#Thread and Word

An Artist Led Walk by Elspeth Penfold Sunday March 5th 2017 

1.00p.m. - 3.00p.m. 

Meet: Threads Exhibition, Espacio Gallery 

159 Bethnal Green Rd. E2 7DG

Finish: Leadenhall Market

“It (art) consists not in showing the invisible, but rather showing the extent  to which the invisibility of the visible is invisible.”

‘(In)Visible Spaces of Equality’, Annette Krauss

As a part of the Threads exhibition we will walk along a route that will take us from the gallery to Leadenhall Market past some of the  artworks of Sculpture in the City, including the work of the Peruvian artist Lizi Sanchez, ‘Cadenetas’ . 

We will use sited readings of Cecilia Vicuña’s poem Word and Thread. Through participatory interventions along the walk, we will  openly and collaboratively celebrate the threads that bring us together.

image: Naya Eleftheriou , collage

With thanks to:

Jennifer Deakin-   Artist Photography

Judy Dermott -      Research, and writing: Women

                              Centred Modernism

Keith Grossmith-   Poem, ‘The Word’s the Thread’

Virginia Fitch -       Research and readings

Hazel Mountford-   Research and reading

Julia Riddiough -    Walking Mantra

Esperanza Gomez-Carrera - Performance Voices 

Naya Eleftheriou -  A Recital of Ithaca 

                               Performance Voices

Helen Peacock -     Performance What’s Left Behind

Jennifer Harkins -  Research

Sheelah Mahalath Bewley - Research

Veronika Marsh -  Performance  The Journey

Allan Struthers -   Performance ’Seen Not Heard:

                           The Choice of Listening to Objects’

Jill Rock -             Performance ‘Sprang’                                

                                                                                                           

Elspeth will be offering all walkers the opportunity to record the experience of  the walk through making knots in ropes which she will make for this walk .

“Wayfaring - threading our way through the tangled streets and spaces of London stopping to reflect with Threads and Words as we unravel knots at the sculptures on the way, rhyzomatic as we

meander from place to place free from linear fixities” 

Jill Rock 

A "Caligrama" of Cecilia Vicuña’s poem in Spanish. Designed following a circular walk from Espacio Gallery to Leadenhall Market. 

by Esperanza Gómez-Carrera

If you wish to find out more about the walks and my art practice please visit 

http://www.elspeth-billie-penfold.com

If you would like to take part in future walks please contact me,  elspethpenfold@yahoo.co.uk