Category: workshops

Nordic Summer University Research Circle, Denmark

Post author By Helen
Post date 2 September 2024

29 August – 4 November

An amazing week of presentations and workshops that marked the end of a 3-year cycle. I was fortunate to join Artistic Research, Circle 7, in Helsinki in February, with a weekend of workshops and presentations. (see previous news item). It was amazingly rich and nourishing to mix with and have conversations with members of the other Research Circles during this week, as well as present my latest work and research.

I took my stone – chosen or did it choose me – from the Garw Valley in Sth Wales to Logumkloster and left it there. I didn’t know I was going to do that. A stream, that ran in the grounds of the place we were all staying at, beckoned. So my stone, full of secrets that I had told it and it told me, began its onward journey. I wish you all the best stone. Onward journey

Logumkloster, Denmark. 5 hours outside Copenhagen by train..

nourishing week full of conversations and inspiration.

my stone - full of secrets. Garw Valley South Wales to Logumkloster, Denmark

Tags inspiration, journalling, journeying, new roads, practice-led, Research, workshops

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NSU Research Circle, Southern Jutland, Denmark 29/7 – 5/8

Post author By Helen
Post date 24 July 2024

Thrilled to be invited back, as one of 135 participants, to NSU Summer Session taking place in Løgumkloster, Denmark from July 29 to August 5 2024. I will be presenting work and leading a workshop ‘Set in Stone’.

The Study Circles meet twice a year and explore diverse topics within the arts and humanities, natural and social sciences and provide a cross-disciplinary forum for debating topics and contributing to the initiation of new research.
During one week in the summer all of the circles hold their symposia at a shared location, this time Logumkloster, which offers additional possibilities for cross-fertilisation, to share and be in dialogue with participants research.

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Nordic Summer University Research Circle, Finland

Post author By Helen
Post date 12 March 2024

22 – 25 Feb 2024.

Three days with Circle 7 at NSU, Helsinki – talking and thinking about transformative and emancipatory processes in artistic research. I was invited to share my personal experience of arts practice as an agent for change, and the different ways we find to process universal experiences. A big thank you to the co-ordinators and participants who made this such a wonderful and rich experience. Looking forward to the next one!

Tags International research, Presentation, Research

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finding a way – with Jen Hawthorn

Post author By Helen
Post date 20 November 2022

Spent a wonderful day, in the Garage feeling our way with clay. Jen Hawthorn is a ceramic artist whose work is both performative and object orientated.

I wanted to work with Jen because she is also working intuitively with clay, exploring the relationship between herself and this active and generative material. I wanted to learn from someone experienced in ceramics and performative work to ‘let go’ some more.