Living sculptures at Social Scaffolding, The Designer Outlet Centre, Swindon, 11- 26 November 2023
Swindon was the final venue in Social Scaffolding's 6-venue, Arts Council-funded tour in the South West of England between April and November 2023. In 2022, before the tour, we faciliated two pilot exhibitions in Taunton and at the Emerge Showcase at Bath Spa University in Bath. We also exhibited at two other Emerge Showcases in 2023. Please visit the Social Scaffolding website for full details. Many thanks to other Social Scaffolding artists, Alyson Minkley and Juliet Duckworth, to the Emerge community for all their support throughout and, of course, to all our wonderful visitors who willingly became participants and performers. You were stars!
At each venue on the tour, visitors were invited to become Living sculptures by wearing my knitted Body cocoons, a series of hand knitted wearable sculptures. They were invited to video themselves as 'Living sculptures', using my newly developed 'video booth' app. If they approved the video, it would appear on the life-sized double screen. It was delightful to see how much our visitors enjoyed it! And I always love seeing the way that people move differently when they wear my sculptures. The laughter is infectious!