Flow ~ Hold ~ Flow

Bridget Kennedy, Liz Pavey, Cleone Bostock (Performer), Belinda Bateman (Performer), Karen Melvin (Performer), Nancy Daykin (Performer), Eira Treasure Bassett (Performer), Bobbie Felstead (Performer), Paulina Michnowska (Photographer)

Research output: Non-textual formPerformance

Abstract

Flow ~ Hold ~ Flow is a performance of improvised movements coming out of a collaborative project, which set out to address the following questions:

How can we individually respond to the massive long term implications of climate change?

What agency do our bodies have in the light of these beyond human scale issues?

Drawing on their experience in the lead mine at Killhope and their collective responses to the display in the mineral and gem gallery at the Great North Museum, the project participants seek to embody the crystalline structures that surround them. Reflecting on the geological processes that formed these fantastic specimens, their movements also consider the chemistry that is shared between human and mineral. They seek to move with their mineral selves, speculating as to whether this conviviality could be a way to move beyond an extractive attitude towards geological matter.

Flow ~ Hold ~ Flow was developed during Deep Time Futures – moving with the more-than-human – a project funded by the Bartlett Award, Fine Art department of Newcastle University, and generously supported by Great North Museum. Over a series of eight workshops that took place in Autumn 2024, project participants worked together using bodily expression to explore ideas around place, time and materiality. They experienced underground places on a fieldtrip to Killhope Lead Mining Museum and moved with the elements on the rooftop of The Sill (Northumberland National Park Landscape Centre). Deep Time Futures – moving with the more-than-human has built on the communities and knowledges formed through Deep Time Bodies, a series of movement workshops initiated and led by Liz Pavey (dance practitioner and lecturer at Northumbria University) in 2023/4. The Deep Time Futures workshops were co-designed by Liz Pavey and Bridget Kennedy (lecturer in Fine Art at Newcastle University). Together with the project participants they looked to extend the idea of Deep Time beyond the historical and geological into the speculative territory of the future.
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusUnpublished - 6 Dec 2024
EventGreat North Night: Winter Wonder(Land) - Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Duration: 6 Dec 20246 Dec 2024
https://greatnorthmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/great-north-nights

Keywords

  • Deep Time
  • Improvisation
  • Deep Time Bodies

    Pavey, L., Black, B. (Performer), Bostock, C. (Performer), Burford, J. (Performer), Gower, J. (Performer), Kennedy, B. (Performer), Orban, A. (Performer), Palmer, A. (Performer), Stevens, P. (Performer), Thompson, N. (Performer), Wilson, C. (Performer), Hudson, M. (Other), Humphrey, S. (Other), Foster, N. (Other) & Eriksson, E. (Other), 25 Jan 2024

    Research output: Non-textual formPerformance

  • Lithic, energetic embodiment

    Pavey, L., 2 Nov 2024, (Unpublished).

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceOther

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  • Moving with the rhythms of deep time

    Pavey, L., 2 Jul 2024, (Unpublished).

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  • Deep Time Futures

    Kennedy, B. (Organiser) & Pavey, L. (Organiser)

    16 Oct 202411 Dec 2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an eventOrganising a conference, workshop, ...

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