3 March 2020.
'For Art's Sake' was a creative 'conversations day' for Church Pioneers at CMS, the Church Mission Society, in Oxford. I was invited to talk about my socially engaged practice. As part of my talk, participants tried on my wearable sculptures, becoming Living sculptures. In a separate room, I also set up my participatory installation, Safety net. It was a fabulous day. It was the last face to face socially engaged work I was able to do before the Covid -19 lockdown in England a couple of weeks later.
Here is an interview I did, about my perspective on socially engaged art:
Credit: Church Missionary Society
For the slideshow of my talk, please visit Curiosity, creativity, conversation and community, 2020; and here for the transcript.
For documentation of the two participatory elements of this day please see Living sculptures at For Art's Sake and Safety net at For Art's Sake.
For the research and development behind these two projects see Living sculptures; research and development, 2018 and Safety net; research and development, 2017
There are more images and reflections on my MA Fine Art research website at Living sculptures, For Art's Sake and Safety net, For Art's Sake.