What can a circular practice look like?
with Katie Bliss & Rachael Jones
Tickets: https://ticketpass.org/event/ETMXHP/the-convivial-x-katie-bliss-rachael-jones
In this session for The Convivial, Katie and Rachael ask, ‘what can a circular practice look like?’, and how can a circular practice – or following cyclical rhythms of being in the world – be integrated into linear time, if at all? Tracing their own backgrounds and experiences across art and ecology, they invite others to reflect on these ideas through sensory activities, diagramming and discussion.
Why does it feel challenging to make time to do the things that may benefit us the most? Allowing the self to be in relation with the world in careful meaningful ways, from slow observation or listening, spending time cooking dinner and caring for someone, can sometimes take second place to day-to-day demands. Can a circular or cyclical way of being in the world help break down dualities of nature; culture and body; mind?
Katie and Rachael will invite us to imagine alternative / nonhuman ways of being and sensing, and how a ‘practice’ may relate to actively being in the world in relation to other beings.
Speakers
Rachael Jones is a filmmaker and artistic researcher with an interest in exploring methods of documenting landscapes as social spaces where people make meaning through sensory encounters. Her filmmaking methods allow humans and nonhumans (including materials) to become filmmaking participants, using techniques such as listening and collage.
She incorporates analogue and digital formats to create a playful tension in her films, blending found still and moving images with newly created visuals. She has a PhD in practice-based research and teaches film and drawing workshops through organisations including Falmouth University.
Katie Bliss is an agroecologist and artist exploring the intersection of ecology, creativity and animism. Inspired by possibilities to reimagine our relation to more than human beings. Playing with the vibrancy of materials including botanical inks and soil pigments, clay, cyanotype, collage and bioacoustics. Her practice includes participatory research on interspecies articulations, land-based ritual, agroecosystem co-design and community led experiments. She is interested in the potential of intuitive approaches to learning, experiencing and creating through symbiosis with human and non-human collaborators. Entangling plant thinking, imagination and sensory being-in-the-world to help us remember that we are nature.
What to expect
6pm - arrive
6.30pm - talk begins
7.40pm - dinner (vegan) is served
8.10 - 9pm - Q&A/discussion
9-9.30pm - soft close, socialising
This event is BYOB - please bring along a drink to have yourself and/or to share! There is a SPAR shop just a few meters up the road. There will be a selection of soft drinks available at a low cost.
Venue
The Convivial, 18 Lower Market Street, Penryn
Please get in touch to talk about accessibility and your needs in the space.
Tickets: https://ticketpass.org/event/ETMXHP/the-convivial-x-katie-bliss-rachael-jones