Programme
Soft Tissue: Feeling-through precarious times – Squishy Collective
When
25th Nov - 10th December 2023
Private View: 24th Nov, 6-8pm.
Details of special events below.
Where
Metroland Studios
91 Kilburn Square
NW6 6PS
Exhibition opening times:
Fri 24 Nov - 6-8 (opening night)
Sat 25 Nov - 11-4
Sun 26 Nov - 11-4
Sat 2 Dec - 11-3
Sun 3 Dec - 11-4
Tue 4 Dec - 11-5
Thu 7 Dec - 11-5
Fri 8 Dec - 11-5
Sat 9 Dec - 11-4
Sun 10 Dec - 11-4
You are warmly invited into the fuzzy folds of the Squishy Collective…
For Soft Tissue: Feeling-through Precarious Times you are welcomed to step into a circle of sculptures, materials, films, sounds and texts. Each offers and opens up gestures, rituals and ideas for navigating precarious times. Can physical processes help us sense inner emotional worlds? What is ’safe’ touch’? How can touch help us to rehearse different ways of being and doing? Can a text be tactile…and why should it be?
Exhibits and invitations from the Squishy Collective will touch on: milky motherhood, uncanny bodies, visceral clay, fleshy language, haptic ice and visibilising atmosphere.
They are generously offered by: Amanda Rice, Anastasia (A) Khodyreva, Becky Lyon, Catherine Monahon, Eliza Bennett, Georgia Perkins, Natasha Sabatini, Rhona Eve Clews, Rosina Godwin and Kate Langrish-Smith, Abigail Fletcher-Drye.
Come cosy up with us over a hot tea. Leaf through texts. Take part in quiet invitations. Meditate over tactile films. Or join a rich and playful programme of activities designed to soften, fizz and feed you.
Programme of Events
Book tickets via Eventbrite
Fri 24 Nov – 6.00pm – 9.00pm – Private View
Sat 25 Nov – 1.00pm – 2.15pm – Air Tasting, Mattering A Hot Breath w/ Becky Lyon
Sat 25 Nov – 2.30pm – 3.30pm – In Touch With Ice w/ Anastasia (A) Khodyreva
Sun 26 Nov – 11.00am – 12.00am – Tactile Archive w / Georgia Perkins + Becky Lyon
Sun 26 Nov – 1.00pm – 3.00pm – Cast Your Line: Photographic image-divining with
Fisherwomen w/ Rhona Eve Clews and Eliza Bennett
Wed 29 Nov – 8.00pm – 9.30pm – Kitchen Yin: Body & Material Winter Workshop
(online) w/ Catherine Monahon and Rhona Eve Clews
Sun 3rd Dec – 2.00pm – 4.00pm – Intestinal Knitting w/ Rosina Godwin
For more information about all the events you can check out the events page.
Exhibition Guide
About Squishy Collective
The Squishy Collective are a research ‘coven’ who formed in April 2021. They have been meeting online ever since, convened by artist and Metroland studio resident Becky Lyon. The group is made up of sensuous ecologists, researchers, writers and clay-crafters. Using methods drawn from art research they explore the intersection of touch, tactility and practices of care. This becomes part of a toolkit for navigating precarious times.
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Soft Tissue – Squishy Collective Private View
Join us at the opening event for Soft Tissue, the new exhibition by Squishy Collective.
Soft Tissue – Events + Workshops
Experience the wide range of sensory and exploratory events and workshops that the Squishy Collective have in store over November and December.