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Working Together 2021 is an exploration of what inclusion, collaboration and public gallery engagement can be during social restrictions

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Rocket Artists and MA Inclusive Arts Practice students invite you to follow their journey as they share creative responses, observations and provocations between March – May 2021

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Find out more about Inclusive Arts Practice MA, PGCert/PGDip here https://www.brighton.ac.uk/courses/study/inclusive-arts-practice-ma-pgcert-pgdip.aspx
Find out more about Rocket Artists here https://www.rocketartists.co.uk

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Week 1: How can we meet remotely as artists?

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Week 1: How can we meet remotely as artists?

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24th February 2021

Students and Rocket Artists met each other for the first time on Zoom. We explored how we can introduce ourselves as artists and have creative dialogues remotely.

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VISUAL CALENDAR: an essential tool for any Inclusive artist used by Rockets at the start of every new project

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VISUAL CALENDAR: an essential tool for any Inclusive artist used by Rockets at the start of every new project

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It supports everyone to know what we are doing, why, where and when. It also allows people to record details and add their own documentation of what they did in the sessions. Its a fundamental tool to use when working collaboratively with people. So, we are curious to find out how it will fare on this particular online and remote Working Together journey. How will the visual calendar manage? Will it work in the same way if it is not on an actual wall in a shared space ? What happens to it when its on a screen? Will we remember to look at it? Will it become more or less important?  We'll be reviewing it regularly and sharing reflections and images here...

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Watch a short clip of our moving listening drawings, Session 1.

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Watch a short clip of our moving listening drawings, Session 1.

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Week 2: How can we engage remotely with an exhibition and gallery?

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Week 2: How can we engage remotely with an exhibition and gallery?

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3rd March 2021

Polly and Ben joined us to introduce the CCA Galley and Nika Neelova's exhibition. The gallery is not currently open to the public and Nika's exhibition has not been installed yet. We thought about how we could engage with it remotely and what resources were available to us. We used plastic bags to make some art together whilst thinking about some of the themes in Nika's work.

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Session 3 - thinking about the CCA Gallery and our exhibition.

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Session 3 - thinking about the CCA Gallery and our exhibition.

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View this screen shot from our online session this week with the Rocket artists: creating with plastic bags and other surfaces

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View this screen shot from our online session this week with the Rocket artists: creating with plastic bags and other surfaces

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what a broad variety of creative outcomes from one short session

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Using readily available materials i.e plastic bags and recycled paper can help us understand our relationship to the environment.
In session 3; cutting up a plastic bag as a free experimentation activity helped the group discover a new purpose for simple household objects such as bags and bottles; realising that recycled art can be sustainable and easily accessible.

Made a GIF of a neon cut up bag called 'toxic Tesco' inspired by session 3.

Alt text: Video shows a plastic tesco shopping bag that has been cut and torn into strips. A person is placing their fingers through the plastic bag and rustling it.

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Wet cyanotype - plastic with drops of water.

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Rainbows, The Environment, Colours, Sing the Rainbow song - voice clip, Sign it, what do the symbols look like? Shall we write the words out like a Poem?
Or use vegetables as musical instruments?

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10th March 2021

This week we thought about what a gallery is and can be. We came up with lots of ideas about what a gallery we would like to visit would be like.

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Working together session 3
- Observe people's ways of building and continuing conversation both verbally and non-verbally.
- Give others time and let everyone be in his/her own time and space
- Allow myself to be led and step back

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descriptive words from our discussion about what a gallery is

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"It's a frame!" An off-hand observation at the end of the session answers the question entirely...
Exercises in anxiety-management, allowing silence and being companionable at distance.

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Ideas about our imagined galleries...

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Playful conversations, movements and looking around us to find ideas in Nika's work that interest the group: the conversation between nature and man-made textures and shapes comes up a lot. We want to play with clay, silt and bricks! (Remembering Cassils' performance fighting a huge obelisk of clay: sharp edges becoming organic lines: materials in conversation with human body)

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Inspired by watercolor wood grain painting of Nika and Ms. Jo's idea of making an eye of paper.

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Styles, shapes, opposites- sometimes blank notions. How WE work together to produce OUR thoughts and ideas is important.

Alt text: Image shows a white background with the words “window to your world” written in black. In the centre there is a torn paper eye that semi covers a deep infinite hole in the paper.
Image created by Claud in Session 5 10th March 2021

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DRAWin festival 2018 by Draw to Perform - Live Drawing Performances

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Week 4: How does working with materials help us think about Nika's exhibition?

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Week 4: How does working with materials help us think about Nika's exhibition?

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We explored water, clay, chalk pastel and paper to see what we could make with these materials. We thought about how Nika had used water and silt in her work.

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using Clay, Chalk and Water

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Silt effect using water and chalk pastels

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Water and Chalk

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Combining the natural with the digital. Chalk..... goes.... everywhere!
Alt text: Monochrome video file of slow motion lips blowing chalk towards the camera off white paper.

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What would happen if we made art inspired by elements and materials from Nika’s “Silt” exhibition....

Here, I use water, watercolour paper, chalk a new sandpaper.

What would you create?

Alt text: Video shows a white paper background with water moving around the page. There are dusted pieces of sandpaper and chalk floating in the water bubble.

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Using blue chalk, water and clay to create a “mushy” green sea.

By playing with materials; we can connect with each other and the natural world.

What would you create with sandpaper, clay, water, chalk and paper?

Alt text: Picture displays a piece of torn paper on a wooden background with blue and green textured prints on the white paper.

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Working with Rocket Artist, thinking about how Nika uses clay in her work.

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What are the different things we can do with Water?
Here we are using a glass of water as a magnifying glass!

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Rocket Artist's artwork using Water to create her art.

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Rocket Artist's artwork using Water to create her art.

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Session 7 24/03/21.
Rocket artist Elizabeth, explains her use of Paint and Water to make art.

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I used my projector here to look at water, the feel of it and the action, flow and movement of it.

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This is a backyard photo taken through a glass of water in response to our explorations on water.

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This pencil drawing was created with an emphasis on exploring sounds made with different marks on paper. It was later ripped and crumbled up to create different sounds.

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This pencil drawing was created with an emphasis on exploring sounds made with different marks on paper. It was later ripped and crumbled up to create different sounds.

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Asynchronous Group - Working Together at different times.......

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Look through the following slides to see what we have been up to over the past 10 weeks Working Together

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Working Together using black paper and chalk. What sounds did we make?

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Commonalities - what do we like to do that is similar to others?

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Plastics - finding different ways we can use and reuse plastics......Beth likes using yogurt pots.

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What is a Gallery? What would we like to see? sounds we like hear? what do we need the space to provide for us?

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Looking at Artist Nika Neelova and finding inspiration from her work to share together on Zoom.
Nika's exhibition is at the CCA Gallery, Brighton in October 2021.

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Clay - How do we like to use the material? Getting ideas from each other.

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Water - thinking of how important water is to us and sharing ways we can use it to make other things.

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How can we make sure we can include everyone in our Zoom sessions.... what do we need?
Recording sessions and mentioning someone by inviting them to take part helped us make a POST-IT PAL, hello Pierre!

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Collaborating with each other to explore spaces...
Remote - using online spaces like Zoom to connect with each other.
Physical - going to galleries or staying in our homes.
Asynchronous - spaces which allow everyone to take part at different times like using Padlet or watching recordings.