- Venue
- Metroland Cultures
- Starts
- Saturday, November 25, 2023
- Ends
- Sunday, December 10, 2023
- Address
- 91 Kilburn Square, London, NW6 6PS.
- Location
- London
- Organiser
- Squishy Collective
As we delve into the dark and chilled months in ever darker and chilling times, we warmly invite you into the squidgy, fuzzy folds of the Squishy Collective.
Step into a circle of sculptures, materials, films, sounds and texts that offer and open up gestures, rituals and ideas for navigating precarious times. Can material be used to metabolise harm? Can physical processes help us sense inner emotional worlds? What constitutes ’safe’ touch’? How can touch be used to rehearse different ways of being and doing? Can a text be tactile…and why should it be?
The Squishy Collective are a research group-circle-coven who formed in April 2021 and have been meeting online ever since, convened by artist and Metroland studio resident Becky Lyon. Comprised of sensuous ecologists, fizzy researchers, haptic writers, mermaid-whisperers, clay-crafters and generative gesturers, together they share methods drawn from art research to explore the intersection of touch, tactility and practices of care as part of a toolkit for navigating precarious times.
Exhibits and invitations will touch on milky motherhood, uncanny bodies, visceral clay, fleshy language, haptic ice and visibilising atmosphere among other subjects and are generously offered by: Abigail Fletcher-Drye, Amanda Rice, Anastasia (A) Khodyreva, Becky Lyon, Catherine Monahon, Eliza Bennett, Georgia Perkins, Natasha Sabatini, Rhona Eve Clews, Rosina Godwin and Kate Langrish-Smith.
Come cosy up with us over a hot tea, leaf through texts, take part in quiet invitations, meditate over tactile films or join a rich and playful programme of activities designed to soften, fizz and feed you. Bookings to the private view are now available – stay tuned for a super-bumper events programme coming soon!
https://metrolandcultures.com/programmes/squishy-collective-soft-tissue/
Exhibition Details
Location
Metroland Cultures, 91 Kilburn Square, London, NW6 6PS.
Go down the alley next to Argos and you’ll see us across the square. Ring the bell to get in. See the map here.
Dates: 25th Nov- 10th Dec
Open days and times
- Fri 24 Nov – 6-9 (opening night)
- Sat 25 Nov – 11-4
- Sun 26 Nov – 11-4
- Tue 28 Nov – 11-5
- Thu 30 Nov – 11-5
- Fri 1 Dec – 11-5
- Sat 2 Dec – 11-4
- Sun 3 Dec – 11-4
- Tue 4 Dec – 11-5
- Thu 7 Dec – 11-5
- Fri 8 Dec – 11-5
- Sat 9 Dec – 11-4
- Sun 10 Dec – 11-4
Accessibility
The gallery is wheelchair accessible with step free access. There are wheelchair accessible toilets.
Contact
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Programme
Tickets on *Eventbrite here*
- Fri 24 Nov 6.00pm – 9.00pm,Private View
- Sat 25 Nov 1.00pm – 2.15pm, Air Tasting, Mattering A Hot Breath w/ Becky Lyon
- Sat 25 Nov 2.30pm – 3.30pm, Haptic Ice w/ Anastasia (A) Khodyreva (not yet live)
- Sun 26 Nov 11.00am – 12.00am, Breakfast Reading & Research Club (not yet live)
- Sun 26 Nov 1.00pm – 3.00pm, Cast Your Line: Photographic image-divining with Fisherwomen w/ Rhona Eve Clews and Eliza Bennett
- Wed 29 Nov 8.00pm – 9.30pm, Kitchen Yin: Body & Material Winter Workshop (online) w/ Catherine Monahan and Rhona Eve Clews
- Sun 3rd Dec 2.00pm – 4.00pm, Intestinal Knitting w/ Rosina Godwin
More to be announced soon!
