SOCIAL__
SCULPTURE
How do we all exist?
Inside the art?
In a social sculpture?
Spot patterns.
Little bits of noticing with each other.
Practice noticing the patterns of other people.
Support other people.*
Little bits of noticing with each other.
Practice noticing the patterns of other people.
Support other people.*
Notice what it means to be social.
We make social sculptures.
We cultivate and compost the invisible connections and relationships that exist within the multilayered communities with whom we work.
Social sculpture does not begin with an object. It begins with people, places and the relations between them. We talk together. We question everything. We hold each other’s hands. We are brave. We act like artists.
Our job is to create and hold open a space in which something new can happen. HOLD, HOLD, HOLD.. It is a space for new ways of thinking, making and being together. Form emerges through encounter, labour and time.
We cultivate and compost the invisible connections and relationships that exist within the multilayered communities with whom we work.
Social sculpture does not begin with an object. It begins with people, places and the relations between them. We talk together. We question everything. We hold each other’s hands. We are brave. We act like artists.
Our job is to create and hold open a space in which something new can happen. HOLD, HOLD, HOLD.. It is a space for new ways of thinking, making and being together. Form emerges through encounter, labour and time.
These relationships are not simply part of a process leading towards the artwork. They are part of its material and part of its form.
We name these invisible systems: trust, collaboration, energy, support, care, kindness, resilience, creativity, friendship, symbiosis, community, and forms of human and more-than-human intelligence. We recognise the work required to build, maintain and hold them.
Growing underneath every sculpture is a root system of people. Layered over every sculpture is a macramé of people. Flourishing after every sculpture is a mycelium of people.
We name these invisible systems: trust, collaboration, energy, support, care, kindness, resilience, creativity, friendship, symbiosis, community, and forms of human and more-than-human intelligence. We recognise the work required to build, maintain and hold them.
Growing underneath every sculpture is a root system of people. Layered over every sculpture is a macramé of people. Flourishing after every sculpture is a mycelium of people.
The tendrils of these social sculptures flow outwards. They connect with others and propagate. They begin to create a social architecture of their own, one that can support society and perhaps reshape it.
Our social sculptures churn and fizz and warm and change things.
They propose another way of approaching public life, not through exchange alone, but through a beautiful, strange, subtle and fuzzy connection, felt deep inside.
*The text that accompanies the images on this page is by Gavin Wade, taken from his essay ‘Living With the Morisons’.
Our social sculptures churn and fizz and warm and change things.
They propose another way of approaching public life, not through exchange alone, but through a beautiful, strange, subtle and fuzzy connection, felt deep inside.
*The text that accompanies the images on this page is by Gavin Wade, taken from his essay ‘Living With the Morisons’.
Float within this vessel.
Listen.
Write.
Write every day.
Revise your words.
Fix the flaws.
Make a claim.
Hold a space.
Hone your habits.
Play with your ideas.
Don’t worry.
Submit yourself.
