Working sessions are a platform for meeting with audiences, peers, curators and programmers outside a performance season or my usual working environments (for instance, gardens). They’re a conscious gesture that acknowledges my artistic processes as slow and perseverant, and myself as a guardian and gardener. Most beautifully, working sessions happen in companionship with others: with a venue that chooses to support me and with people investing their time and energy in getting to know my work (in progress). What if these sessions were seeds for building a genuine, reciprocal, and long-lasting community around my artistic practice and interests?
Working sessions may vary significantly from each other depending on their context. Below is an archive, a cartography of my recent research.
Working session nº2: wrong and strong at BIRCA (DK)
Information and documentation coming soon!
Working session nº1: gleaning at Myymälä2 (FI)
I dedicated my first working session to gleaning, with a special mention to Agnès Varda and Jean-François Millet. Gleaning means picking up grain left by reapers after the harvest. It also means collecting information bit by bit.
The idea of hosting a working session emerged after an invitation from Myymälä2 to participate in their Seven of Seven: Performance and Live Art Week festival in Helsinki. I don’t usually perform in galleries, and my artistic processes tend to be slow, so I thought: how could I turn this into an opportunity to support my practice? How to occupy a gallery space or other venue without the pressure of performing something that isn’t ready to be shared? And how to share that which is ready to encounter the outside world?
More information and documentation coming soon!