A Wander with Thread and Word.
Contemporary Art and Ritual
St Pancras GalleryThis exhibition ends today
This Wander took place last Saturday at St Pancras Crypt . I was delighted to be given the opportunity to create a wander which took participants on a different type of gallery tour.
We walked , re-imagining the way we spend time in art galleries.
We took a leaf out of the poem May 5th written by Sonia Overall in The Art of Walking. We thought about being toddlers running into a gallery space , squealing at the giant SILENCE on the wall, gleefully stamping our boots , "you realise that she is participating."
A Vara recording A Walk for Armistice Day by Elspeth (Billie) Penfold |
We experimented with alternative approaches to the ingrained walk, stop and glance, as we wandered through the exhibition.
These approaches included actions and poetry readings that responded to the artwork in the exhibition and also to the beautiful space in the St Pancras Crypt.
photo courtesy of the artist |
The Mountain Pose as we contemplated fab work by Blandine Bardeau.
Paintings by Nne Kauzoigwe |
poem Blackbird at The Stretton Fox :
"shared under a gentle whisperof early light, stopping us as we graspthat it is what it seems, a lastand a first from the thickeningdark, a sense or a gesture,an invisible picture."
Photographs by Blandine Bardeau |
Thank you to all who came walked and participated through the knotting of ropes which recorded/scored the memory of our experiences walking together in this wander through Contemporary Art and Ritual.
The ropes are now attached to the Vara titled A Wander and will join the rest of the collections of fifteen varas, now sixteen, recording walks over the last four years with Thread and Word.
We ended our walk with an impromptu performance by the artist Christina Lovey. This created a beautiful connection with our next walk Are you Listening? in Battersea Park next Sunday at 2pm.
We hope to see you there!
For our next walk :Are You Listening?
A Wander was inspired by Ways to Wander the Gallery , by Clare Qualmann and Claire Hind. Published by Triarchy press. This book contains two walking scores by Elspeth Billie Penfold.
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