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Over the next three weeks I will finally be instal

Over the next three weeks I will finally be installing the new, free installation 'From Birth till Death: Scrolled Life Stories' in The Studio at the @hornimanmuseumgardens

Visitors will enter a room of giant papyrus scrolls telling local life stories. Each scroll will be one individual’s story, coded through images. By reading the scrolls, visitors will help normalise untold stories from our communities.

This exhibition is in partnership with myself and @stchrishospice @artsnetworkldn Three Cs, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust’s Health Inclusion Team.

You can share you own story through the hashtag #scrolledlife.

#socialartuk #appliedliveart #socialartpractice

Tomorrow at 6pm is the premier of We The People -

Tomorrow at 6pm is the premier of We The People - a short film commissioned by @MuseumofLondon @curatingldn exploring active citizenship in Brixton. It will be followed by a talk between the directors Virginia Nimarkoh and Fan Sissoko, film contributor @mbanjo, the Senior Curator of Curating London @dom.sergi4 and myself.

Filmed over the summer of 2019, We The People explores themes of activism and community, past and present. It follows six inspiring conversations between activists and grassroots organisers, young and less young, making positive change at a local level. Made in partnership with @advocacyacademy, the UK’s first campus for young activists, based in Brixton.

Copy this link to stream the film: http://ow.ly/J3wA50CmJTK

#socialartuk #socialartpractice

Announcing the beginning of my project 'WTF Just H

Announcing the beginning of my project 'WTF Just Happened?!' where I will be touring the UK inviting audience members sit for a (socially distanced) one-to-one encounter to explore WTF Just Happened during this period of time through drawing and dialogue.

The project aims to create a collaborative archive of the current times, highlighting everyday people and the historical commons created through living. #wtfjh #socialartuk #appliedliveart #socialartpractice

More details about where and when WTF Just Happened?! will be taking place soon. #wtfjh

Great things happening in collaboration with @axis

Great things happening in collaboration with @axisweb @social_art_library - a new collectively-built archive and resource library for social practice by Axis and @socialartnetwork. So great to be a part of ethical digital responses on this day and age. Follow the link in their bio for more info and join their mailing list by emailing librarian@socialartlibrary.org

Working with @research_artist to grow and develop

Working with @research_artist to grow and develop #socialartlibrary all began when I tried to submit something interactive, collaborative and messy. Like social art is. Here is that test run the #failbook

This is place to examine all the ways we trip up, fall, get bruised, cry, ask for help, forget to ask for help, get offended, offend others, create a disaster with the best intentions, go into complex situations unprepared, go into easy situations that turn complex, forget to honour, forget to claim space, forget to give space, lose your ego, lose a friend, drive a project into a wall, or even the small, tiny things that sometimes hinder everything like a little splinter in our toe.

One of the best ways we can learn from each other is to be honest, vulnerable and show how we fail. Little fails or epic fails welcome.

All fit on one post-it note and all anonymous:

https://www.socialartlibrary.org/library/to-change-75ntb-ffjbj-n5b7h-42cwx

Developed by @axisweb

Thrilled to be part of the In-Situ programme celeb

Thrilled to be part of the In-Situ programme celebrating their past 4 years of supporting art in public space.

IN SITU is an ecosystem connecting a new generation of artists with audiences, programmers, and key-players involved in the economic, political and social realities around Europe. In Situ - European Platform for Artistic Creation in Public Space

http://www.in-situ.info/en/activities/en/in-situ-act-days-46

In 2017 I participated in an 'atelier' project hotbed in Kosovo devising The Print Shop: Rise Up! Which I delivered in 2018 and then toured to Kelburn Garden Party in 2019. 2020 I've created the new audio piece Living Skin for this symposium. It's great bringing the voice of social engagement as more than just participation but co-production into the conversation. Want to hear more about my newest socially distant touring project WTF Just Happened?! I'll be presenting live as part of:

Live Talk Session - 9 October, at 11 am (CEST)How to reclaim digital and physical public space? Working in public space today
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Several artists working in public space share with us their practice especially in these trouble times of global pandemic and social distancing. What is art in public space today? What does it mean to create in public space and what is the future of public space? Shall we all go digital?

@freedomfesthull

Spending more time than usual at home? I was asked

Spending more time than usual at home? I was asked to create a response piece for In-Situ European Outdoor Arts. This was meant to be for an audience in Brussels but as the pandemic rages on it was all moved online. I shifted my focus to offer some public art at home.

The Invisible Skin is an audio walk for one person to listen to on headphones in the comfort on your own home exploring the barriers we have both internal and external. Public art made accessible privately.

https://soundcloud.com/audiowalks/invisible-skin-an-audio-walk-from-inside-out

A joy of this production has been reconnecting with my close friend from Xavier High School who composed the music, it's magical.

Music composed by:
Michael Owcharuk @owcharuk

Huge thanks to Denise Fusco Iacovone for setting up our creative futures then....

Great time drawing from the model virtually, I can

Great time drawing from the model virtually, I can recommend this class by Debbi Sutton, Teacher gentle guidance, thoughtful timings, professional model and a great group of people. I'm in between studios so improvised with post it notes on a cutting board!!

Every Monday, 7.30pm to 9.30pm (BST)

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/drawing-from-the-model-mondays-tickets-112811803140

Honoured to have written the Forwor to this must r

Honoured to have written the Forwor to this must read: From Network to Meshwork
https://www.axisweb.org/models-of-validation/content/from-network-to-meshwork/

"details the five interlocking issues ... the difficulty of articulating social practice, its definitions, values and roles; unrealistic and/or unreasonable expectations from project partners; lack of infrastructural support for social projects and the perceived second-class status of social practice in the art world—and some possible solutions..."

Powerful work by @amandaravetz @research_artist @axisweb Axisweb #socialartuk #socialpractice

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