We are a peer group of artists that haven’t met together for nearly a decade. We have all worked individually on our practices and felt the pressures of production, coping with a range of barriers.
These challenges might have ranged from loss, illness, drastic personal change, caring responsibilities, and chronic illness.
During this time of Covid, protest, racialised trauma, there is also the shared feeling of isolation and not having access to particular services and other important artists.
Coming together in the shared space of a peer learning group empowers a process of recognition and a chance to talk (and let down) the protective systems we may have enabled in our videos and speech.
The title of the group signifies reflection, thought, pondering. The act itself of reflection in this peer group is a highly politicised action, free from the outcome of production, labour yet the freedom to make ephemeral, temporal transmission between us, learning through the exchange.
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http://www.beverleybennett.com/
http://www.metalculture.com/artists-area/beverley-bennett/
“I am a believer in unconscious cerebration. The brain is working all the time, though we do not know it. At night it follows up what we think in the daytime. When I have worked a long time on one thing, I make it a point to bring all the facts regarding it together before I retire; I have often been surprised at the results… We are thinking all the time; it is impossible not to think”
