Friday 29th July
Ikebana of Senses
An exercice led by Lou-Atessa Marcellin, inviting participants to create a visual lexicon in order to define the notion of displacement.
Finding Home – with Darshana Vora, Jasmine Shigemura Lee, Alice Thompson and Eloise Maltby Maland.
Finding Home explores our personal and collective ideas of home. As our senses of home shift, accumulate, displace and grow, what makes us feel at home? How can we envision the possibilities of a shared home? Together we will play with different forms of making including writing, drawing and moving to actively explore our relationship to the habitats we find ourselves in. Recognising our own experiences, needs and desires, we will ask how we can weave together a collaborative story of home.
Saturday 30th July
A Collective Score – with Dhara Bhatt, Florence Wright, Jamie Cornish Hignett, Binoli Shah.
Displacement can be experienced on a personal, community or worldwide scale, but each individual experience is unique. How can we tap into somebody else’s life, world and experience to truly understand displacement beyond ourselves? A Collective Score uses the act of walking, score writing and storytelling to encourage a glimpse through an alternative lens. Each guided by an individual soundtrack, but moving in tandem, an inadvertent group choreography may emerge, and from this a collective map of shared experience. We encourage you to document your walk in a medium of your choice; drawing, writing, photography etc.
A slow meandering through our living memories of displacement – with Hanou Amendah, Chris Miller, Shani Haberman.
Histories of displacement are each made of a multitude of personal stories of change, shape-shifting and transmutation. A slow meandering through our living memories of displacement is an invitation to a collective and rhythmical journey through a series of personal stories of displacement. In this workshop, each participant’s memento will become a shared vessel to decant their memories and investigate various dimensions of displacement, past or recent, internal or geographical.
Street Symphonies – with Jasmine Pajdak, Rhea Martin, Morgan Senior, Rajinder Singh.
Street Symphonies is a sensory encounter with the city. Like the vital connective tissues of our bodies, cities need to be both permeable and resistant – places which provide nurture and where diverse interactions and exchanges can be shared. The workshop will begin as a performative procession through Clerkenwell, a slow silent walk that displaces our routine rhythms and pace. As our bodies are forced to change so will our interactions and observations of the city. As we walk together we will begin to locate the threshold of this experience, both the physical and the emotional; the suspended and the active.