Today I was artist-rapporteur at the Same Skies’ The Future of West Yorkshire’s Regional Democracy event. My role is to crystallise and create an artistic interpretation of the event.
There were many interesting presentations and discussions and the notes I made will feature in my drawings:
fuzzy geography
asymmetrical
markets
colony
favala
capability approach
grass growing over the trailers and spraypaint
“do people say ‘hamlets’ any more”
expanded immediacy
money is not inherently useful
cities as nodes
constrained by neoliberal language
togetherness as a radical act
sehn sucht
index of deprivation
“I swear it’s a question”
embrace mess
give us the money and we’ll do it
if you’re not connected to a place you’re not going to know what will work there
audible connections
all the different ways of silencing a female candidate
how do we look after each other in West Yorkshire?
